Sports conditioning continues to be a popular trend in our industry, but concerns exist with the appropriateness of many of these programs. Efficient three-dimensional movement is critical to exercise and athletic success, yet many of us are not aware of the mechanics involved. We MUST first understand basic movement before introducing more advanced movement patterns or sports conditioning drills to avoid risk of injury to our clients.

Join us and learn key mechanics of primary movement and how to implement sports conditioning drills into your sessions. In this session you will learn the integrated roles of muscles in movement and fun tri-planar drills to effectively prepare the body for more advanced exercise and sports conditioning drills.

Regardless of your training level or experience, this course will improve your knowledge of movement and skills in leading sports conditioning drills.

You know nutrition is an extremely important piece of the fitness and performance puzzle, but you find it challenging to separate fact from fiction. This 5-hour pre-con, developed and delivered by a registered dietitian and credentialed fitness instructor, covers basic nutrient biochemistry, principles of performance nutrition, the most recent research on weight loss and nutrition for disease prevention.

Come get your nutrition questions answered by a well-respected authority in the fields of fitness and nutrition.

As a Spinning Instructor, you're faced with the challenge of creating Spinning rides that produce real fitness benefits for your class participants. If you're like most instructors, your favorite profiles to deliver those results include hills and the Strength Energy Zone™. You know that climbing hills is a great way to build intensity, work large leg muscles and simulate the experience of a real cycling ride.

In this workshop, we'll take your knowledge of hill climbs to another level. This course is all about improving your skill as an instructor through advanced techniques and the physiological basis for training on hills. 3 STAR points for Spinning Instructors.

This is a fluid style of yoga that is most suitable for practitioners with a fundamental practice of the standing poses and sun salutations. We will link the postures together with breath and movement for a creative, fluid and well-balanced program.

The practice Vinyasa (flow) will include standing postures, backbends, arm balances, inversions, abdominals, pranayama, kriyas and relaxation. You will feel invigorated, relaxed and rejuvenated!

Curious how to effectively fuel and hydrate the body for fitness and performance? Learn key feeding and hydration strategies used by athletes to help yourself and your clients.

This session teaches nutritional and hydration strategies to follow prior to, during and following exercise to improve performance and accelerate recoveries. Topics covered include carbohydrate loading, protein requirements and fluid intake.

Take a step up from your traditional hi-lo and step workouts with this spectacular new program! Learn specific cuing tips, analyze transition options, and develop choreographic tools necessary to re-create this HOT workout at your club. Combining floor aerobic choreography with the step, you will find Hi-Steppin' to be creative & fun, powerful & intense, and fast & furious.

Dive deep and harness the power of 360° resistance. Combine high-intensity aerobic training, targeted strength training and core stabilization in the weightless environment of deep water.

Learn how to use interval-formatted, muscle-conditioning sets to shape and tone the entire body while pushing fat-burning systems into high gear.

Frustrated with ineffective cardio programs that fail to deliver results? Why use MHR-based programs when MHR offers no correlation to performance?

Learn how to use cutting-edge metabolism-based programs for weight loss and performance that follow individual metabolic markers and deliver true results.

Zumba combines high energy and motivating music with unique moves and combinations that allow participants to dance away their worries. Zumba is based on the principle that working out should be fun and easy to do, which encourages participants to stick to the Zumba Fitness program and achieve long-term health benefits.

Zumba is a "feel-good" experience that is great for both the body and the mind!

Open Lunch - (On your Own)

Use this time to enjoy lunch on the University of Arizona campus or at one of the local Tucson eateries, then stop by the FitnessFest Expo to browse vendor booths and watch product demonstrations.

Each week, you are expected to motivate and elevate dozens of people who need all of your energy. Where does YOUR inspiration come from? What is the key to becoming consistently motivating, uplifting, and inspiring?

Together, we will uncover the key ingredients for making you a top notch motivator who is always at the top of your game. Let us help you prep your own personal recipe for professional success.

Everyone uses this versatile toy in their classes. Join Janice for upper body, lower body, balance, abdominal, and cardio moves using the noodle. Moves for seniors, advanced moves and everything in between! (Okay, it won't be 50 way, but isn't that a cute title?!).

Most of our members want the same thing...RESULTS! They want muscle definition and a reduction of fat. Are your strength training classes and programs giving them what they want?

This workshop provides you with theory and a sample strength training class. Learn how to manipulate training variables for more results-oriented training!

Enhance postural stability and improve functional strength. Discover how to use simple buoyancy equipment and water's instability to challenge the deepest muscle layers in the body.

Learn innovative training techniques that target the core with progressive buoyancy and multi-plane movement patterns.

Take the method off the mat and get on the ball! This session will show you how to take Pilates mat exercises and progress them using a stability ball. Learn a ton of new exercises, their modifications and how to incorporate them into a flowing, challenging class.

Nothing works your core more than Pilates…until you put Pilates on the sphere of the stability ball!

