Education Sessions

Round out your fitness routine with a 30-minute or 60-minute live or virtual classes. Unlock the body’s potential. Whether your clients are a fitness enthusiast, a busy mom, or a 9-5er, CIRCL Mobility™ helps you teach them how to release stress, restore range of motion, and renew the ability to move better, longer.RELEASEReduce stiffness and tension to feel your best.

New Fitness Format Release! Experience the most authentic and exhilarating boxing-fitness format to hit the market. The fight for inclusive fitness continues. This workout session is an application of inclusive language, an exploration of worldly representation, and a celebration of various abilities. Allow boxing for fitness to take you on a journey of how sport, movement, celebration, and music bring the world together.

Join this enlightening session to unravel the transformative potential of AI. Explore its double-barreled impact: empowering fitness businesses with data-driven strategies, while sculpting personalized training regimens. Elevate your fitness enterprise and training prowess in the age of innovation. Seize the opportunity to shape the future of fitness.

From dorsiflexion to plantarflexion, the ankle joint dictates how we load and transfer energy when we walk, run or jump. Join functional podiatrist Dr. Emily as she explores the ankle joint complex and some of the most common compensation patterns observed in the client. In this dynamic session, you’ll learn how to assess, mobilize and improve ankle joint function.

Hip tightness and gluteal weakness are common issues for clients. In this dynamic session, you will discover the relationship between mobility and stability of the lower body. Explore the intricate relationship between the joints, muscles, and the fascial connection of the lower body. Come away with simple techniques to access your client’s hip mobility and stability, strategies to improve lower body function, and specific exercises to target the lower body.

As fitness professionals, one of our goals is to promote movement throughout the day in addition to clients meeting minimum physical activity guidelines. Many do not have access to traditional exercise equipment. Additionally, providing variety increases engagement and adherence. This interactive session will incorporate hands on tips and tricks for the fitness professional to engage, motivate and teach clients, using non-traditional tools, how to incorporate movement throughout the day.

Experience and learn a variety of simple techniques to put into your toolbox to use anytime for self-care or with another to lower the stress response, return to homeostasis by calming both mind and body. The vagus nerve is the superhighway that regulates major functions of sleep, appetite, digestion, elimination, immune function, inflammation, reproduction, emotion regulation and social engagement. Participants will walk away feeling calm, connected, relaxed, safe, balanced, focused, peaceful and well.

Over the last number of years our clients are doing a lot more sitting in front of their computers and cell phones. Zooming, texting and social media has expanded our world but also led us to moving less…and that has led to issues like Cervical strain aka. Text Neck and poor posture. Learn the essential strategies to reverse this condition, reduce neck discomfort and create better posture at the same time.

Harness the potential of female clients as a dynamic business catalyst by mastering training, coaching, and marketing strategies tailored to their needs. This engaging workshop delves into three essential steps within each category. Depart equipped with actionable insights to draw more female clientele to your venture, armed with personalized approaches that resonate and empower their fitness journey.

In this insightful session, we will delve deep into the multifaceted relationship between exercise and the human brain. Backed by recent advances in neuroscience and cognitive psychology, this presentation offers a comprehensive overview of how regular physical activity can lead to improved mental health, cognitive function, and overall brain health. Specifically, Terence & Kelsey will present their newest original research on exercise and brain function and will also do a research overview on what type of exercises improves memory, thinking, central control and brain processing. A highlight of this presentation will be several evidence-based workouts that prevent cognitive decline and improve brain function. Join us as we journey through the limitless potential of the human brain, underscored by the transformative power of exercise.

Everything in life is negotiable. This session helps you decide what you really want and how to get it through the art of negotiation. Historically, the majority of fitness professionals struggle when it comes to the art of negotiation. This session offers you step by step strategies on how to navigate the current fitness business landscape and develop skills to advocate for yourself. Discover the many avenues of revenue and income earning in this new dynamic, tech driven, post covid landscape. In addition, learn how to strengthen and flex your negotiation muscles so you can deliver your value proposition, earn your worth, meet your financial needs, and enhance your quality of life. Learn the four most important words in fitness, “Yes” and “No, thank you.” Leave this session with tools to become more natural. Your future self will thank you for taking this session.

