1-Basic Instructor Teaching Skills (Friday, Jan. 30, 2009) 

This intensive workshop will teach you all the basic skills you need to put together a fitness class, teach it and help your clients have a good time attending it. 

Whether you are a beginning instructor or still thinking about becoming a fitness instructor, this workshop will surely put you on the right track! 

• Understanding the musical phrase

• Putting steps to music

• Finding your ‘Cue Spot’ and knowing what to say

• Routine construction basics

• Introducing yourself and establishing rapport with your class

• Mood-setting: creating the right atmosphere for your class

Whether you are starting a new career in fitness or just a fitness enthusiast curious about the human body, this workshop will help you understand the basic foundation of the human skeleton, major skeletal muscles and their functions, as well as introduce to you some safe and effective exercises for all the major muscle groups in the human body.   

After attending this workshop, you will not only be able to teach safe exercises, you will also be able to create some of your own! 

• The human skeleton: Major Bones & Joints

• The Muscular System: Anatomy & function

• Applied kinesiology: Training the major muscle groups

• Light and Deep Stretches

• Creative exercise instruction

• Exercise fact and myths!

A fast-paced workshop that breaks the boundaries of traditional choreography and teaches you how to create fun and challenging choreographies, just by mastering a few amazing skills. This dynamic and highly interactive workshop will take your teaching skills to new heights ! The workshop will cover the following: 

• Routine Construction 101

• Building a complete choreography from only two base moves

• Creating inter-changeable blocks of choreography

• Making a choreography that unfolds in two different directions

• Making the music work for you !

• Incorporating syncopations into your choreography

• Layering-down a syncopated choreography

• Using advanced layering skills to build-up a challenging choreography

• Jumping over the boundaries of the eight-count measure

• Layering Repeaters to unravel a more challenging choreography

An interactive workshop that will give you a new perspective on your knowledge of kinesiology and biomechanics:  

• Go deep to the core of human movement and understand how muscles interact together to create even the most intricate movements.

• Understand the nature of balanced forces around skeletal joints and learn how to restore such balance.

• Understand the forces acting on the human body during various exercises and how they affect the joints.

• Learn to develop simple methods that will help you analyze your chosen exercises more effectively, maximizing the benefits and reducing the risks, for safer, more effective personal-training sessions.

5-Lateral Thinking in the fitness field : Getting out of the box! (Friday, Feb. 27, 2009)

Nowadays, fitness professionals are bombarded with “new” information and findings pertaining to one area or another of the fitness profession. With the advancement of information technology, a tremendous wealth of information is now available to those who seek it from a multitude of sources. Some books or researches contradict others and we, as fitness professionals are having a harder time to sort through all this information and decide what is and isn’t accurate. In this seminar, we are not going to give you more “do’s and don’ts”, we are not going to tell you what is the absolute best method to use for your clients…Through an adaptation of lateral thinking to our field: FITNESS, we are going to attempt to shed some light on various options, techniques, teaching and training methods that are available to us today. We are also going to help you learn simple steps that will help YOU decide which pieces of information are relevant to your research and which method(s) is best for your clients and why. 

Workshop Objectives: 

• What is LATERAL THINKING?

• How can Lateral Thinking be applied to the fitness field:

• Exercise effectiveness revisited

• Safety: Group Fitness versus Personal Training

• Biomechanics from the inside-out

• Looking at resistance-training equipment from a different angle

• A deeper look on training principles

• Facts & Trivia regarding popular exercises

• Our knowledge versus what the clients like… A difficult equation!

• Competition versus cooperation … What are the boundaries?

• Win-win situations in fitness management

Special Offers and Group Discounts: 

Book for all 5 workshops and get a 20% discount