Session One:
10:00am-11:00am ET
9:00am-10:00am CT
7:00am-8:00am PT
It’s time to take aging sitting down! Discover how incorporating a chair can increase access to your fitness offerings by catering to clients of all abilities. Perfect for deconditioned clients or those overcoming injuries, you’ll learn how to design seat-based programming that doesn’t lack intensity or fun, guaranteed to get a “seated” ovation from all of your students!
Please have a chair, dumbbells, loop band, and pilates ball available.
Want more? Check out the Online Supported Exercise for Ageless Training (S.E.A.T.) Cert HERE.
Equip yourself with the tools to modify any exercise to suit the unique needs of aging athletes. This session provides a comprehensive guide to understanding and implementing modifications that ensure safety, effectiveness, and enjoyment for your senior clients. Learn how to tailor your fitness programs to enhance the physical capabilities and overall well-being of older adults, making every workout both challenging and rewarding. (Recorded)
Want more? Check out the Online Multi-Dimensional Movement Coach Mentorship HERE.
This session combines basic principles from Hatha, Vinyasa, and Pilates Core stability to emphasize safety, flexibility, mobility, alignment, posture, balance and strength. This yoga flow cultivates mindfulness, tension release, and embraces a harmonious flow of energy within the body. Explore your options and embrace the flow!
Please have a yoga mat available.
Want more? Get an introduction HERE.
Enjoy a tsunami of creativity with these senior-inspired routines. Leave with six (6) 64-count choreography blocks of captivating aqua sequences. Manual dexterity, ankle mobility, balance options, and neuroplasticity games are all integrated to improve your aqua aging programming. Comprehensive choreography handouts enhance your movement mastery. Stay current with purpose!
Are you coaching active agers? How do you optimize their nutrition to support health and well-being? Expand your knowledge of the nutritional needs of our over 50 clients. This session will provide the basics for fitness professionals seeking to guide and educate on caloric needs, protein, fiber, hydration, longevity, disease avoidance, and more! With decreased appetites, increased social commitments, and a battle with inflammation, your clients need your help to navigate these challenges. (Lecture)
Want more? Check out the Online Active Aging Nutrition Cert HERE.
As we age, the core, proprioception, and balance become more important to prevent falls, maintain proper gait and keep us active. With core work often comes floor work, which can be uncomfortable for the aging population. This session is jam-packed with muscular core facts, activity ideas, and core exercises off the floor! (Recorded)
Session Two:
11:15am-12:15pm ET
10:15am-11:15am CT
8:15am-9:15am PT
Be part of the solution for your clients & class participants dealing with the age related diseases osteoporosis & knee-osteoarthritis. Learn more about these diseases and the recommended protocols, exercises, modifications, and progressions. Come away with the tools to determine the dos and don’ts and keep older adults moving. (Lecture)
Develop essential lower body muscle mass and bone density through smart strength strategies. Effective training can help maintain independence late in years through enhanced gait speed, balance, and bone density and help prevent sarcopenia. Learn Smart Strength Strategies for training aging female lower extremity through hands-on practical application.
Please have dumbbells, tubing, and loop bands available.
Want more? Learn more about Online Schwinn Certification HERE.
The seemingly simple task of balancing on one leg or walking across the room is actually a complex, integrated, sensory experience with stimulation coming from the eyes, ears, joints, and foot. Join Dr. Emily to experience sensory-stacked exercises that will improve body perception, balance, and movement in all clients.
The presenter will demonstrate using Sensory Sticks, Kineses Boards.
The age old adage “use it or lose it” definitely applies whenever we refer to balance, agility, and power. According to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control), one adult over the age of 65 is treated in the emergency room for a fall every 18 seconds. Agility training improves flexibility, balance, and control, all of which can reduce the risk of falling for our aging population. This session uses water resistance and support to enhance this training without the fear of falling. Use the natural resistance of water, lever length, surface space, along with aqua noodles and tubing for a refreshing new workout.
Please have aqua dumbbells or aqua gloves available.
Want more? Check out the Online WATERinMOTION® Cert HERE.
