Fitex

23 – 25 NOV 2018 / AUCKLAND

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A MESSAGE FROM OUR CEO Welcome to FitEx 2018 - now in our 12th year! As always we will continue to focus on creating an event for everyone from the exercise community, whatever your role or size of business. One thing new for 2018 is that we will be theming FitEx - with our first theme being “growing the industry together”. So look out for a jam packed line up of seminaries, workshops and master classes to help grow your exercise business, and/or help get more kiwis active using exercise – whatever and wherever that takes place.

Richard Beddie, CEO, ExerciseNZ

WHAT IS FITEX? WHAT TO EXPECT

Over a 100 sessions, held over three days, FitEx is the conference for the exercise industry in New Zealand. This event features the latest in science and business for every facet and role within the fitness industry – from facility owners, though to exercise professionals (Personal Trainers, Group Exercise Instructors).

FitEx is the best and biggest opportunity in New Zealand to get truly world class education, on a whole range of topics relevant to our industry, jam packed into three days.

Guaranteed to be educational, inspiring and above all leaving you pumped and full of new ideas to apply to your career.

Sessions range from traditional lecture style seminars through to hands on practical ‘how to’ sessions and everything in between.

The great thing about a conference is that you get amazing choice. At each time slot there are between 8-10 sessions so there is something for everyone. On top of this during the weekend you will be surrounded by like minded, passionate individuals working in your industry from all around New Zealand.

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KEYNOTE EMPOWERING PEOPLE THROUGH INTEROCEPTION: RESTORING FULL SENSORY CAPACITY DONNA FARHI Time & Date: 8:15am, Saturday 24 November Did you know that “Simon Says” learning perpetuates disconnection from felt sensation? How do movement teachers and instructors educate students about the difference between positive intensified sensation and “bad pain” so they can differentiate between sound and unsound practices?

Join Donna on an educational and empowering journey as you learn how to shift from being an audiovisual teacher to a kinesthetic facilitator.

In the West we go about learning movement in the same way we approach academics–through the visual and auditory sense channels with the kinesthetic sense remaining undeveloped, ignored, and mistrusted. Whether you work one-onone, or whether you teach group classes, Donna will explore how you can create structures for learning that improve people’s ability to tap into their felt sensation and to use it as a potent navigational system. She’ll discuss why the myth of “no pain, no gain” has created an epidemic of both chronic and acute Yoga and fitness injuries, and how unraveling the unscientific basis of this myth can help people to appreciate pain as a messenger asking them to make new choices.

ABOUT DONNA: Donna Farhi is a Yoga teacher who has been practicing for 40 years and teaching since 1982. She is one of the most sought after guest teachers in the world, leading intensives and teacher training programs internationally. Her approach to Yoga is informed by the refinement of natural and universal movement principles that underlie safe and sustainable Yoga practice. Considered the “teacher of teachers” students return to Donna’s intensives year after year to be a part of the inspiring evolution of Donna’s own practice and teaching.

Donna is the author of four contemporary classics, as well as a fifth and most recent book, co-authored with Leila Stuart. In April 2017, Donna broke her pelvis in two places as a result of a riding accident. Her exploration and discoveries during the many months of rehabilitation that followed have given her deep insights into the profound consciousness of the body and its ability to heal.

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INVESTMENT THREE EASY INVESTMENT OPTIONS

GOLD PASS FROM $649

2 DAY FITEX PASS

GROUP EXERCISE PASS

$1049

$949

$649

FROM $549

FROM $249

All FitEx Conference sessions Sat/Sun 24/25 Nov Any Group Exercise / Mind Body sessions Sat/Sun 24/25 Nov Keynote/ opening address Sat 24 Nov – from 8.45am The opening drinks from 5pm Fri 23 Nov One Pre-conference Event Fri 23 Nov PT Breakfast Sun 25 Nov - from 7:30am Hauora Yoga conference attendance to any sessions

FULL PRICE

Less Discounts are cumlative. If you are booking at the earlybird rate and are also REPs Registered or an ExerciseNZ member, then you are eligible for $400 in savings!

$200 Earlybird Discount – before 1 Oct 2018 $200 ExerciseNZ Member / REPs registered discount

ADDITIONAL OPTIONAL EXTRAS The following can be purchased in addition to any of the above Accommodation

$45 per night (Fri/Sat)

PT Breakfast*

$25 (Sun 7.30am)

Pre-Conference Workshop*

$349 for those not attending the 2 day conference

Awards Ticket

$139 Available from early September.

Items marked * included in the Gold Pass

FOR ALL BOOKINGS VISIT WWW.FITEX.CO.NZ IF YOU NEED HELP, OR PERSONAL ASSISTANCE PLEASE CALL 0800 66 88 11 GENERAL CONFERENCE TERMS AND CONDITIONS • Transfers available (subject to the person being transferred to, meeting the same conditions of purchase).

• Pre-conference events are subject to minimum numbers, if cancelled you will receive a full refund for any pre-conference payment.

• Discounted accommodation is offered to all conference attendees who travel more than 75kms to attend the event, and is provided on a first in first served basis. See website for additional information.

• Information in this brochure is subject to change.

See www.fitex.co.nz for the latest information

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GETTING THERE GETTING TO AUCKLAND Airlines/Airfares Out of town and need to get to Auckland? We suggest you book your airfares as early as possible to secure the cheapest rate. Try looking online and shopping around with the best deals. airnz.co.nz | grabaseat.co.nz | jetstar.com

GETTING TO THE VENUE Shuttles from the airport: Shuttles operate 24 hours a day. They have a range Of prices and are often cheaper when sharing with others. This is a great option if you are coming as a group.

Supershuttle: 0800 748 885 | www.supershuttle.co.nz Public Transport: There is a new bus service that goes from the airport to right next to the AUT campus for $24. You can find information and book at skybus.co.nz Taxis: We do not suggest using taxis. The fare can be over $200 depending on traffic so would strongly advise against this option.

Parking: Parking is available onsite. Information on parking will be sent to attendees before the event.

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ACCOMMODATION $45 per night for those who live more than 75km from the venue.

Accommodation is provided on a first in first served basis, and is available for Friday 23 November (the night before the conference) and Saturday 24 November 2018.

Accommodation units consist of 5 private lockable bedrooms per unit with a shared lounge and bathroom facilities (2 bathrooms per 5 rooms).

All bedrooms are private and have their own lockable door, and contain a large single bed as shown in the photo below. Each apartment contains five/six bedrooms, one large living area/kitchen and two bathrooms.

The living area includes seating and a modern kitchen (ideal for making meals). All apartments are of mixed gender and are non smoking. Please provide your own towels, bedding and linen.

Not only is the accommodation modern, but also provides an excellent opportunity to network with other exercise and wellness professionals.

Please ensure you select the accommodation option when making booking online.

FITEX APP FOR PHONES AND TABLETS MOBILE APP FitEx has an app (android and iOS) to make your experience at FitEx easy.

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NZ EXERCISE INDUSTRY AWARDS The New Zealand Exercise Industry Awards is the event of the year.

You need to be there.

The awards recognise those making a contribution to the health and wellness of New Zealanders through exercise and fitness in a range of individual and facility categories.

Tickets to the awards ceremony sell out fast so you will need to get your ticket now so you don’t miss out.

With a black tie dress code, dress to impress for a night of fine food and celebration of our industries best.

The awards are co timed with the weekend of FitEx conference so make a weekend of it- be educated, inspired and celebrate what we do best.

Without our sponsors the Exercise Industry Awards would not be possible we thank them for their support.

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EVENT HIGHLIGHTS PT BREAKFAST Sunday 7:30am / $25 Join with other Personal Trainers and the PT Council of NZ representatives to discuss topical issues facing the industry and Personal Trainers in NZ. This event is catered and includes a cooked breakfast + tea, coffee and juice.

WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP LUNCHEON Saturday 1:00pm - 2:30pm / only $25 Join some of the fitness industry’s most influential female leaders, from both NZ and Australia at this special event.

At this event you will connect with your peers, hear inspirational stories and learn valuable strategies to help you realise your potential in the fitness industry.

This special function seeks to highlight women in our industry who have challenged the status quo and used their experience to encourage other women to do the same.

Experience the panels stories and benefit from their insights in the fields of club business, entrepreneurialism, program development and more. Special attendance tickets are required as this is a catered event.

SPACES LIMITED. BOOK NOW TO SECURE YOUR PLACE! WWW.FITEX.CO.NZ

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SATURDAY SESSIONS

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Nicole Mackes Opening doors for yoga practitioners and new students with injuries

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Erin Raines Barre Simplified

Ian O’Dwyer Increasing 3D movement strength through intelligent motion

Kellie Lavender Eating Discorders - how to recognise them in your clients and what to do about it

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Benjamin Siong Strength Smarts

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Jono Petrohilos Facebook… Enough said

John Polley Recovery isn’t just sleep intentional programming of recovery beyond rest

Business

Dan Hardie Creative Client Connection

Special Populations

Nutrition

Exercise Prescription

Rebecca Logan Community Strength and Balance Project

Cam McDonald You are what you metabolise

William Jenkins Mobility or Stability?

Why you hear conflicting advice from different experts and what they are not telling you

Exercise Prescription

Special Populations

Nutrition

Exercise Prescription

Thea Baker The top 10 questions you need to ask your female clients…and what to do with their answers.

(EX PRE & SP POP)

Rebecca Logan Community Strength and Balance Project (continued)

Mana Fleming I don’t feel right - Using food as medicine

Matt Wood Pre-Exercise Assessment PITSTOP: Common Pitfalls and Practical Solutions.

11.20-11.40am BREAK Session

Yoga

11.40-12.40pm

Amy Green Who are you? Beyond the boundries Yin.Yang Flow Class

GEX/Mind Body

Kirsty Nield HiLo HIIT

GEX/Mind Body

Lisa Westlake Pilates on the Ball

Exercise as Medicine

Strength & Conditioning

Christine Gill Understanding your clients skeleton

Ken Baldwin Training the active ageing - strength vs power (SC & Sp POP)

12.40-1.30pm LUNCH

Women In Leadership Luncheon

1pm - 2.30pm Session

Yoga

GEX/Mind Body

GEX/Mind Body

Exercise as Medicine

Strength & Conditioning

Business

Exercise Prescription

Special Populations

Strength & Conditioning

Business

1.30 - 2.30pm

Ali Tilley Feet in 3 worlds - past, present and future

Brendon Watt Maori Movement binding the elements

Lisa Jurakovich & Brett Fairweather Blast from the past

Tamara Bennett Tai Chi for health 101

Michael Cunico Advanced & Progressive Mechanics of Strength & Hypertrophy Training

Adam Floyd Marketing your PT business to Allied Health Professionals

Gary Szabo Love, handles (ex pre & S & C)

Kris Tynan 15 fresh ideas for seniors classes (Spop & GroupEx)

Carl Hammington Rehumanising Movement

Richard Ellis Numbers 101

Exercise Prescription

Special Populations

Nutrition

Business

Special Populations

Dave Liow Movement is a symphony

Suzanne Cox Exercising with the Elderly

Kira Sutherland Food as medicine for sports performance and recovery

Mark Davis & Marietta Mehanni Presenting for success Secrets how to deliver a great presentation

Wendy Sweet Understanding the science of women’s healthy ageing

2.30–2.50pm Break Session

Yoga

2.50-3.50pm

Ali Tilley All levels yoga class continues in theme of Feet in 3 worlds

GEX/Mind Body

GEX/Mind Body

Exercise as Medicine

Strength & Conditioning

Business

Maria Teresa Stone Kick n Punch Cardio

Mana Fleming Hikitia Te Haa - Tai Qi Version (MB & EAM)

Megan Schmidt Breast Cancer, lymphoedema and Exercise

Michael Cunico Advanced & Progressive Mechanics of Strength & Hypertrophy Training (continued)

Roslyn Ryan How to grow your tribe using facebook and social media

3.50-4.10pm Break Session

4.10 -5.10pm

GEX/Mind Body

GEX/Mind Body

Exercise as Medicine

Strength & Conditioning

Business

Special Populations

Special Populations

Exercise as Medicine

Exercise Prescription

Kirsty Nield 100% Step HIIT

Mana Fleming Hikitia Te Haa - Tai Qi Version (MB & EAM)

Lisa Roach Your brain on exercise

Benjamin Siong Optimising sports performance: the strength strategy

Nats Levi Culture is Queen

Lisa Westlake Exercising for Two

Dave Liow Working with clients in pain (Spop & ExRx)

Ken Baldwin Brain training for active ageing (EAM & SPOP)

Andrew Chadwick Intensity Vs Quality

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SUNDAY SESSIONS

SUNDAY SESSIONS

Session

GEX/Mind Body

Strength & Conditioning

Exercise as Medicine

Strength & Conditioning

Business

Exercise Prescription

Special Populations

Nutrition

Exercise Prescription

Freya Thomson Control the ring (SC & Gex)

Lisa Roach Disordered brains & exercise: Welcoming people with motor-disorders into mainstream fitness settings

Michael Cunico Mythbusters

Mish Wright Consistency is key

Adam Floyd Assessment of clients with low back pain.

