Fitness & Wellness Summit
16th October (Friday) Sessions
Prerequisites First: Building Better Squats
Speaker: Adam Jongsma
Not every squat is right for everybody. Building better squats starts with understanding the mobility, stability, and anatomical prerequisites that influence squat mechanics. In this session, we’ll break down simple assessments that help coaches identify limitations, recognize compensations, and choose the most appropriate squat variation for the individual in front of them. Walk away with a practical framework to coach squats with more precision, better outcomes, and less guesswork.
GLP-1 drugs: Our Fat Loss Saviour?
Speaker: Benjamin Siong
Medications known as glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) are promoted for their ability to accelerate weight loss beyond traditional diet and exercise methods. Among them, Ozempic®️, endorsed by celebrities, has emerged as a sought-after solution for shedding excess fat. However, the question remains: what are the potential physical and mental health implications of these drugs, and can they serve as a substitute for physical training in achieving a leaner physique? In this seminar, we’ll delve into the latest scientific findings on GLP-1 medications and their effects on the body. We’ll also explore how they interact with exercise regimens and discuss the crucial role personal trainers can play in guiding clients considering these options.
The Peak Way
Speaker: Mila Bonvini
Experience the mastery of the Peak Pilates system, where classical philosophy meets versatile apparatus training to reshape your movement from the inside out.
Shoulder Pain, Scapula & Posture
Speaker: Dr. Bilal Al Baba
Explore practical taping applications for the shoulder complex, thoracic region, and upper body. Coaches will learn how RockTape can complement mobility, stability, and movement-preparation strategies for clients involved in lifting, functional fitness, racket sports, combat sports, and everyday training.
Building 3D Glutes: From Assessment to Application
Speaker: Ross Gilmour
Most glute education tells you what to do. This workshop shows you why it works, or why it doesn’t. Through hands-on coaching, practical application of exercises, and experiencing the movements yourself, you’ll challenge common myths, feel the difference in real time, and learn how to assess, coach, and deliver glute training for exceptional real-world results. Expect less theory for theory’s sake and more strategies you can implement at your very next session.
Mushrooms & the Biology of Ageing: Exploring the evidence for medicinal mushrooms in healthspan, cellular resilience and longevity
Speaker: Romina Melwani
In this session, Romina Melwani, Mycotherapist, Nutritionist and Founder of the Nutrition Health Collective, explores medicinal mushrooms through the lens of healthy aging and longevity. Moving beyond the broad concept of “anti-ageing”, the session examines how key mushroom compounds may interact with biological processes associated with ageing from immune regulation and inflammaging to oxidative stress, cellular resilience and metabolic health, while considering where the current evidence is strongest and what this could mean for clinical practice.
Find your Powerhouse
Speaker: Elena Paraschiv
Deepen your Pilates practice by exploring the flow of the Reformer repertoire and the seamless transitions between exercises. Discover how intentional movement, fluidity, and control keep you connected to your center, allowing you to engage your powerhouse more deeply while building strength, stability, and precision throughout each movement.
The Everyday Athlete: Developing Strength, Power & Peakspan
Speaker: Remi Vanecht
Your adult clients are being trained like patients. Train them like athletes instead. In this hands-on session you’ll get the Everyday Athlete Capacity Model (the nine qualities that define peakspan and how to test each without a lab), then go deep on the one most coaches skip: power. Leave with a safe power progression for every movement pattern, three field tests you can run Monday, and a north star your clients will buy into: top 10% for their age, in every quality.
Burgener Strength Coach – Snatch Workshop
Speaker: Gemma Webster
Participants will be guided through a structured progression to develop the technique, coordination, and confidence required to perform and teach the Snatch safely and effectively. The session will break down key movement phases, including positioning, explosive extension, barbell turnover, and overhead stability, with a focus on efficient movement patterns and practical coaching cues.
Beyond Recovery: The Science of Contrast Therapy for Performance, Resilience, and Longevity
Speaker: Dr. Elie Abirached
This evidence-based session will explore how heat and cold exposure can be strategically applied to support recovery, circulation, nervous system regulation, resilience, and physical performance. I will explain the physiological principles behind contrast therapy and translate them into safe, practical protocols for athletes, fitness professionals, and health-conscious individuals. The session will incorporate relevant Hyperice technologies, with a particular focus on the Hyperice Contrast 2 and its role within an integrated recovery strategy.
