Sessions

Session Type: Keynote

In an era where mental health challenges are on the rise, the exercise industry stands at a unique crossroads with the potential to make a profound impact on individuals' well-being.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription | Nutrition

Unlock the secrets to helping your clients shed stubborn belly fat with cutting-edge strategies and science-backed insights. Elevate your expertise and deliver unparalleled results by joining this transformative lecture on hacking belly fat!

Session Type: Exercise Prescription | Mental Wellness

Immerse yourself into understanding a new point of view about "Stress" where we don't villainize it. Instead, we embrace it and use it as a tool. As the saying goes, "It's not about the stress, it is about how we relate to stress". Join Pablo, who has been using these techniques for more than two decades of coaching, proving that a connection between improved self-awareness and good, quality-based, biomechanics is the way to long-lasting high performance, in life and sports.

Session Type: Deep Dive | Exercise Prescription

For over 100 years in the field of exercise science, performance fatigue has been blamed on a substrate that does not exist in the human body. The effect? A world-wide industry that does not understand the true cause of fatigue in the human body.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

Over the last few years in particular, more and more of the public (and our clients) have become aware of the benefits of exercise for their mental health and wellbeing. It’s a great thing. It also means as trainers and coaches we need to have a greater understanding in this area. (In fact I’m back doing post graduate studies in leading mental health and wellbeing at Workplaces and Community)

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

As personal trainers, we understand the critical role that core strength plays in our clients' overall fitness and well-being. Yet, many still struggle to find effective tools that connect clients' brain to clients’ bodies, leading to suboptimal results. In this comprehensive workshop, we'll dive deep into the art and science of core activation, equipping you with the knowledge and skills to unleash your clients' full potential.

Session Type: Deep Dive | Specific Populations

This seminar is designed to equip personal trainers with the knowledge and tools needed to effectively support clients navigating menopause, including the use of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). Attendees will receive a practical guide on training perimenopausal clients, learn how to identify signs of perimenopause, debunk myths surrounding HRT, and offer lifestyle advice to optimise overall well-being.

Session Type: Business

You know how it goes, a client comes to you wanting to get fitter, stronger, get more energy etc and they say they are super committed but very soon you realise they are NOT. What you do as a PT/Coach in this scenario will either lose you a client or keep one for life but it most probably test your skills and help you home into your values and ethics.

Session Type: Group Exercise Mind Body

Use Animal Flow methods to increase mobility in the elderly.

Session Type: Business

Friday, 29 November, 9:00 am – 5:15 pm

Session Type: Nutrition

Join Liz as we explore essential nutrients crucial for brain health and cognition, understanding their roles in maintaining brain integrity and offsetting cognitive decline. Discover which foods promote cognitive function and overall brain health. Delve into the intricate gut-brain connection and learn how to cultivate a healthy gut microbiome through the use of probiotics and prebiotics. Explore mindful eating practices for better food choices and digestion, and grasp the significance of blood sugar regulation for mood stability and cognition.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

In today's fast-paced world, personal trainers can no longer afford to be dull or uninspiring. We'll uncover why injecting creativity and excitement into your sessions is beneficial and essential for client retention and success.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

Let’s talk fasciology, and how your body language reveals the untold stories of your health and vitality, without you having to say a word.

Session Type: Business

Dr. Susan Baxter shares her expertise on crafting a resilient business for sustained success! Discover principles and strategies to prevent burnout while paving the path to prosperity in your career. Dr. Baxter's firsthand experience, managing international competitions, completing a PhD, and sustaining a thriving business simultaneously, offers invaluable insights. Learn how to prioritize self-care, maintain balance, and cultivate resilience to thrive in the face of challenges. Don't miss this opportunity to revolutionise your approach to business and unlock your full potential!

Session Type: Business

In this session, personal trainers will learn how to create effective Facebook ad campaigns that generate more leads and sales for their fitness business, even on a low budget. We'll explore real world case studies of successful Facebook ad campaigns, and you'll learn how to model these campaigns to achieve similar results for your own business. You'll discover how to identify your target audience, create compelling ad content, and track and optimize your campaigns for maximum ROI. You'll leave this session with practical strategies for using Facebook ads to grow your fitness business, even on a tight budget

Session Type: Group Exercise Mind Body

The class that started the dance-fitness revolution and changed the way we look at a “workout” forever. It’s fun, effective and best of all? Made for everyone! Perfect for everybody and every body! Each Zumba® class is designed to bring people together to sweat it on.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

If your client base is over 40, wants to move like they did “back in the day” or they are retired and want to play with grandkids, tennis, golf or garden with ease – then this is the movement session for you.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