(Ex Pre & EAM)

Shane Way Mental health and wellbeing

Benjamin Siong Complete Fatloss solution

9.00-10.00am

Erin Raines Not your average pump class

Lisa Westlake & John Polley Results that make you smile

10.00-10.20am BREAK Session

GEX/Mind Body

Exercise as Medicine

Strength & Conditioning

Business

Exercise Prescription

GEX/Mind Body

Nutrition

GEX/Mind Body

10.20-11.20am

Mark Davis & Marietta Mehanni Move to improve in menopause

Lisa Roach Disordered brains & exercise: Welcoming people with moror-disorders into mainstream fitness settings (Continued)

Kyle Riley Advanced principles of personalised hypertrophy programming

Nats Levi Burnout is the new black

Adam Floyd Assessment of clients with low back pain (continued) (Ex Pre & EAM)

Luke Sniewski Morning Meditations

Kira Sutherland Sports nutrition & the female client

Maria Teresa Stone Teach with purpose

11.20-11.40am BREAK Session

Yoga

GEX/Mind Body

GEX/Mind Body

Exercise as Medicine

Strength & Conditioning

Business

Exercise Prescription

Strength & Conditioning

Nutrition

Exercise Prescription

11.40-12.40pm

Melissa Billington Challenge of the simple - a yoga class for all levels

Emma Masters Metric Vs Rhythm who wins? You decide!

Carl Hammington.

Primal Play.

(GEX and Ex Presc)

Suzanne Cox Exercise and chronic disease

Jesse Laughton.

Why women need strength training

Maria Teresa Stone & Marietta Mehanni Can passion sustain you in this ever changing fitness industry

Corinne Austin & Hilary Blackstock All Fun N Games

Freya Thomson Punch like a girl (SC & Gex)

Mana Fleming 5 food flavours

Cam McDonald Neurotype coaching: Speaking to your clients’ genes

Exercise Prescription

Exercise Prescription

Special Populations

Nutrition

Exercise Prescription

Gary Szabo Swingers Club

Neil Wagstaff How to revolutionise your clients running programming without the traditional high mileage training plans

Mish Wright Practical pelvic floor & power plate

Jeff Willoughby What is functional Medicine?

(Nut/Wl & ExRx)

Andrew Chadwick Goal! There’s more to being smart

12.40-1.30pm LUNCH Session

1.30 - 2.30pm

Yoga

Melissa Billington Social enter-prise-ing yoga

GEX/Mind Body

Exercise Prescription

Marietta Mehanni Creation through Variation

Angela Jenkins Programme secrets to increase happyness hormones (ExRx & EAM)

Exercise as Medicine

Alexander Roach Being a PT physiotherapists trust and refer to

Strength & Conditioning

Michael Cunico Movement that matters

2.30-2.50pm BREAK Session

2.50-3.50pm

GEX/Mind Body

Emma Masters Cue-Munication

GEX/Mind Body

Kirsty Nield Total body blitz

GEX/Mind Body

Luke Sniewski Change through stillness

Exercise as Medicine

Strength & Conditioning

Business

Exercise Prescription

Special Populations

Nutrition

Exercise Prescription

Kate van West Poi for health

Michael Cunico Movement that matters (continued)

Jono Petrohilos 4 secrets to a successful bootcamp - the things they don’t teach you at PT school

Ian O’Dwyer Movement; do you stack up?

Angela Jenkins Is inflammation Sabotaging Your Client Results?

Jeff Willoughby What is functional Medicine? (continued) (Nut/ Wl & ExRx)

Cheryl Roche Truth about foot orthotics

3.50-4.10pm BREAK Session

4.10 -5.10pm

Yoga

Emma Masters Cue-Munication (continued)

GEX/Mind Body

Exercise Prescription

Exercise Prescription

Strength & Conditioning

Business

Exercise Prescription

Exercise Prescription

Nutrition

Exercise Prescription

Kerry Johnson Aerobics Revival

Dan Hardie How to play with your client (and accidentally teach them)

Thea Baker Inclusivity & intersectionality in the health & fitness industry (Ex Pre & Spec Pop)

Dave Liow Running into trouble

Kyle Riley Why they may need to think about it: personalising the sales journey

John Polley Enjoyment Guaranteed

Lisa Westlake Mums shape up (Ex pre & Spop)

Benjamin Siong Prepping the female fitness competitor

Cheryl Roche Truth about foot orthotics (continued)

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Why do some exercise businesses have a better training culture than others?

Come to the Skills Active stand at the trade show and check out the new ways to upskill in 2018. You can gain a new fitness qualification or upgrade your current qualification - with new, specialised modules in Nutrition and Working with Allied Health.

Skills Active and Open Polytechnic have joined forces this year to deliver the new New Zealand Certificate in Exercise Level 4.

It combines user-friendly online learning with practical on-job experience and assessment, all to the latest industry standards.

We also have an express pathway to gain the new Certificate, if you already hold one of our previous qualifications, such as the National Certificate in Exercise Consultant and National Certificate in Personal Training Business Skills.

Come see us!

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PRE CONFERENCE EVENTS

THURSDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2018

POWER PLATE VIBRATION CERTIFICATION Speaker: John (JP) Polley 9:00 – 5:00PM In order to integrate vibration training into every day programming, the Power Plate certification has been created to empower the trainer, coach or practitioner with the skills and knowledge to successfully integrate Power Plate technology into their day to day to day training to enhance movement preparation, performance and recovery with each and every client, whether in a fitness facility, elite sports, clinical or rehabilitation setting.

Combining both theory and practical application, this education is inspired by the Principles, Strategies and Techniques of Applied Functional Science (AFS) powered by Gray Institute. Power Plate is the most authentic functional tool to replicate and enhance the body’s response to gravity and ground reaction forces.

This certification explains the mechanisms by which WBV enhances the neuromusculoskeletal system; the method of nerve to muscle adaptation called reflexive stabilisation and includes plenty of opportunity to experience the fundamentals of functional movement and integration with whole body vibration.

Those attending will leave with a whole new experience of their own bodies and how to create incredible change in human beings. JP can’t wait to demonstrate the power of whole body vibration for almost any client, being in his own words “able to deliver health to the human, not just a new way of moving more effectively”.

CPD Points: 5 points

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BUSINESS SUMMIT FRIDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2018 TIME: 8:30 – 4:45PM / EARNS: 4 CPD POINTS The business summit is all about supporting business of all types and sizes in the NZ Exercise industry by sharing ideas and practices from the very best in NZ and around the globe.

Featuring sessions with practical take aways that you can implement in your business tomorrow, along with issues to consider for longer term strategic consideration - it’s jam packed with ideas!

Sessions will be presented by the following experts:

PAUL BROWN Known globally as Mr Retention for his ground-breaking work in member retention, exercise adherence and membership growth. Perhaps best known as a world-class speaker, Paul has presented at just about every major health and fitness conference around the world over the past 25 years and in 2014 was recognised as the AFN Australian Presenter of the Year.

CHANTAL BRODRICK In 2015 Chantal became the host of The Fitness Business Podcast. Now with over 100 shows and 100,000 downloads, it is the world’s top podcast for fitness business owners, managers and fitpreneurs. She has ringside seats in the journey of business development and gains insights into successes, challenges and advice on how to lead an exceptional fitness business.

ALEX BURROWS Alex has 10 years international experience focussed on the innovative use of data to create more active and healthy populations. He is a Founder Director at UK-based company 4 global and led the development of what has become the largest global database of shared intelligence on members, participation and facility performance.

INTERACTIVE PANEL

PLUS

includes all the above presenters plus NZ based industry leaders to discuss and explore the burning hot topics of the day in our industry. All business summit attendees will be invited to pre-email in questions for our experts to consider, as well as having an open floor question time also. This could be the most valuable session of the day!

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PRE CONFERENCE EVENTS FRIDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2018 MY GROUP MOVE Speakers: Maria Teresa Stone, Marietta Mehanni 8:15 – 6:00PM

This day will be broken into 3 different sessions: 1. WATCH YOUR BODY LANGUAGE / 8.15am – 11.15am Would you like to create magic every time you teach a class???!

This workshop is a MUST for every group fitness instructor.

You will learn how to: create rapport with your participants, meet and greet successfully, effectively incorporate visual cues, the power of a smile and much more! Join Marietta Mehanni and Maria Teresa Stone for an extraordinary upskilling experience.

2. WOW – THE AQUA EFFECT / 11.45am – 2.45pm The challenge when teaching aqua classes is to be able to show the movements on land as if we were in the resistive water environment. Whether you are a new instructor or someone that has been teaching for years, this workshop will push your teaching skills to the next level. Join two experts in their fields, Marietta and Maria Teresa a workshop that will help you re-connect with the water and help you teach successful aqua classes and create the “WOW effect”!

3. HIT – H2O INTERMITTENT TRAINING / 3.00pm – 6.00pm The popularity of high intensity interval training (HIIT) is still on the rise due to the amazing health benefits including fat loss, cardiovascular health and performance. The challenge is how to implement HIIT effectively in an Aqua fitness class. Marietta Mehanni and Maria Teresa Stone have developed an easy to teach format, which revolves around a progressive overload called Trios that anyone can do and instructors can develop themselves. Take home a class format that you can teach straight away and offer your clients more and better results!

This is a must attend session for all Aqua fitness instructors from the deck to create the “WOW effect”! Workshop 1 is mainly lecture but there are some drills that require movement.

Best if you can fit us in a group fitness studio or a room where we can have access to sound system.

CPD Points: 5.5 Points

FINDING THE SWEET SPOT FOR NUTRITION AND TRAINING Speaker: Kira Sutherland 9:00 – 4:30PM Working with clients and getting great results is a juggling act, a struggle and an amazing reward all wrapped up into one.

Results are a combination of hard work, good habits and healthy eating to support one’s energy and exercise needs. In this one-day workshop Sports Nutritionist and Naturopath, Kira Sutherland will take you through the basics of eating for athletes, the weight loss mind field of differing eating styles, the latest research on

eating for females fluctuating hormone cycles and much more. This is not just a lecture but a discussion of trends, hype and science. Participants will spend the day clarifying fact from fiction, how one style of nutrition does not fit all and great take away ideas to assist themselves and their clients in the search for the optimum diet/nutrition.

CPD Points: 5 Points

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PRE CONFERENCE EVENTS FRIDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2018 LEARNING OUTCOMES This full-day session is 100% practical.

GET YOUR BGK’S (BIG GIRLS KNICKERS) ON! Speakers: Mish Wright, Thea Baker 9:00 – 5:00PM

} Learn to speak with confidence about the service you offer } Practice the flow of an ultimate initial consultation session to ensure new clients feel comfortable to open-up and share their true health needs with you } Get comfortable asking the tough questions in the right way } Practice women-centric assessments including: DRAM, posture for new mum’s, pelvic floor function and TVA activation } Understand how the information you learn from the initial consult will inform your exercise prescription } Apply so much value-add service to your client’s first experience with you that you will create long-lasting and rewarding connections. } As an added bonus you will receive a template initial consultation form (complete with legals) that you can skin with your own logo and details (valued at $64AU).

CPD Points: 5 Points

Do you currently give away your first consultation with your clients?

Or just charge a bare minimum, in the hope that you will win them over?

Do you even do a proper initial consult or just get clients to fill out a health screen before they start their first session with you?

Now is the time to back yourself and the service that you provide to women!

Our pre-conference contains so much valuable information that simply cannot be learned in a one-hour lecture. It requires active participation, practice and a lot of interactive learning.

This full-day session is a must-attend if you want to increase your profitability in a crowded market. Come along to spend time with two experts in this space to learn how you can further demonstrate your unique approach to caring holistically for women’s health needs.

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ADVANCED PERSONALISED HEALTH: PRINCIPLES, CASES & PERSONALISED MARKETING Speaker: Cam McDonald 9:30 – 5:00PM If you aren’t personalising, you will be left behind! How a client locates your services, right through to you helping them get a result greater than what they ever thought, all comes down to how specific each step along the way is to them as a unique individual. The science and technology now exists to know the preferred language, exercise, nutrition, coaching and marketing considerations you need to create the dream journey for every single client. This workshop will give you your own personalised health profile, deliver content that relates specifically to your client cases (submitted prior to the workshop), and will take you through the process to create actual marketing material shaped specifically to your niche

PRE CONFERENCE EVENTS FRIDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2018 market - all led by the global leaders in personalised health education and fitness business development.

LEARNING OUTCOME } Review the principles of personalised health as related to phenotype } Understand the advanced principles in application of personalised health in a fitness setting } Observe cases from the audience and how these clients can be better managed through a comprehensive personalised model - focussing on coaching style, language, support, program changes and adjustments } Develop ready-to-go resources that will attract your niche based on neurotype languaging and marketing CPD Points: 4.5 Points

THE DAY OF PLAY - USING PLAY FOR SERIOUS RESULTS IN EVERY POPULATION Speaker: John (JP) Polley 9:30 – 4:30PM

brings people together, enhances brain function, neural conditioning and emotional state, and you have an almost uniquely powerful and wonderful training modality” If you want to spend a day in your life purely focused on enjoyment for body, mind and emotions, this will deliver. As with all of JP’s work, it will also give you the tools to deliver this into your world, again and again.

