Aqua Soft Fitness Fusion

With Melissa Layne
As high-intensity aqua workouts continue to gain in popularity, we need to offer workouts for the recovery days. This class format allows for active recovery focusing on stability and mobility, flexibility and muscular endurance while incorporating moves from barre classes as well as yoga and core based aqua formats.

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.

Aqua Bits & Pieces

With Melissa Layne
HIIT is popular, and clients are comfortable maintaining their anaerobic threshold. However, what happens if you intersperse anaerobic bits and pieces into aquatic choreography? Veteran participants enjoy instant progress and rookies experience an instant regression. Experience 32 block choreography with interspersed anaerobic bits and pieces that works for everyone!

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.

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.

Beneath the Surface

With Melissa Layne
The lower body contains the largest muscles and now we can introduce choreography that emphasizes what happens under the water. Whether you take all the 32 count combos back home or pick and choose one per class, each original piece will create a stir of turbulence below the surface in rebounding, neutral, anchored and suspended varieties!

Aqua Block Party

With Melissa Layne
It’s a water choreography party complete with dance steps, athletic moves and syncopation. This workshop gives you endless combinations of over a dozen 32-count blocks which you can mix and match dependent on your population and teaching style. The blocks may be introduced in a rebound level and progressed or regressed to anchored, neutral or grounded. The party never ends with all these options!

Toxic Dump: What’s in Food

With Melissa Layne
We often look for the best values in food, which aren’t necessarily the best for our health. Learn about the 12 toxic chemicals being pumped into popular foods and the strange genetically modified organisms that are produced for our ingestion. We will review the research on how these substances affect our bodies.

Nutritional Needs During Menopause

With Melissa Layne
Women, it will happen. The body changes with the rise and fall of estrogen. Estrogen affects the oxidation of food and the more we know affects choices we make and teach our clients to make. This session covers the physiological changes to our body and how proper nutrition can aid in maintaining a healthy menopausal being, both mentally and physically.

Aquatic Kickboxing: Out of The Box

With Melissa Layne
Aqua kickboxing doesn’t have to mean standing in one place and throwing repetitive jabs and stationary kicks. How about some combinations to move you through the water and up the calorie burn? Front, side, back, diagonal and even in a circle. It’s past time to take your kickboxing out of the box and into the entire pool!