Stress and Inflammation

With Fabio Comana, MS, MA
It is inevitable that stress and inflammation continue to garner more and more medical and media attention, but is it justified? Is there really a real link between stress, inflammation and the overall quality of life? If so, what can we, as fitness professionals, suggest and implement to reduce them within our client’s lives? Fabio reviews emerging research in stress and inflammation and how our diet, exercise and stress-coping mechanisms can all impact our overall quality of life.

Time: 91 minutes

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Dietary Diversity

With Melissa Layne
In today’s fast-paced world, nutritional choices have become mundane and routine. We will explore how this affects our bodies and minds and our hormones, neurotransmitters and vitamin and mineral intakes. Learn about the latest research on superfoods and how we can utilize this research to optimize our health and increase longevity.

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Ultimate Strength & Conditioning Workout

With Julio Papi
This innovative and challenging session focuses on implementing the research behind body weight training. The sequences are smart and creative and organized in blocks with specific objectives. Functionality improves exponentially and so does the participants’ motivation. This session combines an approach that is logical, effective and fun!

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Functional Fixes for Dysfunctional Feet

With Dr. Evan Osar
The feet are your client’s foundation and connection to the ground. They are often neglected and a common contributor to balance and gait issues. Discover how the foot functions, what commonly goes wrong and how to incorporate easy-to-implement foot corrections to create powerful and immediate changes in your clients with dysfunctional feet.

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Corrective Exercise: Female Core

With Dr. Evan Osar
More than 25 million individuals experience incontinence and 75-80% are females and more than one million women have abdominal and/or pelvic surgeries each year. Traditional core training approaches for these women rarely work and can frequently exacerbate their issues. Discover why many female clients struggle with abdominal and pelvic floor issues.

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Pilates for Injury Prevention

With Leslee Bender
Many students who have experienced classical Mat Pilates leave with back pain due to the amount of supine flexion and overuse of the hip flexors. In this session, you leave with functional exercises that promote flexibility and core strength in a safe and effective manner.

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3D Functional Flexibility & Fascia Fitness

With Leslee Bender
This hands-on course is for personal trainers and small group fitness professionals looking to bring fascia to functional training and exercise programming. Learn how gravity, ground reaction and the kinetic chain influence every movement of the human body. Experience how planes of motion and exercise selection affect the integrity of connective tissue, and see why it’s crucial to evaluate each client’s movement discrepancies. Develop techniques that will improve your client’s ability to move efficiently and decrease pain and injuries. The combination of fascia manipulation and movement will dramatically change the way you train your clients forever.

About the Presenter:
Leslee has been in the fitness industry for 25+ years and is a Graduate of the Applied Functional Science Institute. She is the creator of the Bender Ball method of core training, which won the 2007 Fitness infomercial of the year. Leslee has starred in more than 30 videos and created Functional Flexibility and Fascia Fitness and Barre Above, which brings science and purpose to all movements and exercises. Leslee is currently the program director for TrueBar® Fitness concepts.

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Metabolism, Fat, Abs, Butt & Thighs

With Fabio Comana, MS, MA
As a population obsessed with weight loss, the mere thought or mention of ‘metabolism’, ‘fat’, ‘abs’, ‘butt’ and ‘thighs’ grabs attention. Due to rising popularity, mass confusion exists surrounding the proper methods to successfully train these areas. Join Fabio to learn the facts, differentiate myths from reality and learn to educate and implement effective programs to achieve the elusive ‘metabolic boost’, ‘fat burn’, and ‘firm thighs, abs and butt’.

Time: 91 minutes

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Active Aging: No Place Like Foam

With Sara Kooperman, JD
This exploratory session addresses foam rolling for the Active Ager. Self-care is increasingly important to incorporate into our daily activity to ensure that our body functions optimally. Get “on a roll” to explore safe methods of myofascial release, including self-massage, to manage reduced flexibility, accumulated injuries and decreased mobility and circulation for the 50+ market.

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The 7 Principles of Extraordinary

With Dr. Evan Osar
What do Beyoncé, Steve Jobs, and Tom Brady have in common? They are extraordinary individuals and have extraordinary accomplishments on their resume. Unfortunately, most of us have been raised to believe we are quite ordinary. However, each one of us has everything within us that we need to accomplish extraordinary things in our own lives. In this dynamic session, Dr. Evan Osar will share the 7 principles that all extraordinary achievers have in common and when you adopt them, you too will be able to accomplish extraordinary things in your own life.

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