LEARNING OUTCOMES } A working understanding of the benefits of play for physical performance and neuromyofascial response } A better understanding of the mental and emotional effects of play } A full range of play, games and drills for each of 6 populations - sedentary/chair bound, physically restricted, training for life, elite sports performance, older adults, mental health challenges - all performed and experienced during the day } A client centred system for determining what forms of play are suitable for the humans in front of you and how to adapt them for everyone The role of genetic predisposition and movement personality in prescribing play } Communication - how to deliver play to different movement personalities and populations so they are invested in the process.

Spend the day immersed in the challenge, enjoyment and experience that play can bring! Learn at least 40 games, drills and ways to play, centred around a range of different client CPD Points: 4 Points profiles, and then how to adapt them for endless possibilities.

However, this session is so much more than learning some new exercises to integrate into your business. It’s also about understanding the science and application behind play; the who, why, what, how and when that will mean you can use this invaluable tool for maximum effect and maximum results.

The times of play being a little distraction from ‘important’ or ‘serious’ training are gone. This is now understood as a vital tool for everyone from elite athletes through to those with severe restriction or mental health issues. Your presenter is John Polley (JP), says: “Play is so under-valued and misunderstood in our industry. It’s one of the few activities or forms of exercise that mimics the effects of many of the things in life that bring us joy. That alone should be enough reason to use it. But then realise it works the body in all 3 dimensions, the way it was authentically designed to move,

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PRE CONFERENCE EVENTS FRIDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2018 THE LANGUAGE OF COACHING Speaker: Andrew (Chaddy) Chadwick 9:30 – 4:30PM During this all-new course, we will delve into some of the basics of Nero Linguistic Programming to help you create rapport and be aware of subtle signals that let you know when you’re actually in ‘rapport’ with someone. We will look at just how important the language around goal setting is and how you can ‘tweak’ the wording of a goal to make it more powerful. We will discover what happens at the unconscious level when information is taken in and how we and our client’s filter information, and, thus deem it safe or a threat. we will then dive into how to change the words we use and give you applicable language changes to improve client outcomes.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: } Know how to get into and when you’re in Rapport with a potential or existing client. } Improve client Goal Setting } Understand how the brain interprets information via a clients filters } Change coaching language to create better adherence } Improve client outcomes through the words we use CPD Points: 4 Points

TAKING YOUR PT CLIENTS FROM DYSFUNCTIONAL TO OPTIMAL Speaker: Mark Davis 9:00 - 5:00pm

As a PT you are in the box seat to make meaningful changes to the way your clients move. In this full day workshop you will learn and use a system that highlights common dysfunctional movement and muscle interactions and the factors that drive them.

Find out the four most common movement dysfunctions that Mark encounters every day as a physiotherapist. Learn how to identify them, how they impact on movement and what to do about them.

In this excellent mix of theory and practical you will learn new ways to address dysfunction that are in scope for PTs and will quickly make real and lasting improvements to your client’s quality of movement and quality of life.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: } Identify common dysfunctional movement patterns. } Explore the concept of patterning for improved performance. } Practice mobilisation, inhibition and facilitation techniques that address the drivers of poor movement. } Apply horizontal and vertical progression patterns to consolidate and broaden motor response.

CPD Points: 4 Points

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23 – 25 NOV 2018

AUT UNIVERSITY, AUCKLAND G R O W I N G T H E I N D U S T RY T O G E T H E R

What is the Hauora Conference?

Hauora Yoga Conference is a three day educational event where the yoga community in Aotearoa, the teachers and practitioners connect, discuss, learn, innovate and practice together. We gather to educate and empower our yoga teachers, inspire our yoga students and develop our national yoga community.

19 Presenters

26 Sessions

3 Days

5 Clinics

5 Masterclass

11 Workshops

Held from 23-25th November. Earlybird ends 1 October with further discounts for REPs registered trainers and Yoga New Zealand and Australia members. Book now www.hauorayoga.org.nz

Exclusive offer for Gold Pass attendees. Purchase Gold pass and have access to any of the events at Hauora (you can mix and match as much as you like between both.

GOLD PASS STARTS FROM $649

NEED MORE INFORMATION? VISIT OUR WEBSITE WWW.HAUORAYOGA.ORG.NZ OR CALL 0800 66 88 11

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PRESENTER PROFILES Adam Floyd

Brendon Watt

Sessions }} Marketing your PT business to Allied Health Professionals }} Assessment of clients with Low Back Pain - Part 1 }} Assessment of clients with Low Back Pain - Part 2

Session }} Māori Movement - Binding the Elements

Cam McDonald Andrew (Chaddy) Chadwick Sessions }} Intensity vs Quality }} Goal! There’s more to being SMART }} The Language of Coaching (Pre Conference event)

Alexander Roach Session }} Being a Personal Trainer Physiotherapists Trust and Refer to

Ali Tilley Sessions }} All levels yoga class continues in theme of Feet in 3 worlds }} Feet in 3 Worlds - past, present and future

Amy Green

Sessions }} Advanced Personalised Health: Principles, Cases & Personalised Marketing (Pre Conference event) }} You are what you metabolise }} Neurotype coaching: Speaking to your clients’ genes

Carl Hammington Sessions }} Primal Play }} Re-Humanising Movement

Cheryl Roche Sessions }} The Truth about Foot Orthotics - Part 1 }} The Truth about Foot Orthotics - Part 2

Christine Gill

Session }} Who are you? Beyond the Boundaries Yin/Yang Flow Class

Session }} Understanding your clients skeleton

Angela Jenkins

Corrine Austin

Sessions }} Is inflammation Sabotaging Your Client Results? }} Programming Secrets to Increase Happiness Hormones

Benjamin Siong Sessions }} Strength Smarts - the protocols that get you stronger }} Optimising Sports Performance: The Strength Strategy }} Prepping the female fitness competitor }} The complete fat loss solution

Session }} All Fun n Games

Dan Hardie Sessions }} Creative Client Connection }} How to play with your client (and accidentally teach them)

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PRESENTER PROFILES Dave Liow

Jesse Laughton

Sessions }} Running in to Trouble }} Movement is a Symphony }} Working with clients in pain

Session }} Why Women need strength training

Emma Masters Sessions }} Metric vs Rhythm who wins? You decide! }} Cue-Muniction - Part 1 }} Cue-Muniction - Part 2

Erin Raines Sessions }} Not your average Pump class }} Barre simplified

Freya Thomson Sessions }} Control the Ring }} Punch like a girl

Gary Szabo Sessions }} Swinger’s Club }} Love, Handles

Hilary Blackstock

John (JP) Polley Sessions }} Power Plate vibration certification (Pre Conference event) }} The Day of Play - Using play for serious results in EVERY population (Pre Conference event) }} Results that make you smile }} Recovery isn’t just sleep - intentional programming of recovery beyond rest }} Enjoyment guarateed

Jono Petrohilos Sessions }} 4 Secrets to a Successful Bootcamp... The they things they don’t teach you at PT school }} Facebook... enough said!

Kate van West Session }} Poi For Your Health

Kellie Lavendar Session }} Eating Disorders – how to recognise them in your clients and what to do about it

Session }} All Fun n Games

Ken Baldwin Ian O’Dwyer Sessions }} Increasing 3D Movement Strength Through Intelligent Motion }} Movement; Do You Stack Up?

Jeff Willoughby Sessions }} What Is Functional Medicine? Part 1 }} What Is Functional Medicine? Part 2

Sessions }} Brain Training for the active Ageing - It’s all in the head! }} Training the Active Ageing - Strength Vs. Power?

Kerry Johnson Sessions }} Pilates Shred and Flow }} Aerobics Revival

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PRESENTER PROFILES Kira Sutherland

Luke Sniewski

Sessions }} Finding the Sweet Spot for Nutrition and Training (Pre Conference event) }} Food as medicine for sports performance and recovery }} Sports nutrition and the female client

Sessions }} Change through Stillness }} Morning Meditations

Kirsty Nield Sessions }} 100% Step HIIT }} HiLo HIIT }} Total Body Blitz

Kris Tynan Session }} 15 fresh ideas for your Seniors class

Kyle Riley Sessions }} Advanced Principles of Personalised Hypertrophy Programming }} Why They Might Need to Think About it: Personalising the Sales Journey

Lisa Jurakovich and Brett Fairweather Session }} A Blast From The Past!

Mana Fleming Sessions }} I Don’t Feel Right - Using Food as Medicine }} The 5 Food Flavours }} Hikitia Te Haa - Tai Qi Version - Part 1 }} Hikitia Te Haa - Tai Qi Version - Part 2

Maria Teresa Stone Sessions }} My Group Move (Pre Conference event) }} Can passion sustain you in this ever changing fitness industry? }} Kick ‘n punch cardio }} Teach with Purpose

Marietta Mehanni Sessions }} My Group Move (Pre Conference event) }} Creation through variation }} Move To Improve in Menopause }} Can passion sustain you in this ever changing fitness industry? }} Presenting success - secrets of how to deliver a great presentation

Mark Davis Lisa Roach Sessions }} Your Brain on Exercise }} Disordered Brains and Exercise: Welcoming People with Motor-Disorders into Fitness - Part 1 }} Disordered Brains and Exercise: Welcoming People with Motor-Disorders into Fitness - Part 2

Lisa Westlake Sessions }} Mums shape up }} Results that make you smile }} Exercising for two }} Pilates on the ball

Sessions }} Taking your PT Clients from Dysfunctional to Optimal (Pre Conference event) }} Presenting success - secrets of how to deliver a great presentation }} Move To Improve in Menopause

Matt Wood Session }} Pre-Exercise Assessment PITSTOP: Common Pitfalls and Practical Solutions.

Megan Schmidt Session }} Breast Cancer, Lymphoedema and Exercise

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PRESENTER PROFILES Melissa Billington

Rich Ellis

Sessions }} Challenge of the Simple - a yoga class for all levels }} Social Enter-Prize-ing Yoga —a discussion on how to take yoga off the mat & into the wider world

Session }} Numbers 101: Making them work for you as a PT

Michael Cunico

Roslyn Ryan

Sessions }} Mythbusters - Fitness Edition }} Movement That Matters - Part 1 }} Movement That Matters - Part 2 }} Advanced and Progressive Mechanics of Strength and Hypertrophy Training - Part 1 }} Advanced and Progressive Mechanics of Strength and Hypertrophy Training - Part 2

Session }} How To Grow Your Tribe Using Facebook and Social Media

Shane Way Session }} Mental Health & Wellbeing

Mish Wright Sessions }} Get your BGK’s (Big Girls Knickers) On! (Pre Conference event) }} Consistency is Key }} Practical Pelvic Floor & Power Plate

Nats Levi Sessions }} Culture is Queen }} Burnout is the New Black

Suze Cox Sessions }} Exercise and Chronic Disease }} Exercising with the Elderly

Tamara Bennet Session }} Tai Chi for Health 101

Neil Wagstaff

Thea Baker

Session }} How to revolutionise your clients running programming without the traditional high mileage training

Sessions }} Get your BGK’s (Big Girls Knickers) On! (Pre Conference Event) }} Inclusivity & intersectionality in the health & fitness industry }} The top 10 questions you need to ask your female clients…and what to do with their answers

Nicole Mackes Session }} Opening doors for yoga practitioners and new students with injuries

Wendy Sweet Session }} Understanding the Science of Women’s Healthy Ageing

Rebecca Logan Sessions }} Community Strength and Balance Project - Part 1 }} Community Strength and Balance Project - Part 2

Will Jenkins Session }} Mobility or Stability? Why you hear conflicting advice from different experts and what they are not

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SATURDAY SESSIONS 24 NOVEMBER 2018

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SATURDAY SESSIONS BUSINESS Facebook... enough said!

10:20 – 11:20AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: If you’re a PT and you’re winging it on Facebook, sooner or later you’re going to left behind... You know it too… You probably see “Trainers” that aren’t half the Trainer you are BUT they have more clients than you and are more successful than you…Just because they know a few tricks on Facebook… That’s why we’ve put together this presentation. It covers the Facebook basics that every PT NEEDS if they want to stay in the industry! It’s designed specifically for the Trainer who wants to be able to compete without having to do a Degree in Marketing… Or without having to become a computer scientist… or without having to waste of hours of their time fiddling with on there with no return…

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Know what you should / shouldn’t post on your personal Facebook profile • Understand how to use Facebook Groups to generate new clients • Understand how to use Facebook Groups to add value to your current clients • Understand how to use Facebook Ads Speaker: Jono Petrohilos

Creative Client Connection 11:40 – 12:40PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Food week, weekly riddles and remembering kids names. Creating a human connection is just about the best feeling a Personal Trainer can have. When you go over and above what someone expects a PT to do you immediately create a deeper and more meaningful connection. Come and get creative and learn how using weekly messages, riddles, food sponsorships and having a mini library can add value to your business and create a strong bond with every client you train.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Learn how to think outside the box when creating a Personal Training Service.

