Nutrition for Fitness Professionals

With Melissa Layne
This session will incorporate the basics on the latest nutrition research, trends and fads such as carb cycling, intermittent fasting, ketosis, and other diets. What can a fitness professional provide in nutritional guidance and stay within the scope of practice? We will also debunk nutrition myths and review the basics of weight loss and metabolism.

Run An 8-Week Challenge

With Sohailla Digsby
Imagine the synergy and success that would come from a well-run 8-week Challenge: your best-ever results, retention & reputation! In this session, learn how to launch an 8-week challenge, and experience synergy at its best, while your clients reach their personal best!

Pros & Cons of Fasting

With Melissa Layne
Intermittent fasting and carb cycling are extremely popular in the weight loss research. In this session, we will address these topics as well as three other types of fasting; prolonged, dry and wet fasting. We will explore the effects on weight loss, the immune system and the life of our cells.

Nutrition & Chronic Pain

With Kim Garcia
100 million Americans currently suffer with chronic pain per the American Academy of Pain Medication. This number includes many seemingly healthy and fit individuals. Join Kimberly Garcia to learn how diet adds to this growing concern and what you can do to be part of reducing this negative statistic.

Meatless Mondays: De-Mystifying Plant Protein

With Jenn Hall
Are you considering adding vegetarian or vegan days to your lifestyle? Concerned about where you will get protein? Come find out how to replace all the protein your athlete body requires with plant-based nutrition and how it can add better performance and longevity to your fitness career. This is not a conversion lecture, meat eaters welcome!!

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.

Obesity From a Different Perspective

With Daniel Galanto
Weight loss is one of the most popular specialties among personal trainers, who are taught that exercise is the universal cure-all for obesity. This lecture shows trainers that there are other aspects of someone’s life that could make them obese. Personal trainers are one of the few professionals that can help these people, sometimes without exercise. (LECTURE)

Time: 93 minutes

What’s In Your Food?

With Tricia Silverman, RD, MBA
Learn about pesky food additives that can be wreaking havoc on your body. Discover free helpful credible online resources to help figure out what’s really in your food, and how safe it is to eat. Simple food label decoding tips will be shown which you can share with your clients.

What’s Really Making You Crazy?

With Melissa Layne
As the female body changes due to progesterone and estrogen levels, so does stress, sleep and mood patterns. It is not all in the mind! This session covers the how’s and why’s regarding hormonal changes that affect our personalities and daily lives. Together, we will review the research on surviving the stress and moody witch periods when our bodies change with some practical and proven modifications.

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.