Pre and Post Natal Pilates Foundations
Speaker: Mila Bonvini
Navigate your motherhood journey with confidence and strength. This comprehensive program is specifically designed to support the body through every transition of pregnancy and recovery. The session begins with an educational presentation on the physiological changes of each trimester, equipping you with essential safety guidelines to adapt your movement with confidence.
Pain Management and Injury Prevention in: Hips, Knees & Ankles
Speaker: Dr. Bilal Al Baba
A practical workshop focused on the lower extremity and the movement demands coaches commonly see in running, strength training, functional fitness, and field sports. Participants will learn taping strategies that can be incorporated alongside mobility and activation work for the hip, knee, ankle, and foot.
How to add online coaching to your personal training business (without losing service quality and income)
Speaker: Mark Coles
Learn how to successfully integrate online coaching into your personal training business while maintaining a high-quality client experience. This session explores practical strategies for service delivery, client engagement, programming, accountability, and pricing, helping you expand your reach and revenue without compromising the value of your coaching.
Strength From the Inside Out: Intra-Abdominal Pressure Creation, Training, and Integration
Speaker: Adam Jongsma
Whether looking to maximize strength, move pain-free, reduce risk of injury, or a combination of the three, an understanding of how your body creates intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) is essential. Within this session we will explore how to assess IAP, train it, and integrate it into various movement patterns. Attendees will leave with the ability to integrate these concepts into their training and the training of clients.
The Peptide Protocol: Precision Strategies for Repair, Resilience & Healthy Ageing
Speaker: Dr. Jenna Burton
Join Dr Jenna Burton for an exploration of how peptides are being used to support repair, recovery, immune resilience, metabolic signalling and healthy ageing, with a strong focus on safety, patient selection and real-world application in modern personalised care.
Mat Mastery: Precision & Feedback
Speaker: Mila Bonvini
Experience the mastery of the Peak Pilates system, where classical philosophy meets versatile apparatus training to reshape your movement from the inside out.
Hips Don’t Lie: Uncover What Your Hips Are Actually Capable Of… and Walk Out Buttery Smooth
Speaker: Ava Rodriguez
Those chihuahua-biting hip flexors, limited squats, and stiff backs won’t upgrade with corrective exercises. Come and feel what it takes to build smooth, high-functioning hips.
Train Like an Athlete: Performance Principles for All Levels
Speaker: Benjamin Siong
Most clients aren’t elite athletes, but they still run, jump and compete like ones. The problem? Their training rarely prepares them for it. This seminar gives you the foundations every recreational athlete (and athlete) needs: how to use the general prep phase to spot mobility issues, movement flaws, and injury risks before they show up in sport.
You’ll learn the essentials of posterior chain power, explosive concentric work, and building muscular strength through angles and various strength curves, the real engines behind speed, deceleration, and force. We’ll also cover why “sport-mimicking” exercises often fail, and what actually transfers to better performance.
If your clients want to run faster, hit harder, jump higher, and stay injury-free in their sport, this seminar gives you the blueprint.
BlazePod’s Reactive Intelligence- Next Level Human Performance
Speaker: Simon Jacobs
Discover how BlazePod’s innovative reactive training technology can elevate human performance through engaging, interactive drills. This hands-on session explores how visual stimuli and movement challenges can enhance reaction time, agility, coordination, and cognitive-motor skills. Learn practical strategies to integrate reactive intelligence training into fitness, sports performance, and functional training to improve speed, decision-making, and overall athletic performance.
Pillars of Performance: Optimize Stress, Recovery & Longevity
Speaker: Aurimas Juodka
Explore the essential connection between stress regulation, recovery, and long-term human performance through the power of 9D Breathwork. This immersive session combines science-backed insights with a guided, multisensory breathwork experience to demonstrate how conscious breathing can support nervous system regulation, reduce stress, enhance recovery, and build resilience. Discover practical breathwork strategies to optimize physical and mental well-being, improve performance, and support long-term health and longevity.
Youth-full Pilates
Speaker: Elena Paraschiv
Discover how Pilates can be safely and effectively introduced to children and young people. Explore the appropriate age to begin, the unique needs of growing bodies, and how to adapt Pilates exercises to support healthy movement development, posture, coordination, balance, and body awareness. Learn creative, age-appropriate teaching techniques that make Pilates fun, engaging, and effective while building a strong foundation for lifelong movement and well-being.
