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Periodization – An Athletic Model
Type: Theory
By Andy Hanley – Athletic Training
Periodization is about time management, the structure and division of a training program into different phases with specific outcomes. The aim of this process is to ensure a balance of work and rest exists to maximize the training response for clients. In the athletic arena there is rarely a complete solution with athletes having to contend with so many other competing demands. This presentation will discuss the realities of athletic preparation and provide an understanding into how to use the NASM-OPT Model to enhance the adaptive potential and performance for all clients.
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Movement Made Better
Type: Practical
By Paul Edmonson – Functional Training
This session will introduce you to Stick Mobility and how we go about making movement better.
Combining a strong flexible stick with the scientific principles of leverage, stability, irradiation, and feedback along with the strengthening benefits of isometrics, can improve your quality of movement. Our goal of elevating one’s body awareness, coordination, and tissue/joint quality will lead to improved overall performance and resiliency.
You’ll learn the fundamentals of the Stick Mobility system and experience joint-by-joint mobilizations, strengthening the kinetic chains, and stretching those restricted lines that prevent us from optimal movement quality.
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How To Achieve Consistent Industry Leading Transformation
Type: Theory
By Ross Gilmour - Hyperthrophy
Despite what the industry tries to sell you… there is no secret! World class transformations require you to ensure clients can bring together the necessary ingredients. Consistency with nutrition, intensity & accuracy in training, along with engraining lifestyle habits that allow for sufficient recovery. As coaches, your job isn’t just to educate and hold clients accountable. Creating a clear coaching roadmap, along with a vision that excites both coach and client, is what’s required to take results from good to jaw-dropping. You’ll see firsthand how theory meets practice as we walk through real client case studies of top tier transformations.
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How to increase your NPS in Technical Interaction
Type: Theory & Practical
By Jose Manuel Teixeira – Mindset/Business
Technical interaction is a powerful touchpoint in the customer journey. How can you make the customer happy and willing to come back? What is the key metric to an excellent technical interaction?
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How To Bulletproof Your Posture and Joints For Pain Free Body!
Type: Practical
By Adam Trojanowski – REHAB/Corrective Exercise
Discover the secrets to a pain-free body and a stronger, more resilient you with our guide on how to bulletproof your posture and joints. Learn essential techniques and exercises to improve your posture, alleviate joint discomfort, and promote overall well-being. Uncover the key to maintaining a healthy, pain-free lifestyle by incorporating simple yet effective habits into your daily routine. Whether you're looking to prevent future issues or seeking relief from current discomfort, this guide will empower you with the knowledge and practices to support a confident, active, and pain-free life.
Trigger Point 1
Type: Practical
By Mike Cummings
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Nucleotides: Legal Doping
Type: Theory
By Dr. Peter Koeppel - Functional Medicine
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Hip Mobility and Function
Type: Practical
By Paul Edmonson - Mobility
Optimal movement and tissue quality of your hips is vital for maintaining your ability to function not only in sports and your workouts, but life in general. Hip restrictions and poor tissue quality can lead to a decrease in your overall quality of life. The ability to internally and externally rotate your hips and the femur greatly affects the amount of torque that your body must manage both upstream and downstream the kinetic chain. In this session we’ll go over how we use Stick Mobility Training Sticks and principles to help you achieve fluid hip movement and function.
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Women Are Not Small Men: Coaching The Female Physique
Type: Theory
By Ross Gilmour - Hyperthrophy
There are more similarities than there are differences between male & female clients. The differences to consider for our female clients however are profound. As a coach who works predominately with female clientele, Ross Gilmour has made it his business to ensure these differences are catered for. Considerations for training, nutrition, supplementation and the ovarian cycle are a must to build not only elite female physiques, but equally as important for lifestyle clients to improve their overall quality of life. If providing your female clients with the best possible coaching experience is as must, you’ll want to attend this session.
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Bulletproof Your Feet
Type: Theory
By Dr. Emily Splichal – REHAB/Corrective Exercise
With over 29 muscles in our feet, there are important daily steps that can be done to ensure your feet stay strong and healthy. Join Podiatrist and Naboso Founder Dr. Emily as she explores foot function as it relates to strength, mobility and sensory stimulation.
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Unleash Athletic Potential: Optimal Functional Training
Type: Theory
By Johnny Nemer – Athletic Training
Discover the secrets of an effective training program and modalities as we explore mobility, movement prep, speed, power, strength, and endurance.
As well as boosting aerobic capacity. Join us and redefine what's possible in your clients athletic journey.
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BLAZEPOD
Type: Practical
By Mike Cummings – Neuroathletic Training
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Eating to live or living to eat – What’s the missing link?