• Learn how to deliver high standard add-ons to your sessions cheaply a effectively.

• Find out how you can make a positive impact on an entire family by sending out a single txt message.

Speaker: Dan Hardie

Marketing your PT business to Allied Health Professionals 1:30 – 2:30PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Want to get referrals from physios, chiros and other health professionals? In this seminar Physiotherapist Adam Floyd discusses barriers, relationship marketing, referral tools, self branding and self development. Learn how to develop and maintain a referral network with your local AHP’s.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Introduction: 10 mins • Barriers to referrals (own research) : 15 mins • Relationship marketing: 15 mins • Self Development: 10 mins • Networking: 10 mins • Summary and discussion: 15 mins Speaker: Adam Floyd

Numbers 101: Making them work for you as a PT 1:30 – 2:30PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: As a PT there are lots of balls to keep in the air. Your financials are by far the most important. This session covers the key areas of financial management that they don’t always teach you at PT school.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Learn how to plan your Profit and Loss • Learn how to plan for cash flow • Learn how to plan for taxes • Learn how to survive with a fluctuating income • Learn how to best structure your group and 1 on 1 payment systems to suit all clients - without big overheads.

• Find ways to create passive income streams Speaker: Rich Ellis

How To Grow Your Tribe Using Facebook and Social Media 2:50 – 3:50PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: The 3 Secrets to Facebook Marketing That will Deliver over 100 leads even if you have never used Facebook. The 10 mistakes virtually everyone makes with Facebook ads...and how to avoid them Facebook ads are a money-printing machine where one dollar is turned into two (or more) IF you can get the formula right.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: There’s a lot of terrible information out there about Facebook ads. This session will explore, in detail, the secret strategies used by the best performing ads and marketers in the world. Don’t miss it if you want to significantly increase your revenue from Facebook ads.

Speaker: Roslyn Ryan

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SATURDAY SESSIONS Presenting success - secrets of how to deliver a great presentation 2:50 – 3:50PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Covering all bases, this session will provide you with the trade secrets to delivering a presentation that meets the needs of your audience as well as bringing to life the content that you intended to deliver. Presenting is a skill that is developed with experience. This session provides short cuts and secrets to delivering a presentation that you will be proud of and your audience will remember.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Explore the process of determining the best content area to present.

• Establish the main factors that positively impact session preparation.

• Identify and analyse key content clusters.

• Develop an understanding of effective audience engagement techniques.

EXERCISE AS MEDICINE Eating Disorders – how to recognise them in your clients and what to do about it 10:20 – 11:20AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: This session will provide a description of eating disorders, an overview of the myths surrounding them, followed by a summary of common signs and symptoms to look out for, and how personal trainers work effectively with this client group.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: For personal trainers to adequately be able to spot worrying signs of an eating disorder. In addition, how to best work with clients who have an eating disorder in the most effective and supportive way possible.

Speaker: Kellie Lavendar

Speakers: Mark Davis, Marietta Mehanni

Culture is Queen 4:10 – 5:10PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Building a culture or tribe among your clients is key to the success of your business and their accountability. In this session you will get simple, usable tips on how to do that.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Identify usable strategies to create a culture among clients Take home usable tips on how to create a “brand” by just being yourself.

Understanding your clients skeleton 11:40 – 12:40PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: An introduction to Bone Biology and the impact this can have on a clients bone health. An important consideration before setting an exercise programme.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: An understanding of Bone Biology, Bone Remodeling, Osteoporosis, Clinical Risk Factors for Fracture, Non Pharmacological interventions including the benefit of exercise.

Speaker: Christine Gill

Speaker: Nats Levi

Tai Chi for Health 101 1:30 – 2:30PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Known as the moving meditation, tai chi is practised worldwide for its physical and mental health benefits. Join me for a FUN session and personally discover how tai chi can easily be incorporated into your classes to take advantage of this beautiful form of exercise.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: How tai chi is different to other forms of exercise and why it can be more effective. Foundation principles behind tai chi and why these are important. Introduction to safe and simple yet effective tai chi movements you can integrate in to existing programmes.

Speaker: Tamara Bennett

Breast Cancer, Lymphoedema and Exercise 2:50 – 3:50PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Increasingly we are faced with female clients who have experienced breast cancer and all that it entails. This session will provide you with information around treatment and it’s side effects, the role exercise can play and the key dos and don’ts that Personal Trainers should be aware of to best serve these clients.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Be aware of side effects of breast cancer treatments & how to modify exercise prescription • To be aware of current guidelines for exercising with lymphoedema • To be informed of current research surrounding exercise and cancer Speaker: Megan Schmidt 28 | FITEX.CO.NZ | GROWING THE INDUSTRY TOGETHER

SATURDAY SESSIONS EXERCISE PRESCRIPTION Mobility or Stability? Why you hear conflicting advice from different experts and what they are not 10:20 – 11:20AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Why is it that experts inundate us with the latest and greatest mobility drills that everyone MUST DO or they will fail at life.

While a seperate group tells us that the biggest issue is a set of glutes that apparently ‘forgot’ how to work (despite the fact that we do glute activation drills Billions and Billions and Billions of times per day) or that you ‘core’ has less stability than Donald Trump? Who is right? Or is there something that they aren’t telling us? This session is 30% lecture, 70% practical designed to help you get an understanding of why and when each method is used to attain longer lasting results with a particular focus on the gait patterns of walking and running.

Your Brain on Exercise 4:10 – 5:10PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: We have all heard that exercise is not only good for our bodies, but that it is also good for our brains, but what exactly does that mean? What do we actually know, what are just sweeping generalizations consisting of neurobabble and trendy phrases, and what is our as role as fitness industry professionals in promoting brain health and healthy aging for our brains and those sitting between the ears of our clients? Join Lisa Gombinsky Roach for an exploratory introduction to the fascinating topic of Your Brain on Exercise LEARNING OUTCOMES: At the end of this session you will • Understand in basic terms how exercise influences brain health in terms of circulation, inflammation, biochemistry and hormones • Understand three key concepts – neuroprotection, neuroplasticity (both positive and negative!), and neurogenesis • Be able to decipher between useful and exciting discussion of the role of exercise in promoting brain health and “neurobabbling” (a fancy word for just throwing around trendy phrases like neuroplasticity) • Have an introduction to exercise recommendations and potential benefits for a broad range of specific neurological and neuro-motor conditions and disorders Speaker: Lisa Roach

Brain Training for the active Ageing - It’s all in the head!

4:10 – 5:10PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: In this lecture we look at the Psychology of the Active Ageing and understand how the latest Research in Neuroscience gives us great insights into how we should train this demographic and how the brain influences everything they do. When the mind is willing the body is able.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Identify which method is more important, why and perhaps most importantly when? What exercises to use and how to program Mobility, Static Stability and Dynamic Stability in relation to gait patterns for your clients.

Speaker: Will Jenkins

Recovery isn’t just sleep - intentional programming of recovery beyond rest 10:20 – 11:20AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: There’s a common misconception that regular exercisers are over training when they get sick, injured or suffer discomfort.

Whilst this may be true, it is often the case that these people are under recovered. As fitness professionals, we rightly focus on effective strategies for training. However, this can be compromised with a lack of appropriate recovery. Therefore it would serve both ourselves and our clients to help program their recovery. As a sleep deprived father, JP knew that he had to harness all the available recovery there was from other sources to help ensure continued enjoyment of movement and health, which meant researching the benefits of everything from massage to positive thinking.

Here he wants to share how what you can do to help yourselves and help others create nourishing recovery experiences which ward off the rigours of training schedules and the stresses of modern life.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Understand the effects of lack of recovery • Learn there are strategies beyond sleep which still activate our recovery systems • Understand a whole range of recovery strategies and how they benefit humans • Learn ways to program recovery for clients • Understand that some strategies are suited to specific types of client and how to adapt accordingly Speaker: John (JP) Polley

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Outline the latest research in Neuroscience Debunk myths in regards to Ageing Brains Look at systems to integrate Brain Training into exercise programs. Understand how and why the ageing brain reacts to various systems of the body and stimulus Speaker: Ken Baldwin GROWING THE INDUSTRY TOGETHER | FITEX.CO.NZ | 29

SATURDAY SESSIONS Pre-Exercise Assessment PITSTOP: Common Pitfalls and Practical Solutions.

11:40 – 12:40PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: A well-structured pre-exercise assessment is an essential process that is used to develop tailored exercise prescription guidelines. However, the practical process and interpretation of information can be challenging & time consuming, often leading to common pitfalls or foregoing important processes altogether. What’s more, in such a competitive industry many businesses are looking to improve efficiency and/or add value by incorporating new techniques and devices that may or may not be beneficial. Common considerations and simple practical solutions will be discussed.

Love, Handles 1:30 – 2:30PM

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Learn how to apply the new 2018 ACSM risk stratification guidelines Outline pre-exercise assessment purpose, structure and process Discuss common pitfalls and special considerations Outline simple valid and reliable test protocols and equipment Discuss the evidence for assessment “add-ons” and devices.

SESSION DESCRIPTION: Fall in love with Kettlebells! How can one piece of equipment cater for virtually all fitness goals and all fitness levels?

One swing to rule them all? See why this simple tool is still around after hundreds of years and why it is to here to stay. Demonstration of the basic, easy to teach moves and the progression from there. Practical tips and Q&A.

Speaker: Matt Wood

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Learn how to plan a fun session whether it’s a killer strength, or a smooth flowing mobility one; and either for a standalone Kettlebell session or as part of a circuit/bootcamp.

• Understand the importance of the correct breathing technique, grip and posture.

• Experience different methods and lifting styles • Learn the cues to assist quicker learning for all demographics.

• Recognize common errors and risks involved performing these moves; explore the functional benefits of them.

The top 10 questions you need to ask your female clients…and what to do with their answers 11:40 – 12:40PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: This is NEXT LEVEL work for anyone working with women. It’s going to involve lots of straight-talking, myth-debunking and knowledge-sharing to ensure that you have a really complete understanding of why working with women isn’t the same as working with men.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: This very applicable session will ensure that you go away with: • the 10 key things you need to consider when working with women at ANY stage of their lives • how to ask the tough questions directly (but sensitively) to ensure that you have the information that you need to work with women • once you have that information, you will learn WHAT to do with it – learn how to apply it to your existing knowledge of exercise and movement to ensure you can provide an exceptional service to your female clients • If you are a female fitness professional don’t assume that you are asking the right questions and if you’re a male trainer working with women come along to get more comfortable about how to ask “those” questions!

Speaker: Gary Szabo

Movement is a Symphony 2:50 – 3:50PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Movement is like a symphony orchestra playing.

When the musicians, the music, and the conductor are in synch beautiful music is produced. This doesn’t always happen - find out what goes wrong and some practical ways of how we can improve the music.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Understanding a model for movement • Understand practical problem solving for movement issues Speaker: Dave Liow

Speaker: Thea Baker

Intensity vs Quality 4:10 – 5:10PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: During this session, we will look at how you can reduce the length of your working sets (yes thats right reduce) and still create purposeful HIIT sessions. We will look at how reducing a working set length can not only keep the intensity high but also keep the quality of the movement high as well. Thus, helping your participants feel like they’ve had a great HIIT session while also reducing the risk of injury.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Learn how to shorten the duration of a traditional group training session ‘set’ length to gain better outcomes for clients Speaker: Andrew (Chaddy) Chadwick

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SATURDAY SESSIONS GROUP EXERCISE / MIND BODY Barre simplified 10:20 – 11:20AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: This master class is packed full of simple exercises that use a combination of barre and bodyweight exercises. Enjoy a simple style of choreography that’s easy to put into use straiht away, and inject some new ideas into your barre, pilates or body weight classes.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Be inspired with exercises you may not have tried or have not utilised for a long time • Demystify the choreography and planning behind a barre class • Take home a simple format to follow in order to develop your own classes in a consistent and professional manner Speaker: Erin Raines

of breath and balance of body and soul. Experience the harmony as Fitball and Pilates unite, to provide a class that enhances postural awareness, movement consciousness, strength, control and freedom of movement.

Awaken your body, refine your control, release your mind.

HiLo HIIT

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students will experience a range of Pilates inspired exercises on the fitball that can be used as a whole class, in a general fitball class or as a component of a Pilates class.

11:40 – 12:40PM

Speaker: Lisa Westlake

SESSION DESCRIPTION: A massive cardio BLAST is guaranteed in this high pace, maximum energy master class. If you are stuck for ideas for clients who want more and more out of their cardio work out, this session is a must for you. Featuring HIIT drills, aerobic routines and high and low impact exercises, this session explores different energy systems and training techniques. Take the ideas from this session home and even your super fit, hard to please client will be begging for mercy.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: This session will feature short blocks of simple HiLo aerobics alternating with high energy blocks of HIIT. The last block of HiLo will combine all the previous blocks, creating a fun and achievable routine. The participants of this session will leave inspired with ideas about how to make their HIIT session more effective, interactive and interesting and how to use their existing skills teaching group fitness using the latest training techniques.