Whether they are professional athletes or recreational exercisers, the health of a person’s mitochondria is foundational to exercise performance and healthy aging. Over the past few years, there has been a huge uptick in the number of peer-reviewed publications exploring the vast role of mitochondrial health and mitochondrial decline in all aspects of aging and health.
Research identifying nutrition strategies to optimize the health and function of the mitochondria continues to grow, and key nutrients, including Urolithin A, NMN, and Co-Q10, are being identified as potential agents to improve mitochondrial health and impact athletic performance and recovery.
Such strategies can be used to improve muscular strength and performance in a variety of population settings, from professional athletes to aging populations trying to preserve muscle health.
Fitness professionals play a key role in helping people work to maximize exercise performance through their exercise programs. In addition to physical training, nutrition strategies may be a part of their recommendations.
During this discussion, the audience will gain knowledge and practical insights to harness the potential of mitochondrial-focused interventions to improve the outcomes of their clients.

Sponsored by the John W. Brick Foundation

Attendees will receive a food voucher that can be redeemable at the hotel outlets.

Physical health and mental health have long been viewed in isolation, yet these core components of well-being are inextricably intertwined. This session will examine the dynamic interplay between mind, body and behavior and offer an evolved perspective on mental health, equipping you with the knowledge and skills you can apply to enhance the mental well-being of your clients and participants.

Swings are a great exercise for general population as well as athletes. However, many don’t know how to coach them outside of a demonstration. This workshop will teach you how to confidently coach swings and fix swings that are not performed correctly.

It has been said that power lies within the transverse plane, but actually the frontal plane foot motion is what drives the transverse plane. Join podiatrist Dr Emily Splichal as she reviews frontal plane foot movements and how they are coupled with transverse plane rotations of the lower extremity. Get ready to feel transverse power, from the ground up!

Join 2Unstoppable, a leading provider of Cancer Exercise for Women, as we explore how exercise helps improve cancer outcomes after diagnosis. Through three case studies of oncology exercise clients, we will explore how the right exercise program can help women overcome barriers to exercise, combat cancer-related side effects, and improve their quality of life. Learn five “use now” strategies for helping clients on a cancer journey return to movement safely and effectively with an interactive, movement-based workshop. Discussions will focus on the latest cancer exercise research, ASCM and FIIT principal guidelines, as well as feedback from program participants.

Developing a sustainable, functional strength and conditioning program for the older female client begins with understanding her needs and goals. In an interactive environment, through practical application, learn four different program designs that focus on preventing osteoporosis, osteopenia, sarcopenia, metabolic syndrome and falls.

This session will provide fitness and wellness instructors with a practical, hands-on approach to teaching yoga and movement for people with various neurological conditions. We will use a trauma-informed teaching perspective to learn how to make yoga inclusive, accessible, and beneficial for people with varying abilities.

This session will help you to create a bone building exercise program for your clients with osteopenia or osteoporosis using the components of strain magnitude, strain rate, strain distribution and strain cycles. You will learn to analyze exercises for bone building qualities, as well as identify exercises that are contraindicated for clients with osteopenia and/or osteoporosis.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are major factors in the success of exercise and fitness services. Stakeholders at any level of involvement “should” feel welcomed, understood, appreciated, supported, and recognized. Discuss impact, issues, and opportunities with equity, inclusion, and diversity in fitness businesses. Develop solutions to deliver better fitness services.

