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Children & Adult Training
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The focus is on family fun with interactive circuit activities involving parent and child in tandem. Is it work? Is it play? You decide. Leigh gives you a playground full of creative ideas for interactive circuit training stations. With these tools you can challenge strength and endurance for the tall and the small, create cross-generational quality time for families and attract a new market for your group fitness program.
TRX Suspension
Training
TRX Suspension Training Instructor Course
This
one day course provides the comprehensive education necessary for you
to effectively and safely train your clients. In addition to earning
CECs from ACE, NASM, NSCA and CanFit Pro, in this course you will learn:
8 Hour Workshop
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Hundreds of exercise progressions
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Full-body flexibility protocol
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Suspension Training biomechanics
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Functional training principles applied specifically to the TRX
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How to adapt Suspension Training for any user
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How to apply the TRX in a group training setting and develop innovative
classes
TRX
Suspension Training for Core Performance
Challenge and create power, strength,
balance and mobility while completing
an innovative and effective full-body
strength training program using only the
TRX. This interactive session provides
a comprehensive review of the exciting
training capabilities of this new fitness tool.
Get first-hand knowledge of how a concept
so simple can offer enhanced training
possibilities and challenge.
Convention Workshop
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Older Adult Fitness
Interactive Games For Older Adults
Working in pairs or teams, stay fit by
playing games. Program directors and professional fitness instructors
will learn how working interactively can increase the social dimension
of your senior exercise program while promoting participant safety and
playfulness. Using a variety of equipment, such as balls and resistance
tubing, develop a program that builds strength, balance, and cardiovascular
fitnes in a supportive game atmosphere.
2 Hour Workshop
Yoga and Osteoporosis
It is estimated that one in two women over the age of 50 will have
an osteoporosis related fracture in her lifetime. Your members and clients
with osteoporosis may wonder if yoga is an appropriate exercise for them
and how to participate safely. This workshop explores some of the special
yoga program requirements relating to osteoporosis, as well as appropriate
postures to implement those requirements. Most importantly, learn what
you should not be doing with this population. Learn
how the correct selection of postures, attention to proper progression
and sequence will ensure safe, effective yoga classes to improve the
quality of life for your students with osteoporosis.
2 Hour CEC Workshop
Yoga For Active Older Adults
The benefits of yoga are numerous and rewarding, especially for active
seniors. This workshop will explore many special requirements of yoga
programs for seniors, including common physical conditions among seniors,
and appropriate postures to address those conditions. Learn how attention
to the proper sequence and progression will ensure safe, mentally and
physically stimulating yoga classes to improve the quality of life for
your active senior market.
2 Hour CEC Workshop
GPS Adventures™
GPS Adventure Quest™
It’s a non-competitive outdoor adventure that delivers
a workout while you play. Handheld GPS navigation, brainteasers physical
challenges and teamwork are combined in this innovative new outdoor game
using the Global Positioning System. Search for clues, solve the puzzles
and discover the precise coordinates of a hidden container, then find
it with a handheld GPS (global positioning system) receiver, logic, and
as much muscle power as it takes. Team up with fellow players to develop
winning strategies and overcome “Special Tests” designed
to challenge both brain and body. GPS receivers are provided. No advanced
skill is required. Come prepared for fun.
Workshop or Special Event
GPS Adventure Race™
Adventure racing is a non-stop sport of navigation, strategy
and endurance with a special emphasis on speed and teamwork. This workshop
lets you experience this exciting new outdoor game in a "compacted" format.
Real Adventure Races can take hours or even days to complete. Use GPS
(global positioning system) to identify and find hidden stations as you
reveal clues, solve puzzles and team up to develop winning strategies
and overcome unique "Special Tests" designed to challenge both
brain and body. Explore your mental and physical limits. Learn how to
lead a team and how to be a valuable team player. GPS receivers are provided.
Workshop or Special Event
STRENGTH TRAINING
Strength In The Balance: A Stability Ball &
Chi Ball Workout
A first-class functional workout, challenging your body with a combination
of free and body-weight resistance and asymmetric instability. Strength in the
Balance features an easy-to-learn organizational routine keyed to body position
on the stability ball and concludes with a chi ball acupressure/myofascial-release
self-massage.
2 Hour CEC Workshop
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Core On The Floor
From basic to advanced, the focus for this workshop is abdominals. Review the
latest abdominal training research and apply the science as you explore an array
of ab exercises and variations. Learn an integrated approach to strengthening,
defining and maintaining muscles of the trunk.