The world is changing with new research coming out every day - much of social media is polarising and makes it hard to be certain what is the right way. By adopting Principles, Not Protocols, you will be able to navigate your way forwards and incorporate all the things that have worked for you in the past and leave the faulty theories behind and take on new, more scientific theories.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

A deep dive into sleep health, including circadian rhythm disruptors and how this affects sleep quality and energetic output.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

Eccentric cycling is a cutting-edge method that emphasizes the strength-building potential of eccentric (muscle-lengthening) contractions. Unlike traditional cycling, where the focus is on concentric (muscle-shortening) actions as you push the pedals down, eccentric cycling involves resisting the pedal as they are driven in the opposite direction by a motor.

Session Type: Specific Populations

A large number of children and adolescence reduce or completely stop exercising when they hit puberty. Current research tells us that many of our young people are not meeting the minimum requirement for weekly physical activity. This session will explore the factors that encourage children and adolescence to start exercising, keep exercising and build movement into their lifestyle from a young age. We will explore the various factors that influence what will keep our young people moving, how best to encourage them to explore their movement interests and what is safe but effective for young growing bodies.

Session Type: Deep Dive | Specific Populations

It is well-known that women are protected from cardiovascular (CV) disease during the first few decades of their lives, an effect which is largely due to oestrogen (Novella et al, 2012). However, after menopause, the risk of CV disease rapidly increases, giving women a higher risk than men.

Session Type: Business

Join Alice for a refreshing take on building a successful business. Drawing from her robust experience of launching thriving ventures from scratch, she'll reveal the secret to cultivating a loyal client base without resorting to robotic scripts or pushy sales tactics.

Session Type: Group Exercise Mind Body

Explore the power of body awareness through dance. Participants will learn to connect with their bodies, enhancing self-awareness and mindfulness in a supportive group fitness session.

Session Type: Nutrition

Expand your knowledge and discover the untapped potential of creatine beyond muscle mass benefits. Join this insightful lecture to learn how creatine can enhance overall performance, cognitive function, hormone balance and recovery for your clients!

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

Often behaviour change is about understanding our client better so we can help them on their journey. There are a number of models and techniques but if you haven’t done any training in this area you may be a little lost.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

Where do you look for solutions when your client moves with, restrictions, repetitive injury, pain or non-optimal movement patterns? An approach often missed yet essential to complete the picture of strength and conditioning, can lie with the anterior and posterior oblique slings.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription | Mental Wellness

Breaking down trauma and how it can manifest itself within the body. Plus, dissecting and understanding how, us as coaches, can impact/trigger certain trauma symptoms and how to create a truly inclusive space for all to reap the benefits from exercise.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

Inflammation is a natural defence mechanism of the body, but when it becomes

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

You know them, you love them and of course you program them. The squat is a ubiquitous movement that we see in may different formats in the fitness industry. In fact many people have so many beliefs around this exercise that they may happily “fight” for the technique that they believe in. During the session we will explore and simplify what this movement pattern is and give you the tools to help you help your clients understand their active range of motion and impart the skill of the “squat” to their body and brain. This session may just change the way you look at and coach this movement pattern.

Session Type: Specific Populations

Join Ken for an enlightening session as we redefine strength for the ageing demographic. While walking serves as a cornerstone of fitness, it's essential to delve deeper into the multifaceted aspects of strength crucial for daily life. Explore the diverse demands life presents—lifting, carrying, efficient movement, and balance—and how ageing affects these functions. Learn how strength training can mitigate the effects of ageing, enhancing vitality and longevity. Discover actionable strategies to tailor strength programs for active ageing, empowering individuals to thrive and maintain independence in their later years.

Session Type: Group Exercise Mind Body

Get ready to elevate your fitness journey with “Pump up the TEAMwork,” a dynamic and empowering session designed to build both strength and camaraderie. This session focuses on collaborative exercises that boost your physical fitness and enhance team spirit and cooperation.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription | Nutrition

Diet and exercise are important for your wellness...but their impact is small in comparison to the health-boosting effects of sleep. You can have the best exercise programme in the world, but it will not produce results without the regeneration provided by good quality sleep. Training hard without sleep = fatigue and injury. This session will review why many of our clients aren't sleeping and most importantly we'll give you practical ways to improve sleep so you can optimise the ultimate recovery tool we have.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

