Longevity Labs: Eats & Feats

With Tricia Silverman, RD, MBA
Learn which dietary and lifestyle practices lead to longevity across the world. Discover how the Okinawan way of life and practice of Hara Hachi Bu can help your clients eat less. See how eating more raw and steamed vegetables can lengthen your lifespan while other foods have the opposite effect.

Sugar Shockers and Shakedowns

With Tricia Silverman, RD, MBA
In this captivating presentation, you will see and learn about the shocking amounts of sugar in some favorite foods. Learn why sugar is not so sweet for the mind, body, health and weight. Get helpful tips for reducing sugar intake, while keeping the diet satisfying and flavorful.

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.

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.

Metabolism Makeover

With Sohailla Digsby
Do you feel sluggish and wish you had more energy to make it through the day? Are you and/or your clients at a plateau and frustrated about “those last few pounds?” This class will cover ways to boost your metabolism right as you wake up and even throughout your night’s sleep.

Optimizing Outcomes

With Melissa Layne
This lecture will review the latest research on training protocols and nutritional practices that elevate lipolysis and increase EPOC. Learn to work smarter instead of longer and review the science behind training regimes and nutritional fads and facts. Discover why outcomes occur after certain types of training and eating.

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

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.

Common Sense Nutrition: Your Scope

With Kim and Herson Garcia
Are your clients eating healthy but still seem unable to lose unwanted body fat or are they lacking energy during their training program? Kimberly discusses how deficiencies hinder client results and make your job more difficult. Learn how micro-nutrients influence metabolism, well-being and performance. Effectively help your clients become vitamin-infused all-stars.

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