AQUA Kickin’ MIX
Are you ready for a non-stop, full blown metabolic push without the impact of a traditional kickboxing style workout? Hit the pool and experience the added benefits the aquatic environment adds to cardiovascular conditioning, and full body CORE integration. Learn how to artfully layer upper and lower body punch/kick combinations that maximize results. Explore the 5 CORE based exercises that research indicates are proven to lift seats, tone arms, tighten abdominals and will have your clients and classes “training like a contender” in no time.
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, AQUA Glove to student ration (2:1)
*Can be a master class.
Wet~n~Wild CLUB Dance
Who says you can’t bring the dance club to the pool? Revive your current aqua class, utilizing a whole different perspective with this cardio-based dance oriented workout. Learn new dance movements and sequences that will have hips shakin’ and smiles breakin’ on the faces of your participants. Refresh your teaching abilities and put the FUN factor back into the pool!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen
*Can be a master class.
WTF? (H20, Toys, FUN)
No, it’s not what you think….rather, how many toys can you use in one class: Noodles, buoyancy barbells, gloves, kickboards and anything else at your disposal on your pool deck. Create a totally FUN, full body workout incorporating one, two or all of your equipment. Don’t have dedicated water equipment for your use? No problem! Learn how to adapt land based equipment to the aquatic environment, quickly, efficiently and effortlessly. Experience ways to manipulate buoyancy, directional changes, and working positions to strengthen the CORE while offering cardiovascular challenge and muscular endurance segments interspersed. Give your participants a more thorough individualized workout with the toys they get to play with!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, noodles (1:1), buoyancy barbells (2:1), gloves (2:1), kickboards(1:1), medicine ball (1:1), and tubing (1:1). (equipment:student ratio)
*Can be a master class.
Luscious Legs / Arm Candy
Are your aquatic participants feeling a little bottom heavy or not quite sporting the “MaDonna” arms they dream about? Who says you can’t do a total body annihilation of your upper body and/or lower body separately in the aquatic environment? 30 minute, time efficient classes are the RAVE and are great class offerings to add to any schedule looking to maximize pool usage and space. Using the unique qualities of the water and the tools of the trade, explore new exercise sequences and training regimes designed to sculpt sinewy legs and rip arms to oblivion.
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, equipment to student ratios: noodles (1:1), buoyancy barbells (2:1), gloves (2:1)
*Can be a master class.
Rolling in the Deep
Who’s to say you can’t simulate the effects of a deep water conditioning class in the shallow end? What is “transitional water training? Examine the physiological benefits that differentiate these two mediums. Explore the aquatic principles of suspension and flotation and how they influence proper alignment, technique, and working positions. Learn which equipment best optimizes your participants time and your teaching technique as a successful means of bridging these two environments, together, in one class!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, equipment to student ratios: noodles (1:1), buoyancy barbells (2:1), gloves (2:1), buoyancy belt (1:1)
*Can be a master class.
Splash Dance Retro
Who says you can’t bring the retro dance craze of the 80‘s and 90’s to the pool? Electric slide, Hammer Time and the Macarena ring a bell? Revive your current aqua class, utilizing a whole different perspective with this cardio-based dance oriented workout. Learn new dance movements and sequences that will have hips shakin’ and smiles breakin’ on the faces of your participants. Refresh your teaching abilities and put the FUN factor back into the pool!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen
*Can be a master class.
Aquatic Arsenal 101
Noodles, buoyancy dumbbells, gloves, kick boards, dumbbells, tubing… what to use and when? Your equipment tool belt can be varied and diverse, what physiological training effect are you trying to enhance or manipulate? What properties of the water must you consider in terms of equipment choice and selection? Refresh your understanding of the function, purpose, limitations, properties, safety factors and biomechanics of your tools of the trade. Review the 5 general categories aquatic equipment falls into; assisted and resisted movements; agonist and antagonist muscle relationships, muscle actions and multiple plane movement. Create a totally FUN, full body workout incorporating one, two or all of your equipment. Learn how to adapt land based equipment to the aquatic environment, quickly, efficiently and effortlessly. Give your participants a more thorough individualized workout with the toys they get to play with!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, equipment to student ratios: noodles (1:1), buoyancy barbells (2:1), gloves (2:1), kick boards(1:1), medicine ball (1:1), and tubing (1:1). (equipment:student ratio), doesn’t need to incorporate all pieces of equipment, mix and match.