For the majority of our awake and functioning day we are upright bipedal creatures. So it stands to reason that if we want a strong and functional core, that we should train with the concept of specificity ie upright and standing on two feet! Whilst i'm a big believer that variety is not just the spice of life, but also the spice that creates a happier body, and thus floor abdominal exercises have a place, I'm an even bigger believer that training our abdominal and core system from a variety of standing positions is not just more relevant, but can absolutely be more fun and interactive too. Come along with me as I show you how to effectively train your core, but NOT on the floor.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

Over the last 25yrs in the industry one of the top goals I have witnessed for many of our clients is “more energy”. So many of us want more energy. Everything we do depends on the lifeforce energy we have to do it.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

Sometimes as people who ask other people to perform tasks we think we’ve nailed only to look at the performance of our client and not even recognise the activity they’re performing. We suddenly think that this person maybe be a “motor moron” when in fact it could be the way that they interpreted the information and not a fault in them. Think about it, rarely would a client or group class participate perform the move incorrectly open purpose! Using a consistent method of delivery when coaching movement utilising all of the senses can help clients understand “gym jargon” better and have them performing the requested task more accurately. In this session, we will look at a consistent coaching strategy that should help at least most of your clients and group class participants moving more competently.

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 content strategies that convert into clients. 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 but ultimately gets them to buy. 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!

Session Type: Group Exercise Mind Body

Join Niki for a unique and immersive journey into joy and self-discovery with her "retreat in an hour" session. Renowned for her transformative day retreats centred around joy and self-love, Niki invites you to experience a mini version of her signature retreat in this dynamic one-hour workshop.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription | Nutrition

We all love to programme core training into our clients sessions. But how often do we consider the impacts of inflammation within the visceral and digestive systems when we programme or coach abdominal exercises? Did you know that inflammation within the abdominal cavity (via the viscera/organs) can significantly reduce the efficiency and effectiveness of abdominal exercises? Do you have clients who often mention they can feel their hip flexors rather than their abdominal muscles when performing abdominal activities? In this session you will learn the 101 on gut and visceral inflammation, how to check/appraise for this, tips to bring more activation to the abdominal system, and recommendations you can make to your clients to reduce visceral inflammation and thus improve abdominal function.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

In this comprehensive session led by Movement Therapist "Gee" Tual, we will explore the intricate anatomy of the lower back, shedding light on the interconnected systems that play a crucial role in its function and susceptibility to injury. Gain a deeper understanding of how connective tissues work together to provide stability, mobility, and support to the spine.

Session Type: Deep Dive | Exercise Prescription

Diastasis causes lots of concerns and social media doesn't help. Find out how to figure out if your client is going to make things worse or is on the road to recovery with your program!

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

Practical session covering myofascial release techniques, combined with the ancient wisdom of acupressure point holding to completely revolutionize and bring relief to any restricted areas in the body Addressing both the physical body and the energy body amplifies the effects which are possible (versus accessing only one level of the human being). If you choose to, you'll partner up so that you get to both experience and deliver the techniques (some can be performed on oneself if that is the preference). Energy meridian tracing will also be explained and explored where applicable.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

More and more research is coming out looking at how achieving a more coherent state is linked to improving our health from reduction in blood pressure, inflammation, stress, anxiety and depression to improvement in diabetes, memory and functional capacity. In fact there is growing research interest in this area for individuals suffering from low mental wellbeing and mental health issues. And the best bit is we can boost brain heart coherence simply and easily in our sessions.

Session Type: Specific Populations

An ageing population means we are seeing more clients present to us with a range of different neurological conditions. Rates of various types of Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease are increasing all around the world and fitness professionals can play a large role in assisting these clients to have a greater quality of life. Personal Trainers also play a crucial role in educating and empowering clients to change the behaviours that increase the risk of developing these diseases.

Session Type: Business

Salt rooms, red light therapy, cold plunges and infra red saunas. Whats the deal? By packaging these complementary and alternative therapies with your personal training services, you can offer clients a comprehensive approach to fitness and wellness in 2025 (and stay in your lane). This holistic approach not only enhances their physical performance but also promotes recovery, relaxation, and overall well-being. It also digs into using many of your partnership businesses in the area or a gym you already work in to maximise client results and the growth of your business.

Session Type: Group Exercise Mind Body

This class brings the best of PUMP combined with SPIN. It’s an interval training session with 10min on the bike and 10min on weights back to back. You get the best of cardio training from Spin and Strength training from PUMP. This is a high calory output class that is following a world trend of combining spin with other types of class. For the "Spinners" is great as you have the cycle element, and for people who don't like spin is great as you only spend 10min on the bike. High energy, very engaging and motivating and backed up by science. A must class to have in your club if you have the Bikes in the same room or close to your Pump gear.