Hyperice Assisted Stretching Certification
Speaker: Remi Vanecht
In this hands-on workshop, Rémi introduces the Hyperice Assisted Stretching Protocol, combining practitioner-assisted stretching with Hypervolt percussion technology to improve mobility, support recovery, and elevate the client experience. Participants will practice core techniques, learn to structure 25–50-minute sessions, and discover how to package, price, and sell assisted stretching as a premium standalone service, including the pathway to certification
Fitness & Wellness Summit
17th October (Saturday) Sessions
The Female Physique Coaching Blueprint: From Physiology to Practical Application
Speaker: Ross Gilmour
Gain an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at three real-world female coaching case studies, from initial assessment to measurable results. Moving beyond theory, this session explores how physiology, training, nutrition, lifestyle factors, and health data are integrated to develop personalized, evidence-based coaching strategies. Participants will gain practical insights into navigating common challenges in female coaching and leave with a clear, actionable framework to make informed decisions and deliver better outcomes for their clients.
Behavioural Coaching for increased Client Compliance
Speaker: Benjamin Siong
Most clients don’t fall short because the program is wrong, they fall short because their behaviour isn’t being coached. This seminar gives you the tools to change that. You’ll uncover the real reasons clients resist change and learn how to coach them through it with communication strategies that boost buy-in, compliance, and long-term success. We’ll break down practical behavioural tools like friction reduction, reward engineering, and cue-based coaching so you can create personalised interventions that actually stick.
Designed as an interactive, hands-on experience with case studies and live behavioural analysis, this seminar shows you exactly how to turn behaviour psychology into better results and stronger client retention.
Discover the power of the Turkish get up!
Speaker: Marlon Villanueva
Unlock the benefits of one of the most effective full-body functional movements. This hands-on session explores the Turkish Get-Up through step-by-step progressions, focusing on strength, mobility, stability, coordination, and core control. Participants will learn proper technique, common movement corrections, and practical coaching strategies to safely integrate this powerful exercise into their training programs.
Faster & Stronger – Become a Better Athlete with SAQ and Plyos
Speaker: Johnny Nemer
Discover how Speed, Agility and Quickness (SAQ) training and plyometrics can elevate athletic performance. This practical session explores proven methods to improve acceleration, power, reaction time, coordination, and explosive movement, helping athletes move faster, perform stronger, and train smarter.
Char-ismatic Flow
Speaker: Mila Bonvini
Find your edge and discover your flow in this dynamic Stability Chair workout. Char-ismatic Flow is designed to challenge your balance and coordination by blending traditional Pilates principles with innovative, multi-planar chair sequences. You will explore a rhythmic series of springs and pedals that push your core stability to new heights, all while keeping the movement fluid and engaging. Perfect for those looking to add a touch of playful creativity and functional strength to their Pilates practice, leave feeling energized, aligned, and truly charismatic.
Pillars of Performance: Optimize Stress, Recovery & Longevity
Speaker: Aurimas Juodka
Explore the essential connection between stress regulation, recovery, and long-term human performance through the power of 9D Breathwork. This immersive session combines science-backed insights with a guided, multisensory breathwork experience to demonstrate how conscious breathing can support nervous system regulation, reduce stress, enhance recovery, and build resilience. Discover practical breathwork strategies to optimize physical and mental well-being, improve performance, and support long-term health and longevity.
Reverse Dieting: Eat More, Stay Lean
Speaker: Marcin Olszewski
Reverse dieting is a structured nutritional strategy that gradually increases energy intake following a period of caloric restriction. The goal is to support metabolic adaptation, restore energy availability, improve hormonal and physiological function, and reduce the risk of excessive fat re-gain. By progressively increasing calories rather than returning immediately to maintenance intake, individuals can transition out of a calorie deficit in a more controlled and sustainable manner.
The Gut’s Role in What You Eat and How You Recover
Speaker: Dr. Omar Khokhar
Most people think about their gut only when something goes wrong. Dr. Omar Khokhar, a practicing gastroenterologist with 16 years in clinical GI, makes the case that your gut deserves a permanent seat in how you think about food and training, not just digestion. In this session, Omar breaks down what’s actually happening when you eat (the real digestion and microbiome science, without the fad-diet noise) and how that same system quietly shapes your energy, inflammation levels, and recovery between training sessions. Omar delivers it all with the humor and clarity that make gut health genuinely fun to sit through, and grounded in what he sees in clinical practice every day.