*Can be a master class.
H20 Beginnings
New to the aquatic fitness arena? Maybe it’s time to explore the possibilities of expanding your fitness knowledge in the pool environment. Apply your land based knowledge to a new aquatic environment and expand your teaching and income possibilities. Examine the similarities and explore the differences that exist between land and water – learn the theory and examine the principles behind submerged resistance, drag, eddy, viscosity and buoyancy; appropriate music use and movement vocabulary, the advantages of teaching on deck and the benefits of aquatic exercise for varied fitness levels. Walk away with a class design you’ll be able to teach Monday morning, ready to go!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, noodles to student ratio (1:1)
*Can be a master class.
Hydro Flex~n~Flow
Ready to make the transition from turf to surf, and use the unique qualities of the aquatic environment to your advantage? Take the guesswork out of exercise selection and class flow for your aquatic fusion based mind body classes utilizing a“free flow” approach to class design. Learn how to synergistically design choreographed exercise sequences from varying mind/body formats to flow and heighten your participant’s states of awareness – all the while improving your participant’s muscular endurance, strength, CORE stabilization and flexibility.
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, noodle to student ratio (1:1)
*Can be a master class.
HIIT The Pool
Let’s head to the pool and give high intensity interval training a new twist! Bootcamp style calanetics, sport specific drills, and even familiar sequences take on new meaning TABATA style! Discover how to create unique and challenging water workouts by combining the intensity of interval training with the power of deep or shallow water. Learn the principles of TABATA style training as they apply to class format and workout design. Varying intensity, speed, water depth, and ROM styles will enhance flexibility, muscular and aerobic endurance. Refresh your existing program by offering interval based activities in a suitable for all ages and abilities.
Equipment: LCD projector screen, water dumbbell to student ratio (2:1)
*Can be a master class.
H20 STACKED
Step beyond the usual hum-drum follow the leader type approach in your classes and develop a true sense of camaraderie for your participants, circuit style. Discover the possibilities that this method of training has on improving cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength and endurance and power development! Examine the principles of circuit training as they apply to class design and format, equipment usage, and participant motivation and socialization. Have them waiting in line for your classes!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, noodles, water dumbbells, tubing, medicine balls
*Can be a master class.
WATERinMOTION 16 hour instructor training
WATERinMOTION is the new wave in aquatic fitness. This vertical exercise system is pre-choreographed and designed to effectively, efficiently and profitably utilize the most expensive piece of equipment in your health club…your pool! Incredible music, invigorating movement, and magnificent marketing are the pillars of this amazing program. Land instructors smoothly and easily transition into the pool. Aquatic programs show increases in staff retention and membership usage.
Equipment: LCD projector screen, noodle to student ratio (1:1)
*Can be a master class.
TABATA Bootcamp™ 8 hour instructor training
As a TABATA Bootcamp trainer, your mantra will be “more is not better – better is better”. Using current HIIT and Tabata research, metabolic profiling, perfect exercise programming, body assessment, and motivational coaching skills, you will learn how you can lead this ahead-of-its-time body transforamtional program and generate and amazing income stream, owning your own 8-week total body turnaround bootcamp business. Empower your cleints with the Take 3 eating methodology that will change the way they eat forever. Tabata Bootcamp will allow you to create a business for yourself and a permanent change in your clients. instructor manual, resistance tubing, ropeless jumprope, Bender Ball, web membership, and ongoing support (at no additional fee- you will receive everything you need) and a complete turn-key program to grow your own Tabata Bootcamp business. (.9) ACE, (8.0) AFAA CECs
Equipment: All is provided
*Can be a master class
Sandbag SMACKdown
We’re not building sandcastles here, but a leaner, meaner fighting machine of a body! Using a sandbag as your medium, HIT the body with a healthy dose of primal movement complexes utilizing ACSM approved training variables as your TNT. Learn new multi-joint inspired sequences designed to metabolically TORCH calories in less time. Explore unique body weight based drills constructed to TRANSFORM bodies and promote active flexibility and body function Examine program design options that deliver a high density, time efficient workout using 5-6 key patterns, appropriate for all fitness levels, great for group classes or small group personal training. Learn how to assemble your very OWN sandbag using easily acquired items!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, sandbag to student ration (1:1)
