A Synopsis of QPEC’s Functional Fitness Forum
QPEC’s Functional Fitness Forum on October 26th and 27th was a great success and the first opportunity for Australia’s fitness and allied health professionals to tap into the extensive variety of skills and knowledge of leading-edge presenters Michol Dalcourt & Douglas Brooks from USA, Peter Twist from Canada and Dr Robbie Parker from Sydney. Participants learned the latest science, research, and training methodology from the world’s Industry leaders and how we should program our clients, teams and children to move and feel better.
This year’s participants were able to register for the full 2 days, or a single day. It was a must attend event for Personal Trainers, Coaches, Teachers and anyone training teams or small groups – anyone wanting to stay ahead of their peers!
What did those who attended take away?
- Attendees of the Functional Fitness Forum earned 12 CEC’s, 3 PDP’s or 10 CEC’s (NZ).
- It was an intimate high-energy environment with like-minded individuals from the fitness and allied health professions.
- Learnt from presenters that you would normally have to travel internationally to see.
- Exposed to leading world trends in Functional Fitness.
- Learnt about movement and effective programming.
- Ability to increase client base, revenue streams and knowledge of Functional movement.
- Joined us at our Forum and were inspired!
FYI – Forum Schedule and Detailed Session Descriptions
View a PDF showing the session times and descriptions for QPEC’s Functional Fitness Forum.
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Peter Twist
Combine360
Friday: 1.30pm – 3.00pm – PTF1
Introducing the most comprehensive sports performance methodology around the globe. Combine360: Test–Train–Challenge. To enhance the Athletic Engine, athletes need body awareness, body control and supreme balance. In this session you will experience a snapshot of the Combine360 testing protocol and Combine training performance balance methodology that can be easily implemented into your current workout design. Learn to build lightening, fast mind-muscle communication systems that translate into improved performance in sport and everyday life.
Friday: 3.15pm – 4.45pm – PTF2
Experience exciting challenge-based exercises you can share with your clients to ignite them to new levels. Kids, competitive athletes and adult athletes can engage in this dynamic new workout formula to earn new levels of performance. This workout is an introduction to Combine Challenge with a ‘Train to Improve’ focus – great for developing the foundation of the Athletic Engine. Be inspired!
Saturday: 7:30am – 8:30am – PTS1
Train to Gain! Ramp up your energy with a challenge workout that will enhance your Athletic Engine. A great workout design strategy to inspire your clients to deliver their best effort and blast through any training plateaus. This workout progresses the Combine Challenge philosophy with a ‘Train to Gain’ theme that engages clients with more complex skills and drills. Try it!
Saturday: 9:00am – 10:30am – PTS2
The Combine360 testing protocol is the ultimate tool to evaluate all aspects of the Athletic Engine for athletes of all ages. Experience part of the Combine360 testing protocol for speed, agility and quickness. Then learn how to improve movement precision and reaction skills with the Athletic Movement Combine Training methodology. Leave this session with a full understanding of the value of athletic movement assessment and training along with tools to implement this training style into workouts for all your clients.
Saturday: 10:45am – 12:15pm – PTS3
Create a Business Competitive Edge! The challenge is on – become an industry leader! Competition continues to increase, and the best trainers strive to stay ahead of the curve by developing programs that simultaneously attract new clients while retaining current clients. Engaging in the Combine360 Certification experience delivers unique revenue streams, innovative programming, and access to a training community to constantly fuel your passion for guiding athletes to strive to be their best. Join 2010 IDEA Program Director of the Year Peter Twist to explore the philosophies and methodologies imbedded in the Combine360 Test–Train–Challenge business plan to understand how Combine360 certification can ignite extraordinary success. Leave inspired to be your best.
Saturday: 1:15pm – 2:45pm – PTS4
Sport performance and real life recreation demand a body that can produce force using multiple muscles and joints in unison. Learn how the Combine360 strength assessments provide trainers and athletes with quantifiable goals for performance improvements. Combine360 strength exercises build game ready strength using resistance training exercises that demand complete muscle synergy. Experience this world class lifting strategy to progress client strength to the next level.
Saturday: 3:15pm – 4:30pm – PTS5
Train to perform! The competition escalates with the final battle to measure athletic supremacy. Engage in an inspiring workout that requires complete synergy of the mind and the muscle with challenges that integrate Movement + Strength + Balance ingredients in a ‘Train to Perform’ methodology. Elevate your game!
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Douglas Brooks
BOSU: Balance Movement & Core Conditioning
Friday: 9:30am – 11:00am – DBF1
Elevate your workout with high-intensity training that focuses on speed, agility, explosive power and plyometrics. Using the BOSU® Balance Trainer, the BOSU® Stax risers, and incorporating variations in height and intensity, you will learn brand new ways to super-charge your training and amplify your athleticism. Come prepared to be challenged with some advanced training techniques and break away from mainstream coaching!
Friday: 11:15am – 12:45pm – DBF2
Intense, focused, efficient, challenging, rewarding, and jam packed with action from start to finish. Learn the science of high intensity interval training and its application to both fitness and sport. Take home a variety of short, plug-n-play high intensity interval sequences that are realistic for both high level athletes and mere mortals, and are guaranteed to raise your heart rate, fitness level, calorie expenditure and the FUN factor!
