8:30am
Session Type: Keynote
In this enlightening session, we delve into the captivating journey of the fitness industry, tracing its evolution from its formative days to the transformative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its current state. Join us as we explore the people-centric nature of the fitness industry and the potential for AI to complement, rather than replace, the services provided by exercise professionals.
10:45am
Session Type: Group Exercise
Getting up and down from the floor is a challenge for most people yet, it is not something that we deliver on a regular basis in group fitness formats. There are very few exercises where getting down to get up is actually a feature of the workout. Experience a range of combinations that build from easy to more challenging that incorporate the full body to lower to the floor and then come back up. Take your squats and lunges to a whole other level which will guarantee functional movement that can be taken straight into everyday life activities.
10:45am
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
Our industry has focussed heavily on creating a perspective around the core! Focussing on a section of the body that requires specific movements to become stronger. Has this perspective and application of exercise really enhanced our performance, improved our movement, or eliminated pain? If I listen to the clients who have frequented my business for the last 24 years, the answer would be no.
10:45am
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
"Restricting activity in the hopes of saving a vagina is not holistic women's health". - Antony Lo
10:45am
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
The foot is a mechanical wonder.
10:45am
Session Type: Specific Populations
We know that people with mental illness have significantly poorer health outcomes and life expectancy than the general population. Current empirical research is confirming what we have known in our industry for many years: exercise can help reduce the symptoms of depression and anxiety, as well as other mental health challenges.
10:45am
Session Type: Business
In this session, fitness business owners will learn how to make selling effortless and even enjoyable! You will discover proven techniques for attracting new clients, converting sales, and increasing your income. We'll explore how to identify your ideal client, craft a compelling sales message, and overcome common objections. You'll leave this session with a newfound confidence in your sales skills and easy to implement practical strategies for growing your business.
10:45am
Session Type: Specific Populations
Diagnoses of dementia and Parkinsons carry heavy emotions, but Suzie and JP are here to share their passionate belief, that we can provide powerful, significant and overwhelmingly positive experiences through movement and exercise. They will take you through some vital information and their unique approach to bringing fun and joy through movement so that both carers and participants have new memories to take away, whether they be short-lived memories or forever memories!
10:45am
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
You train smart. Do you also recover smart? It is through recovery that the big benefits of training can really add up. They say that what happens in Vagus stays in Vagus - but now the secret is out! The vagus nerve has a massive bearing on how well you recover. The vagus nerve also has an influence on brain function, emotion, mental health, metabolism and general well-being. It really is the Elvis of nerves.
12:30pm
Session Type: Group Exercise
YogaPilates Fusion® is the flowing integration and blending of the 2 practices through a physical and sensory awareness through movement, breath, strength, mindful meditation and setting of intentions. Focus is on Pilates core, strength, conditioning with cardio and Yoga Asanas that completes a full mind/body balance program to benefit all and inspire a new generation of Mind,Body and Wellness practitioners and is the perfect adjunct and balance required to all Fitness Training, all trainers and methods of training and includes my 10 Principles for total MindBody Balance, finishing with a short Yoga Nidra Meditation/Recovery.
12:30pm
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
The Lower Back is the crossroad between the upper and lower body and often takes a toll! There are so many reasons we can experience back pain, but often there are simple solutions that can help alleviate or even get rid of the sensation.
12:30pm
Session Type: Nutrition
Did you know there are 28 types of collagen? Spoiler alert - did you also know collagen is not a complete protein? Choose the right collagen to benefit and build your healthy body. The 'good stuff' is hydrolysed but marketing makes it hard to guess which ones are better absorbed. Would it surprise you to know there are many types of hydrolysation techniques? Teresa breakdown the science to give you the keys to choosing the best collagen for your health goals. Let's also talk about the other benefits of collagen and how long it takes to see results. Is there a downside to collagen supplementation? This session also includes some tips on foods that may naturally increase your collagen intake and how to cook them.
12:30pm
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
When we are guiding someone on their physical activity journey, we need to understand that this person is choosing to change their behaviour. Changing behaviour is hard and our clients maybe resistant to change for many different reasons. In this session we will look at what happens inside our clients heads to learn why that change is so hard. By understanding that the brain and body are interconnected we can understand that when we train the body, we’re also training the brain. So while you may know that a certain tissue element provides the drive for that exercise skill, you also need to be aware of what is happening inside the operating system in control of the output of that skill performance.