*Can be a master class
Lebert Training Systems™: Primal Movement Drills-n-Thrills for Small Group Training and Group Exercise
Isn’t time we get back to the primal root of it all, how we evolved from infants and developed into the superior “moving” machines we now are? Through movements we learned as a baby we can help our bodies gain flexibility, repair and prevent injury, and build strength and skills. Using the Lebert Equalizer™ and Lebert Buddy System™, explore what the 7 primal movement patterns are. Examine program design strategies, a primal flow assessment, and learn NEW body weight training sequences involving mobility prepearation, torso coordiantion, skill and resistance training for all fitness levels. After all, life is a sport!Equipment: LCD projector, screen, Lebert Equalizer™ to student ration
(2:1) Lebert Buddy System™ to student ration (1:2)
*Can be a master class
Lebert Training Systems™: Pretty in Pink Gets TUFF
Calling all the ladies, no matter what your busy active lifestyle entails, when it comes to fitness, it’s not about working out longer, it’s about working out smarter. Quit the countless hours on the treadmill and add in a daily dose of body weight resistance training to your regime and REV up your metabolism! Using the Lebert PINK Equalizer™, Lebert Buddy System™ and TABATA style drills, discover simple yet intense exercise combinations that don’t build bulk, but rather total body fitness, fat loss, muscle tone, increased core strength, and YES, a sexy sleek body!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, Lebert Equalizer™ to student ration (2:1) Lebert Buddy System™ to student ration (1:2)
*Can be a master class
TRX® Group Suspension Training® Course: 8 hour instructor training
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
Equipment: LCD projector screen, TRX to student ratio 1:1, anchoring system
*Can be a master class.
TRX® Suspension Training® Course: 8 hour instructor training
Designed by experts for the fitness professional who wants to harness the full potential of the TRX® Suspension Trainer, this course teaches you how to incorporate the TRX into your clients’ programs and how to grow your training business. In this course you’ll learn over 70 TRX exercises, in detail, as well as all the benefits and target muscles of the exercises; how to properly perform and “cue” the exercise; and modifications and progressions to adapt the exercises to every fitness level.
In this Suspension Training Course, you will learn:
- TRX Suspension Trainer set up and use
- Benefits of the TRX and Suspension Training
- How to adjust the resistance and stability of TRX exercises
- How to properly do each TRX exercise
- Progressions and regressions of TRX exercises for all fitness levels
- Cueing and techniques for correcting common faults
Equipment: LCD projector screen, TRX to student ratio (1:1), anchoring system
*Can be a master class.
SLEEK Physique
Your clients and class members count on you to give them a rockin’ hot body , paparazzi worthy, ready for that big opening! This FUN, total body cardio conditioning class combines cross discipline training and integrated movement through a series of nested sprint drills, kickboxing and body weight based 3D sequences, sure to sculpt bodies into oblivion! Learn how to train energy system development utilizing short high-intensity sprint drills. Examine the concept of neuro-boosting and how it affects the hormonal environment to enhance performance. Walk away with new kickboxing combinations and body weight training exercises to reignite your passion, commitment and dedication to yourself and denizens you serve!
Equipment: LCD projector screen, noodle to student ratio (1:1)
*Can be a master class.
BALLisimo
It’s just you and your ball, rather 2 balls, as you explore the training possibilities of using a stability ball and medicine ball separately and together. CORE is the focus here as Jeff expertly leads you through a plethora of full body conditioning movements that can be used independently with your personal training clients or grouped together into a class format. Experience and learn different exercise sequences per section to increase your working knowledge of the CORE. Explore the unique characteristics the medicine ball utilizes in terms of boosting resistance, cardiovascular power, and promoting longer/shorter lever movements. Learn new balance exercises and full range of motion sequences using the stability ball. Walk away with enough nuggets you can use immediately as part of your fitness based repertoire, with enough progressions for all fitness levels. Great for group exercise instructors or personal trainers.
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, stability ball 45cm or 55cm to student ratio (1:1), and a 4# or 6# medicine ball to student ratio (1:1)
*Can be a master class.