80% of people have low back pain sometime in their lives. Are any of them your clients? Is their anything you can do to prevent it from happening to them?

Learn the root causes of pain and what to do to ease it in this informative lecture/practical session.

Register For -' OPEN SPACE ' ( A Learning Event with Deitrich Benjamin )

Take time to meet with other fitness enthusiasts in ' OPEN SPACE ', an environment to learn, contribute, network, and grow from each other.

* A facilitator will assist the group in selecting the "hottest" of the current hot topics.

Then, we open dialogue on the group's top three, and keep selecting as interest continues.

It's fun, it's exciting, and a great place to gain and share ideas!

PLUS! - Visit the FitnessFest Expo, where vendors will have a variety of merchandise to interest you!
Product demonstrations may be given at this time as well.

HydroChallenge is a energizing cardiovascular and strength training water program. Utilizing large buoyancy cuffs on the ankles in both deep and shallow water, participants will learn choreography to challenge many levels of students including the most athletic.

This class format will bring the most fit participants to the pool from the floor.

Ever wonder how cheerleaders stay in such great shape? Now you can experience the same benefits without the embarrassment of tryouts or short skirts!

Combine easy to learn dance routines for cardio, lower body conditioning with jumps, plyometrics and intense strength moves, with a unique twist on flexibility training utilizing dynamic balance challenges with multi-planar movements directly.

Whether you combine these components the same way or use them in your current classes, they are guaranteed to help you lift, tighten and sculpt your body into something you can cheer about!

Foam Rollers have come a long way from the physical therapy office. Learn why this tool can totally change the way you teach and make you the most popular instructor in your club.

Discover over 25 core training, balance training and releases that will leave your body feeling brand new.

Go beyond basic training and develop your knowledge of core conditioning techniques in deep water. Packed with innovative choreography and unique variations, this session focuses on a multitude of safe and effective exercise options for using hand buoys and noodles in the weightless environment of deep water.

Participants can learn to demonstrate purposeful movement patterns in high/low choreographed classes by incorporating lower-weight medicine balls in 2, 4 and 6 pound increments. Learn to focus on proper alignment, posture and core strength while increasing aerobic capacity.

The movements emphasize simultaneous engagement of the anterior lower core and the posterior upper core, so participants gain greater kinesthetic awareness through core integration and stabilization. Learn how to slow down and stabilize while keeping the intensity level high.

Variety and precision are integral to execution and safety, and intervals can easily be created to meet the needs of both entry-level fitness enthusiasts, to moderate and highly conditioned group fitness participants.

A regular yoga practice is essential before practicing inversions. Yoga fundamentals are the foundation for a confident, therapeutic and safe inverted experience.

The inverted poses help us learn to literally overcome fear and obstacles in practice and apply the theory and practice to barriers in life. The inversions are great for calming the mind, settling the nervous system, shifting the flow of energy and blood in the body and giving the practitioner an incredible sensation of mastery, delight and confidence.

There are several therapeutic benefits to inversions including overcoming insomnia, jet lag and prevention of varicose veins.

Energize your aqua classes with this fun and innovative format appropriate for all fitness levels.

Learn how to integrate drills, relays, equipment, and "stations" into a well-rounded and challenging aqua class. Dress the part, bring a whistle, turn on the music and watch your students have a great time at your "Aqua Boot Camp".

Generate revenue in YOUR group fitness studio today with group personal training. "Ultimate Body Xtreme" offers tremendous opportunity to both personal trainers and group fitness instructors.

Christi will teach you how to design a challenging six-week interval training program for mind, body, and spirit results, as well as create an atmosphere of relationship among participants, and generate extra revenue for yourself and your club.

This course also includes a "lifestyle" segment. Learn how to incorporate positive choices regarding food, attitude, and exercise habits into your program, creating increased accountability.

Don't eat late at night! Carbs are bad! Fat-free is calorie free! Breakfast makes you hungry!

Exercising on an empty stomach burns more fat! Fact or fiction? This lecture, designed and delivered by a registered dietitian and credentialed fitness instructor, clarifies ten of the most common food myths and falsehoods.

Come to learn fact from fiction and bring your questions.

Presenter will also take ten questions from the audience (time allowing).

This fun workshop is jam-packed with ideas you can use every day in fitness classes or personal training sessions. People have different body types, which has an effect on the way they move naturally in the world.

It is our challenge as fitness professionals to offer biomechanically safe and effective exercises and progressions so that everyone feels successful. Learn a sequence of core strengthening exercises that will "wow" your classes!

Almost a full hour to shop your heart out at our annual FitnessFest Expo!

We've selected a fantastic array of vendors offering everything from fitness apparel to exercise and aqua equipment (and much more!).

Join us for a relaxing lunch and the chance to meet with other participants, our presenters, and our staff! Host Janice Jaicks will address the group and give away numerous door prizes.

This low impact, non-rebounding water workout is an excellent choice for persons who cannot withstand the constant repetition of rebounding in water classes, such as people with Arthritis, Fibromyalgia or CFS.

