Timing is Everything

With Melissa Layne
Exercise-nutrient intake timing is critical in determining physiological results. Differing macronutrients affects outcomes, and with the popularity of carb cycling and carb fasting, fitness professionals must understand these concepts. Explore the timing aspects of front and back loading and what research shows about carb cycling and fasting for weight loss, muscle gain and while cutting.

Elite Coaching of Exercise Mechanics

With Chan Gannaway
This workshop is intended for fitness professionals who work with any population looking for a stimulating workout while improving stability, strength, and body alignment.

Group Exercise or Group Injury?

With Kim Garcia
Musculoskeletal injuries have accounted for 57 million + healthcare visits. As group fitness programs and high-intensity exercise routines grow, it’s critical to learn how to offer clients a little of what they want and a lot of what they need. Learn how to design programs that deliver results without injury.

Lower Extremity Movement Mechanics

With Fabio Comana, MS, MA
Coaching proper form and technique begins with movement patterns, not exercises. Adapt your knowledge of stability and mobility throughout the kinetic chain to teach proper movement and exercises for the lower extremity. Join this session focused on movement research and learn how to properly coach the lower extremity exercises.

Time: 95 minutes

Top 10 for Weight Loss

With Sohailla Digsby
Is weight loss more difficult than it needs to be? Are there factors we overlook that contribute to weight loss struggles? What if 10 streamlined steps could relieve you from frustrating, wasted effort and endless trial and error? Learn what works and how from a registered dietitian.

Recovery: The Forgotten Training Variable

With Pete McCall, MS
Do your clients love to exercise but can’t seem to reach their goals? The typical mentality is that if a little exercise is good for us, then more must be better, however; overtraining is a serious issue with detrimental consequences. Learn to identify whether your clients suffer from being under-recovered.

Time: 75 minutes

Targeting Hypertrophy

With Melissa Layne
Muscle hypertrophy is a complicated and multifaceted process with many factors dictating success or failure. Focus on the interaction of rest and recovery, hormones, nutritional factors and satellite cell theory. The transient interaction of growth hormone, testosterone and cortisol, volume vs intensity and the three types of mechanical stress will be discussed.

Balance Strategies for Older Adults

With Dr. Evan Osar
Every day in the U.S., 10,000 individuals turn 65, and 1/3 over the age of 65 will fall costing the health care system nearly $80 billion every year. During this workshop, you will discover why your clients are falling and strategies that you can implement to have an immediate effect on your client’s balance. You will discover safe progressions to improve your client’s balance as well as what exercises you should avoid in their training.

Practical Guide to Nutrition, Hormones & Metabolism

With Melissa Layne
This practical program provides participants with cutting-edge information on nutrition, hormones and metabolism. In easy-to-understand terms, learn how each macronutrient operates within energy pathways and how digestive and reproductive hormones affect metabolism. The body’s adaptations to an incomplete diet and/or disease and the physiological consequences during various exercise regimes will be addressed during this session. You receive a handout detailing simple nutritional calculations and recommendations that fitness professionals can incorporate into a nutritional counseling session while remaining within the scope of practice. This comprehensive certification also provides information pertaining to Nutritional Health History Forms with prescriptive dietary suggestions that can be used immediately.

Bedroom Secrets: Fitness & Sleep

With Mike Bracko, Ed.D.
When clients get enough sleep, it improves reaction time, mood and performance. Sleep decreases fatigue and ensures a great workout. Lack of sleep signals the brain to eat and also increases cortisol and makes us crave fatty foods. Learn how we can sleep our way to fat loss, improved fitness and epic sports performance.

Time: 90 minutes