Streamline SCULPT
Sculpting classes are still the RAVE and couldn’t be more popular in the fitness market! No need to utilize every piece of equipment at your fingertips! Join Jeff McMullen in this non-stop strength and conditioning extravaganza that works the body from head to toe simply using the Body Bar®. Learn to seamless link exercises sequences that challenge the body in a variety of planes and motions, as well as unique ideas incorporating balance, muscular strength and endurance and neuromuscular facilitation. This workshop will allow you to explore strategies to create modifications and progressions for every level of fitness, ensuring your sculpting class is a success EVERY time!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, Body Bar® to student ratio (1:1)
*Can be a master class.
Cardio*Combat*Core*Strength
Join Jeff for this FUSION of cardio kickboxing and body weight based strength conditioning and standing core based work without every sitting down. Kick, punch, plank, push and lift your body in endless combinations, sequences, directions and planes that will leave your head spinning with endless possibilities and ideas to take home and utilize for any level fitness class. Fine tune your training and teaching skills by artfully linking seamless transitions of cardio, weight bearing exercises and core and raise the bar in fitness conditioning you can offer your classes and personal training clientele and leave them clamoring for more, more, more!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen
*Can be a master class.
Short CIRCUIT
Circuit classes are hotter than ever! Give your circuit training class a makeover and take group exercise to a whole new level for your participants. Partner up and hit calorie and athletic conditioning stations that use Stability Balls, Steps and Medicine Balls. Whether you teach full-length group exercise classes or a personal trainer looking for innovative core, muscle strengthening/ endurance, or cardio drills, you’ll walk away with more ideas than you can take home. Learn how to properly progress or regress an exercises; pickup useful coaching tips and innovative class design tips that build socialization back into group exercise or small group training, utilizing partner work. You’ll be shocked and jolted by the options that exist at your fingertips!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, Stability Balls, Steps, Medicine Balls
*Can be a master class.
Kettlebell Concepts
Explore the theory, philosophy, and biomechanics surrounding foundational kettlebell lifting and how it can be added to your arsenal as an effective tool of trade. Learn proper form and techinique for lifting patterns, program design options, as well as safety considerations for clients of all fitness levels in private/ semi-private training settings.
Equipment: LCD projector, Kettlebell to student ration (1:1) (#5 or 7# option)
*Can be a master class.
Kettlebell HIIT it!
Learn the concepts of integrating a fusion approach to intelligent kettlebell lifting and dynamic, integreated body weight movements that double the trouble and training effect for your one-on-one and small group training settings. Mix-n-match sequencing, proper formatting and technique, as well as music interface will all be explored in this CORE de FORCE fitness extravaganza!
Equipment: LCD projector, Kettlebell to student ration (1:1) (#5 or 7# option)
*Can be a master class.
Kettlebell DRENCHED
Great for personal trainers and group exercise instructors alike, work one on one with your client base or incorporate small group training into your repertoire utilizing the kettlebell. This simple, yet effective muscular and cardiovascular endurance based workout is sure to melt fat, make you clients breathless, increase flexibility and build a long, lean muscular physique. What more could your clients or classes ask for? Learn proper lifting, form cues, and sequencing and formatting of exercise progressions for all fitness levels and special populations. Walk away with a palette of exercises you can utilize immediately!
Equipment: LCD projector, Kettlebell to student ration (1:1) (#5 or 7# option)
*Can be a master class.
Totally TUBE-ular
Explore the countless possibilities of total body functional training, whether it be in a group setting or one on one training using tubing and vector resistance. This inexpensive, easily adaptable modality travels easily and is an excellent alternative to utilizing multiple equipment options in your classes or with your clients. Learn and experience basic and advanced movement sequences that challenge the body and are perfect for all fitness levels.
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, tubing ratio to student (1:1), variety of intensity options
*Can be a master class.
JumpSport®: BOUNCEcamp INTENSIVE Training
BOUNCE new life into bootcamp style calanetics and drills, sure to leave your clients of all ages and group-training participants breathless and clamoring for more! Discover how to create unique and challenging workouts by combining the intensity of interval training with the benefits of the JumpSport® Fitness Trampoline. Varying intensity, speed, reactive forces, and ROM styles will enhance flexibility, muscular strength and endurance, aerobic capacity, and core integration. Walk away with 3 class design templates that you can utilize Monday morning! The perfect program to increase and maintain membership, bridge the gap between personal training and group exercise departments, and more importantly, generate additional income by having FUN!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, JumpSport® Fitness Trampoline ratio to student (1:1), dumbbell ratio to student (2:1 (3 or 5 pound), tubing ratio to student (1:1) (varied intensity ranges), medicine ball to student ratio (1:1) (4# or 6# option)
*Can be a master class.
