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Your formula for fusion! This smart blend of Barre, Pilates, and strength training builds balance, mobility, and mindful power. Learn to design seamless flows from sculpt to stretch, creating purposeful, dynamic classes that strengthen body and mind.
Whether you go heavy or light, overloading the muscles of your upper body is key to experiencing improved strength, movement quality, and the aesthetics your classes and clients desire. Review techniques to challenge your upper body in all directions and all positions. Understand how training your upper body can help you reach total body goals faster.
Max out your Pilates Mat class with 10 authentic advanced exercises from the original repertoire. Revisit Pilates principles and optimal alignment to understand what it means to be “advanced”! Dissect each exercise and discover how to modify and progress movements for your intermediate to expert students. Take your Pilates practice up a notch by safely and successfully adding challenges.
Pilates is for everyone! Develop your Pilates program to help your active agers feel great and continue moving functionally to live their best life. Experience a Pilates mat program with 15 movement modifications and progressions that increase mobility, balance and muscular endurance. Learn how proper postural movements will improve function and overall confidence to help your clients continue doing the things they love!
Flexibility allows us to move freely in our daily life. What’s more, a balance of mobility and stability in each joint helps prevent injury. In this hands-on session, review the science of “contract-relax” stretching. Experience multiple one-on-one stretching exercises and leave with a proven technique and system to grow your business and help your clients move better and smarter.
Add dimension to your HIIT training routines and conditioning classes. Identify and break down traditional work to rest ratios, discover the true qualities of HIIT and why recovery, passive and active, are equally as important as the work. Walk away with 4 different HIIT timing Challenges to be taught alone or mixed-and-matched to maximize workouts.
EMOM is a HIIT protocol meaning Every Minute on the Minute. This is often the hardest to plan and most challenging to control. In this session, learn sure-fire techniques, unique timing of work to rest ratios and perfectly sequenced movements to elicit the response your student’s demand. Connect with “everyone” that walks in the door and WIN!