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CONVENTIONS - MIAMI '09 - session descriptions

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Core Training w/ Flexi – Bar (workshop)
Barbara Klein and Carol Murphy

More than a million people already train in Europe with this functional miracle bar. Feel the vibration and get your core and your deep spine muscles strong and powerful. Health and fitness can be exciting and the workout is also the solution, against back problems and best of all - you burn plenty of calories!!
Thursday 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm   

Breakin' Step (workshop)
Robert Steinbacher

It's Steinbacher’s style not only to teach you step but to break it down. Patterns flow like water giving you a seamless way to move around the board. But wait! The moves are so stylized and funky that everyone will be “BREAKIN” out! Come join the retired stepper that only gives it to ECA!
Level II, III Focus II, III
Thursday 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm   

Hi/Low Fix (workshop)
Geoff Bagshaw

If you are sick of your choreography and looking for some relief, Geoff has got a good dose of fresh aerobic combinations here for you! This is the prescription that will cure any aerobic rut you might suffer. It’s just what the doctor ordered!
Level I, II, Focus I, II
Thursday 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm   

STOTT PILATES® Jumpboard Interval Training, Level 1 (workshop)
Sally Belanger

Learn to challenge and motivate your clients and classes using innovative and simple jumpboard combinations, separated with intervals of upper and lower body strength and flexibility exercises on the Reformer.  This ultimate cardio / strength interval class, challenges your clients core, and total body strength, elevates your heart rate, while focusing on proper jumping technique.  This new format keeps your clients and classes on the move.
Thursday 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm   

Secrets of Self Myofascial Release (workshop)
Nick Tumminello

Discover the difference between tissue length and tissue quality. Participants will learn how to use the latest and most effective self myofascial release protocols to drastically improve performance, increase flexibility and accelerate recovery time! This hands on workshop will take you way beyond the foam roller and discuss situations in which self myofascial release can actually activate stabilizer muscles, instantly improve strength and explore other situations in which SMR should not be used… this will shock you! This class promises to deliver many new, never before seen concepts and techniques.
Thursday 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm   

“The Bannister Method” – Balance, Strength, Flexibility and Core (workshop)
Gail Bannister-Munn

“The Bannister Method” is designed to increase muscular balance, strength, flexibility, core strength, and bring energy into the body. You can maintain your body’s capacity to function the way you need to for your particular lifestyle. It consists of a fusion of Yoga; Pilates based core work, active isolated (A-I) stretching, and flexibility. The class is comprised of 5 progressive phases designed to increase strength, core strength, flexibility and balance.
Thursday 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm   

SPINNING®: Bike Fit (workshop)
Josh Taylor

Come and be introduced to the all–NEW Bike Fit tool and Spin”–Fit–System designed by Professional Cyclist and Master Instructor, Josh Taylor! Bike Fit is a must know topic for any Spinning instructor. This is an area where you as an instructor can make a huge difference for yourself as well as your students. To be able to fit someone properly on the bike is essential. Come and learn about the Spin-Fit-System with the all-NEW bike fit tool that makes it all very simple! Optimal positioning on the bike is the foundation to safe and effective riding. You know you need to know this better! So come join Josh in this session that includes an in-depth lecture and hands-on application of the NEW Spin-Fit-System!
Thursday 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm   

Planning Off–Season Strength Training for the Triathlete (lecture)
Juan Carlos Santana

Triathlon training and preparation has become a hot topic over the last 10 years. One of the reasons is because great planning is needed to keep the athletes healthy and performing at their top level. Few sports require the volume of training that Triathlon training does and for this reason the cases of over-use injuries in this sport are amongst the highest in the sports world. JC Santana has worked with professional and recreational endurance athletes for the past 10 years. This presentation will show you how he approaches strength training, training volume, recovery and rehabilitation during the off-season.
Thursday 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm   

Whole Food Nutrition and Natural Anti–Aging (lecture)
Mark Occhipinti

What are the natural approaches to slow and support a healthy aging process? Are the natural Vitamin E complexes the secret to slowing the aging process? The secrets revealed in this presentation also discuss the vital and yet forgotten use of glandular tissue extracts and the long history of glandular therapy, its safety and therapeutic needs and benefits.
Thursday 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm   


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