JumpSport®: BOUNCEcamp
BOUNCE and experience this exciting new exercise modality which breathes new life into bootcamp style calanetics and drills, sure to leave your participants breathless and clamoring for more! Take the rave of this popular group exercise format and add a little REBOUND! Discover how to create unique and challenging workouts by combining the intensity of interval training with the benefits of the JumpSport® Fitness Trampoline. Learn the principles of interval training as they apply to class format and workout design. Varying intensity, speed, reactive forces, and ROM styles will enhance flexibility, muscular strength and endurance, aerobic capacity and core integration. Refresh your existing program, whether you are a group exercise instructor or personal trainer, by offering interval based activities in a bootcamp style format, along with a set of dumbbells, suitable for all ages and abilities. Walk away with 3 class design templates you can utilize immediately!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, JumpSport® Fitness Trampoline ratio to student (1:1), dumbbell ratio to student (2:1) (3 or 5 pound)
*Can be a master class.
JumpSport®: REACTIVE Fusion FLOW
Calling all YOGIs, PILATES peeps and mind/body practitioners, bring some new BOUNCE and BALANCE training stimulus into your current training practice and evolve your teaching abilities and the lives of your students tenfold. The JumpSport® Fitness Trampoline is the perfect modality to add to any existing mind/body curriculum looking to add fresh, new, cutting edge technology and programming options to its palette of offerings. Experience how the reactive surface of the JumpSport® Fitness Trampoline can enhance neuromuscular response; lymphatic flow; CORE integration; and overall body awareness and how to integrate it into your current class experience. Learn how to synergistically combine the elements of Yoga, Pilates and body weight based calasthetics into a fusion format that you can teach effortlessly, all the while offering progressions and regressions for students of vatying fitness levels and abilities. Explore various music styles and musicality techniques in this innovative session and breath new life into your psyche and teaching delivery.
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, JumpSport® Fitness Trampoline ratio to student (1:1)
*Can be a master class.
JumpSport®: BOUNCE Athletic Sports Performance Circuit
The BOUNCE is back and it’s time to give total athletic training a new twist! Simulate true sport specific training utilizing your own body weight, battling ropes, a medicine ball, the JumpSport® Fitness Trampoline and the NEW PlyoSport® Trampoline Kit , great for all fitness levels and abilities. Explore the concept of Circuit training and metabolically enhance your training arsenal with new drills and skills emphasizing balance, explosive power, speed, agility, dynamic range of motion, and reactive neuromuscular response. Learn new sport specific sequences that are multi-planar, CORE based and FUN – a time efficient technique that guarantees results and revives you with fresh, new ideas, sure to enhance your student’s or training clients sports training regimes. Put on your best game face!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, JumpSport® Fitness Trampoline ratio to student (1:1), battling rope (1;1), PlyoSport® Trampoline Kit (1:1), medicine balls- various weights
*Can be a master class.
JumpSport®: BOUNCIN’ Booty Danceoff
BOUNCE into a new approach to dance training and be introduced to the benefits of the JumpSport® Fitness Trampoline. Name your style – hip hop, latin, jazz? The possibilities are endless! Learn how to synergistically combine the cardiovascular benefits of a dance routine with the reactive surface of trampoline and triple the training effect your students or client’s experience, during their workouts, no matter what their fitness level or ability. Refresh your existing dance based program with the integration of a new tool and have your students clamoring at the door to get into your classes. Walk away from this session with enough choreography nuggets you can use Monday morning, ready to go!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, JumpSport® Fitness Trampoline ratio to student (1:1)
*Can be a master class.
JumpSport®: Jump~n~Jab
Are you ready for a non-stop, full blown metabolic push without the impact of a traditional kickboxing style workout? BOUNCE and experience the added benefits a reactive surface adds to cardiovascular conditioning, and full body CORE integration. Learn how to artfully layer upper and lower body punch/kick combinations that maximize results coupled with the JumpSport® Fitness Trampoline. Explore the 5 CORE based exercises that research indicates are proven to lift seats, tone arms, tighten abdominals and will have your clients and classes “training like a contender” in no time.
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, JumpSport® Fitness Trampoline ratio to student (1:1)
*Can be a master class.