Speaker: Kirsty Nield

Pilates on the ball

A Blast From The Past!

1:30 – 2:30PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: A fun Master class in which myself and Brett. We have discussed this and would love this to be a joint effort! I was 1987 Aerobics champ he was 1988! The class will be high energy and fun including tracks from 70s 80s 90s. Back to old school grapevines, step taps and curls! Bringing back the Richard Simmons and the Jane Fonda!

We would encourage leg warmers, head bands and anything fabulous from those wonderful years! FUN is the main description!

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Outcomes to going back in time is that sometimes we need to get back to the basics, step taps and leg curls and grapevines were SO much fun back in the time, people use to cheer in class! GOOD music, a huge personality and heaps of energy can sell a class. No huge science behind the basics, my mission is to remind people that!

Speakers: Lisa Jurakovich & Brett Fairweather

11:40 – 12:40PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Mobility, stability, length and strength come together in a unique session that embraces the finest elements of Pilates, Fitball and physiotherapy. This inspiring session awakens the awareness

Māori Movement - Binding the Elements 1:30 – 2:30PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: This this session will be based around the “whare tapa wha” model - The four pillars of health creation.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Each student will experience different components in this journey as it is based around self analysis and how they are implementing these concepts into their everyday lifestyle.

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The Quadrants Mind Power Spirit in flow Purpose and passion Body in action.

Speaker: Brendon Watt

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SATURDAY SESSIONS Hikitia Te Haa - Tai Qi Version - Part 1 and 2 2:50 – 5:10PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: A kaupapa Maori response to anxiety and depression that is a result of trauma. Hikitia Te Haa is drawing up the breath while using tai qi forms connecting with Maori Atua (Gods) and concepts of connection to nature and humanity.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: The origin - How did this project evolve? - Provide insight to Maori kawa (process) and values. - Connect the breath to the body to make peace with troubling emotions. - Connect movement, based in Tai Qi, with some of the Gods influential in creating this world of light (Te Ao Marama).

Speaker: Mana Fleming

Kick ‘n punch cardio 2:50 – 3:50PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Do you love to teach cardio based classes?! are you looking for ideas to revamp your freestyle group fitness classes?!

Time to kick ‘n punch like never before in an easy-to-follow format. This is a move-non-stop, empowering and enjoyable session for instructors interested in simple choreography to music and drills.

LEARNING OUTCOME: • To provide group fitness instructors with ideas using kicks and punches in class.

• To share drills that can be easily used in class.

• Take away class.

Speaker: Maria Teresa Stone

100% Step HIIT 4:10 – 5:10PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: This 100% HIIT class is like nothing your participants have done before. Exploring creative and totally unique ways of using the step, this session gives you inspiration to develop fun and challenging HIIT drills. By jumping over, weaving around, picking up and putting down, this session uses the step as a working platform, an obstacle, and a resistance training tool. Including sections of basic step choreography, this class is designed to keep all your group fitness participants happy. From this masterclass you’ll take home ideas that you can use in any class format.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: This session is taught entirely using the step.

Participants will be encouraged to think outside the square and discover different ways of using the standard aerobic step. The steps will be moved into different formations which makes the standard HIIT session interactive, exciting and effective.

Speaker: Kirsty Nield

NUTRITION You are what you metabolise 10:20 – 11:20 SESSION DESCRIPTION: Food and eating is one of the most enjoyable, hottest, fashionable and controversial topics in the health industry. The simple answer is that it’s different for everyone. Different foods suit different people, different timing of food can be the essential difference in success or failure, and at times, foods aren’t even the thing that changes the metabolism - and it all varies based on the individual. This session will outline why that variance exists and take your nutrition awareness into the future of health LEARNING OUTCOMES: Understand different bodies and why they have different nutritional requirements. Understand the other metabolic factors that affect how your nutrients are absorbed differently under different stress Gain insight into the individual needs of your clients and their best pathway to having a consistent metabolic response Speaker: Cam McDonald

I Don’t Feel Right - Using Food as Medicine 11:40 – 12:40PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: There are 3 common imbalances that can be effectively balanced using food. This information is based in Chinese Medicine diet therapy. What is dampens, qi xu/deficiency and blood xu/ deficiency?

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Learn about dampness, qi deficiency and blood deficiency.

• What are the common signs and symptoms of these 3 imbalances.

• Learn how to rebalance the system using food based in the traditions of Chinese Medicine diet therapy.

Speaker: Mana Fleming

Food as medicine for sports performance and recovery 2:50 – 3:50PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Mother Nature has gifted us with an array of amazing foods that contain nutrients capable of assisting athletes in recovery, as well as during training. From tart cherries to watermelon, pineapple, turmeric and much more. In this comprehensive lecture Kira covers the ins and outs of plant-based medicines, and how they can be used by an active body to enhance healing, recovery and performance.

Research, recipes and much more will also be explored, including easy-touse applications of the knowledge learned.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Recognize and understand the whole foods that are known and evidence based to assist in sports performance or recovery • Understand their application to clients and athletes in a safe manner • Learn recipes and food ideas for incorporating such foods Speaker: Kira Sutherland

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SATURDAY SESSIONS SPECIAL POPULATIONS Community Strength and Balance Project - Part 1 and 2 10:20 – 12:40PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Find out about the new ‘Community Strength and Balance Project’ and how you can get on board as an ‘approved provider’. As an approved provider your classes (suitable for elders) become part of a national network to receive increased referral from Health Care professionals and the general public.

Up skill yourself on knowledge of exercise and social considerations when training elders. This is an interactive, informative but fun session’.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Become familiar with the Community Strength and Balance Project and the requirements to become and ‘approved provider’.

Increase knowledge of fall risk factors, exercise physiology and social/ cultural considerations, to more effectively engage with elder clients.

Understanding the Science of Women’s Healthy Ageing 2:50 – 3:50PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Women’s healthy ageing is big business, but do we really understand what ‘health’ is in the context of ageing? Research shows that exercise is only 5th out of 8 determinants of health when it comes to women’s health. If you want to improve your career and ability to market yourself to the next generation of older women, then understanding how to improve client ‘health’ not ‘fitness’ is vital. Join healthy ageing researcher, Dr Wendy Sweet, for a session which will change how you approach exercise and nutrition for any clients over the age of 50 years.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: In this session I will take attendees through the determinants of health and wellness. This is not being defined in the fitness industry and if we are to improve how we cater to an ageing demographic then understanding the determinants of our biological ageing is imperative.

This session will achieve all this and more!

Speaker: Wendy Sweet

Speaker: Rebecca Logan

15 fresh ideas for your Seniors class 1:30 – 2:30PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: This session presents a variety of fresh and fun activity concepts in a group class setting. The emphasis is on maximum engagement through the use of simple props and themes. Incorporating elements of brain and cognitive work as well as movement this interactive and practical session will provide delegates with easily implemented ideas they can take back to their classes and put into practice immediately.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Introduce new ideas into classes • Understand how to weave ‘mind and movement’ concepts into classes • Think ‘out of the box’ and create some new routines to suit class demographic Speaker: Kris Tynan

Exercising with the Elderly 2:50 – 3:50PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Training the elderly client can be very rewarding but can present unique challenges for a trainer to ensure they deliver a safe and fun session that builds confidence and strength. This session covers the common conditions that can occur in this population group, the most accurate ways to test a client’s current health status in this age group and the most effective ways to train in order to get the best quality of life and prevent poor health developing in the future.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Understand the statistics of the older population group.

• Understand what are the common conditions that present in this age group - Developing methods to deal with cognitive dysfunction.

• Developing methods to deal with various neurological conditions such as Parkinsons disease.

• Understanding the most important things this population group needs to remain active.

• Developing strategies for falls prevention

Working with clients in pain 4:10 – 5:10PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Dave has worked extensively with clients in chronic pain over the last 20 years. Find out practical tools you can use to help working with clients in pain who are doing it tough LEARNING OUTCOMES: Understand pain theory Learn practical techniques to work with clients in pain.

Speaker: Dave Liow

Exercising for two 4:10 – 5:10PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: With sound knowledge and appropriate modifications we can assist women to benefit from, and enjoy the benefits of exercise during the child bearing year. Join Lisa for an informative session where she will explain the physical and psychological consequences of pregnancy that underlie the “Do’s and don’ts” of pre natal exercise programming. Discover ideal modifications for pregnant women so that you can help women stay fit and healthy during this exciting time of their lives.

Every women and every pregnancy is different, and there is no room for guess work, but with clear understanding of the variations and indications for modifications, instructors can design safe exercises and programs with confidence.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students will learn the physiological changes of pregnancy, pregnancy related conditions and their exercise implications , thus be able to prescribe a group exercise class, group exercise modifications or a one on one program for prenatal women Speaker: Lisa Westlake

Speakers: Suze Cox

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SATURDAY SESSIONS STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING Increasing 3D Movement Strength Through Intelligent Motion 10:20 – 11:20AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Our focus to make athletes stronger, faster, jump higher or tackle harder is quite often broken into a segmented approach, more of a Zoom In perspective. In many years of Performance Coaching, I have experienced great results by understanding the movement patterns of what is required of the sport and then creating solutions for the athlete/ weekend warrior/client to experience this. This is often through a more integrated approach or connecting the body and brain. If you are looking for something that may enhance your athlete, corporate, mum’s and dad’s or kids this session will be for you!

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Observing and identifying client movement strength in 3D motion • Break down simple “go to” regions of the movements to enhance the outcome • Experience how it feels to implement the strategies • Metric the outcomes and experience Speaker: Ian O’Dwyer

Strength Smarts - the protocols that get you stronger 10:20 – 11:20AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: We are often led to believe that the work and sweat we put into training directly equates to strength increases and the results we achieve. This unfortunately does not represent the whole truth, and most have to learn the hard way, having overtrained, plateaued or sustained countless injuries. Maximum effort alone with little understanding of programming, exercise execution and how the body responds hormonally to specific workouts, are just some of the reasons why our workout routines lead to frustrating strength plateaus that can be hard to break out of. This lecture will highlight some of the important considerations for effective strength gains over the training cycle.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: To identify the important considerations for effectively increasing strength in resistance training.

Speaker: Benjamin Siong

Training the Active Ageing - Strength Vs. Power?

11:40 – 12:40PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: There are many views on how and what type of training we should focus on when training the Active Ageing. Join Ken as he outlines the platform for successful Training for this demographic and how we can prioritise each component of our workout and how long we should spend on each area for the best results for your Ageing clients.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Define the different types of strength discuss which type of strength the Active Ageing require Define power and outline why it is needed for this demographi. Outline the programming fundamentals for Active Ageing.

Speaker: Ken Baldwin

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Advanced and Progressive Mechanics of Strength and Hypertrophy Training - Part 1 and 2 1:30 – 3:50PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: In this session, you will learn how to prepare the physical and mental state of the client in an efficient manner allowing for more time to dedicate to training. Beyond traditional sets and repetition schemes, how do we bulletproof a body to maximise performance and minimise risk of injury? Optimal range of motion, dynamic stability, isometric strength and power production can all play a part in successful program design and this session will explore all of these in a thought-provoking and game-changing session for your future program design.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Your client has a training budget and they will turn to you for direction on how to spend that budget, so spend wisely as mistakes made here could mean poor training outcomes. How can we provide our clients with programming variables to ensure they stay committed to their training program, increasing the likelihood of them achieving success. Can we look back to move forward, are there some undiscovered lessons from the past that can provide some insight to future success, I would say, absolutely.

Speaker: Michael Cunico

Re-Humanising Movement 1:30 – 2:30PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: As humans we are designed to move often and in many ways, yet society is set up around convenience and sedentary living.

The gap between how we are physiologically built and how we exist today is leaving us unwell. How do we combat this this landscape and act in line with our genes again? We will explore what we are the most foundational human movement principles are and how to inject them into your life, your clients lives, creating happier and healthier people.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Learn what the 5 foundational movement principles are - these are what we all should be doing regularly and that have the biggest impact on our health. These are easy to apply and fun to explore. This draws on anatomy, physiology as well as ancestral and longevity research.

Speaker: Carl Hammington

Optimising Sports Performance: The Strength Strategy 4:10 – 5:10PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Strength training has been a popular performance development tool for strength and contact sports such as rugby, basketball, NFL and wrestling. However, over the last 10 years, this has been rapidly gaining popularity with other less contact-based sports such as soccer, swimming and fencing to name a few. With an increasing demand for creating superior athletes, this talk will cover the necessity of strength training in various sports. We will also be investigating the factors that determine an effective strength program for athletes.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: The seminar looks at the factors we should be considering in an effective and practical strength program in developing an athlete.