Session Type: Nutrition

Personal trainers and part-time fitness warriors, revolutionize your approach to a healthy gut microbiome and muscle growth. Unleash the benefits of gut health to promote muscle development. Master gut-friendly nutrition, delve into fasting science, and discover foods, prebiotics, and probiotics to optimize muscle metabolism.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

Training for aging preparation.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

This interactive workshop explores the profound impact of limiting beliefs on clients' health and well-being. Attendees will learn how identifying and transforming these beliefs can pave the way for remarkable changes in health outcomes and goal achievement. Through practical exercises and discussions, discover strategies to help clients overcome self-imposed barriers, reframe their mindset, and unlock their full potential for long-lasting health and vitality. Personal Trainers will be given with tools to facilitate transformative journeys and support clients in realising their true health goals.

Session Type: Deep Dive | Exercise Prescription

From the macro structural level, down the the intracellular level, the way we breathe determines everything about us. Our posture, our movement, our physiology, our energy production, all determined by respiration and the muscle of respiration – the diaphragm.

Session Type: Specific Populations

Men experience depression just as often as women, but they are less likely to ask for help. In New Zealand, the suicide rate for men is 3 times that of women.

Session Type: Business

Stay ahead in the dynamic realm of social media, in light of the current regional changes. Gain insights from a seasoned social media advisor to a leading tertiary institution, and collaborator with renowned brands like Panadol, Coca-Cola, and Banana Boat, who gleaned first-hand wisdom from Meta on the most effective strategies for success.

Session Type: Group Exercise Mind Body

STEP for everybody is the most fun and efficient way to deliver and increase participation in a STEP class. We use simple yet effective combinations of step movements in a highly motivating choreography that will make regulars and new members smiling and having fun during the class. The building blocks are simple, so anyone can do it, and the end result is a choreography full of energy with fun moments where you can dance, get fit and build lower body strength using the step platform.

Session Type: Nutrition

Join Liz for an enlightening session that delves into the powerful connection between what we eat and how we feel. "Food and Mood" explores the intricate relationship between nutrition and mental well-being, providing valuable insights into how dietary choices

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

How can one piece of equipment cater for virtually all fitness goals and all fitness levels? One swing to rule them all?

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

A number of toxins are stored in adipose tissue. If you're losing weight, these toxins will move

Session Type: Specific Populations

Welcome to the "Thriving Through Longevity" workshop designed for active ageing professionals. As professionals dedicated to promoting wellness and vitality in older adults, it's crucial to address the barriers that hinder individuals from embracing longevity with confidence and enthusiasm. One such barrier is fear – fear of physical decline, fear of mental deterioration, and fear of the unknown. In this workshop, Ken explores strategies to overcome these fears, empowering both ourselves and our clients to make the most out of the journey of ageing.

Session Type: Business

Understand the principles of crafting attention grabbing content that speaks directly to your target audience’s needs and interests.

Session Type: Group Exercise Mind Body

Diet and exercise are the cornerstone of diabetes management. People with diabetes who exercise regularly have better control over their blood glucose levels and fewer complications such as heart disease and stroke. Tai chi offers a major advantage: It’s enjoyable, and to many, it’s almost addictive. Tai chi is a gentle exercise, and has been shown by studies to prevent diabetes in 60 percent of cases, and is effective in preventing and improving the control of diabetes.

Session Type: Mental Wellness | Nutrition

Join Liz for a journey into holistic well-being through the four pillars of health: sleep, nutrition, exercise, and mindset. Discover the vital role of quality sleep in rejuvenating both body and mind, aiding motor skills, learning, and cognitive function. Nutrition's impact on vitality, resilience, and overall health biometrics will be explored. Regular physical activity is crucial for maintaining a healthy body weight, strength, and reducing chronic disease risk. Certain movements significantly enhance mental health, reducing stress and improving mood and cognitive function.

Session Type: Deep Dive | Exercise Prescription

Shoulder injuries are one of the most common injuries affecting our clients. In this session, we will go through a simple way to think about how to modify techniques and strengthen shoulders so your clients can progress towards their goals while they keep training with you. You will get Antony's strengthening template and exercise examples to help guide your way with your clients

Session Type: Exercise Prescription | Mental Wellness

How does one go from medically diagnosed chronic fatigue syndrome, autoimmune thyroiditis (Hashimoto's) and IBS/SIBO/parasite gut conditions to bursting with life force energy? By addressing the WHOLE Human Being and by understanding the energy, emotions, mindset and beliefs systems in play.