3 Hour CEC Workshop
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YOGA & MIND
BODY
Floor, Core & More
Floor, Core & MoreTM for personal fitness trainers introduces powerful
and effective alternatives to traditional weight room training. This one-day
workshop includes a personal fitness trainer’s overview of key Yoga and
Pilates concepts. The focus will be on real-world applications and practical,
hands-on training techniques suitable for pre and post rehab clients.
8 Hour CEC Workshop
Comparative Yoga
Vini, Ashtanga, Bikram, Kundalini! Whatever happened to plain old yoga? Considering that there are over 800 documented yoga styles, you have many reasons to be confused. In this workshop, yoga instructor Leigh Crews will provide a framework and a sampling of major yoga formats to sort it all out. Working along a continuum from Power Yoga, to Iyengar, to Yin, Leigh will show you the key differences and commonalities along with discussion of other styles that fall somewhere in between. Experience a practice providing a sample of each major style, and learn an organizational framework to identify any style of yoga by its essential elements and relate it to the rest of the yoga universe.
1.5 Hour CEC Workshop
AFPA Yoga
Instructor Certification
This AFPA certification program trains
participants to create dynamic, user-friendly, group fitness yoga classes. The
program addresses correct postural execution, transitions and modifications
of poses. Learn the techniques of class design, skills to communicate the mind/body
connection, and safe teaching methods. This certification program is structured
for beginners teaching yoga, practicing yoga, and learning yoga. Experienced
Yoga instructors will benefit form this workshop as it will offer new skills
to teach in health clubs and the gym environment. There are no prerequisites.
8 Hour Certification Course
Yoga for Healthy Backs
Eight out of 10 Americans will experience back pain at some point. Yoga builds strength, flexibility and functional integrity in the joints. Yoga for Healthy Backs focuses on the muscles and joints of the upper and lower back and the yoga postures that can build strength, improve posture and alleviate pain. The complete practice included in this workshop will concentrate on sequences for maintaining back health.
1.5 Hour Workshop
Yoga Core
Keeping the core strong and supple is important for health as well as aesthetics. Yoga Core delivers core training with a yoga perspective. Learn a variety of yoga postures appropriate for any fitness level that will strengthen the muscles of the abs and back while maintaining or increasing the flexibility of the spine. The complete practice included in this workshop will concentrate exclusively on core training.
1.5 Hour Workshop
Strong Yoga for Great Legs
Strong Yoga for Great Legs is all about the lower body. From the hips to the toes, learn dynamic poses that strengthen, stretch and improve your legs. This workshop will open your hips, strengthen your quads, stretch your hamstrings, build strong knees and ankles, and unify the lower body. Finish with a complete practice that will leave your legs feeling like limp noodles.
1.5 Hour Workshop
Yoga and Osteoporosis
It is estimated that one in two women over the age of 50 will have an osteoporosis
related fracture in her lifetime. Your members and clients with osteoporosis
may wonder if yoga is an appropriate exercise for them and how to participate
safely. This workshop explores some of the special yoga program requirements
relating to osteoporosis, as well as appropriate postures to implement those
requirements. Most importantly, learn what you should not be doing with this
population. Learn how the correct selection of postures, attention to proper
progression and sequence will ensure safe, effective yoga classes to improve
the quality of life for your students with osteoporosis.
2 Hour CEC Workshop
Yoga For Active Older Adults
The benefits of yoga are numerous and rewarding, especially for active seniors.
This workshop will explore many special requirements of yoga programs for seniors,
including common physical conditions among seniors, and appropriate postures
to address those conditions. Learn how attention to the proper sequence and
progression will ensure safe, mentally and physically stimulating yoga classes
to improve the quality of life for your active senior market.
2 Hour CEC Workshop
Private Practice - Creating A Personal Yoga Experience
Discover the joy of having your own customized private yoga practice. This
lecture defines a path for getting the greatest return on the investment of
your workout time. Learn how to create a practice that answers your individual
needs, including equipment basics, prioritizing, personal assessment and setting
up your space.
2 Hour CEC Lecture
EVERYDAY YOGA™ -
Vinyasa Flow Series
EveryDay Yoga™ Workshop Series
Yoga can be practiced every day, but do you really want to do the same practice
every day? This workshop series gives you five complete daily practices, that
can be done Monday through Friday. Each two-hour workshop explores unique
aspects of the focus practice, in depth. Energize on Monday and mellow out
on Friday. In between, focus on a different area of the body each day.
EveryDay Yoga™ Focus on Healthy Backs
Eight out of 10 Americans will experience back pain at some point. Yoga builds strength, flexibility and functional integrity in the joints. Yoga for Healthy Backs focuses on the muscles and joints of the upper and lower back and the yoga postures that can build strength, improve posture and alleviate pain. The complete practice included in this workshop will concentrate on sequences for maintaining back health.
