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Child & Adult Training

Creating Successful Boot Camps - Premiering ACSM Health & Fitness Summit 2010

The economy's a mess. Put some black ink on your bottom line with a Boot Camp. Boot Camps are HOT and can be tailored to any demographic. Learn how to design and implement boot camps with appeal to a wide market, or address the unique demands of specific niches, such as the overweight or 50 and over Boomers. Everything you're going to need is included in this presentation, from target marketing to exercise progressions that challenge without injury, to teambuilding activities and much, much more. Enlist today!

newBoot Camp Breakout - Premiering ACSM Health & Fitness Summit 2010

Boot camp workouts are super popular right now. Why? Because they're super efficient. It's 'multi-tasking' for your muscles. According to a study released last year by the American Council on Exercise, a typical boot camp-style workout enhances aerobic capacity and promotes significant calorie burning while also improving muscle fitness. Join the fun and experience a boot camp-style workout that will keep you jazzed and sweating as you tone, trim and build muscle. Also includes great take-away tips to foster team skills and positive thinking in a fast, efficient, high intensity circuit.

Creating Boot Camps for Zoomers - Premiered IDEA World 2009

Zoomers (active baby boomers) can expect to live at least another 50 years, if not forever, and they want to have some fun while they are doing it. Learn how to design and implement boot camps specific to the 50 and over market. Everything you need is included, from target marketing to exercise progressions that challenge without injury, to teambuilding activities and more. Zoom in, NOW!.


Buff Bodz ‘n Little Bodz - Premiered IDEA World 2008

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 Group Suspension Training Course (GSTC)

Learn not only the basics of TRX Suspension Training, but how to teach others in a group fitness class. You will have a TRX workout in your back pocket ready to teach and be able to create your own classes to suit your teaching style. If you’re ready to discover a new way to make them sweat in group fitness, this course is for you. After completing this 1-day course you will be able to: Set up and use the TRX Suspension Trainer Adjust exercises for every fitness level Teach a range of both TRX strength and flexibility exercises Lead a TRX Group Class in 2 different formats Cue clients in a group class Design group TRX workouts to fit your own style
All-Day Workshop

TRX Suspension Trainer Course (STC)

Fitness professionals: get the basics of using your TRX Suspension Trainer for yourself and your clients. This expert-led course gives you the essential information and hands-on training you need. After completing the STC, you will be able to: Understand why Suspension Training is a unique and valuable training method for sports performance and general fitness. Properly set up and use the TRX Suspension Trainer in a variety of locations and for a wide array of exercises. Use the TRX as an efficient and effective exercise tool regardless of fitness level or performance training goals.
All-Day Workshop

TRX Suspension Training - Metabolic Circuits

Push yourself through a number of fast paced, full body circuits that capitalize on the unique full body integration, exercise versatility and unmatched transition capability that makes the TRX the perfect complement to this intense style of training.
Convention Workshop

TRX Suspension Training - Sports Performance

Some of the world’s top coaches and athletes are integrating TRX® Suspension Training® into team or individual athlete programs to reach peak results. Learn how these techniques can be adapted to be safe and effective for any client with functional and athletic aspirations. Discover a program targeted specifically at enhancing general athletic ability and address some specific strategies for individual sports.
Convention Workshop

TRX Suspension Training - TRX Fusion

This exciting session integrates the TRX® Suspension Trainer™ with other fitness equipment to give a heart-pounding workout. Learn how to enhance the TRX or create diverse circuits by combining multiple tools with smart and effective programming to achieve the highest levels of motivation and success for your clients.
Convention Workshop

TRX Suspension Training - Circuit Training

This group strength workout uses timed sets and a grueling boot camp format to give participants an all body burn in record time. Use nothing but your participant’s body weight and the TRX to bring a completely new element to your group program and light up your studio like never before.
Convention Workshop

TRX Suspension Training - 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

TRX Suspension Training - Body Blast

This empowering group strength workout set to music will hit your entire body and switch on your core like nothing you've ever encountered. Starting with a warm- up to get you fired up, the heart of the workout includes demanding exercises for lower & upper body strength and some additional moves that target the core specifically. This dynamic and high energy class is characterized by fun and smooth transitions using exercises that can be adapted to challenge every participant.
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

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

Leigh Crews Strength in the Balance Video by Healthy Learning Video Buy the Video

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

Leigh Crews Core on the Floor by Healthy Learning Video Buy the Video

 

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YOGA & MIND BODY

Y2K Yoga 2000 with Leigh Crews Straight Up Yoga starring Leigh Crews Flow Yoga Series, vol. 1, 2, 3 Flow Yoga vol 2 - Smart Sequencing DVD Unleashing the Athlete with Zen DVD
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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 (adapted from the EveryDay Yoga series)

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 Sample Vinyasa

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

EY-HKDVD 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


EveryDay Yoga: Focus on Great Legs

The focus of this convention workshop 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.

 

AJANI: Music for Flow Yoga, vol. 1Accompany 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

Unleashing the Athlete with Zen by Leigh Crews Buy the DVD


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

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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

Unleashing the Athlete with Zen by Leigh Crews 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

Core on the Floor with Leigh Crews Buy the Video

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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

Core on the Floor with Leigh Crews 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

Strength in the Balance by Healthy Learning Video 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.

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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