Saturday: 9:00am – 10:30am – DBS1
Balanced strength and power! Your athletic training just got legally juiced! Experience challenging new exercises and drills focused on integrated strength and power. This practical session is designed to crank up energy, motivation and results! Simple and unique—this hard-core training and challenging workout “brings it!”
Saturday: 10:45am – 12:15pm – DBS2
Quick, explosive and reactive movement is essential for developing the athleticism necessary for sport and life. This workshop focuses on lower and upper body plyometric progressions, which can be appropriate for most of your clients or athletes. Focus on deceleration and movement progressions on the floor; then take it to new heights with the BOSU Balance Trainer and Stax risers. Don’t be intimidated by plyometric training! Come and learn the science, drill mechanics, teaching cues and progressions to successfully implement this type of training into fitness and sport programs.
Saturday: 1:15pm – 2:45pm – DBS3
Super charge your core training and amplify athletic balance! Experience challenging new movement sequences and drills focused on balance from head to toe and functional core integration. Discover new ways to challenge your “power center” and link your core training to whole body movement.
Saturday: 3:15pm – 4:30pm – DBS4
Understand the science behind targeting lactate threshold heart rate (LTHR) training zones. LTHR and an athletic training style work equally well with your client, athletes or small group training sessions. Learn how to manipulate Energy Zone training and develop high tempo endurance, strength and power to maximize athletes and client success. There are many questions surrounding lactate threshold training and how it is used to improve performance for all ability levels. Review the science and learn how to determine LTHR, independent of the style of training or equipment you use!
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Michol Dalcourt
ViPR and the Biomechanics of Movement
Friday: 9:30am – 11:00am – MDF1
Exercise tools are often misunderstood and misused (or simply used in a limited way). ViPR is a tool that is best used when fully understood. ViPR is geared towards training the body through 4 scientific anchors. Each of these anchors will be explained in this interactive workshop. These anchors will then become the measure for every exercise we do. Practical demonstrations including applications for Vitality and Performance will be discussed to reinforce these anchors. Learn the ViPR fundamentals including, gravity into ground loading, stretch to short (ie: loading to unloading), multi-dimensional movement, and using the entire body for movement
Friday: 3:15pm – 4:45pm – MDF2
Which structures do elite athletes use most often? This lecture provides the latest research on movement and human function in a captivating and engaging way. By looking at elite athletes, Michol uncovers what truly makes them successful in motion. Michol connects these ideas to the most recent research available, making this research come alive. Individuals who like to know the latest research, but find it boring and hard to apply will be surprised to find this lecture fascinating! Forget dry, technical research updates, this one will captivate
Saturday: 7:30am – 8:30am – MDS1
Muscles have long been thought to be the only relevant system in movement, the only regulators for tension. “Strengthen the muscular system if you want to jump higher, prevent knee injury, or move quicker” – was the common thought. But with new research comes a new understanding and perspective on the body – and things are changing fast! This thought provoking and solution driven session will explore why we need to train the fascial system, and how to do it effectively.
Saturday: 9:00am – 10:30am – MDS2
‘Warding’ is defined as the physiological state of maintaining body wide tension against an external force while producing gross movement patterns. Training ‘Warding Patterns’ is critical for the physiological adaptation and transfer into sport/life. In this workshop, Michol will take you through the physiological rationale and numerous examples (both regressed and progressed) of this highly effective form of training.
Saturday: 10:45am – 12:15pm – MDS3
Only a very small percentage of gym participants could be regarded as needing advanced strength training or sports conditioning. Yet as trainers we continue to program most of our clients with advanced exercises that are not really appropriate to their functional level of activity. Our population is ageing and many are starting to exercise with very little experience or with medical conditions. In this hands-on ViPR session, you will learn a principle based approach to working with de-conditioned clients. Utilizing the ViPR you will learn to facilitate improved functional thresholds and increase the training variability, which in turn gives us higher metabolic expenditure and faster results.
Saturday: 1:15pm – 2:45pm – MDS4
As trainers we need to make money to stay in business and an essential part of this is making smart decisions when it comes to purchasing a new piece of equipment. In this workshop see how ViPR can grow your business by increasing your client base, and retaining current clients. Learn how ViPR is a great return on your initial outlay and can grow your profit margin without having to increase your workings hours.
Saturday: 3.15pm – 4:30pm – MDS5
There seems to be not enough time in the day to get all of the flexibility, strength, stabilization and cardiovascular work necessary to maintain or achieve the body we’re looking for. This 30 minute workout will share with you how to incorporate Whole-Body Training using the ViPR and will also give, you the Trainer or Group X Instructor, a method of how to incorporate functional training into a traditional environment.
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Dr. Robbie Parker
Research and Over view of PT Client Programming
Friday: 11:15am – 12:45pm – RPF1
In 2010, the British Medical Journal debated the issue of whether health policy should focus on Physical activity rather than obesity. This session follows up on this argument and looks at whether we as trainers are contributing to the problem by focusing solely on fitness guides and not considering the nutritional aspect. This session will also look at whether aerobic exercise and resistance training programs actually increases abdominal adiposity and what is the optimal amount of physical activity when programming for kids and adolescents. Examine the latest research and discussions and see if your training is focused in the right area.
Friday: 1:30pm – 3:00pm – RPF2
All the current science and research points to the positive health benefits of exercise programming. This is the case for both healthy children and children with chronic conditions. In this session the latest research is showcased and we discuss the role that you, the Trainer plays’ in getting children more active and healthy by prescribing the right types of exercise programming.
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