1.5 Hour Workshop
Easy EveryDay Yoga™
This workshop develops a Monday morning workout that will get you moving
and pump up your energy level. A great practice for any day of the week
when you want to concentrate on flow and warmth.
1.5 Hr. CEC Workshop
EveryDay Yoga™ - Energy
This workshop develops a Monday morning workout that will get you moving
and pump up your energy level. A great practice for any day of the week
when you want to concentrate on flow and warmth.
2 Hr. CEC Workshop
EveryDay Yoga™ - Shoulders 
This workshop will review the anatomy of the shoulders and discuss yoga
postures that strengthen and stretch the shoulder and shoulder girdle. Includes
a complete practice that focuses on shoulders. more
2 Hr. CEC Workshop
EveryDay Yoga™ - Hips & Knees
This workshop will review the anatomy of the hip joint and the knees and
discuss postures that open the hips, strengthen the knees and unify the lower
body. Special emphasis will be placed on the use of straps and manual manipulation
to protect the knee joint. Includes a complete practice that incorporates
the postures discussed, ready for your immediate use.
2 Hr. CEC Workshop
Workshop DVD Available in the Dynalife Pro Shop
EveryDay Yoga™ - Abs & Back
Every one appreciates the value of core conditioning. This workshop delivers
core training with from a yoga perspective. Review the anatomy of the abs
and back, and discuss important yoga postures to help keep the core strong
and supple. The complete practice included in this workshop will concentrate
on core training.
2 Hr. CEC Workshop
EveryDay Yoga™ - Relaxation & Stress
Relief
This workshop will focus on the mellow side of yoga. You know how to do hard.
Learn how to do soft, expertly, and bring balance to your yoga practice. Bring
blankets and bolsters. This workshop will discuss the benefits of a relaxing
practice and suggest postures and sequences that will calm you down, chill
you out, and leave you limp-noodle-relaxed. (Participants should bring two
full size or larger blankets for the workshop.)
2 Hr. CEC Workshop
Accompany
your practice with AJANI: Music for Flow Yoga, vol. 1 (available
here)
Unleashing
the Athlete With Zen
A unique application of the Reebok
5-Point Movement Screen and mind-body exercise for enhancement of your individual
training program. Learn to identify many typical imbalances that are created
by common sports activities. Match the imbalance with the appropriate yoga and
pilates postures for stretching or strengthening. These skills are immediately
useful for athletes. Participate in a 20-minute workout that can be used as
a warm up for your sport, or extended to create a full-hour exercise class.
Knowledge of the Reebok 5-Point Movement Screen is not a pre-requisite for this
course.
3 Hr. CEC Workshop
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Vinyasa Krama
Vinyasa Krama is the skill of
combining yoga postures in sequences that flow smoothly and in which the postures
are complementary, one to another. This course offers a step-by-step plan to
organize your class, artfully and intelligently. As you experience 5 complete
vinyasas, you will learn how to select and sequence complementary and interdependent
yoga poses for a workout that flows magically from beginning to end to create
harmony, balance, and seamless transitions. Use this choreography in your next
class, or create your own using the skills presented. Come away with instant
choreography for 5 complete vinyasas.
2 Hour CEC Workshop
Personal
Training
Unleashing
the Athlete With Zen
A unique application of the Reebok
5-Point Movement Screen and mind-body exercise for enhancement of your individual
training program. Learn to identify many typical imbalances that are created
by common sports activities. Match the imbalance with the appropriate yoga and
pilates postures for stretching or strengthening. These skills are immediately
useful for athletes. Participate in a 20-minute workout that can be used as
a warm up for your sport, or extended to create a full-hour exercise class.
Knowledge of the Reebok 5-Point Movement Screen is not a pre-requisite for this
course.
3 Hr. CEC Workshop
Buy
the DVD
Strength In The Balance: A Stability Ball & Chi Ball Workout
A first-class functional workout, challenging your body with a combination
of free and body-weight resistance and asymmetric instability. Strength in
the Balance features an easy-to-learn organizational routine keyed to body
position on the stability ball and concludes with a chi ball acupressure/myofascial-release
self-massage.
2 Hour CEC Workshop
Core on the Floor
From basic to advanced, the focus of this workshop is abdominals. Learn an
integrated approach to strengthen, define and maintain all major muscles of
the trunk. Enjoy an excruciatingly intense master class, properly sequenced
to be the most effective workout your midsection has ever known.