JumpSport®: TABATA Challenge
BOUNCE and experience this exciting new exercise modality which breathes new life into bootcamp style calisthenics and drills, sure to leave your participants breathless and clamoring for more! Take the rave of this popular group exercise format and add a little REBOUND and TABATA high intensity interval training and be ready to take off! Explore the philosophy behind this Japanese style of training and the impact it has on improving cardiovascular and muscular endurance. Each TABATA cycle consists of 20 seconds of maximum intensity exercise, followed by 10 seconds of rest, repeated without pause 8 times for a total of four minutes. Discover how to create unique and challenging workouts by combining the intensity of interval training with the benefits of the JumpSport® Fitness Trampoline. Learn new exercises sequences and revamp old tried and true techniques into a training program that guarantee results for your clients and classes alike, because less is more in the TABATA world.
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, JumpSport® Fitness Trampoline ratio to student (1:1)
*Can be a master class.
DYNAMIC Duo
Partner up and increase the workout potential, socialization aspect and FUN factor for your classes or small group personal training sessions, with no equipment involved! Learn new skills and drills where the theme involves 2: cardiovascular, muscle conditioning, CORE integration and active flexibility, a COMPLETE full body workout, chock full of modifications and options! Fine tune your cuing, coaching and communicating skills to effectively work without the use of additional equipment, thus your “body is your machine”. Bring it!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen
*Can be a master class.
Body BLAZE
The popularity of dance based classes is taking the industry by storm, but you don’t need to be a seasoned professional in order to lead the masses. Learn how to choreograph simple cardio dance sequences designed to make your participants smile while they sweat, as they develop a hot body with intensity variations, ambition and pure sexiness. Learn new compound upper and lower body exercises utilizing body weight and/or a light set of dumbbells to tone the physique, that compliment the cardio segments. Walk away with a class design you’ll feel confident to teach and is great for all fitness levels and abilities. Just shake it’ until you make it.
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, dumbbell ratio to student (2:1) (3 or 5 pound)
*Can be a master class.
Hi / Lo Dance Resuscitation:
Does the grapevine in your routine seem like it is sagging in the middle? Does that mambo-cha-cha need a nip and tuck? Are we talking major surgery? Absolutely NOT! Learn to recycle your tried and true favorites and re-invent “old” patterns, with “flair, vitality and style”! Artfully layer progressions and sequences, starting with a “basic foundation” and end with a product that will have you gracing the pages of “Vanity Fair”. Join Jeff as he takes you on a “champagne” journey of simple and clear beginnings that will end up in a high-octane super-advanced dance routine that you will never stop enjoying!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen
*Can be a master class.
INTENSuality
Come and experience the “sensual” side of dance. Grab a sexy rhythm, add sultry arm work, extra hips, and dance for a freestyle cardio workout that is “extra hot”! INTENSUality is inspired by burlesque and erotic dance movement but no experience is required. Experience a synergistic blend of choreography cardio segments, seamlessly woven together between blocks of body weight muscle conditioning work with a little something extra. Elements of aerobics, dance, Pilates, yoga and functional movement patterns are combined to teach you the fundamentals of a slow, stylized and very sexy striptease performance. Empower your students to improved confidence, body awareness, and self esteem. Leave your ego at the door, turn down the lights and step inside for an INTENSuality delight.
Equipment: LCD projector, screen
*Can be a master class.
POPSTAR Performance:
What moves and grooves ya baby? Need some new vim and vigor, stumped by what to do next in your dance class because you’ve seen and done it all? Why not pull from the denizens of pop culture, dominating the music scene, and thrust yourself into the spot light! Get your hands up for Usher; wryth and prance like Britney, or give it some GaGa theatrical stage presence…you decide! Review tried and true techniques to analyze music for movement sequencing; breakdown choreography and deliver it flawlessly and seamlessly, learn drills and skills to enhance your teaching style and versatility. Fine tune the elements of your teaching performance and persona and guarantee a SELLOUT class….everytime you teach!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen
*Can be a master class
Finding BALANCE: Training for life
The sport of life alone sometimes makes you feel like you have to be an athlete just to survive the rigors: grocery shopping, driving, walking and even taking care of children are all examples of activities of daily living (ADLs). Examine the 5 basic components of fitness, throw in some skill related parameters while we are at it, and learn how to analyze typical real life scenarios you can develop exercises or movements patterns for that challenge the muscles and systems being utilized. A balance of fitness and function can help your clients and classes train for life!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen
Making Water Fitness Fit
How many times have you been told aquatic exercise is for little old ladies? Times are changing the face of fitness….especially aquatic fitness. The aquatic world is is evolving into an extremely diverse population of water oriented people of varying fitness levels, are you or your facility equipped and ready to take advantage of the trend? Aquatic exercise specialists need to structure exercise programming to meet the needs of their members physical, emotional and cognitive needs. Come uncover the controversies, get the updates and head back to your club informed on how to modify, adjust or create programming to make water fitness fun for all fitness levels and interests.