Type: Theory
By Ben Siong – Nutrition
These statements are often made to convey either the notion of complete self-control over food, or complete control of food, over self. The prior is a cliché statement from bodybuilders who seem to take pride in consuming large amounts of “blend” foods purely for the purposes of fueling their physical development. The latter, defines the modern
‘foodie’ who will travel to the moon and back just to have a taste of the latest food creations in town. Yet, for the majority of the time, our relationship with food can never be described in such a “black or white” fashion, especially when emotions and stress are involved. Eating based on emotions is that grey area that everyone will experience at one point or the other. This can often lead to a situation, where despite knowing that certain foods are not beneficial for the body, individuals continue to repeat their actions of eating them. The result is weight gain, self-image issues, self-hate, lowered confidence, increased stress, and the cycle perpetuates. This seminar will delve into the topic of emotional eating, identifying how our actions are a product of emotional, mental and physiological processes, as well as the steps we can take to emerge out of this negative cycle with a better control and relationship with food.
Key Takeaways:
1. How an all-or-nothing approach can destroy our relationship with food
2. To understand why we “emotional” eat
3. To Identify the processes that contribute to this self- perpetuating cycle
4. Strategies to help break this cycle
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Explore the Core – A Spinal Perspective
Type: Theory & Practical
By Andy Hanley – Functional Training
The core is the center axis around which we move. It is the foundation of all movement and allows for the expression of functional strength and movement in life and sports. As understanding of the human movement system evolves, so too must training application. There is a time to be stable and rigid, but there is also a time to be maneuverable and agile. This session explores how to bring this concept to life so clients can access and train aggressively within both ends of the spectrum.
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Are You A Lean Mean But Bloated Machine?
Type: Theory
By Dr. David Brady - Functional Medicine
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Getting Kevin Durant back to his best using the Qbands
Type: Theory
By Dr. Andy Barr - REHAB/Corrective Exercise
The story behind KD's career threatening Achilles tendon injury and how he returned better than ever!
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Breath is Life! Know Breath, Know Life!
Type: Theory & Practical
By Jaya Harikumar & Kavita Pillay - Medical Fitness
Knowledge about subtle life-force i.e. Prana, its importance and how to look after it and improve it.
Looking at the relationship between breath and prana and improving the quality and quantity of our breath and how it can impact our mind, body and emotions.
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Foundation First: Kettlebell Fundamentals before Movement Mastery
Type: Practical
By Wayne Du Plessis - Functional Training
When learning to teach kettlebell fundamentals to beginners or people looking to improve their kettlebell skills there's many ways to start but we generally start with the wrong foundation which can lead to incorrect movement patterns and frustrated clients. This session will give you practical tools to achieve a easy fool proof system for teaching foundational kettlebell skills that will carry over efficiently to all varieties kettlebell movements and skills.
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Developing explosive sports specific actions using Qbands exercises
Type: Practical
By Dr. Andy Barr – Athletic Training
Demonstrate how the Qbands can be used to improve explosive sports specific action technique in relation to strength, power + agility.
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Watch That Walk! Intro to Gait and Movement Efficiency
Type: Theory
By Dr. Emily Splichal - REHAB/Corrective Exercise
Walking is the most foundational and functional movement pattern we perform every day. How a client walks can reveal much about mobility, stability and strength. Join podiatrist Dr. Emily as she explores how the gait assessment can be the most informative client assessment. We’ll discuss the phases of gait and basic joint positions during each of those phases, walking demands and techniques to increase foot and pelvic strength for improved gait.
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5 Pillars of Fitness business success
Type: Theory
By Mark Coles - Mindset/Business
In this session I will breakdown the five most important considerations for coaches, when it comes to achieving success in the fitness industry.
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Control to Chaos- Rehabbing the elite athlete back to competition
Type: Theory
By Chris Bowman – REHAB/Corrective Exercise
In this session Chris will outline the process of returning an elite level athlete back to full competition following injury. It will touch on the performance metrics that need to be in place for an athlete to be deemed safe to return to play and will detail the processes that lead to this decision.
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The role of Diaphragmatic breathing for pre/postnatal clients
Type: Theory & Practical
By Gemma Ovens - Medical Fitness
Understand what Diaphragmatic breathing is and how it used for pre and postnatal clients to help keep the core unit working in sync and support the postpartum recovery. Demonstrations of how to incorporate the breathing into a variety of exercises will be provided.