3 Hr. Advanced Workshop
Buy
the Video
Cycle
Training
LEMOND GROUP
CYCLING FOUNDATION TRAINING (8 Hours)
This instructor workshop is a full-day
comprehensive education program that that is designed directly from the innovations
of Greg LeMond. It provides practical "cycling based" training for learning
the fundamentals of group indoor cycling, but with particular attention to
finer details that will prepare you to be a champion teacher! The primary emphasis
of this course is to give you the tools to teach an effective, safe and fun
indoor cycling class.
You will learn:
- How to lead a group cycling class for all fitness levels
- Proper bike fit - from the quick fit to the detailed fit
- Correct body positions for cycling and instructor cueing tips
- Dynamic breakdown of the pedal stroke for better power and speed
- Practical cycling drills that improve pedaling technique
- Class formats and safety issues
- Integrating music rhythms to the riding profiles
- Practical ways to monitor exercise intensity with Rating of Perceived Exertion
(RPE)
Participants will receive:
- LeMond Group Cycling Instructor Manual
- Detailed Foundation Program Outline, including (5) cycling class workouts
- Certificate of Achievement
- Continuing Education Credits: 0.8 ACE and 8.25 AFAA
LEMOND GROUP
CYCLING ADVANCED TRAINING (7 Hours)
Prerequisite: LeMond Group Cycling
Foundation Training or other cycle instruction program training.
A 7-hour advanced educational program offering seasoned instructors the cutting
edge in group indoor cycling. This course will enhance your knowledge of integrating
cadence with work load to achieve specific fitness goals. Goals are based on
resistance applied, RPM range, and intensity targeted within the cycling drills
in order to create solid class design. Bring your heart rate monitor! Heart
rate monitors are worn throughout the practical session.
This cycling training course provides:
- Class design using the Pilot™ (if available)
- cadence, music, resistance, intensity factors
- Cadence drills for improving pedaling speed, strength & endurance
- Basic Physiology of HR training
- Training Target Heart Rate - Determining VO2Max in
relation to HR and RPE
- HR terminology - understanding steady state, max steady
state, ventilation and lactate threshold
- How to teach various cycling intervals - defined and
specific for fitness goals
Instructors will receive:
- LeMond Advanced Group Cycling Guidebook
- Group Cycling class profiles specifically focused on
cadence/ heart rate integration
- Certificate of Achievement
- Continuing Education Credits: 0.7 ACE and 7.25 AFAA
LeMond Specialty Cycling
- 2 Hour Intensives
LeMond Academy specialty
workshops target areas to fine tune your cycling skills with hands-on experience
and intensive focus on the topic of study.
LeMond Cycling
Yoga REVolution
Explore the concept of yin and yang—the universal principle of duality,
as it relates to balance in your cycle training. Yang properties of LeMond
Cycle Training are perfectly integrated with yin properties of yoga to balance
your body as well as your workout. We will learn skills to develop leg speed
and leg strength for power. Practice restorative yoga postures targeting muscles
tightened by indoor cycling. Recover from muscular imbalances caused by a repetitive
cycle routine.
0.2 ACE – 2.0 AFAA
RevCycling
Pilot™ Training
Learn how to design classes
based on cadence, resistance, and heart rate using the LeMond RevMaster Pilot™ wireless
meter with the music still driving the beat. You will discover how to choose
the “real” ride pedal cadence and how music rhythms can provide
a variety of RPM within the same song. Create riding profiles using particular
cadence ranges that define the terrain and targets specific heart rate intensities.
Learn effective cycling drills integrating the Pilot to time your own efforts,
intervals and heart rate range.
No more guessing games with measurements! Get an idea of how fast, how far, what
intensity to burn
how much.
0.2 ACE – 2.0
AFAA
RevCycling
Climbing Tips
Maximize your indoor training time
by building your strength-endurance for climbing! Learn tips that will help
you conquer roads that go up. This session will show you how to design classes
that develop cycling specific strength, provide technique drills for improving
your ability to change cadences during a climb and improve your climbing lactate
threshold. Come get strong!
0.2 ACE – 2.0 AFAA
RevCycling Alignment Connection
This unique blend of indoor cycling and stretching creates a perfect combination
for any rider. The ride “mentally” focuses on correct body positioning
while cycling on different terrains followed by specific movements off the
bike to strengthen, isolate and activate core abdominal muscles that realign
your body. The stretching concepts blend integrated core and alignment mat
exercises to help reduce muscle tension from the neck, shoulders, back and
legs. Enjoy your workout and “feel good” from the beginning through
to the finale!