12:30pm
Session Type: Strength and Conditioning
Fat Loss is often viewed as a science. It should be objective, yet often we find that what works of one person, many not necessarily work for another. This may come down to lifestyle choices, physiological differences or compliance itself.
12:30pm
Session Type: Business
Think about the memories that stand out in your mind. The ones that flow into your head almost effortlessly.
12:30pm
Session Type: Deep Dive | Specific Populations
1 billion women are projected to be in menopause by 2025. Never before have so many women been at this age and stage at once. Of the 500,000+ women from around the world, who have completed the My Menopause Transformation™ Symptoms Quiz, the stats tell the story.
12:30pm
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
Are you Healthy? You've just answered that question in your head but what is your interpretation of the word "Health". The Oxford Dictionary defines "Health" as 'The absence of illness or injury', so it doesn't tell us what it is, it tells us what it isn't. We all say we want to be healthy, but not many of us actually know what it means. Throughout this session we're going to explore the new definition of Health and learn the tangible framework you can use to build yours and your clients own Health House. As the Fitness industry evolves beyond just exercise, we're going to explore the concept that's going to shape NZ's future.
1:45pm
Session Type: Group Exercise
Freestyle Group Fitness is back! With the rise of small group training and boutique fitness offerings, instructors have more requirements than ever when teaching group fitness. In this practical session come move, learn, and play with new formats, teaching blocks, music tips and programming tricks. The best way to learn is to experience it, and the best way to experience group fitness is with Exercise to Experience.
1:45pm
Session Type: Group Exercise
Learn how to incorporate vestibular training into your group fitness classes to boost memory and cognitive function. In this session, we will explore exercises and techniques that challenge balance and coordination while enhancing memory. You will leave with a better understanding of how vestibular training can benefit your clients and how to modify exercises for different fitness levels. Join us for a session that will challenge both the body and mind of your clients.
1:45pm
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
Learn how fascia plays a role in every aspect of our body's functioning and health. Fascia offers structural support and integrity for our posture as well as our movements. Fascia is our most sensory organ and also plays a role in proprioception, communication, physiological functioning and our body's quest for homeostasis.
1:45pm
Session Type: Business
Ikigai (生き甲斐, "a reason for being") is a Japanese concept referring to having a direction or purpose in life.
1:45pm
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
This session will take you through a simple foot assessment as well as through the stages needed to release and retrain your client's control of your feet. Learn practical solutions to improve foot function.
1:45pm
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
The science is in: By making micro changes you have the power to change your life.
1:45pm
Session Type: Business
Understanding our communities is a significant part of what we do in our gyms. Knowing our community gives us a better insight into what we need to do to serve our members.
3:00pm
Session Type: Group Exercise
Presenter has requested that attendees bring either a sarong or silk scarf to this session.
3:00pm
Session Type: Group Exercise
This is the session that anyone working with weight loss or muscle gain needs to attend. Body composition is one of the top goals of clients. What they don't often realise is that the major elements standing in their way of a great result are how their hormones interact with the energy they are burning and consuming. They also don't realise that we all have different levels of hormones and this dramatically influences your ability to change your body, it's shape and overall wellbeing. This session will help you see how fitness, food and sleep have a dramatically different influence on body composition change. Calories are important, but this session will allow you to understand them in a new and essentially different way. Plus, it will go beyond body composition, into how people can understand and make the most of the body that they have, rather than feel like they are in a constant fight with it.
3:00pm
Session Type: Nutrition
Having the correct fuel to enhance performance is dependent on the time, type and duration of exercise. Having a clear understanding of substrate utilisation and which nutrients take priority is essential for both peak performance and recovery. In this session Liz will cover the optimal fueling strategies for a range of sports and activities. You will learn the importance of timing of the key nutrients and which supplements can support training and recovery. We will review the research and look at how some simple changes can enhance overall performance.
3:00pm
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
Did you know there is a powerful system in your body that can literally shot down your ability to move effectively or learn? Both exercise and learning have substantial energy requirements, and your brain needs to ‘budget’ for this. It sits in the darkness of your cranium, so it has to use its messengers to know what’s happening out there in your body. Whether you get to exercise well, or badly, is dependent on these messengers returning with good news. JP is here to open up this whole system for you to understand, give you the coaches check list to gauge someone’s current state, then give you the knowledge to help boost exercise outcomes through integrated practices and movement. Sound good? Well, you’d be wrong, because it’s absolutely GREAT!