Equipment: LCD projector, screen
FLEX Your Social Media MUSCLE
Are you overwhelmed by the amount of time and knowledge it takes to keep up with the cyberspace world? FaceBook and Twitter have you sweating bullets? Still unconvinced that it could have a dramatic impact on your fitness career? Join Jeff McMullen, national fitness presenter, as he provides social media information that can dramatically increase your business growth and earning potential. Learn the new “do’s” and “don’ts” on how to create and online presence in less than 30 minutes a day.
Equipment: LCD projector, screen
CSI investigates: MUSIC
Do you find yourself frustrated by music? Where’s the top of the phrase? How do I assemble 32 count combination blocks to fit a piece of music? Let’s put it all under the microscope and investigate the mystery! Music and movement synchronization matter! This workshop will examine and explore the elements of composition that make up music and how to use them to your advantage in choreography design: comprehend the dynamics behind syncopation, measures and phrases and how they can seamlessly link choreography blocks together; train yourself to rhythmically “catch the beat”. At the end of this session, walk away with a simple system of “working papers” that allows you to organize movements sequences to music, artfully, progressively and with less hassle.
Equipment: LCD projector, screen
The 3 C’s of Group Exercise Perfection: Cue, Coach, Communicate
Have you hit a rut? Feeling like you need inspired or to reinvent yourself? Why not focus on 3 simple areasalready in your tool belt, you can fine tune your performance even further, the 3 C’s. Examine the commonalities and misconceptions of saying too much. Learn a simply formula to follow to make your verbal, visual, and kinesthetic language appropriate for all fitness levels to interpret and follow. Review proven coaching techniques you can work the room, while managing the masses! Walk away feeling enlightened and invigorated from this thought provoking session.
Equipment: LCD projector, screen
DECIDE*COMMIT*INSPIRE*SUCCEED*
Are you a thriver or a survivor? Are you achieving greatness everyday or simply dodging bullets, trying to keep your head above the water? The truly successful fitness professional inspires their followers to greatness, as well as achieving their successes along the way, every day! Learn Jeff’s “7 steps” to success that separate the thrivers from the mere survivors, recognize your potential for greatness, and how you can incorporate these principles into your practice. Be good to yourself first, the masses of people you influence will follow!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen
Bender Barre Method: 8 Hour Instructor Training
Barre is the hottest method of training since the Pilates boom!!
This is one of the safest methods of Barre training for the fitness professional that will not over utilize the student’s hip flexors creating low back pain or even injuries. Ours focuses on the body’s ability to lengthen against gravity and applied functional exercises for all levels of students.
- You do not have to be a classical dancer to appreciate the movement of vertical training for stronger legs butt and back utilizing Gliding™, Bender Ball™ .
- You will be able to lead a successful Bender Barre Method class that your students will be coming back for more
- The best part is there is no Barre required which requires the student to be focused on the goal of each and every exercise creating fantastic results!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, Bender Ball to student ratio (1:1)
*Can be a master class.
SQUEEZE–n-TEASE Pilates
Come and experience the “sensual” side of dance and pilates combined. Grab a sexy rhythm, add sultry arm work, extra hips, and dance for a freestyle cardio workout that is “extra hot”! Squeeze-n-Tease Pilates is inspired by burlesque and erotic dance movement with no experience required. Experience a synergistic blend of choreography cardio segments, seamlessly woven together between blocks of Pilates based, body weight muscle conditioning work emphasizing the CORE. Elements of aerobics, dance, Pilates, yoga and functional movement patterns are combined to teach you the fundamentals of a slow, stylized and very unique fusion based workout.. Empower your students to improved confidence, body awareness, and self esteem. Leave your ego at the door, turn down the lights, let’s strip and get fit for 2012!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen.
