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.

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.