Speaker: Benjamin Siong

SATURDAY SESSIONS YOGA Opening doors for yoga practitioners and new students with injuries 10:20 – 11:20AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: How yoga teachers can have the opportunity to facilitate a holistic healing journey for students with injuries to their spine. Each day we meet students - new and experienced, with various abilities and backgrounds. We can also meet students with injuries or health conditions who seek benefits, recovery and insights from the practise of yoga. Some of the most common types of challenges are associated with back pain and back injuries (for example bulged or prolapsed discs).Nicole will share some of her insights based on her professional experience gained while working as a physiotherapist in a spinal unit in Germany, supported by her journey approaching students with injuries from the perspective of a yoga teacher/practitioner. Nicole shares her aspiration to open doors for students with injuries by creating a teaching environment where students can learn about and understand their bodies as they raise awareness around the deep connection of their physical health, and the positive, kind, supportive attitude for their overall well-being. Nicole is passionate about the healthy function of the spine and recognises that a “pain in the back “ can affect people in a fundamental way in many areas of their lives (physically, mentally, emotionally and socially).

LEARNING OUTCOME: • Understanding the unique position of yoga teachers to open doors to a healing journey encompassing an integrated approach in caring for physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social well-being (Haurora) of students with injuries.

• Benefit from a deeper understanding of the function and anatomy of a healthy spine and what happens in cases of back pain and injuries.

• Gain insight to different aspects of physical pain and implications of chronic and long term discomfort. - Supporting yoga teachers to gain confidence in approaching students with back injuries.

• Inspire and empower teachers to be active participants on their students healing journey within the of 8 limb path of yoga practice.

Speaker: Nicole Mackes

Who are you? Beyond the Boundaries Yin/Yang Flow Class

When we move from that place of knowing, we can feel the Yin in the Yang and the Yang in the Yin. We see the natural ebb and flow of everything, we understand that our yoga practice can be “a dance” and not “a wrestling match”. The “good” and the “bad” becomes beautiful in its’ own way. It’s all part of the same human experience. If you’re ready for a physical practice supporting you to discover a deeper side of your Self, join Amy for this alllevels, Yin and Yang flow. Learn to let go of the thinking mind and move into a physical experience of breath and flow while Amy leads you in an hour long asana yoga class.

Speaker: Amy Green

Feet in 3 Worlds - past, present and future 1:30 – 2:30PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: historical and contemporary insights into how NZ’s yoga trends have changed over time. Female members of the Theosophical Society first introduced yoga to NZ in 1889, and since then the country has continued to champion female leadership. Likewise, NZ has become one of the most culturally diverse countries worldwide, which means that yoga is not monolithic or static. Rather, the varied interests of NZ yoga-goers are reflected in many different contexts and changing styles. This lecture seeks to answer the questions, what is yoga today? And where is yoga heading in the future? Although local yoga-goers’ acceptance of diversity plays out in different dress-codes, spiritual identities, and imagined ideals, these differences can be both liberating and segregating. This lecture provides a fascinating timeline of yoga in NZ and is accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation (USB), showcasing changes taking place in yoga practices past, present and future.

11:40 – 12:40PM

Speaker: Ali Tilley

SESSION DESCRIPTION: Go beyond the labels. Peel back the layers. When we get down to the core of universal consciousness, we understand that we are all part of one energetic field and made up of the same “stuff”.

All levels yoga class continues in theme of Feet in 3 worlds 2:50 – 3:50PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: ‘All levels’ yoga class continues the theme of ‘Feet in 3 worlds’, integrating festival/conference themes of Houra. In this sense, the class combines fluid sequences (physical), with postural narratives from mythic India (mental/emotional), inspiring a deeper sense of meaning to commonly used yoga poses. In the second part, breath and sound work will encourage people to step out of their comfort zones and into a collective ‘Zen’ zone (social & spiritual). The guided relaxation session at the end of class integrates well-being themes with connecting ad contributing to the wider yoga community.

Speaker: Ali Tilley

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SUNDAY SESSIONS BUSINESS Consistency is Key 9:00 – 10:00AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Consistency is key to everything – your business processes, your online presence, your personal time management. It is not about working harder, it is about working smarter. Ditch the overwhelm and deal ACES in business, your social media, your life.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Understand principles of a business strategy used by America Post, Toyota, Nestle and the Mayo clinic (ps. They work for small business as well) • Learn the 3 step strategy to implement these principles in your business Speaker: Mish Wright

Burnout is the New Black 10:20 – 11:20AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Burnout and Female Athlete Triad is the new “black” in the industry, with a lot of people suffering from these conditions but also not knowing what to do about it. Trainers and clients alike are suffering form these hormonal imbalances and conditions. Learn the symptoms, the why and the how to safeguard and heal yourself and your clients using movement, nourishment and restoration practices.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • To understand what burnout and F.A,T is • To understand why they occur • To come away with some useful and practical tips to improve the health of those who may be experiencing these conditions.

Speaker: Nats Levi

Can passion sustain you in this ever changing fitness industry?

11:40 – 12:40PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: The average lifespan in the fitness industry is less than 5 years, so what happens to the initial passion and energy? Is it just a short term thing, or is there a way to keep renewing your enthusiasm so that everyday you can deliver with the excitement that you began your career with. With 50 years of combined fitness industry experience, Maria and Marietta will share their secrets to maintaining the physical, mental and emotional energy that is necessary to constantly deliver, expand and stay relevant.

4 Secrets to a Successful Bootcamp... The they things they don’t teach you at PT school 2:50 – 3:50PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Bootcamp is such a fun way for clients to train and tt can also be quite profitable for Trainer... If done properly... Unfortunately it’s often not done properly, the common problems faced a) The Trainer doesn’t have a wide array of Bootcamp Workouts that work well with groups so they over do the “circuit”, “tabata” and “boxing” workouts... This can become monotonous for both trainer and client b) The Trainer doesn’t know how to market the bootcamp to get enough participants... It’s therefore not worth it for the Trainer and they give up... In this presentation we’ll address both these issues and show you how easy it is to overcome :)!

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Learn how to structure a Challenge • Understand the different skills required between a “Bootcamp Instructor” and a “1 on 1 Personal Trainer” • Learn how to program endless Bootcamp Workouts with minimal equipment • Understand how to use Social Media to market their Bootcamp / Fitness Business Speaker: Jono Petrohilos

Why They Might Need to Think About it: Personalising the Sales Journey 4:10 – 5:10PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Start with why, Build personal rapport, create pain, don’t let them think about it. These are some of the common sales strategies mentioned when trying to crack the code of what it takes to inspire our potential clients into action. The problem is, no one client is the same... In this session we will unpack the unique drivers, behaviours and motivating factors that lie within each individual and how to identify them during your sales consultation to personalise your approach, maximise your conversions and inspire more people in taking action on their health and fitness goals.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Overview of the current models and approaches used Learn how physical traits can provide insight into hormones, mindset and consequently sales behaviours, motivating drivers and more. Explore how we can match the different sales strategies to the right person to truly personalise our approach in a way that meets the true needs of our clients.

Personalising your language, calls to action and other sales aspects to the individual.

Speaker: Kyle Riley

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • To discuss the essentials for maintaining a positive mindset with a career focused in the fitness industry • To provide strategies that help keep the body injury, pain free and feeling vital • To share personal approaches to how Marietta and Maria have maintained their passion in their long term careers.

Speakers: Maria Teresa Stone, Marietta Mehanni

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SUNDAY SESSIONS EXERCISE AS MEDICINE Disordered Brains and Exercise: Welcoming People with Motor-Disorders into Fitness - Part 1 and 2 9:00 – 11:20AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: It used to be that when people were diagnosed with chronic neurological conditions they were treated as ‘invalids’ -- told to be careful, to avoid fatigue or anything with an inherent risk of falling, to rest, to prepare for the worsening of their conditions, and to consider a wheelchair, and then were shown the door. Thankfully, this is no longer the case. Robust research supports the benefits of exercise for people with virtually every diagnosis – and even if a doctor doesn’t prescribe or recommend exercise these are a population of people who are researching what can be done and know that exercise might help make their journey with their condition over the rest of their lives a better one. This presentation will introduce you to the most common neuro-motor disorders and exercise guidelines for them to give you a starting place to understanding and confidence on how to work with these potentially long term clients.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: At the end of this session you will • Have a general understanding of the role of different parts of the brain in ‘normal’ movement as a way to approach ‘unusual’ movement • Have a basic understanding of the most common neuro-motor disorders: Parkinson’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Stroke, and Cerebral Palsy and specifically their effect on movement • Understand general the benefits of exercise and have an idea of exercise guidelines for each of those conditions • Understand key concepts including ‘training the deficit’, ‘dignity of risk’, ‘temporarily able bodied’, and ‘meeting people where they are’ • Be less afraid to have a go, and more willing and confident welcoming people with neuro-motor disorders into your service.

Speaker: Lisa Roach

Being a Personal Trainer Physiotherapists Trust and Refer to 1:30 – 2:30PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: This session is for personal trainers who have clients working through injuries, are undergoing rehab, or getting ready for surgery. Working alongside physiotherapists doesn’t need to be painful when you both are working toward the best outcome for your client. Learn how you can design effective training programs by leveraging the skills of a physiotherapist while showcasing your abilities and skillset as an exercise specialist. Learn how to build a two-way relationship of trust through communication leading to ongoing referrals from physiotherapists and clients that stay with you long past their injury.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: By the end of this session, you will have a better understanding of how a physiotherapist thinks, how to speak their language, and of what their concerns are regarding the safety of their patient -- and YOUR client -- in an exercise setting. We will discuss how to structure a prehab/rehab training program for knees, hips, shoulders, as well as manage chronic postural headaches in conjunction with regular physio appointments. By the end, you will be confident communicating with physiotherapists to maintain an ongoing and mutually beneficial relationship.

Speaker: Alexander Roach

Programming Secrets to Increase Happiness Hormones 1:30 – 2:30PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Our clients ultimately just want to ‘be happy’.

The good news is that research tells us we have the power to change the biochemical reactions that happen in our body to lead us towards more happiness. Join Angela through a scientific journey on the ‘physiology of happiness .’ She will discuss the ‘happiness hormones’ and practical ways to help rewire your brain to increase these hormones by small lifestyle modifications in simple step. You will get to practice some of these and you’ll leave feeling happy

Exercise and Chronic Disease

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Overview of hormones dopamine, serotonin, Endorphin and Oxytocin Lifestyle modification to increase these hormones in the system Practical examples Learn how to program the brain to form the new habit.

11:40 – 12:40

Speaker: Angela Jenkins

SESSION DESCRIPTION: In today’s world there are more clients presenting to trainers with a chronic condition or a range of conditions. Having an understanding of these conditions and the effects it will have on your client is important. Knowing the best way to work with this condition for maximum results can be life changing for a client and can motivate them to a healthy change of lifestyle. This session covers the most common chronic conditions and looks at the considerations and contraindications that will help you to achieve success with this population group.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Understanding the pathophysiology behind chronic conditions • Understanding the main chronic conditions that present in a training environment • Understanding the benefits of exercise in these conditions for better client education • Developing appropriate exercise programs for this population group for maximum results • Understanding any contraindications to exercise and how to identify these.

Speaker: Suze Cox

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Poi For Your Health 2:50 – 3:50PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: In this presentation/workshop combination, participants will learn about scientific research on the health benefits of poi, and have the opportunity to play poi themselves. The presentation will be packed with research, videos, and lots of time to play! Participants will leave feeling refreshed and inspired to spin their health around, literally.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Learn about the different styles of poi practiced worldwide through video and live demonstration.

• Hear results and insights from the first scientific study to evaluate the health benefits of poi.

• Learn poi moves which challenge both the body and mind, as well as moves to relax, de-stress, and have fun.

Speaker: Kate van West

SUNDAY SESSIONS EXERCISE PRESCRIPTION Results that make you smile 9:00 – 10:00AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: We all want positive outcomes for our clients.

Results, that indeed make us, and our clients smile. Now take this one step further and think about creating smiles throughout your training sessions.

Of course, we are talking about the dramatic benefits that play can bring to exercise. Join JP and Lisa as they combine forces to bring you an exercise experience like no other. Learn heaps of new ideas for creating challenging and engaging sessions through the medium of fun. In addition, let them also help you understand the impressive amount of research that underpins the ‘why’ of including play in exercise sessions.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Learn new games and drills to integrate into your sessions immediately (and have some fun yourself) • Understand the positive benefits of these for improvements in physical, mental and emotional health • Learn which populations will respond better to which types of play • Learn how to adapt and program play.

Speakers: John (JP) Polley, Lisa Westlake

Assessment of clients with Low Back Pain - Part 1 and 2 9:00 – 11:20AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: 80% of people experience an episode of LBP in their lifetime. Exercise can be beneficial or damaging depending on the client. Learn from one of Australia’s top Fitness Physiotherapists on how to better assess clients with LBP. The focus will be on recognising patterns of LBP (not diagnosis), client screening and how to know when to refer on!

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Types/classifications of LBP • Pathoanatomy and biomechanics • Risk assessment practical • Client assessment for LBP • Summary and questions Speaker: Adam Floyd

All Fun n Games 11:40 – 12:40PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Come along and find out how to turn your favourite board games into a fun movement challenge for your small group training or bootcamp LEARNING OUTCOMES: You will leave with a blueprint and hands on experience of games you can add to your classes straight away for more fun, excitement, energy and retention Speakers: Corrine Austin, Hilary Blackstock

Neurotype coaching: Speaking to your clients’ genes 11:40 – 12:40PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Imagine if you were trying to speak english to a person who only speaks Chinese - how effective would you be as a coach?