Fitness professionals often approach healthcare providers with a referral-focused mindset, hindering potential partnerships. Shifting this approach is crucial. Emphasizing a value-driven perspective, rather than being referral-centric, is essential for success. Understanding contemporary healthcare economics and policy is vital. Crafting an appealing value proposition tailored to healthcare's needs is foundational. This L offers a framework, developed through real-world engagement with healthcare executives and providers, to effectively establish and expand collaborations between fitness professionals and healthcare providers; ensuring mutual benefit and sustainability. The framework merges healthcare economic and policy theories with practical experience, serving as a roadmap for forging successful partnerships.

Recovery from training is quickly becoming one of the hottest aspects of physical and mental wellness, and consumers everywhere are investing time and money into recovery focused technologies and products. Join Dr. Rachelle Reed for a provocative and evidence-guided discussion on all things recovery. This conversation will unpack key components of recovery, like refueling, resting, and rehydrating, while also sorting through the evidence on what we know right now and identifying what questions remain unanswered. Get ahead of misinformation and learn about recovery technologies, from deliberate hot and cold exposure to percussive therapy, redlight therapy, and beyond. Attendees will leave the session with a better understanding of recovery as a multi-faceted construct, with clear direction on how to apply the current science to practice.
 

In this power packed session you will leave with endless core possibilities for all levels of students. You will train the core authentically in the way the body was meant to move, based on the planes of motion and positions of human movement. Crunches are a thing of the past and create more dysfunction of the spine. Utilize small equipment and partners for a total core body experience for small group or personal training sessions that leaves them wanting more. 

HIIT has officially entered the barre world, so let's talk about why and how we can do it safely. Learn four unique ways to infuse HIIT into your barre classes and three ways to modify it so everyone can HIIT the barre successfully. Walk away with a complete workout format to teach to your next Monday-morning class!

This cutting-edge course delves into the transformative impact of small foam wedges placed strategically under the feet, unveiling a realm of enhanced movement efficiency and dynamic performance. Designed for professionals in the fields of rehabilitation, athletic training, personal training, and strength and conditioning, this workshop presents game-changing tools that are reshaping the way athletes return to competition. Uncover the intricate interplay between foot positioning and biomechanical harmony, as we delve into the mechanics of how these unassuming wedges can unlock a spectrum of benefits.

Chronic shoulder pain is the most frequently experienced upper extremity condition in recreational and professional athletes and clients who engage in resistance training workouts. Common root causes include errors in exercise selection and performance and overuse. Shoulder pain can make performing specific strength training exercises and workouts very painful. They occur most frequently in individuals over 40 years of age. During this informative and WS, attendees will learn how to perform, progress, and regress a compliment of exercises for improving shoulder girdle stability, and upper extremity function and how to make several weight training exercise technique modifications and strategies to help clients train comfortably, safely, and effectively. Participants will learn how to easily identify common client training errors and develop targeted interventions to enhance client exercise movement competence and safety.

This session will use an interactive case study approach to learn about prescribing exercise in clients with chronic diseases. Attendees will review client health and exercise histories and develop exercise prescriptions tailored to the client's health status.

Make the most of time with your clients by asking the questions that enable you both to get to the heart of the matter – connection while building their awareness, confidence and resilience.

This presentation will provide advice to recent graduates and young professionals who are starting their careers in the fitness industry. Learn how to set yourself above your peers and succeed in your career from seasoned professionals in the corporate fitness field. We will discuss tips for acing interviews, skills that employers look for beyond education, and non-academic qualities that attract employers. A time for questions and answers will be included at the end of the presentation.

Very often, we recognize that a person may be struggling with a mental health challenge, but don’t know what to say. This L will explore effective listening skills and appropriate responses to a client or student who shares personal information and may be experiencing a mental health challenge.

While fasting has been practiced for centuries, our understanding of how to balance it with physical fitness is just emerging.  Whether you are a seasoned fasting expert or a novice, the effects of fasting (and all its variations) are complex and require adequate understanding in order to apply it properly in fitness settings.  This L will bring together the science and real-world application of fasting to help you understand the risks and benefits of using it in combination with exercise.  We will discuss several case studies and answer questions to help you feel confident in applying these tools.