3:00pm
Session Type: Specific Populations
We know that physical activity (PA) is helpful in the prevention and treatment of depression but what we really don’t have much research on is HOW it does that. There are a lot of theories – like ‘happy hormones’ or endorphins - but did you know that the research doesn’t really support this hypothesis? This session draws on research conducted in 2022 (soon to be published) at Deakin University exploring the behavioural and psychosocial mechanisms that may play a part in the PA – depression relationship.
3:00pm
Session Type: Business
Discover the latest A.I. tools and platforms available to PTs for social media, content creation, and optimisation.
3:00pm
Session Type: Deep Dive | Exercise Prescription
Take a journey into the myth-busting world where common-sense outweighs the common ‘rules’ as we critically consider the well-meaning but incorrect advice often taught to us (and perpetuated by us, too!). This session will lead to you questioning what you know about the core and finally be able to help some of ‘those’ clients who haven’t improved the way you expected them to.
3:00pm
Session Type: Group Exercise
Join Erin for an immersive ride including interactive activities ready to pop straight into your next cycle class. This session is enhanced with ICG's Coach By Colour® power program combining accurate zonal training with stimulating colour to help coach a member‘s effort during the workout. This session will provide plenty of inspiration and take-home ideas to implement into any indoor cycle class.
4:15pm
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
Many studies show that structuring your workouts to resemble games can make them more fun, intense, and easier to stick with.
4:15pm
Session Type: Business
Ever found yourself hiding your head in the sand when it comes to the finances within your fitness business? Ever told yourself you do it for the love and the money doesn't matter? You are not alone! So many exercise professionals are passionate about their work but don't understand the fundamentals to ensure longevity and success. In this session you will learn how to become financially aware and begin to create a plan. You will learn how to know how many clients you need in your business to become SOLD OUT and begin to explore additional revenue streams to allow you to build your business without exchanging more time for money.
4:15pm
Session Type: Strength and Conditioning
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.
4:15pm
Session Type: Specific Populations
If you ask any older adult what they fear losing as they age most will say their balance and their cognitive ability. i.e.Having a fall and/or developing dementia. This session will unpick what you need to know as an older adult trainer to help reduce the risk of falls in this cohort but also to help keep their brains as sharp as possible. This is an 80% practical session so you will come away with drills and exercises you can put into practice immediately.
4:15pm
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
Many of us believe things about our breath that are not true. We think we need to breathe more air into our lungs to get more oxygen, and we let our breathing become hard and fast when we exercise.
4:15pm
Session Type: Business
Are you looking to grow your personal training business and build a sustainable client base? Join this session to learn how to create a referral engine and leverage strategic partnerships to get more clients and keep them coming back, and nurture your referrers! You'll discover the power of referrals and how to create a system that generates a steady stream of leads. We'll also explore how to identify and establish partnerships with businesses and organizations that complement your services, resulting in a win-win for everyone involved.
9:00am
Session Type: Business
Using a raised platform can completely change the intensity, and focus and assist with the technique for commonly used muscle conditioning exercises.
9:00am
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
Have we made exercise boring? JP is wondering if we, the industry built around helping people move better and be more healthy, have strangled the very creature we’re trying to nourish. People are asked to put their feet in certain positions, activate muscles they don’t even know exist and constantly think about what they’re doing…it’s become a chore, not an exploration of what their body can do. JP invites you to become the industry of not exercising, but moving with intention, with fun, with joy, with discovery, with the freedom of imagination, with what he believes nature intended for us. This is a fully practical session, where you can experience how much not exercising can do to tick every box on the check list for the benefits of exercise, PLUS a few more!
9:00am
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
Everyone needs sleep, it is possibly the most critical part of any program for composition change, hormonal health, immune function and generally feeling great. We all know what it feels like to miss sleep, and to wake up from a big long catch up! Sleep hygiene principles are great for improving routines of sleep in general, but they are incomplete as they don't account for our differences. One individual needs more food at night, another one needs less, one individual needs connection before bed, another is hyper-sensitive to light. This session will make you a black belt in sleep, why we need it, the common problems that arise with it and how that can be solved when you understand what the individual client needs!
9:00am
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
Breath is an extremely powerful medicine, without it we don't have life. We breathe 22000 - 23000 times a day mostly completely unaware of how we are breathing. What an opportunity!
9:00am
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
This practical session will take you through exercise variations and technique points for a range of push, pull, hinge, squat, lunge, and twisting patterns that you can use when programming for your clients.