Every brain is slightly different and needs to hear, see, feel and understand things in a slightly different way. We now know that when you communicate to and support your client in the way that matches their natural genotype, rapport, results and retention become something you no longer need to worry about. This session will help you understand the client journey and how conducting coaching sessions for their specific mind will shift the needle in every facet of your business LEARNING OUTCOMES: Understand the different brain types and their relationships to phenotype Understand the basic requirements of each brain from a language, coaching and support perspective Understand the principles of change, and how each brain interacts with those principles differently. See actual cases from the crowd in navigating different brains Speaker: Cam McDonald

Goal! There’s more to being SMART 1:30 – 2:30PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: You set goals with your clients right. Or your client comes to you with a specific goal already in mind. And no doubt you’ve already heard of SMART goals. But, can you make SMART goals even more powerful? By using some simple Neuro-Linguistic Programming principles, you will discover a definitive way to improve goal setting for you and your clients.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Look at current SMART goal setting Use Neuro Linguistic Programming to dig deeper into the traditional SMART goal setting technique to create more powerful, client-driven goals.

Speaker: Andrew (Chaddy) Chadwick

How to revolutionise your clients running programming without the traditional high mileage training 1:30 – 2:30PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: More and more of our clients are entering running events from 5km to ultra marathon. Want to help your clients to run further, faster with less pain and injuries and get them to finish line in the best shape of their lives.... without Injuring themselves or overtraining? The ONLY WAY to do that is through holistic based programming. The ONLY WAY to do that is to address all 5 areas of your clients run programming. 1. Run, drills and technique sessions 2. Strength and conditioning sessions 3. Mobility and flexibility and working in sessions 4. Nutrition and supplementation support 5. Mindset support LEARNING OUTCOMES: • How to reduce your clients weekly mileage and still improve their health and running results.

• How to plan and successfully implement all 5 areas of training into your clients programme and when to regress and progress without losing site of their end goal.

• How to help your clients train time efficiently so they don’t lose family time and work life balance.

Speaker: Neil Wagstaff

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SUNDAY SESSIONS Swinger’s Club 1:30 – 2:30PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Kettlebell Snatch and Long Cycle advanced class.

Mastering the mother of all Kettlebell moves - the Snatch, and tackling the most challenging routine in Kettlebell sport-the Long Cycle. Weighted cardio to take your endurance to the next level. Practical tips and Q&A. LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Understand the key techniques to maximise your efficiency and learn how to teach them in the shortest time.

• Recognize common errors and risks involved performing these moves, explore the functional benefits of them.

• Understand how to fit Kettlebell Sport moves into your programs.

Speaker: Gary Szabo

Enjoyment guaranteed 4:10 – 5:10PM

Movement; Do You Stack Up? 2:50 – 3:50PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: We as movement coaches, personal trainers or instructors are constantly prescribing exercise for clients BUT does it stack up. This session will look at movement that tells us a lot about our clients ability to move and handle the forces that come into their bodies. We will then apply strategies to correct or enhance their patterns to optimise safety, efficiency and performance. How well does your movement stack up?

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Demonstrate the movement using effective coaching • Observe and appraise client replication without judgement • Create solution/strategy for client to enable success outcome.

• Collect feedback from client’s about experience and result.

Speaker: Ian O’Dwyer

The Truth about Foot Orthotics - Part 1 and 2 2:50 – 5:10PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Foot orthotics are commonly used by elite athletes as well as fitness your clients. Some are “over the counter” from a pharmacy or sports shop, while others are prescribed by various professionals. Clients often wonder if these are doing them any good, if they are of high enough quality, and if they should be using them in all of their footwear, or just their sports shoes. This presentation dispels the myths about foot orthotics and outlines the factors that go into creating a quality pair of orthotics. This is all important to know to help the client decide if the orthotics will help their musculoskeletal problem, or enhance their training. We will also discuss the evidence regarding barefoot running.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: 1) Identify if a client would benefit from the use of orthotics - over the counter or custom, or needs specific strength training 2) Identify if the orthotics the client already has are necessary and fit for purpose by knowing what makes a good orthotic in terms of materials and specificity in prescription. 3) Understand the use of orthotics for both injury care / prevention and for performance enhancement in specific sports and activities. 4) Learn about the relationship between custom orthotics and postural correction.

Speaker: Cheryl Roche

SESSION DESCRIPTION: Do your clients enjoy your sessions? It’s a simple question and it’s different from “are you delivering great exercise?” or “are you getting physical results?”. Research shows that what keeps clients returning is much more than great exercise. So how do you know? Well, the obvious answer is you ask! But how do you ask?; what do you ask?; when do you ask? Furthermore, do you know if each exercise you’ve selected within each session is enjoyable for your clients? And is there a simple way to ensure that you get it right every exercise and every session, every time..? Well, JP wants to answer all these questions and more by showing you simple and incredibly effective ways to guarantee training with you is as enjoyable as it possibly can be and have them coming back time and again.

He’ll guide you through what to ask, when and why, so that enjoyment is indeed, guaranteed!

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Understand the importance of enjoyment for client retention • Take away two systems to guarantee you know how to deliver enjoyable sessions to any personality • Learn how to adapt the systems to different goals Speaker: John (JP) Polley

How to play with your client (and accidentally teach them) 4:10 – 5:10PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: The concept of PLAY precedes man kind. Play is the #1 best tool to learn and discover how our body works and how it can better operate. Play comes in many forms and is often misrepresented as being something only children do. When we try to balance on something, we are playing. When we are attempting a 1RM, we are playing. When we are trying out a new movement pattern, we are playing. During this workshop, Dan will teach how Play can be implemented into warm ups, skill development and how physical riddles and learning new skills may even help to prevent the onset of Dementia, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Learn creative warm up drills using simple tools such as tennis balls, sticks and scaffolding poles. Learn how to make your client competitive against themself for their own benefit. Understand how to apply playfulness to serious hard work and have your client wanting more physical riddles! Learn how to “quietly” insert play into adults who are unsure about moving “weirdly”.

Speaker: Dan Hardie

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SUNDAY SESSIONS Inclusivity & intersectionality in the health & fitness industry 4:10 – 5:10PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Have you ever looked at your client-base and thought about who ISN’T there? Do you work with marginalised groups like the LGBTQI+ community, ethnic minorities and the less-abled? How accessible is the health & fitness industry for people in these groups?

LEARNING OUTCOMES: This session is going to be a thought-provoking and challenging interactive discussion about how we can consider alternative lifestyle choices and approach our work with a multicultural and diverse mindset. Come prepared to consider your values, experience and privilege both as an individual AND a fitness professional, to better understand the impact that these can have when serving your tribe. If our collective purpose is to do all that we can to help people in our communities to improve their health and fitness then it is imperative no one is left anyone behind. What can you do in this space to DO and BE better?

GROUP EXERCISE / MIND BODY Not your average Pump class 9:00 – 10:00AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Freestyle instructors have the ability to freely choose their own style and deliver their own choreography, so why are most pump classes taught in a pre-choreographed format? Break the mould, get out of the copycat syndrome and free your style with this pumped up, pimped out practical master class.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • To witness a different way to format pump classes.

• To improve member experiences through more relevant and up to date exercise selection in your pump classes Speaker: Erin Raines

Speaker: Thea Baker

Mums shape up 4:10 – 5:10PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: New mums are naturally keen to get their bodies back in shape but too much too soon can cause short and long term regrets.

Understanding the effects of pregnancy , delivery and the physiological and emotional considerations of early motherhood will help you safely, confidently and effectively assist new mums regain their fitness and strength instructors must understand OR Join Lisa to discuss the physical and psychological issues that effect a new mums and their exercise implications to allow you to custom design safe , effective post natal one on one and group exercise programs with confidence LEARNING OUTCOMES: Students will learn the special requirement of new mums, based on the effects of pregnancy, delivery and early motherhood considerations and the implications on exercise programming for new mums.

Speakers: Lisa Westlake

Morning Meditations 10:20 – 11:20AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: This is an experiential journey into the self. This morning series of guided meditations are designed for those interested in attending the ‘Change through Stillness’ lecture later on in the day.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Experience a series of guided meditation styles firsthand. This is not a time for questions and answers, it’s simply a time to reconnect with the self and set the right mood for the weekend of learning.

You’ll get a debrief of the morning during the ‘Change through Stillness’ lecture.

Speaker: Luke Sniewski

Move To Improve in Menopause 10:20 – 11:20AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: The application of fascial science has a lot to offer your group exercise participants. Especially as they get older. In this session you will find out how tension, movement, and appropriate loading can influence the way that fascial tissue adapts. From freedom of movement through hydration, to improved force transfer through replication and alignment of collagen, to better posture through retraining of proprioception – your menopausal and post-postmenopausal clients have so much to gain from targeted exercise in your classes.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Identify forces and mechanics involved in fascial loading.

• Highlight the effect of targeted activity on the physiology of menopausal clients • Develop an understanding of mechanotransduction and its influence on alignment, tension and proprioception.

• Apply the theory in movement • Experience a group exercise workout that targets the movement patterns and intensities required to gain best effect in menopausal clients.

Speakers: Marietta Mehanni, Mark Davis

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SUNDAY SESSIONS Pilates Shred and Flow

Primal Play

10:20 – 11:20AM

11:40 – 12:40PM

SESSION DESCRIPTION: If you are looking for a new approach to spice up your mind body/pilates classes then Pilates Shred and Flow is it! No equipment needed just a mat and your body. The Shred sequences incorporate a HIIT element to the workout – burn more calories and increase strength in a joint safe way. The Flow sequences encourage mobility and flexibility to the whole body. A dynamic, strong, functional approach to pilates that is still mindful about correct alignment, joint and pelvic floor safety. A total mind body session not to be missed. Add the ideas to your classes to keep your clients guessing and coming back for more. Create the sequences and build on them for endless variations suitable for all. This session will be taught as a class with the option to explore and discuss moves and positions as we go!

SESSION DESCRIPTION: A practical session that explores movement in many forms and gets us out of the 3 sets of 10 mindset when it comes to exercise prescription. This session is fun but challenging and draws on foundational human movements and has a strong play emphasis meaning a complete workout without it feeling like a chore.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Improve your client’s strength, burn fat increase flexibility and mobility, co-ordination, balance ability and posture awareness.

• Learn simple regression and progression techniques for standard body weight exercises that are still challenging and fun.

• Understand the importance of activating the core and glutes to achieve standard exercises – stronger and fully functional • Add spice to your classes and have fun.

Speaker: Kerry Johnson

Teach with Purpose 10:20 – 11:20AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: We all have a reason why we became group fitness instructors, but why do you keep teaching? This session will help you uncover your “why” and give you a bigger purpose to continue teaching successful group fitness classes.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • To provide you with tools that will help uncover your “why?”

• To help you find your purpose as a group fitness instructor.

• Reignite the passion for your career.

Speaker: Maria Teresa Stone

Metric vs Rhythm who wins? You decide!

11:40 – 12:40PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Data geek vs. Rhythm Rider - who wins? In a very split cycle industry between metric riders and true party on the bike, who’s doing it right? Cycle with Emma - and see how you can combine both goal based riding with music and truly have a party with a purpose!

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • History of indoor cycle • Music, our biggest driver!

• The future - Data and Data consoles • How can we use this data but still create a party and experience with our ride Speaker: Emma Masters

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LEARNING OUTCOMES: You will receive some tools and techniques that will increase client adherence, add new dimensions to your exercise prescription, reconnect you with primal patterns, and put the why behind the benefits of play in exercise prescription. This will carry over into one on one sessions as well as group training.

Speaker: Carl Hammington

Creation through variation 1:30 – 2:30PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Muscle conditioning exercise and workouts are the meat and potatoes of any group training format. Creating ways to keep the stock standard basics interesting is important to maintain enthusiasm and effective overload. This session takes exercise everyone knows and adds seasoning and spice to enhance the flavour and exercise experience to ensure that your clients keep coming back for more.

LEARNING OUTCOME: • How to use a single dumbbell to create overload • Demonstrate how to change simple basic exercises into functional and effective movements • Demonstrate that adding rotation, asymmetrical loading and balance can offer a more holistic full body workout.

Speaker: Marietta Mehanni

Change through Stillness 2:50 – 3:50PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Stress reduction, better sleep, and improved focus are just a few of the benefits that meditation practitioners hope to gain from their consistent investment in the practice. But mindfulness, and specifically meditation, can actually be much more than just a few health benefits. Meditation represents a powerful catalyst for behavioural change that can complement the work of trainers and coaches.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: This session will demystify mindfulness, utilising neurobiological scientific literature to understand how meditation impacts the brain, and what it means for people trying to stick to their new health, exercise, and diet goals.

