Walking up a flight of stairs, carrying a bag of groceries, or pushing a wheel barrow, what do they all have in common?  Each involves several components of physical fitness ranging from muscular endurance to balance and coordination.  This unique presentation provides attendees new ideas on how to both help your clients live longer, healthier lives, but also promote weight loss, coordination, power development, and have fun too!

This valuable presentation covers a multitude of game aspects from tee to green.  Attendees will learn how to improve the rhythm and flow of your swing by focusing not only on mechanics, but also the physical components necessary to unite technique, balance, strength and power. Golf and fitness instruction come together in this unique hands on presentation.

RMAT is broad spectrum plyometric training. Greater functional benefits can be achieved by using RMAT in combination with more traditional training for elderly clients, post-rehabilitation clients, those dealing with neuromuscular impairment, and more. This session will discuss the basic principles of what plyometric training is and how, with a real understanding of how it works, we can expand it’s utilization to better program for non-traditional populations.
 

Limited Time, Limited Space, Burnout!! Circuit training may be that variable to change up your program.  This presentation will demonstrate multiple programs designed to raise work loads, challenge strength and endurance, and increase motor skill performance. Circuit Training can be an excellent training method for
training athletes as an individual or in a small group setting.
 

Olympic lifting has been the center of hot debate between training benefit vs. time investment for one reason: they can be difficult to learn safely, particularly with limited resources.  Backwards chaining of the Olympic lifts is a top-down approach to teaching the snatch, clean, and jerk to athletes that have never done these exercises before or for veteran athletes who exhibit technical flaws.  Attendees will discover how learning to catch the bar first and then working their way backward to the starting position may be the answer to their Olympic lifting blues.

Athletic success depends on training, attitude, & genetics.  As coaches, we have control over only one of these three components.  maximizing our training time through efficient exercise is paramount to victory.  This presentation explains how to train multiple physical components through a unique variety of total body, metabolically challenging exercises with the medicine ball.  Even the most experienced professional will find new ideas with this valuable presentation!

Hitting a home run, throwing a touchdown pass, or delivering a knockout punch each involve things such as summation of forces, short to long rhythm, and large to small muscle firing patterns.  But do you really understand how these common elements interact with your clients, all in less than a blink of an eye?  Regardless of if it is a professional or recreational athlete, this presentation helps attendees discover, identify, and evaluate complex movement patterns and prescribe corrective exercises and drills related to these common skills.  The "whys, whats, and hows" of the serape effect are examined, along with ways to efficiently and rapidly enhance these skills.