9:00am
Session Type: Business
Having chatted to a good number of successful solopreneurs and facility owners I have condensed down the good oil on what it is that makes them successful. Here are the 5 top tips that kept on coming up…
9:00am
Session Type: Business | Exercise Prescription
Running your own business can be tough.
9:00am
Session Type: Specific Populations
Most of your clients will have experienced trauma in one or more of its various forms: interpersonal violence, earthquake, sexual assault, car accident, loss…. Many of them will have experienced trauma multiple times in their lives. Working with clients who have stuck trauma can present a range of issues for fitness professionals. We are working with the physical body that has encoded these memories in the very fascia that we often want to release, mobilise and strengthen. We are in a powerful position to help clients in their journey to heal if we know what to look for and feel confident to work with trauma.
10:15am
Session Type: Group Exercise
Many trainers claim that group fitness is an inferior way to train if you want to get results. Yet group fitness is the biggest growth sector of the fitness industry. How can we program our freestyle classes to ensure our members are empowered to achieve their goals? In this session learn about what factors you can manipulate in any group fitness class to bring about change for your members. Feel how to integrate these into your sessions with a practical and interactive workshop where we cover all class styles.
10:15am
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
NOTE: This sessions requires attendees to bring a foam roller
10:15am
Session Type: Nutrition
There is a perception that plant-based athletes and bodybuilders are not able to outperform their meat-chomping counterparts. Tell that to the first Olympic athletes! Yes, they were vegan! Famous vegan athletes such as Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams and bodybuilder Patrik Baboumian eat an animal-free diet. Yes, it takes a bit of effort, but you can fuel your training to improve strength, performance and intensity. This session is a practical look at food combining, top protein sources, supplements and digestion tips to build the best plant-based body.
10:15am
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
As a fitness professional, you’re expected to motivate others with your happiness, enthusiasm and passion for helping your clients achieve their goals. However, you’re neurochemically not designed to be “on” all the time, so sometimes life can hinder our ability to motivate others as much as we’d like. if you’ve been training people long enough, you will know that your external to work life can influence your ability to be upbeat and encouraging. You may have actually experienced a client asking you if “you’re ok!”. In this session, we will identify the causes of a drop in motivation and dive into a system of awareness that can help you mitigate the highs and lows of your own motivation on the job so you can help motivate others in their physical activity journey.
10:15am
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
Current societal trends mean that our clientele are those who sit for the majority of their day. This dangerous habit has the flow-on effect of enabling inactivity in muscles…specifically, those muscles that are sat upon - the glutes. From the start of the fitness journey, it's next to impossible to activate muscles which have never been asked to move. The brain to body cues seem almost severed. In this practical session, we will explore the fundamentals of an active posterior chain, transforming our main motor from a stagnant mass to a dynamic powerhouse.
10:15am
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
When clients move with ease, they feel more confident, capable and place higher value on your sessions.
10:15am
Session Type: Business
With over 80% of Kiwis not involved in structured exercise today - there is work to be done to create inviting and desirable environments to spend time in - this is such an opportunity!
11:30am
Session Type: Group Exercise
This is an essential session for anyone interested in teaching freestyle. You will learn the three essential core moves of freestyle step. Whether you're new to teaching or an experienced instructor, this seminar will equip you with the knowledge and confidence you need to offer a fun and effective workout. If you're looking to expand your teaching skills and offer a popular and class format, then this session is for you.
11:30am
Session Type: Nutrition
Given the abundance of information available on nutrition, it can be challenging to distinguish between hype and fact. Trainers are constantly searching for a competitive edge in order to accomplish their customers' utmost health and wellbeing. The amount of false information out there makes it difficult to know how to apply it to regular food intake. Are cell-based meats safe? How is lab-made milk made? Do I need to eat vegan? Gluten-free? Oat milk, soy milk, or almond? Which are the best protein powders? Should I eat fish or take fish oils? Which fats are best for my health? In this session will walk away with a greater understanding of nutrition and how to separate evidence-based research on the burning nutrition topics of 2023.
11:30am
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
Performing exercise or nutrition at the wrong time can not only eliminate the benefits, but in some cases can take you backwards.
11:30am
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
As a PT you are in the box seat to make meaningful changes to the way your clients move. In this session you will learn and use a system that highlights common dysfunctional movement and muscle interactions and the factors that drive them.