0.2 ACE – 2.0 AFAA
RevCycling Intensity Core Fusion
This combo-cardio-core session is a fun and incredibly effective way in stimulating
your heart, legs and “central control”. From indoor cycling to
body core conditioning on the stability ball--you will challenge your endurance,
invigorate your lungs, then focus on balancing the workout to relieve back
tightness and build functional strength in your torso area. You will learn
how to compliment your cycling with the workout that truly utilizes your
time efficiently with absolute results.
0.2 ACE – 2.0 AFAA
Lemond
Bicycle Fit – the Real Deal!
Have you ever experienced any specific knee, back or foot
pain while riding? This course may reveal the answers to those issues of discomfort
and get you back riding pain free once again. Learn to properly set your position
and analyze other riders’ positions based upon an understanding of detailed
geometric relationships which helps to ensure correct alignment, reduces the
chance of injury and provides a more enjoyable ride. You will gain valuable
insights that step beyond the “quick” bike fit. This class contains
both lecture and practical (on the bike). Bring your cycling shoes, cleats
and all!
0.3 ACE – 3.0 AFAA
RevCycling Athletic Training Drills
This workshop focuses on learning how to design a variety
of cycling drills for classes. Profiles include intervals involving accelerations,
pyramid resistance progressions, speed work with jumps, lifts and sprints.
These cycling patterns will restore energy, excitement, and focus to your classes.
You will learn how to alter the intensity for various levels of exercisers
while still maintaining the respective goal.
0.3 ACE – 3.0 AFAA
RevCycling Heart Rate Training
Train specifically for your desired health benefit! Determine
the exercise intensities that improve your health, your fitness or your performance.
By monitoring the intensity you will learn how to get your cycling class started
and where to go next based on your heart rate measurement calculations. Learn
how more demanding riding profiles require specific target heart rate ranges
to be addressed even in the warm-up. Ultimately you will improve your ability
to train more efficiently while progressing towards the desired goal. By training
smart year-round with a clearer focus on how to find the “right” range
at the “right” time--you will reach your target!
0.3 ACE – 3.0 AFAA
RevCycling Pedal Jam™
For cyclists who want to improve their spin, power and speed!
Focus is on developing the pedaling technique to meet the demands of a typical
outdoor road ride. By improving the performance of precise pedaling skills,
better technique can be achieved. You will learn to develop smoother pedaling
transitions when changing resistance, how to increase muscle efficiency during
fast or slower pedal strokes, plus how to vary body positions on the bike for
energy cost improvement.
0.3 ACE – 3.0 AFAA
Gliding
Workshops
Gliding Basic Training
Introduces the attendee to the core Gliding program, the unique Gliding Discs
and exercises, science, technique and application for a variety of fitness
classes. This course will cover general exercise science for functional and
integrated movement as it pertains to flexibility, strength and cardio choreography
specific to Gliding and ghe Gliding discs. The training will cover applications
for stand-alone Gliding classes, Gliding integrated into various preexisting
classes, and use in both personal training and kids sessions.
4 Hr. Advanced Workshop
Abs
Core on the Floor
From basic to advanced, the focus of
this workshop is abdominals. Learn an integrated approach to
strengthen, define and maintain all major muscles of the trunk.
Enjoy an excruciatingly intense master class, properly sequenced
to be the most effective workout your midsection has ever known.
3 Hr. Advanced Workshop
Buy
the Video
Strength In The Balance: A Stability Ball & Chi Ball Workout
A first-class functional workout, challenging your body with a combination
of free and body-weight resistance and asymmetric instability. Strength in
the Balance features an easy-to-learn organizational routine keyed to body
position on the stability ball and concludes with a chi ball acupressure/myofascial-release
self-massage.
2 Hour CEC Workshop
Buy
the Video
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Leigh's Master Classes
The perfect way to enhance your next Dynalife workshop. It’s
as easy as 1-2-3 to...
- 1 Inspire
your membership and instructors.
- 2 Promote
your own program to members and prospective members.
- 3 Generate extra revenue for your
continuing education budget.
- Stability Ball
- Yoga
- Ramping
- Gliding
- Nordic Walking (outdoor)
- Abdominals
- Body Sculpting (various equipment)
- Circuit Training
- Fitness Caching (outdoor) (available with workshop only)
Boot Camp Master Class
Skills, Drills
and Thrills! Work to your max in a high-energy Boot Camp
style that incorporates kick boxing drills, athletic drills, coordination
and balance. Play hard and have mega-fun with our "unison circuit".
Wrap up the workout with a super abs section, followed by a relaxing
and restorative cool-down reward.
90 Minutes (No CECs)
Leigh’s Master Classes can vary in length and the
content can be customized to meet the specific needs of your
program or facility. CEUs are not available for master classes.
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