Trauma-Informed Coaching in Fitness
Speaker: Mona Bitar
Trauma-Informed Coaching in Fitness explores how safety, trust, communication, and client autonomy influence coaching outcomes. Through interactive exercises and real-world scenarios, this 90-minute session equips fitness professionals with practical tools to recognise behavioural changes, navigate resistance, and balance psychological safety with physical challenge. Leave with a deeper understanding of your clients and one powerful question: What is it like to be coached by you?
From Postural Assessment to Movement Application
Speaker: Dr. Bilal Al Baba
Move beyond simply learning taping patterns. Coaches will explore how basic movement assessment can guide taping decisions and how RockTape can be integrated into warm-ups, corrective strategies, and exercise programming. The session focuses on understanding when, why, and how to tape rather than following templates alone.
Balance the strength and the stretch
Speaker: Elena Paraschiv
Discover the art of achieving the perfect balance between strength and flexibility through effective spring resistance. Too much resistance can lead to overreliance on larger muscle groups, while too little can compromise stability and control. This session explores how to optimize spring tension to engage deeper stabilizing muscles, enhance movement precision, and develop strength, mobility, and control for a more balanced and effective Pilates practice.
Cold therapy: Hype, Help or Both?
Speaker: Remi Vanecht
This evidence-based session will explore how heat and cold exposure can be strategically applied to support recovery, circulation, nervous system regulation, resilience, and physical performance. I will explain the physiological principles behind contrast therapy and translate them into safe, practical protocols for athletes, fitness professionals, and health-conscious individuals. The session will incorporate relevant Hyperice technologies, with a particular focus on the Hyperice Contrast 2 and its role within an integrated recovery strategy.
How to sell coaching, stand out, and consistently grow, in a crowded market
Speaker: Mark Coles
Learn how to position your coaching offer, communicate your value, and attract the right clients in a competitive market. This session covers practical strategies for building trust, differentiating your brand, improving sales conversations, and creating consistent business growth without relying on discounts or aggressive selling.
THE MIDLIFE METABOLIC RESET: Why Women Stop Responding to Diet & Training After 40
Speaker: Gayu Lewis
Discover why traditional diet and training strategies may become less effective for women after 40. This session explores how changes in insulin sensitivity, muscle protein synthesis, and cortisol rhythms influence metabolism, why eating less and training harder can backfire, and how targeted nutrition, smarter training, and recovery strategies can help restore metabolic health, improve energy, and support sustainable results.
Motivation Redefined by Reactive Intelligence – Powered by BlazePod
Speaker: Simon Jacobs
Discover how BlazePod’s reactive training technology transforms traditional workouts into engaging, interactive experiences. This hands-on session explores how light-based challenges can boost motivation, enhance focus, improve reaction time, and increase client engagement. Learn practical strategies to integrate gamification and reactive intelligence into training sessions, making every workout more dynamic, enjoyable, and performance-driven.
Burgener Strength Coach – Clean & Jerk Workshop
Speaker: Gemma Webster
Participants will explore step-by-step progressions for mastering the Clean and Jerk, focusing on proper technique, timing, and power development. The session will cover the key phases of the Clean, transitioning into the Jerk, while emphasizing optimal positioning, efficient force production, and overhead stability. Participants will gain practical coaching strategies to teach and perform both movements safely, efficiently, and effectively.
Reformer Variations
Speaker: Mila Bonvini
Make your practice beyond the traditional. This high-energy session blends classical Reformer principles with dynamic, multi-planar movements to challenge your stability and ignite your core.
Rice Krispie Shoulders and Neck Pain: Why Mobility Exercises Won’t Get Rid of them
Speaker: Ava Rodriguez
Want to know why banded rotator cuff exercises won’t improve shoulder strength and health: For instructors who want to add the missing layer and understand why traditional rotator cuff drills won’t lead to lasting shoulder resilience. This is your chance to uncover what’s really limiting shoulder performance.
The Embodied Breath: Nervous System Mastery for Performance, Readiness, and Leadership
Speaker: Mona Bitar
Designed for coaches, trainers, and high performers, Mona combines functional breathing science with practical techniques to manage stress, sustain energy, and perform under pressure.