Session Type: Specific Populations

Explore the fascinating journey of human movement, from our primal origins as cave dwellers to our modern sedentary lifestyles, and its profound impact on longevity. Delve into the evolutionary perspective, tracing our transition from crawling babies to sedentary adults, and uncover how this shift has influenced the ageing process. Discover the critical factors affecting ageing, from lifestyle choices to environmental factors, and learn how foundational movement principles can enhance our quality of life. Join us as we unlock the secrets of longevity through the transformative power of the "flow of movement," revitalising mind, body, and spirit for a healthier, more vibrant life.

Session Type: Business

Do you want the most loyal clients? Dedicated, motivated, disciplined clients that are raving about your business? Gary will offer insight into how a successful martial arts business works, what makes them different, and often better, than most fitness ventures. Gary has been in the martial arts industry for 30 years and is also a successful fitness business owner, which makes him the one to listen to on these topics.

Session Type: Group Exercise Mind Body

In this session, participants will learn how to make their dance classes dynamic by engaging students in group participation. We'll explore techniques such as rotating students from facing the instructor to participating in group fitness dance battles. These strategies will help break the mold of a typical fitness session, lift the spirit of the class, promote a sense of community, and ensure everyone has fun.

Session Type: Nutrition

A walk through the gut, with discussion on what goes wrong from an organ perspective; how to spot symptoms of dysfunction and how this may affect energy and output; then moving on to a deep discussion on the microbiome, including common imbalances; what foods drive these, and how to identify and correct them.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

In this session you’ll learn about how your clients respond to expectations. Some people naturally get things done. Others will never tow the line and others may be somewhere in between.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

By attending this seminar, personal trainers will be equipped with the knowledge and tools to confidently support clients with high blood pressure. With an understanding of contributing factors, medication management, and practical workout adjustments, trainers can help clients safely and effectively manage their hypertension while achieving their fitness goals.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

Learn how to instantly and drastically effect MOBILITY and MOVEMENT capabilities of the body by understanding the energy meridians of the body!

Session Type: Specific Populations

Falls remain a significant threat to adults over 65, contributing to injury-related deaths. However, studies show that strength and balance programs can slash this risk by around 20% annually. Drawing from my extensive work in retirement villages, I've seen firsthand the transformative impact of prioritizing seniors' health and well-being.

Session Type: Business

We all have a story to tell about how we came to be in the health and fitness industry. But does your story matter? Is it something that a potential client could relate to? Do we need to experience what our clients have in order for us to be effective coaches and trainers?

Session Type: Nutrition

Are you ready to take your clients' fitness journeys to the next level? Set yourself apart as a bone fitness guru. Get ready to revolutionise your training approach with the untapped power of nutrition and bone health! As the frontline warriors of fitness, you understand that achieving peak performance goes beyond just pumping iron—it's about nourishing the body from within and fortifying its foundation for maximum endurance and strength.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

Walking is the most popular physical recreational activity in the world. Understanding how to assess and modify walking gait is very useful if your client has pain when walking, if your client is wanting to incorporate walking into their wellness programme, or as part of your assessment protocol. This session will take you through how to film and assess walking gait as well as showing you some common problems.

Session Type: Exercise Prescription

In this session we will look at the importance of performing contralateral movement activities. Often under-utilised, contralateral movements are great for skeletal muscle fibre for sure, but, they’re also highly important for our brains and long term functional capacity. In this session we will look at why performing contralateral activities are a vital cog in your movement programming.

Session Type: Group Exercise Mind Body | Specific Populations

Dr. Paul Lam and his team of medical and tai chi experts designed this program to be safe and effective for people with arthritis; it will also provide health benefits and improve almost anyone’s quality of life. Based on the Sun style of tai chi, Tai Chi for Arthritis (TCA) is easy to learn, effective and safe. It improves flexibility, muscle strength, increases heart/lung activity, aligns posture, improves balance, and integrates the mind and body. The TCA program includes warm up and cool down exercises, the twelve movement set on both sides, the teaching method, knowledge about arthritis and how to teach this program safely. Millions of people around the world have gained health benefits from the TCA program. Many scientific studies have shown this program relieves pain, improves quality of life and make people feel better. Studies also shown the program prevent falls; that is why the Center of Disease Control and Prevention recommends it for this purpose. It is supported by many Arthritis Foundations including the USA, Australia and UK.

Session Type: Specific Populations

Roughly 1 in 8 people in New Zealand take medication for their asthma. That means as trainer we are probably come across clients who use asthma medication

Session Type: Business

Life's constant "treadmill" is fast-paced, mindless, and exhausting. This session will introduce new tools to review the concept of "fitness" and see if we can do better!