The hopping, jumping and running movements so prevalent in most aqua classes are replaced by muscle-specific, precise movements performed through a full range of motion using yoga and Pilates-based exercise techniques.

This workshop includes an abundance of ideas for flexibility and non-impact, shallow water toning. Improve your strength, flexibility and posture without the splash or rebound.

If you want to connect with the Internet-savvy client of today, you'll have to consider a more dynamic approach to developing your presence online. Your professional reach expands beyond your geographic boundaries and into a world market.

Learn cost-effective ways you can leverage this global audience through the web. Develop online authority, enhance your client-business communication, and increase your health-fitness resources.

In this lecture, we'll take a look at how popular web features (i.e. YouTube, Blogger, Facebook) have changed the way we 'exercise' the web.

Your entire core - shoulders to hips - stabilizes your body, so it's critical to keep it strong. Let's not forget those sometimes-neglected upper body muscles, too!

Core Up reviews the musculature of the core and upper body muscles, addresses any misconceptions you may have, and provides you with a multitude of training techniques that you can use with your students and clients right away.

Core Up is perfect for personal trainers and group exercise instructors.

Based on the popular "Zone Workout Series", available On Command in hotel rooms worldwide…maximize your workouts and minimize the equipment! If you desire full body workouts that are unique and effective without any clean up -- this workshop is for you.

Dig a little deeper and think outside the "toy box". Analyze movement patterns, the way your muscles interact and how you can effectively use movement sequences, repetitions, and plyometric work to target even muscles you forgot you had! It's a direct way to increase and strengthen your major muscle groups simply by using a shift in focus with your own body weight…and things you just happen to find around the gym as resistance.

Use what you've got and take your workouts beyond what you ever dreamed possible…no clean up required!

Immerse yourself in the powerful world of water!

Learn to enhance the "wet weight room" as a place to avoid injury and get a good workout too. Be an instructor who can teach many different classes-- a great asset to a facility and for many new career avenues.

Learn how to create fun and effective choreography for a shallow water class with or without equipment and add to your talents in a big way!

This course will give new and established trainers the tools to properly assess a client's abilities and limitations before designing an exercise program.

With the knowledge gained, trainers will also have an effective tool for growing their training business.
(Part 2: Program Design offered on Sunday 10/12/08)

As fitness professionals today, we understand that the core and lower body muscles play a critical role in balance and stability. For this reason, it's essential that we understand the nuts and bolts and know how to apply them when leading our clients or students through a workout.

This dynamic workshop will identify the anatomy of the entire core, and lower body and give you a variety of safe, effective, and creative ways to strengthen and balance these areas.

Core Down is perfect for personal trainers and group exercise instructors.

A great chance to take a break and browse the FitnessFest Expo.

Stop and chat with the great vendors we've brought to the University of Arizona just for YOU!

Learn to design a stretch-based program that is individualized and progressive.

Safely lead clients into deeper extensions than they can access on their own, and discover how to modify or replace traditional stretches for clients with injuries, and leave with a whole toolkit of facilitated flexibility exercises you can use.

Fusion Fitness™ is based on a progressive series of exercises and postures that focus on core and stabilizing techniques to improve strength, balance and flexibility.

It integrates mind-body awareness that involves breathing, form, controlled exercise execution and mindfulness.

This program is designed to give fitness leaders a blended class format integrating mind-body practices into fitness programs leading to meaningful workouts.

Weight loss information is exploding almost as fast as waist lines! Something is not right.

There seems to be more information, via more sources, and yet we are getting larger and larger.

This look at the "calorie debate" will help us sort out fact from fiction and includes no-nonsense, actionable recommendations for you and your clients.

More than just an abs workout, the new Hydro-Fit® Liquid Abs contains great ideas and new, state-of-the-art information to include in your cardio classes, strength classes, even land classes!

Experience a variety of exercises that enhance core strength and awareness in many positions that bring functional training into the water!

This up-to-the-present lecture examines the protein vs. carb debate from all angles.

A registered dietitian and certified fitness professional sorts out the research for you to determine if there are advantages to protein over carbs (or vice versa) for both weight loss and performance.

Come clear the fog on this much-debated topic, and take back practical advice for your body.

Flexibility has many benefits stretching beyond injury prevention. Flexibility has the potential to improve performance and our function…but convincing all of your participants to stick around for the cool down or attend a flexibility-inspired class is near impossible.

First, we will revisit the latest research in flexibility training to make sure your approach is as up-to-date as possible. Then, we will develop flexibility sequences, combining traditional exercises with mind/body inspired exercises, to put in the middle of strength training workouts as well as at the end of your workouts.

The sequences will take your participants by surprise, feeling more like a part of the workout or an additional challenge than the "lights off, relaxation" part they skip out on! Perfect for all group fitness instructors and personal trainers.

This course will teach new and established trainers how to use information gained in the initial assessment to design effective, personalized programs for their clients. The advanced service they provide will help them grow their personal training business.