Participants will learn to assess breathing patterns, improve CO₂ tolerance, and apply effective breathing strategies before, during, and after demanding situations. Leave with actionable tools to optimize personal performance, strengthen coaching effectiveness, and build long-term resilience.
May The Force Oppose You! The One True Foundation For Understanding All Exercise
Speaker: Ross Gilmour
The understanding of forces is often the missing piece in analysis and design of exercise. We will explore various ways in which an understanding of applying force to the body externally, as well as how muscles create force internally, literally defines the stimulus created by an exercise. Create a greater stimulus, achieve greater results! Mastering this will allow you to customize exercises for each individual client as well as create an unlimited number of variations within your coaching toolbox.
RockTape Fundamentals: Taping for Movement & Performance
Speaker: Dr. Bilal Al Baba
Learn the fundamental principles of kinesiology taping and how coaches can apply RockTape to support movement, improve body awareness, and complement training. This hands-on workshop introduces essential taping techniques for commonly trained areas including the shoulder, knee, lower back, and ankle.
Applied Biomechanics: Mastering Muscle Bias in Pulling
Speaker: Adam Jongsma
Training the back presents one of the most complex challenges in resistance training. This stems from looking at back training as a list of similar rowing and pulling variations instead of understanding the biomechanical principles that govern fibre recruitment across the different muscles. Within this session, we will explore those biomechanical principles, explore the hierarchy of back training variables, and help you avoid redundancy in your back training.
Back connections – Build your Stamina!
Speaker: Elena Paraschiv
At Peak Pilates we say that the Powerhouse is the Core…but more. Experience the connections in the kinetic chains and how to build efficient movement. The pilates system is built this way!
Grumpy Knees & Wobbly Legs: Ditch the traditional knee strengthening and train them to tolerate load
Speaker: Ava Rodriguez
So, you’re strengthening your glutes, quads, and hamstrings, hoping the knee will handle more load and impact, but reality tells a different story. Come and discover what that is.
Breathwork: The Next Mainstream Wellness Category, and How To Capture It
Speaker: Joe Moore
Breathwork is following the same path to the mainstream as gyms and yoga. If you have a nervous system, you need to learn to regulate it, which makes breathwork a master skill for society, not just a wellness practice. Drawing on lessons from facilitators in more than 50 countries, this session explores the models bringing it into gyms, wellness spaces, corporates and schools, and how your business can capture the opportunity while it’s still early.
Eating According to Your Body Type and Blood Type – What’s The Go?
Speaker: Benjamin Siong
We all know that nutrition plays a crucial role in maintaining optimal health and well-being.
Personalized dietary approaches based on individual characteristics such as body type and blood type have gained attention for their potential benefits.
This seminar explores the concept of eating specifically according to body type and blood type, highlighting key principles and considerations for personalized nutrition.
Beyond Exercise – Coaching Fibromyalgia Clients
Speaker: Mais Jawhari
Explore a holistic approach to coaching clients with fibromyalgia, moving beyond traditional exercise programming to address pain, fatigue, recovery, and individual limitations. This session provides practical insights into adapting movement, managing exercise intensity, and building client confidence through personalized, evidence-informed strategies. Learn how to create safe, supportive, and sustainable training experiences that improve functional capacity, quality of life, and overall well-being.
Tweaking the Hinge: Biasing Glutes, Hamstrings, and Adductors
Speaker: Adam Jongsma
When setting up hinge movements, most trainers stick to generic positioning and cueing. However, this fails to appreciate how joint positioning can alter muscle recruitment across the posterior chain. Within this session, we will discuss the functional anatomy and applied biomechanics of the posterior chain and its application to hinge movements. Participants will leave the session with the ability to adapt hip hinge movements for targeted development.
The Magic in the Circle
Speaker: Elena Paraschiv
Let’s add a power circle to our mat to explore how props can increase proprioception and build quality movement. The mat is the method!
Reformer Without the Machine: Programming Pilates Resistance Anywhere with the Bala Pilates Method
Speaker: Yousra Shaher
Most personal trainers can’t bring a reformer into a client’s living room, a hotel gym or a park. In this hands-on session, Bala Ambassador Yousra Shaher, a Pilates instructor with 15 years of experience across mat and reformer, shows how the new Bala Pilates Method recreates reformer-style spring resistance and assistance with a single anchored strap system.