Programs: Core Training for Group and PT |
PurposeFit™
As seen on tv, these are 20-minute workout experiences that everyone can do, void of equipment, to maximize results in minimal time. We address strength, flexibility, and even cardio work for weight loss. This is an empowering session not only for you but also for your clients and classes as you learn about the "brain-body-breath connection," and the 4-part teaching tool of PurposeFit. (Equipment: none)
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THE NEW RESISTABALL: TOYS!
Come back to the functionality of the Resistaball. Learn how to incorporate the Resistaball into almost any group fitness class you teach, from cardio to strength to flexibility. You will gain oodles of ideas, including how to use the Resistaball with other pieces of equipment like medicine balls, BOSU, Gliding Disks, and foam rollers! (Equipment: 55cm stability balls and a selection from among the following: Gliding disks, medicine balls or other small balls, BOSU, foam rollers, mini Body Bars, Smart Bells) |
RESISTABALL: GROUP BALL-BELL F.I.R.S.T.
If you enjoy the benefits of trendy, group resistance "personal" training, then success with the first group Functional Integrative Resistance Strength Training is guaranteed. Experience the fusion of weight training with stability ball training for the group setting and witness your participants' skills and bodies simultaneously react and functionally strengthen. (Equipment: inflated stability balls and handweights and optional medicine balls) |
RESIST-A-BALL® T'AI CHI
Unblock, direct, and channel the flowing chi (energy) in your body by adding the dynamic nature of the Resist-A-Ball® into the Yang Short Form of T'ai Chi. Examine the principles, benefits, and practice of T'ai Chi with the proprioceptive, functional benefits of stability ball training for a core stability & mind-body kinesthetic journey. |
PARTNER PLAY: ASSIST and RE-SIST-ABALL!
Whether you are a personal trainer or an innovative group fitness instructor, this workshop will give you creative, functional new uses for the Resistaball for partners! Take away both exercises and patterns of movement that enhance posture, strength, and flexibility in which sometimes two people share one Resistaball and in others two people use two Resistaballs. (Equipment: one 55cm per participant and optional tubing at one per 2 participants)
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SHOW SOME SPINE: EXTEND YOURSELF! (Also called "Rectus Beautimus!")
Learn new techniques -- backed by research -- for training each of the following: the rectus abdominus, erector spinae/multifidus group, obliques, and quadratus lumborum as we search for "killer core" and "amazing abs." (Equipment: none necessary but may include Gliding disks, stability balls, medicine balls, foam rollers or any combination thereof)
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"HARD CORE, PEACE CORE"
"If we're created as a unit to work as a unit, then why train separately in isolation?"--Biscontini
Learn in this workshop how to maximize both proprioception and body placement to train the body towards its most functional capacity. Lawrence will show you how to create an experience to address core stability and mobility intensely and traditionally at first (HARD CORE), and then flow into a more mind-body application of core challenge (PEACE CORE). (Equipment: a selection from among the following: Gliding disks, handweights, stability balls, medicine balls, Reebok Core Boards as available). |
"WILL & GRACE"
also called: "TEMPLE: Timing Enhanced Movement, Producing Layered Exercises"
Experience effective functional total body training techniques using WILL-ful and GRACE-ful strength and flexibility … stability and mobility… muscle and mind. Carefully selected exercises use the body as a functional, connected kinetic chain creating an adventure with various equipment. You’ve never trained like this before! (Equipment: W&G can use bodyweight exclusively or incorporate steps, tubing, free weights, body bars, stability balls, or medicine balls in any combination, as available).
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MOBILITY & STABILITY DIM SUM
“Dim Sum” is Chinese for “little morsels of heaven,” usually regarding food. Get some dim sum ideas for group X and personal training applications that enhance the two fundamental concepts of fitness -- mobility and stability -- using no equipment and also small apparatus like VersaSteps?and Myo-Release?balls from Power Systems. You will expaand your exercise toolbox with a plethora of new moves to help people train to be champions of living. (Equipment: Versa Steps and Myo-Release Balls)
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Roll This!: Total Conditioning on the Foam Roller (for Group Ex and PT)
Learn what a difference to your body a foam roller makes! Working with the 3-foot foam roller, multiple award-winning master instructor Lawrence Biscontini, MA, introduces you to its many uses for both home and gym. In the first section, Lawrence shows how to use the foam roller for self-massage, called myofascial release. In the second section, Lawrence shows you great core training exercises for the entire body in various positions. (Equipment: 6”, 3 feet foam rollers)
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GOT BALLS?
Fuse the best of medicine ball and stability ball training as we combine our purpose of using an unstable base of support (the stability ball) and weighted, rounded resistance (the medicine ball). Lawrence will share with you exercises for individuals and groups that you take today and incorporate into your cutting-edge core training classes tomorrow, whether they are traditional sculpting classes or more mind-body like yoga and Pilates-inspired. There is "abs"-solutely nothing square about this workshop! (Equipment: inflated stability balls and medicine balls at ratio of one per participant)
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CARDIO BOUNCE! with the BOSU!
Experience with Lawrence innovative ways to transform classic floor and step moves into a wonderful journey in propulsion, proprioception, and dynamic balance with the BOSU Balance Trainer. All exercises come with progressions of difficulty so that students of all abilities can attend and benefit!
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STRENGTH REACTION! with the BOSU!
Experience with Lawrence innovative ways to use any existing gym equipment you have, bodyweight, and the BOSU Balance Trainer to sculpt the entire body. We address ALL muscle groups in this experience so that every muscle is always turned ON, working either to maintain stability or mobility. All exercises come with progressions of difficulty so that students of all abilities can attend and benefit! (Equipment: BOSU, 1 per participant, and either Gliding disks, medicine balls and/or handweights would be great but not obligatory) |
JUST B.E.: BALANCED EQUILIBRIUM with the BOSU!
Experience with Lawrence innovative ways to fuse yoga, Pilates, T'ai Chi, and Feldenkrais in one flowing workout while barefoot on the BOSU Balance Trainer. All exercises come with progressions of difficulty so that students of all abilities can attend and benefit! (Equipment: BOSU and yoga mats)
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