11:30am
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
All trainers and coaches in 2023 have clients who are more injured and more burnt out than ever before. As the world moves into using more technology and personalised health, coaches need to be aware of all aspects of their client’s health and wellbeing. This session is all about stress – physical, emotion, psychological or imagined. Learn how different stressors impact you and your clients short- and long-term wellbeing. Walk away with practical take homes to implement individualised periodisation for all your clients to keep them healthy, uninjured, and continuing to train with you!
11:30am
Session Type: Specific Populations
A large number of girls aged between 6 years - 21 years do not meet the minimum physical activity requirements for their age group. Many adolescent girls will also stop exercising once they hit puberty. This session explores how we can encourage our young girls to incorporate movement into their lifestyle, get adolescent girls to start moving or keep moving and inspire young female adults to enjoy the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. We will explore the various factors in each age group that influence activity levels as well as what is safe for young growing bodies.
11:30am
Session Type: Business
Resilience has never been more important in our lifetime. We must constantly revise what we do with a fresh eye, renew what’s outdated, and rebuild - even if we have to start from scratch. All big changes look scary at the start, but looking back, sometimes they were the best decisions in our life! Are you right in front of one of those?
11:30am
Session Type: Strength and Conditioning
Periodization is the science of programming. While this should form the base for every training program so as to individualize training effects and accelerate results, it's often ignored in body composition and fat loss programs.
1:30-2:30pm
Session Type: Group Exercise
Yoga Nidra is a practise of deep relaxation through meditation, that research has proven will change the way you think, act and perform. It is well known to aid depression and PTSD. My practice began as a 17 year old and I will share a practice and the research and results of profound and long term positive outcomes and you will discover first-hand what is Yoga Nidra, breath and intentions to share with clients.
1:30pm
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
For many years our industry has instructed people to activate certain muscles of the pelvis when moving. Clients have been instructed to focus on the GLUTES as the main tissues of the pelvis to strengthen, and normally in a very conscious and single plane of motion. Has this been successful for the clients? Has anyone even bothered to ask them?
1:30pm
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
Burnout – the numbers are continuing to rise across the globe with a recent global survey quoting it to be at an all time high for workers.
1:30pm
Session Type: Nutrition
What is in your protein powder? Let's find out how to choose the best protein powder for either our clients or ourselves. Different types of protein powders can help to achieve bulk, power or lean bodies. Teresa talks about the critical factors that determine digestibility, the ratio of protein branched-chain amino acids, protein source and sustainability, fillers and binders, sweeteners, taste enhancers and carbohydrate content. She takes a deep dive into the analysis of current popular brands. Can you get the same benefits from a plant vs animal-based protein powder, ditch the guesswork, let's look at the facts. This informative and fun session gives you the power to get the most from either animal or plant-based protein supplements.
1:30pm
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
Mix up your training style using Warding patterns! This method of training has practical uses through all populations: from increasing core stability of athletes running down a rugby pitch blocking tackles to assistance in falls prevention of retirees. Using warding methods of training allows multiplanar movements under controlled conditions to both increase physical capability and decrease injury while maintaining high cognitive engagement. In this practical session, we'll go over a variety of movement patterns sure to get your creative juices flowing to maximise strength and endurance in any environment.
1:30pm
Session Type: Specific Populations
Menopause hormone treatment has been the subject of much controversy and confusion in recent years. In this presentation, we will delve into the history of hormone treatment, explore the reasons for its bad reputation, and examine the science behind its use. We'll discuss the different types of hormone treatment available, including their risks and benefits, and provide recommendations for fitness professionals on how to approach the topic with their clients. By the end of this presentation, you'll have a thorough understanding of menopause hormone treatment and be equipped with the knowledge to provide sound advice to your clients.
1:30pm
Session Type: Exercise Prescription | Specific Populations
As a personal trainer, it's essential to be equipped with the knowledge and skills to work with clients who have chronic illnesses. In this session, we'll explore the unique challenges that come with training special populations, specifically individuals with chronic illnesses. You'll learn about the importance of individualized programming and how to create safe, effective, and enjoyable workouts for your clients. We'll also discuss how to communicate and engage with clients who have chronic illnesses, emphasizing the importance of empathy, understanding, and compassion.
1:30pm
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
Join Ginera for this practical session on how to create multiple magic moments where your client can see and feel change within a single session. “Arthritic knees” can move smoothly and freely, range of motion increases without stretching and lower back pain can disappear.
2:45pm
Session Type: Group Exercise
We're going to go through these entry level postnatal workouts, with coaching on slow deep core connection and activation, what we're looking to feel in the deep core and glute workout with various postnatal considerations. It'll be hands on checking (those who are comfortable with this) anyone who wants checking for ab separation and for effective deep core activation.