The Active aging market is the fastest growing market, with the greatest spending power! We will discuss how to market, attract and sell to this affluent clientele in your marketplace. You don’t just need to learn how to train them, you need to know how to attract them! (Lecture)
Staying functional is a key component of living a full life. Learn techniques and programming for your 50+ clients that will provide a challenging workout that makes them strong, stable, and able to perform daily tasks with ease. (Recorded)
Session Three:
12:30pm-1:30pm ET
11:30am-12:30pm CT
9:30am-10:30am PT
Ageless Core is a systematic safer approach to core training the active aging client utilizing specific techniques to prevent injuries. Crunches are not only ineffective but don’t translate to function. Walk away with many new strategies and techniques to train your clients that lead active lifestyles. Improving balance and strength.
Please have a pilates ball available.
Want more? Check out the upcoming Ageless Training Academy Events HERE.
100% Dance, 100% Fitness and 100% Seated. A perfect balance of dance and fitness with little impact on the joints. Experience a diverse mix of famous ballroom dances set to your favorite music AND the ultimate core workout. No partner needed! You will learn to Jive, Foxtrot, Viennese Waltz, Lindy Hop, Salsa & more…all from the comfort of your chair!
Please have a chair and dumbbells available.
Learn how to seamlessly integrate Pilates exercises for enhanced client results using the pilates ball, yoga block and resistance bands. Science and choreography included . Discover innovative ways to incorporate Pilates principles into existing training routines, amplifying strength, flexibility, and balance. Elevate your teaching skills and unlock new dimensions of fitness for your clients.
Please have a pilates ball, loop band, and yoga block available.
Want more? Check out the FLX Certifications HERE.
Switch up your personal training environment and invite your clients into the water! The viscosity, buoyancy, and hydrostatic pressure of water provide the perfect environment for your active ager to train in. No stress on the joints, no fear of falling, no need for heavy weights, and the water provides endless resistance. Let’s dive deeper into how you can introduce, market, and implement aquatic personal training with your clients.
Please have a loop band and dumbbells available.
Want more? Check out the Online WATERinMOTION® Platinum Cert HERE.
How will we integrate exercise into the 50, 60, 70, 80+ age market? What type of programs will we be offering? What protocols will keep this at-risk population safe? What type of technology will work with this age bracket? Don’t miss this interesting session that will address the future of our active aging participants. Perfect for owners, managers, directors, group fitness instructors, and personal trainers alike! (Lecture)
Dr. Erin Nitschke, MS, EdD
The process of aging affects nutritional needs. Nutrition must remain at the forefront of our attention as we work with an active aging population. This session introduces you to the variety of changes the body undergoes as it ages as well as identifies shifting nutritional needs that occur simultaneously. (Recorded)
Want more? Check out the Online Active Aging Nutrition Cert HERE.
Session Four:
2:00pm – 3:00pm ET
1:00pm – 2:00pm CT
11:00am – 12:00pm PT
Proper function of the glenohumeral joint is crucial to the activities of daily living in middle age and older adults. This presentation will focus on simple exercises that can provide valuable results to help maintain function of the shoulder and translate this function to their activities of daily living. (Recorded)
Please have dumbbells, flat bands available.
Want more? Check out the Online Functional Training Cert HERE.
This session will unlock the strategies and techniques for you to work with postural issues and make functional corrections that lead to better movement, and quality of life. Experience why posture is vital for all activities and for longevity based on science meets function.
Please have a flat band or tubing and a pilates ball available.
Want more? Check out the upcoming Ageless Training Academy Events HERE.
The active aging population grapples with an array of dysfunctions, affecting their capacity to remain steady. Improve balance and coordination and walk out of this session with at least ten movement patterns and a few extra games that are going to positively impact your clients gate stability, “action-reaction’ engagement, physical balance, and mental coordination.
Please have a tennis ball and a chair available.
Play the drums in the water! Combine unique rhythms and moves using the innovative SAF Aqua Drums Vibes® equipment & enjoy a challenging new way to get yourself fit and have fun in the water.
Please have drumsticks or a household item such as wooden kitchen spoons/long chopsticks available.
Check out the Indigo Aquatics Equipment HERE, Discount Code SCW2024.
