wellness without walls ™
In addition to 90-120 minute workshop trainings, since Lawrence both works for and represents the following companies, he can also bring to you in-depth programs from these internationally-recognized organizations:
PART 1 of 2 HOURS: THE INTERNET AT LARGE: Websites and Google and Fares! Oh My! Fitness professionals need to stay abreast of the current trends and techniques in the ever-evolving field of fitness. To do this, the world wide web oftentimes proves to be the most accurate, speedy, and cost-effective way. Unfortunately, given the fitness professional's busy schedule today, we usually don't have time to spend endless amounts of time clicking to find information from the plethora of (sometimes confusing) sites out there. Lawrence has done the work for you, and will give you a succinct list of the best fitness resource sites (both free and paid) from among all organizations, listing where to go for valid research, nutrition information, choreography, movement analysis and design, and program design. Get free keywords to enter paid sites, discount coupon codes for retail/wholesale sites, passwords for freebies, and discover how to save time using the web wisely!
PART 2 of 2 HOURS: SOCIAL MEDIA INTENSIVE: Bite the bullet and learn how to boost your business for free using Facebook, Twitter, and other popular applications. Discover how NOT to make a post, and the 3:1 rule for Facebook posts for fitness professionals. We will go live on the internet to examine practical, interactive demonstration of "Fitness Facebook."
1/2 DAY PRECON: CREATING MIND-BODY BOOTCAMPS!
Calling all Mind-Body Group Ex Instructors and Mind-Body Personal Trainers!
One of Lawrence's most successful programs is "Buddha-Camp: Aggressive Mind-Body." Just because it's mind-body, doesn't mean that intensity is low, right? This preconvention workshop will allow you not only to experience segments of Lawrence's "Buddha Camp," but you will also get a DVD of one entire workout as well as the music! You will learn the four most successful methods for creating a mind-body bootcamp fusion experience, and practice discovering which one works best for you. If you are a mind-body instructor, you will leave with many ideas for new class formats, as well as new exercises themselves for your classes and clients. The description for Lawrence's "Buddha Camp" mind-body bootcamp that you will experience is: If you know Lawrence, you know he’s a lover and not a fighter, so “boot camp” isn’t in his repertoire. Seen at Equinox clubs, this is his mindful answer to the boot-camp craze, with an aggressive fusion of effective and intense series that all flow from Yoga to Pilates to T'ai Chi. Most uniquely, the only equipment used is bodyweight and an open mind and heart! (Equipment: mats).
AQUATIC HARD CORE AND PEACE CORE TRAINING
Morning Hard Core: Spend the morning with intensive aquatic training joining Lawrence to learn new ways to train both stability and mobility of our clients in aggressive cardio and strength options. Learn new, research-based techniques for training movements, not muscles, emphasizing form over physique. Whether you are training a novice or an elite athlete, you will learn how to make every movement a multi-level movement, with progressions and regressions of difficulty. This is our HARD CORE section of the pre con in the morning.
Afternoon Peace Core: In the afternoon, we flow into a more mind-body application of core challenge, emphasizing a fusion of mind-body disciplines like yoga, pilates, t'ai chi, and other disciplines, both with and without equipment. Temperature permitting, we will even learn the beginnings of WAT-SU massage, making for a perfect ending to our day and start of the rest of the convention. This is our PEACE CORE section of the precon in the afternoon.
Take the Aquatic Hard Core or Peace Core Trainings separately or save money and take them both! "Hard Core, Peace Core" is not your aquatic experience of the 1980's. We've come a long way in learning how to maximize benefits in minimal time, so learn the fusion of research-based practical!
Total of 6 CECs when taken together!
"If you want what you've never had, you have to sometimes do what you've never done" --Lawrence
FROM GOOD TO GREAT: CREAM RISES
For Group Fitness Instructors and Personal Trainers
Learn how to move beyond the "safe and effective" parameters of group fitness and personal training instruction to what makes the cream rise to the top. With his Master's Degree in education, Lawrence will give you practical skills and actual practice as you transition from good to great, looking at what "teaching" and "education" really mean. Lawrence will be giving away many teaching and presenting secrets, sharing lessons from the past thirty years in fitness training and travel. Learn presentation skills, three-dimensional cueing, musicality, and exercise progression/regression design for both instructors and trainers. Whether you teach dance, cycle, yoga, pilates, body sculpt, or train clients, you can learn something new, hone your skills and elevate your teaching abilities.