2:45pm
Session Type: Business
Known businesses are successful, locally famous businesses are in demand! Being the worlds best kept secret is not going to fuel your business success or enable you have the impact on your community you are truly capable of. Having built and sold her successful mum-focused fitness business where Jen was known as THE go-to for mums in her area and since written & launched multiple courses and businesses you will be guided on best practice and exactly what you need to know to become known and successful in your local area or online niche.
2:45pm
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
Chronic fatigue can be debilitating, making it difficult for individuals to maintain their fitness and exercise routines. This presentation will explore strategies for guiding clients with chronic fatigue and related conditions, including chronic fatigue syndrome, ME, menopause, and long covid. We'll discuss protocols for staying connected with clients who may not be able to attend training sessions and strategies for modifying training programs to accommodate their energy levels and avoid exacerbating their condition. We'll also look at what to do when clients are well enough to return to training, including gradually increasing intensity and volume without causing setbacks. By the end of this presentation, you'll better understand how to support clients with chronic fatigue and related conditions in their fitness journey.
2:45pm
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
If your clients want to improve their athletic ability then understanding the difference between speed, agility and quickness and how and when to integrate each into a structured programme will be key to their success.
2:45pm
Session Type: Specific Populations
Are you OK? Make sure you back off if you feel any pain. Does that hurt? Pull back, that looks sore!
2:45pm
Session Type: Business
Are you tired of pouring your time and energy into social media without seeing the results you want? In this session, we'll teach you how to decode the social media algorithms to grow a massive following that loves your content! You'll discover the latest trends and best practices for social media marketing in the fitness industry, and learn how to create content that connects with your audience. Plus, we'll show you how to use analytics to measure and improve your social media performance, and how to leverage automation tools to save time and streamline your workflow. You'll walk away with a personalised social media strategy that aligns with your goals and a roadmap to grow a thriving online community. Don't miss out on this opportunity to unlock the power of social media and take your fitness business to the next level!
2:45pm
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
How many of your clients seem disconnected from their bodies when training?
4:00pm
Session Type: Group Exercise
This is a TCHI program that not only addresses your students’ needs, but will simultaneously support your own health, too! Learn how to guide your students toward mindful relaxation and emotional control. You can be happier and healthier while you empower your students to regulate emotions, reduce stress, improve cognitive function and focus, increase coordination, flexibility, and balance. Tai chi has an almost magical effect on health improvements. Kids love to learn and they learn very quickly, especially when engaged in a fun activity! This specially-designed Tai Chi program emphasises the fun elements while developing their mind and body. It is designed in several small building blocks to capture their attention, incorporating imagery and games to add appeal to kids. We have found that kids really enjoy learning it!
4:00pm
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
Knee issues, back issues, shoulder issues – these are the “big three” barriers to exercise for so many people. Wouldn’t it be great to have a few tricks in your toolbox to move past many of these, and other ongoing niggles, so you can get on with enjoyable training sessions? JP has spent a decade creating an entire movement approach to enable exercise professionals handle all types of chronic movement problems. Join for this session and learn how to better understand these, their root causes and some techniques to move beyond them. You will never look at human movement in the same way after feeling the change in your own body, during this practical, and inspiring, session.
4:00pm
Session Type: Business
How to put together a presentation that will give your audience everything they need. The experts say, “state over structure” we discuss both and send you away with a couple of templates to put together a great presentation.
4:00pm
Session Type: Exercise Prescription
Did you know that 42.7% of your potential clientele are likely to be Mothers and that there are almost as many MUMS using gyms and fitness facilities as they are MEN?
4:00pm
Session Type: Specific Populations
Many populations are ageing, becoming less mobile yet willing to spend more money on health and fitness. We need to diversify our group exercise catalogue to cater. How can we create joy, fun, learning and most importantly, safety in populations who don’t move well. This workshop will teach you the fundamentals of pain, immobility, and exercise resistance so you can create classes to overcome these barriers. If you want to get more people involved in group exercise, there is no missing this session.
4:00pm
Session Type: Specific Populations
Endometriosis will affect up to 1 in 9 people born with a uterus. The chances that you are going to work with somebody who shares their body with endometriosis (even when they don’t know it) is pretty high.
4:00pm
Session Type: Business
Imagine knowing exactly what to say to capture the attention of potential PT clients & turning that attention into burning interest by showing them exactly how you are going to help them and the positive impact it will have on their lives.
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