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TRX for Lower Back Pain - Prevention & Rehab
Type: Practical
By Paul Edmonson - Functional Training
This workshop examines a series of exercises aimed at promoting lower back health through a gradual progression. It begins with light loads and advances to heavier ones, moves from stable to unstable training conditions, shifts from static to dynamic movements, and delves into the rationale behind selecting initial positions like prone or supine. All of these elements are designed to be progressively beneficial for the individuals and athletes you work with.
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Workout Myths – Reasons You’re Not Seeing Results
Type: Theory
By Ben Siong – Hyperthrophy
Have you hit a plateau and stopped seeing progress? It’s always frustrating when you've invested time, money and sweat into your workouts but are not getting the results you want. Rather than looking to add to what you are already doing and overload your body further, have you considered that your current training regime may actually be the limiting factor holding you back? Perhaps it’s time to relook at some of your workout habits and see if they hold any real benefits or whether they are in fact, counterproductive. This seminar will delve into some common workout myths, giving much clarity on these misconceptions. It will also provide some practical, yet effective solutions to accelerate progress and give you the results you desire. Key takeaways:
1. Identifying workout myths
2. Understand the misconceptions from a physical and physiological perspective
3. Provide better alternative solutions in place of these myths
4. Learn to invest in workouts that will invest in you
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Using the Qbands to reduce movement related injury risk factors + optimize athlete health
Type: Theory & Practical
By Dr. Andy Barr – REHAB/Corrective Exercise
Discuss movement related injury risk factors and implications. Demonstrate movement related injury risk factors and how Qbands can correct them in in real-time.
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ROCKTAPE
Type: Theory & Practical
By Daniel Lawrence - REHAB/Corrective Exercise
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Fitness Marketing Agency 1
Type: Theory
By Luke Robison and Ben Davis - Mindset/Business
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Returning to running/HIIT for postpartum clients
Type: Theory & Practical
By Gemma Ovens – Medical Fitness
Learn the key concepts of supporting postpartum clients that want to return to running or HIIT classes. Why building a strong core foundation is key and how to reintroduce basic plyometric movements into sessions.
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TRX for Functional Mobility, and Strength
Type: Practical
By Paul Edmonson - Functional Training
In this workshop, we explore strategies for enhancing mobility, stability, and strength across all three planes of movement by utilizing straps. These techniques are particularly relevant for individuals engaged in sports and aiming to optimize their upright performance.
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Pillars of Performance - the ELITE Method
Type: Theory & Practical
By Chris Bowma
In this session we will provide an overview on our approach at ELITE to optimising human sporting performance. We will discuss the “Pillars of Performance”, barriers to optimising performance, and how we get the best out of some of the best athletes in the world who use our services. We’ll showcase our data driven approach to maximising the physical capabilities of elite athletes and optimising load management to reduce injury risk.
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From Couch to Champion - How to transform your average gym client to an Ironman status
Type: Theory
By Hannes Loubser
The talk is focused on mainly personal trainers who neglect the importance of periodization or how effective it is in sport training. Attendees will look at case studies taken from real life scenarios where the "average client" transformed from having knee, back and shoulder issues to completing triathlon and ironman races to become pain free performance machines who conquered more than they could have ever imagined.
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Rethinking Wellness Making Corporate Wellness Work
Type: Theory
By Pete Cohen
In this presentation Pete will explain to leaders how to coach an organisation to wellness. By using powerful techniques and demonstrating gradual benefits to people, he will show how they can engage with the idea of self-care and team-care in the workplace.
Audiences will learn how to make wellness a habit, rather than a project and recognise that looking for the cause of a problem is so much more effective than fixing the symptoms. By asking targeted, coaching questions of their teams and really listening to the answers they can tackle the vast majority of everyday stresses, anxieties and fears long before they become a serious issue.
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Is Living Tissue Designed to Be Stretched?
Type: Theory
By Pete Cohen
Humans don’t have a core … because we are Whole & Complete.
Traditional academic education on muscular contractions informs this process happens in isolation and then provides an appropriate force to move a joint or create structural stability thus allowing us to create motion.
This is the bedrock theory of the muscular skeletal system, backed up by the sliding filament theory which we’re all familiar with. However, this understanding missed out a most important ingredient and essential element of the party…. If there is a muscular spindle then there must then be a corresponding Fascial spindle at the same location?
Where is your Fascia? It is the most ubiquitous tissue within your whole being, it is the environment every cell & system exists & behaves within , having a plethora of roles to perform & interact amongst a symphony of coexisting systems. Without doubt one of it’s most influential roles, second only to its relationship with the neurological system must be its relationship with its intertwined muscular system without which neither could exist or function!
So the question remains, what are you talking about when you cue “ Core” ?