“Ozempic, Xenical, Victoza! Oh my!” Are you on the pulse of the latest developments in the ever-evolving weight management space? Uncover the effectiveness, safety, and potential pitfalls of weight loss medications and receive fresh insights on diets from our seasoned dietitian. “Fasting, Keto, and Noom! Oh my!” (Lecture)
Whether a personal quest or a way to engage the fastest-growing segment of the population, this incredibly creative bodyweight, light hand weight and foam rolling workout presents effective and manageable training techniques for the 50+ population. Led by an icon in the fitness industry, Sara takes you through this Group Strength Class using unique multi-joint, rhythmic exercises for a total body strength workout. Endurance, flexibility, and balance are the lenses we use when analyzing our programming. It’s not about how long or hard you train; it’s about exercising smart for longevity and vitality. (Recorded)
Session Five:
3:15pm- 4:15pm ET
2:15pm – 3:15pm CT
12:15pm – 1:15pm PT
Discover evidence-based strategies for training active agers. Explore 30 years of research on functional longevity and learn how to maximize your clients’ abilities and health through scientifically-backed methods. (Lecture)
Want more? Check out the Online FAI Certs HERE.
Looking for a low, impact, total body workout inspired by barre for the 55+ demographic? No ballet experience needed! Come join Leslie Roberts & Michele Park as we work strength, mobility, and tons of balance. Working in multiple planes of movement, we will take the body through a series of movements that challenge us both physically and cognitively, while keeping all the FUN!
Please have a ballet barre or chair & dumbbells available.
Want more? Check ou the upcoming Soul Fitness Trainings HERE.
Stop stretching to gain flexibility and discover the keys to effective flexibility training. Learn to pinpoint and address muscle imbalances that hinder flexibility. Gain insights into targeted strengthening exercises to unlock your body’s full range of motion. Learn assessments, target exercises and the science behind flexibility training.
Please have a pilates ball available.
Join the newest Aqua Craze! We all know the many benefits of running, so now is the time to take your workouts to a new depth! This cardio/strength water workout will combine high-intensity and low-intensity exercises with little impact while strengthening muscles and improving joint function. Combine running, traveling, Tabata intervals, strength, and more!
Want more? Check out the Online Aqua Personal Training Cert HERE.
You know how to slow muscle aging, but what are you doing for your clients’ aging mind? Join me for a creative workshop centered around intentional program design and learn to cultivate opportunities that train the whole body, promoting cognitive function, emotional well-being and neuroplasticity, inside both your personal training and group fitness class experience. (Lecture)
While aging is inevitable, how we approach it does not have to be. The time is now to introduce new attitudes and approaches that ensure our last 3 decades of life are greater than our first 5. In this session, Mo shares her functional fitness program and personal approach to aging that has helped thousands of individuals. (Recorded)Session Six:
4:30pm – 5:30pm ET
3:30pm – 4:30pm CT
1:30pm – 2:30pm PT
The aging female body has specific needs and concerns. As muscle mass, mobility, stability and bone density decline, precise training techniques play a critical role in successfully addressing these issues. Review foundational conditioning concepts to transform your approach. Learn to apply these principles through practical application in a hands-on session.
Please have dumbbells and tubing available.
Want more? Learn more about Online Schwinn Certification HERE.
As your clients get older, staying active is crucial to keeping them healthy and strong. However, understanding how posture and balance relates to staying healthy and strong is also crucial for you as their personal trainer. In this session you will learn how active agers can literally reverse time by knowing what to do each day to correct their frame to enhance posture and balance, so that they can stay active longer.
This yoga practice will emphasize joint health, muscle tension release, and a mindful approach to alignment through core stability offering movements that can be incorporated into your daily life. Maintain or improve mobility, stability, and flexibility for functional healthy aging.
Please have a yoga mat and yoga block available.
Ignite the inner athlete in your members using a weighted bar in the pool. This innovative program takes your aqua students through various functional exercises to enhance mobility, strength, endurance, core training and much more!! Leave your students stronger, straighter and feeling better than ever…bar none!
Are the bold claims of health headlines and the skimpy evidence of pseudoscience keeping you and your clients confused? In a world full of conflicting dietary advice, join our dietitian expert to explore current nutrition myths. Empower yourself with evidence-based knowledge for informed choices in an increasingly complex nutritional landscape. (Lecture)
Foam rollers have an illustrious history in the fitness industry for good reason. The research tells us that foam rollers help to loosen tight muscles and activate inhibited ones. It’s also known to be the perfect tool to add a balance, challenge and improve alignment. By blending the advantages of foam rolling with your Pilates’ routine, you can create one amazing workout. Discover this three-step program and see how you can bring new life to your Pilates’ classes or your client’s training sessions. (Recorded)