Speaker: Luke Sniewski

SUNDAY SESSIONS Total Body Blitz 2:50 – 3:50PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Learn how to blitz your clients with this energetic, high paced and exciting resistance class that will have them coming back for more! Using hand weights you’ll combine dynamic strength leg drills with high paced resistance exercises, in an unforgettable class that will challenge all participants, no matter what their fitness level. This masterclass is designed to blitz the way you currently think about strength training, and inspire you to be more creative with your class choreography. You’ll take the ideas from these combinations and routines into any class, which will result in your clients returning in droves!

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Two small hand weights are used to create fatigue and help increase the heart rate. Participants will learn new ways of using the hand weights and simple routines which will challenge their strength and fitness. The routines and drills used in this session can be used in any group fitness class type including Sculpt, HIIT, Circuits, HiLo and Step, any GF instructor will get so many ideas from this session.

Speaker: Kirsty Nield

Cue-Muniction - Part 1 and 2 2:50 – 5:10PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: The way ROCKSTAR instructors communicate and connect LEARNING OUTCOMES: Learning - What are our different ways of cueing/ communicating with our class When should we use what types of cues within a block or round of work Finding our ( the instructors) own language Discovering how to go from good to great – who is your inner ROCKSTAR? How do we bring them out with these tools Speakers: Emma Masters

Aerobics Revival 4:10 – 5:10PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Who remembers the ‘good ole days’ – aerobic freestyle killer dance moves, chart topping hit music, heart pumping, sweat dripping, gstring leotards….. ok no need for the gstring leotards and I’m not too sure whether aerobics should cross over to the dancefloor but if you want to come along and sweat it out, dance it out aerobic HIIT style this session is for you! My original passion was Aerobics – I miss it, come revisit it with me with a modern twist! Freestyle choreographed to music aerobics and step aerobic routines – a fun, action packed, high energy revival session. Get your dance on for this aerobic class experience!

NUTRITION The complete fat loss solution 9:00 – 10:00AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: The concept of fat loss has been perpetrated with gimmicks, diets, theories and even supplements, all promising the magic bullet for miraculous fat and weight loss. Our quest leads us to questions such as “Is spot reduction possible?”, “Does nutrition determine up to 80% of fat loss?”, and “Can I zap fat away with this cream?”. Putting all these questions and myths to rest with physiology and empirical evidence, this lecture will cover the science behind effective fat loss and methods for optimally leaning down.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Identifying specific areas should we consider in optimal fat loss plans.

Speaker: Benjamin Siong

Sports nutrition and the female client 12:20 – 11:20AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: The number of women participating in sport and fitness is a growing area yet much of sports nutrition research has until recently been performed mainly on men. The last decade has seen a growing body of evidence that women’s bodies respond differently to training stimulus, but also to their nutrition intake which is further impacted by their monthly hormone fluctuations. This lecture will introduce and explain the basic principles of fueling for exercise as needed for the female body. What are the differences for different age groups and what factors and nutrition protocols can impact performance and training results? This is a new area of understanding that can have a major impact on a client’s recovery, performance outcomes, weight loss and emotional balance. This is not a ‘womens’ only lecture, it will be of great benefit for male trainers to better understand what is going on with half their client population.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Understand female hormone cycles and their impact on training results • Understand and apply nutrition protocols to support female bodies at different stages of their cycle or age bracket • Know the warning signs for REDS and female athlete triad • Apply basic nutrition suggestions regarding macronutrients as they pertain to female athletes Speaker: Kira Sutherland

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Experience high/lo aerobic routines – the original HIIT workout • Tap free easy to follow routines to take away and use • Test out your dance aerobic skills • Have fun and sweat a bit or a lot!

Speaker: Kerry Johnson

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SUNDAY SESSIONS SPECIAL POPULATIONS Mental Health & Wellbeing 9:00 – 10:00 SESSION DESCRIPTION: Identifying mental health, the barriers between mental health and exercise and how to overcome those barriers to improve wellbeing and quality of life.

The 5 Food Flavours 11:40 – 12:40PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Information based in the ancient traditions of Chinese Medicine which emphasises that the food we eat plays a major part in our ongoing health. What are the 5 flavours and how can they help?

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Learn about the flavours and their actions on the 5 elemental organ systems.

• Learn how the body tissues are affected by the food we eat.

• When not to use a flavour and possible imbalances.

Speaker: Mana Fleming

What Is Functional Medicine? Part 1 and 2 1:30 – 3:50PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Look at why the industry is moving towards functional medicine to help people get results. Have you ever had a client on low calories and it doesn’t work? Or a client that doesn’t sleep and they don’t get results? Come and learn and take the scariness off the term “functional medicine” and learn why it is so crucial that it is information that you need to know.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: To understand the role of functional medicine in health and fitness. To know where to turn to to look for further education and upskilling in the field of functional medicine Speaker: Jeff Willoughby

Prepping the female fitness competitor 4:10 – 5:10PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: With the increase in popularity of bikini, fitness and figure competitions, it is seemingly so that many women are striving to achieve the ideal fitness competitor look. Often portrayed in media and marketing as strong, lean and sexy, these women are the epitome of optimal health and fitness. However the reality of that is far from truth. Numerous fat loss and comp prep techniques have shown to disrupt hormonal health, create poor relationship with foods, and negatively impact the mindset of the female competitor. The longevity and passion of the sport is thus often short-lived. This lecture investigates some common pitfalls in the industry and highlights more optimal methods for healthy comp prep for females.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: To understand the different variables in prepping a female fitness competitor for optimal results.

Speakers: Benjamin Siong

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LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Introduction: Discuss my own battle with mental health issues and how exercise has helped me to turn my life around and re-gain control • Discuss the work I’m currently doing in mental health facilities and within community mental health and the benefits it has for the patients • To identify common mental health issues such as depression and anxiety - main symptoms, triggers and barriers to exercise • To discuss the physical and psychological benefits of exercise on Mental health, and how it is a key component in someone’s recovery journey • How to approach mental health and wellbeing with your clients discussing what to ask and how to ask it, in the right way • How to work with clients who identify under the mental health umbrella - how to support them, motivate them and make them feel safe • How to train clients who are depressed or anxious – What type of training will work, what is mostly beneficial and won’t create an adverse effect.

• Conclusion: Working with mental health and Wellbeing – Top tips to help you help them.

Speaker: Shane Way

SUNDAY SESSIONS STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING Control the Ring 9:00 – 10:00AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: There is nothing worse than a stilted boxing round.

The combos don’t flow, your client is confused as to what is happening, you are pausing to think of combos, so you revert to the tried and tested, pyramids. Yawn…..

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Learn how to build a sequence of combos that flow, that work your clients hard, and can be tailored to those of varying abilities.

Speaker: Freya Thomson

Mythbusters - Fitness Edition 9:00 – 10:00AM

Practical Pelvic Floor & Power Plate 1:30 – 2:30PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: This practical session will show exactly how can whole body vibration can help with both the hypertonic and hypotonic pelvic floor and safely within your scope of practice. It will address the role of fascia, breath and good posture as practical ways of getting the pelvic floor to turn on and turn off when needed.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: This session will deliver 3 learning outcomes:

SESSION DESCRIPTION: Science and experience will provide you with the guidance needed to deliver successful personal training sessions and programs. However, if there is a shortcut to the headlines surely that would be helpful? In this session you will be guided through some of the most controversial topics in the fitness industry, which is sure to create some heated discussion on what is (and isn’t) appropriate for your clients. Learn how some myths became legends and why they may potentially be officially given the ‘busted’ label! Join this session and be taken on a journey that attempts to balance what science and experience has shown us, as we all strive to give our clients the most appropriate training programs and exercises.

• Learn how whole body vibration can positively impact on tight or weak muscles • Understand the role of fascia in posture and how it can be manipulated using movement and vibration • Experience and develop understanding on how whole body vibration, breath and movement can make or optimal pelvic floor function

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Lay the platform for the session with why humans have searched for the truth, and explore some of the ways to tell good science from bad science. The heart of the session as we explore some of the most common myths in the fitness industry and we search for the answers and make a decision on whether they are fact or fallacy. While we look to science for a level of certainty that what we are doing is validated, are there areas where science is playing catch up with intuition and experience?

Speaker: Mish Wright

Speaker: Michael Cunico

Is inflammation Sabotaging Your Client Results?

Advanced Principles of Personalised Hypertrophy Programming

2:50 – 3:50PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: With the turmeric explosion and the NSAID market worth over $11 billion dollars in the United States alone, some would argue that chronic inflammation is becoming an epidemic preoccupation. Chronic Inflammation causes more than just achy joints and muscles; it is linked and plays a role in depression, high blood sugars, increased stress response, injury, thyroid issues , weight gain and more. Join Angela for a talk about why more and more clients are getting more and more inflamed, how its impacting results and what we can do about it.

10:20 – 11:20AM SESSION DESCRIPTION: In this session we will delve into the mechanics of muscle hypertrophy, looking into the specific pathways of muscle growth through exercise. Additionally, we will uncover how different people respond differently to common overload principles and how we can personalise our program design to match the unique physiological needs of each client to maximise response and recovery.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Understand difference between Acute Vs Chronic inflammation Signs, markers and lifestyle causes of chronic inflammation • Key Pre- screens for sessions • Key approaches to exercise and mobilisers • Key Nutrition and Lifestyle factors to reduce inflammation

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Understand the physiology and mechanics of muscle hypertrophy • Understand how different body’s develop differently • Know the best overload principles and training techniques that trigger the best response • Understand how to apply the right technique to the right person to maximise response, recovery and muscle building potential.

Speaker: Angela Jenkins

Speaker: Kyle Riley

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SUNDAY SESSIONS Punch like a girl

Running in to Trouble

11:40 – 12:40PM

4:10 – 5:10PM

SESSION DESCRIPTION: Power in boxing comes from technique and timing. Trying to grind out and force harder hits just results in poor form and an increased risk of injury to your clients and yourself.

SESSION DESCRIPTION: There is a global boom in running popularity. But sometimes putting on a pair of shoes and hitting the pavement can cause problems. Running a marathon can involve 30-40 000 foot strikes involving forces of 2-5 x body weight. This can be tough on bodies! This talk will explore the most common injuries and how to help your clients overcome these injuries

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Learn what correct technique is, learn how to hold pads for this happen, and learn some drills to correct the common faults.

Speaker: Freya Thomson

Why Women need strength training 11:40 – 12:40PM

LEARNING OUTCOMES: Understand the most common injuries in running Understand possible causes of common running injuries Learn key exercises to reduce running injuries.

Speaker: Dave Liow

SESSION DESCRIPTION: Most client goals when it comes to body composition or physical health, usually require an aspect of strength training.

The modern human is chronically weaker and incapable physically. Now the Fitness industry has not explicitly told women to stay on cross trainers, just do yoga and avoid maximal strength training - but it sure as hell has been implied! Learn the importance of strength training for women (Physical and mental outcomes), understand the concept of strength training and how to program strength training for your female clients effectively. But most importantly understand that strong does NOT have to be the new sexy in order to justify strength training for females.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: • Benefits of power lifting for Women.

• Strength program design.

• How to integrate strength training into your Business model.

• How the power from lifting transcends physical capabilities, watch your clients self love grow!

Speaker: Jesse Laughton

Movement That Matters - Part 1 and 2 1:30 – 3:50PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: This session will review human performance at the highest level and look to draw parallels with what the best athletes in the world consistently do regardless of their chosen field. Compare this to our current sedentary environment and what lessons can we take from the absolute pinnacle of human performance, and scale for our clients. We will also explore the concept of multi-planar movement and if there is a place for this in training programs and if so, where does it fit within that training plan.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: We will ground this session in a few key principles, some of these principles have garnered popularity in more recent times while others have been with us for centuries. What happens when we forgo ego and focus purely on quality of movement at a level appropriate for our client? Can we still provide them with some of what they want and some of what they need during their time with us? What are some quick and easy ways to see the movement capability of the person in front of us and how can we scale this based on the ability of the client in front of us?

Speaker: Michael Cunico

YOGA Challenge of the Simple - a yoga class for all levels 11:40 – 12:40PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: Learning to welcome and relish being a beginner, regardless of your years of experience, is a true sign of an advanced yoga practitioner as it requires a quieter ego. When we can do the simple things with precision, grace & ease, the complicated things are simply less complicated. Yet simple does not necessarily mean easy. Experience mindbody bridging by waking up to where you zone out in the simplest practices.

Come with a mind to question what the fundamental foundations of your practice really are.

Speaker: Melissa Billington

Social Enter-Prize-ing Yoga —a discussion on how to take yoga off the mat & into the wider world 1:30 – 2:30PM SESSION DESCRIPTION: How can we use technology to extend the reach of yoga’s values and ability to empower and liberate folks? What roles and responsibilities are there in online training? Is the direct transmission we experience in live teachings sacrificed? How can we make these powerful yogic tools more widely available without diluting them? When we recognize, with gratitude, our privilege to feel safe enough, and to have time and money enough, to practice at all then we can look at ways in which we can actively shift these “privileges” into human rights for others to experience empowerment and liberation.

Speaker: Melissa Billington

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