Presenters and Topics- Meeting of the Minds Summit 2021
Unilateral Training Updated
Mike Boyle has been one of the foremost proponents of unilateral strength training for both athletes and fitness clients. Mike is also a big believer in the idea that we must continue to evolve and refine your programs. In this talk you will learn the latest science in unilateral training and see how MBSC continues to refine and develop their lower body programming.
Secrets to Reducing Injuries
Over 1.7 billion people worldwide suffer from musculoskeletal conditions and 568 million suffer from low back pain. Musculoskeletal conditions now affect 1 in 2 American adults. When we talk about musculoskeletal conditions, that includes back pain, knee pain, & ankle pain. The little aches and pains throughout the course of life begin to cause individuals to skipping or miss activities they enjoy. The facts suggest pain and/or injury have a negative impact on the daily living of those we serve. While research and data continue to focus on this dilemma, musculoskeletal issues remain a leading health problem around the world. During this session Lee will discuss how to break this cycle and identify the best strategies to reduce injury and pain. His advice will give you the knowledge and tools to quickly and effectively identify modifiable movement-based risk factors shown to be contributors to musculoskeletal injury.
The Art of Coaching: Youth through Professional Athletes and Business Executives
It’s often said in the field of coaching that to be wildly successful you must focus on getting really good at working with a particular population and put all your resources in being the best at serving that population. But what if you enjoy working with a wide range of populations? Is it possible to develop a skill set to help varied populations? Absolutely! Duane will share winning strategies from his 30 years of coaching which has helped deliver results to clients ranging from athletes at all levels up to professional organizations and Business executives. You will walk away with actionable and time-tested approaches to help you adapt and adjust to individuals from all walks of life.
The Evolution of Personal Training and What’s Next
Join Alwyn & Rachel Cosgrove, the fitness industry’s power couple, to learn the shifts you need to make to thrive in the fitness industry in order to have a sustainable career changing lives. The game changing ideas they’ll share will set you up for inevitable success in an industry with one of the highest rates of burn out and turn over. They’ll cover everything from program design to how to run your business even as a solopreneur.
Reinventing Metabolic Resistance Training (MRT) Circuits
Metabolic Resistance Training (MRT) is a popular method of training to improve fitness and conditioning. While we are well versed in traditional High Intensity Interval (HIIT) Circuits and the how to morph and combine these methods, we have a lot to explore when it comes to manipulating this style of training to allow for natural periodization in programmed workouts that ebbs and flows in intensity, duration, rest periods etc. We will explore some very effective and efficient protocols utilizing a variety of training tools, work and rest bouts, and intensities with the goal of creating well-rounded training programs that focus on fitness, work capacity, power, strength, and endurance for clients of all ages and training experience.
Life—Maximizing Your Potential to Grow in Business & Live Your Best Life!
The world is hurting. Our industry is on tepid grounds. People are more lost, burnt-out, depressed, and broken than ever before. Guess what that means? It means that there has NEVER been a better time to change lives, impact lives, infiltrate positivity, optimism, and energy than right NOW. In his most important talk to the fitness industry in 25-years, Todd will share why & how we must maximize passion and purpose to truly create maximum IMPACT. He will show you how to capitalize on the amazing opportunities in our industry right now, even if that means change, and help you become the best version of you. This Lecture will challenge, motivate and inspire you to live your best life…starting Today!
Thoracic Spine 2.0
In 2010, Sue presented on the Thoracic Spine for the first time. Now, 11 years later, she is expanding on those concepts and bringing you the most up to date information on everything you need to know about the thoracic spine and breath work. How does the thoracic spine affect the neck, shoulder, and low back? How does breath work impact the autonomic nervous system? How do these things relate to each other and why are they important for all of your clients, despite sport, gender or age? Come to this session to find out the latest information on this complex area!
The Testosterone Epidemic: Navigating the Inevitable in Men’s Health
Testosterone levels in Men have been declining rapidly worldwide for decades. The average level of a man has decreased about 1% each year since the 80's, with sperm production decreasing about 52%. This is not just middle-aged men anymore, teenagers and men in their 20's are seeing extremely low testosterone levels. In this talk Ali will go over the current state of Men's health & the scary direction it is heading. She will cover Nutrition, training & Supplementations role in hormone optimization. She will also discuss the Myths & misconceptions about optimizing testosterone naturally & with TRT (Testosterone Replacement Therapy).
Sleep: The Common Denominator of Performance, Recovery, and Health
Sleep continues to be a “hot topic,” and a powerful adjunct to training, but is it really as powerful as we think? Are naps bad? Does alcohol help you sleep? Is it okay to sleep in? What about sleep apps and wearables? This lecture will provide details about sleep, it’s impact on health and performance, sleep mythology, and answer many more questions regarding this essential element to physical, cognitive, social, and emotional wellbeing.
45 Years of Life Lessons, Business, Nasty Wine and Cheap Hotels Crammed in 75 Minutes
Oh, the miles travelled, and the lessons learned along this forty-five-year journey in fitness. Three and a half million miles in the air. Over fifteen years of his life spent in hotels. Over one thousand workshops, with over one hundred and fifty thousand students. Several thousand consulting clients. Endless late nights over wine discussing the big questions in life. What does it all mean? What are the big lessons you can learn from a life on the road?
Thomas Plummer has spent his entire career in the gym business, teaching the business of fitness in workshops all around the world, as well as being a consultant and personal coach to several generations of owners, gurus, major franchises, equipment companies and the lone coach simply looking for a direction forward in life. In this workshop, Plummer will share the hard-earned lessons gained from his years on the road, considered by many to be the single most influential person in the fitness business for the last four decades.
How to Coach for Culture
Have you been “grinding” in a gym the last two years and wondering why you aren’t as successful as some other fitness pros? That’s because today your biggest competitive advantage isn’t providing a cool workout or your fitness knowledge. It’s your culture! After helping hundreds of gyms around the world build contagious cultures, Martin Rooney shares his secrets on how to develop an environment that not only reignites your business, but rekindles your fire for fitness too.
Revamping Your Business to Increase Profits: Sales are Vanity, Profit is Sanity
In this lecture Don will present his top 10 strategies to increase profits for your business. He will show you how to reduce overhead, evaluate and optimize price points and remove stale processes. Don will also discuss how to form key relationships and structure business deals. His step by step approach is easy to understand and will benefit anyone in the fitness industry.
Choosing A Training Approach that Stands Out in a Crowd
There are many viable and legitimate training programs all across the training and rehab professions. They all have some type of scientific merit and appear to yield success when managed by very competent coaches and therapists. But what makes these experts choose the one he or she is using? What makes one of these approaches better than another? How are they different? This talk will recognize the utility of many of the successful programs, explain the scientific merit, and give format to practitioners to help choose what is best for their skill set, setting, and goals.
The Language of Coaching – Becoming a Communication Athlete
From the start of the session to the end, we are communicating. We’re communicating with what we say, what we don’t say, with our words, and with our gestures. At no time is a coach not communicating. This being so, why do we spend so little time talking about talking? Why don’t we have systems for enhancing our communication similar to those that help us design programs. The truth is, we do have systems, we do have strategies that anyone can use to drastically upgrade the quality and impact of their communication. In this presentation, we will outline these communication systems and strategies, putting you on a path to wielding words with the same precision as a surgeon with a scalpel.