*Can be a master class.
BARRE Bootcamp
Are you hankering for something new to totally challenge your 9am diehards, you know the group, we want our “seats” lifted, our legs sinewy and long, arms svelte and sinewy and abs ready to wear those skinny jeans? Look no further! Learn how to innovatively blend in the best concepts of yoga, dance, active flexibility and muscular endurance and strength into your classes with minimal equipment, minus the Ballet barre. This low impact program effectively firms, tones, lengthens and shapes muscles to their optimum form. BARRE Bootcamp restores core muscle function to its rightful place in bodily movement: a dynamic base from which the four limbs perform, strong, centered and long.
Equipment: Equipment: LCD projector, screen, equipment to student ratio: mini Pilates balls (1:1) ratio per student, dumbbells (2:1) per student, body bar to student ratio (1:1)
STEP Battle of the sexes…
Join us ringside for a knockdown, brawl-out fight as two presenters go head-to-head, pulling out all the stops and slugging you with their best…choreography breakdown and technique; cueing methodology; coaching style; and enhanced communication skills. it’s double the fun, excitement, and choreography takeaway. Don’t just be a spectator, jump in and join the fight to experience what it takes to make your class STEPtacular!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, Step to student ratio (1:1), co-taught with Dawn Murdock Stenis when applicable!
*Can be a master class.
dieHARD Step: Let’s Go Vertical!
Here’s your chance to explore the distinct difference between the horizontal vs. VERTICAL approach to the step. Jeff will demonstrate effective techniques and strategies in implementing this class, giving it not only a different LOOK, but a new FEEL. Anyone can turn their step – but not everyone can take it to the next level! Inspire a new audience or revive your current step “fanatic diehards” with a new angle to step training! Ready, step, go!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, Step to student ratio (1:1)
*Can be a master class.
1 Step, 2 Steps, 3 Steps more…..
It’s time to shake up the room, get your participants out of their safety zone and experience the fun and excitement of a multi-step class. This workshop is designed to help step instructors, of all experience levels, resuscitate their classes. This workshop will explore all the essentials needed to teach a multi-level step class: step formations, cuing and coaching techniques, choreography building and music interface. Participants will leave with a game plan they can employ immediately and effectively. Dust those steps off and let’s put them to use.
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, Step to student ratio (1:1) but students will be using a variety of steps throughout the class
*Can be a master class.
STEP 3D
Teaching a successful multi-level step class ain’t no easy task! Leave no angle untouched. Learn how to progress choreography options utilizing tempo variations, directional changes, and interface with the music. Refresh your teaching style by simply layering in options and combinations appropriate for all fitness levels. Fine tune your teaching skills so that every transition is smooth and flawless and your cuing is smooth and succinct. Participants will walk away with an evergreen library of choreography nuggets, ready for immediate use
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, Step to student ratio (1:1)
*Can be a master class.
Step CELEBRATION!
Step is over 20 years old! Let’s celebrate in style! You’ve been teaching step since its inception, through its evolution of lead changes, tap-free progressions, cross-phrasing, and elimination of the filler teaching styles. Now let’s pull out all the stops, tie up all the loose ends, and utilize the teaching tools from the past, present and future. Here’s your chance to inspire a new audience or revive your current step “fanatic diehards”! Walk away with a class design and enough choreography nuggets you can deliver Monday morning, ready to go!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, Step to student ratio (1:1)
*Can be a master class.
STEPtacular BODY
Are you a seasoned instructor and missed the “step craze” of the late 80’s or brand new to the fitness field, looking to expand your tool belt? The good news is the 411 is out and Step is looking for new recruits! Explore and learn the fundamental components behind developing and teaching a successful mixed level step class from start to finish – choreography design, cuing and transitions, breakdowns and modifications, and musical interface! Join Jeff on this journey through body weight based calisthenics and core strength mixed with cardio intervals and unique choreography sets. You’ll successfully leave this session with 3 complete class designs in hand!
Equipment: LCD projector, screen, Step to student ratio (1:1)
*Can be a master class.
Equinox 
The Bay Club 
Sports Club LA 
TRX Training 
JumpSport 
WaterinMotion 
Qignition 
Bender Training 
Tabata Bootcamp 
Lebert Fitness 