GLIDING INTO EVOLVED ENERGIES
EVOLUTION MIND-BODY: WHERE EAST MEETS BEST
The following is best offered as a PRECONVENTION WORKSHOP with a MINIMUM of FIVE hours: Spend a day with one of the world's leading pioneers of mind-body hybrid programming as we fuse the best of the next generation of mind-body fitness applications: yoga, Pilates, T'ai Chi, and Feldenkrais with popular gym equipment. Suitable for both group exercise and personal trainers, this "minds-on" workshop will give you:- new exercises with equipment (foam roller, Gliding disk) based on the principles of T'ai Chi, Yoga, Pilates, and Feldenkrais for equipment
- practical class formats and choreography progressions with names and exercises
- evolved exercises from each discipline that stand alone strong, including exercise progressions and regressions
- ideas on creating and implementing mind-body fusion programs with classes and clients
Equipment: inflated 55cm stability balls if possible, Gliding disks, foam rollers (3 feet long, 6"diameter), powerpoint projector, screen, yoga mats
AQUATIC PERSONAL TRAINING PRINCIPLES
A huge trend in the personal training market today is aquatic personal training. Truly, aquatic personal trainers rarely can satisfy all the demands of potential clients and their waiting list is often full. Spend a day with Lawrence Biscontini, MA, aquatic personal trainer of the Caribbean's Golden Door Spas, (or another faculty member) learning about the components of an aquatic personal training session. We will review the fundamental principles of aquatic fitness, attend group strength and cardiovascular aquatic sessions, and learn individualized personal training techniques adapted especially for the aquatic personal trainer. You will take away a career path to help add personal training in the aquatic environment to your job description, including both deep and shallow water training, no equipment training, and movement patterns and exercises using the most popular aquatic equipment available today. (Equipment: lcd projector, webbed gloves, aquatic noodles, water buoys, and elastic tubing)
ACE GROUP EXERCISE LEADER SPECIALTY CERTIFICATION
Designed to supplement the expertise of instructors who are currently teaching pre-choreographed programs, this instructor training will cover foundational knowledge of exercise and movement science and how it applies to group exercise class design, implementation and modification. Participants will also learn teaching techniques, strategies for improved safety and other essential instructional skills that will enrich their group classes. Fitness professionals who attend this one-day course will leave with time-tested ACE strategies that will help them take their careers to the next level. Following successful completion of a final online assessment to be completed at home, instructors will hold an ACE specialty certification.
DEMOS & DRILLS
This live course uses the all-new ACE’s Essentials of Group Fitness Instruction: Demos & Drills DVD to improve your communication skills using verbal, visual and kinesthetic cueing. Suitable for any discipline(s) you teach, this full day leaves you as a much more dynamic instructor. In addition, you will learn to work with music – creating choreographed strength and cardiorespiratory movement routines using different approaches, as well as creating fun, yet progressive, choreography through the use of practical skills. Discover your own “fitness personality” as you achieve a balance between what you need to do as a leader and defining how you can accomplish this.
Course Objectives
• Identify key components of music and understand how they are utilized when choreographing a group fitness class
• Combine musical phrasing with various types of cues to create flowing movement during a class
• Create combinations in order to achieve bilateral and balanced choreography
• Manipulate the components of the D.R.I.L.L. acronym to create cardiovascular and strength-training choreography
• Use visual, verbal, and kinesthetic cues to help participants successfully perform specific movements
• Break down and teach choreography using various teaching methods, including half-time, repetition-reduction, part-to-whole, and simple-to-complex
• Use a teaching template to organize a group exercise session
PROGRAMS AND CERTIFICATIONS INCLUDING:
AFAA MAT SCIENCE
AFAA YOGA
AFAA PILATES
AFAA AQUA
AFAA PRIMARY GROUP INSTRUCTOR CERTIFICATION
AFAA PERSONAL TRAINER CERTIFICATION
AFAA INJURY PREVENTION WORKSHOP
AFAA CYCLE WORKSHOPconsult http://www.afaa.com/ for detailed descriptions
INSTRUCTOR INITIAL TRAINING AND SPECIALTY TRAININGS
SPECIAL BOSU MODULES FOR BOSU CARDIO
BOSU STRENGTH
BOSU ATHLETIC APPLICATION FOR PT
BOSU MIND-BODY
consult http://www.bosupro.com/ for detailed descriptions
INSTRUCTOR INITIAL TRAINING AND SPECIALTY TRAININGS
consult http://www.glidingpro.com/ for detailed descriptions
INSTRUCTOR INITIAL TRAINING AND SPECIALTY TRAININGS
consult http://www.glidingpro.com/ for detailed descriptions