KEYNOTE ADDRESSES: LET LAWRENCE KICK OFF YOUR EVENT WITH THESE KEYNOTES OF 10-60 MINUTES.
"THE LB METHOD": FASCINATING PARADOXES OF FITNESS
Lawrence will share with you 6 easy ways to improve the quality of your life. Shrink down what all the fitness experts say into 6 words. We will explore amazingly true-- yet paradoxical-- facets of fitness that nevertheless oftentimes prove uncanny. This candid look at the industry will put together the state of affairs of fitness in the world in a way that is, in a word, fascinating! (Equipment: none required. Lawrence can speak indoors or outdoors. Note that an optional PowerPoint slide presentation is dependent upon being indoors for technical reasons).
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"THE GREENING TREND" (and also help promote the very environmentally conscious ways that set yourselves apart from the others in the greening trends in the cruising industry)
What does all of this talk about ‘greening’ trends mean? What is your carbon footprint? How does this affect you today and tomorrow? Join Lawrence to look at both the present and the future to outline steps you can take in your home and work environment towards being part of the greening solution on the levels of private, work, and public life. As a citizen of Planet Earth, it’s our responsibility. (Equipment: dataport projector) |
"CHOCOLATE AND TEA: The Booming Elixirs"
The worldwide interest in chocolate and tea is booming! Join Lawrence who has grown his own tea and chocolate as we explore the geographical sources of outstanding tea and chocolate, the interesting process of making them from plant to mouth, and even unconventional ways to experience both of these together through fusion. With all of the talk about chocolate and tea, it’s easy to get confused about their health properties, so we conclude our talk from a nutritionist’s perspective on their health properties. |
"CONSCIOUS LIVING: From Nutrition to Lifestyle Coaching"
Learn how to maximize your inner potential through food, movement, and thought processes in 3 easy steps. Do you need a Life Coach? We will explore together what takes place in the first session with a Life Coach so you can maximize your inner potential with your outer goals. You will feel differently about your life after this session, with a renewed sense of energy, vitality, and hope. |
"THE ABC’s OF FITNESS"
Based on Lawrence’s best-selling 2008 book of the same name, this debut lecture shows how to inspire the world to fitness based on targeting the non-exercising consumer in simple language. Learn ways to implement innovative programs to attract those who currently don’t belong to healthclubs and, more importantly, how to take the sometimes complicated world of fitness terminology & research and put it into terms that the consumer can understand. In the book, “a” stands for “abdominals, “b” for “breathing, “c” for “cardiovascular,” and so forth. (Equipment: dataport projector) |
"PARADOXES OF ENRICHMENT: How to Make Spa and Wellness More Integral in your Life"
Lawrence will share with you 6 easy ways to improve the quality of your life. Shrink down what all the fitness experts say into 6 words. We will explore amazingly true -- yet paradoxical-- facets of fitness that nevertheless oftentimes prove uncanny. This candid look at the industry will put together the state of affairs of fitness in the world in a way that is, in a word, fascinating! Most importantly, you will learn how to incorporate aspects of the spa learned onboard into your life on a daily basis once you return home to keep the journey going. |
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Programs: Precons
AQUATIC HARD CORE AND PEACE CORE TRAINING
Morning Hard Core: Spend the morning with intensive aquatic training joining Lawrence to learn new ways to train both stability and mobility of our clients in aggressive cardio and strength options. Learn new, research-based techniques for training movements, not muscles, emphasizing form over physique. Whether you are training a novice or an elite athlete, you will learn how to make every movement a multi-level movement, with progressions and regressions of difficulty. This is our HARD CORE section of the pre con in the morning.
Afternoon Peace Core: In the afternoon, we flow into a more mind-body application of core challenge, emphasizing a fusion of mind-body disciplines like yoga, pilates, t'ai chi, and other disciplines, both with and without equipment. Temperature permitting, we will even learn the beginnings of WAT-SU massage, making for a perfect ending to our day and start of the rest of the convention. This is our PEACE CORE section of the precon in the afternoon.
Take the Aquatic Hard Core or Peace Core Trainings separately or save money and take them both! "Hard Core, Peace Core" is not your aquatic experience of the 1980's. We've come a long way in learning how to maximize benefits in minimal time, so learn the fusion of research-based practical!
Total of 6 CECs when taken together!
"If you want what you've never had, you have to sometimes do what you've never done"
--Lawrence
Fees:
Hard Core:
Peace Core:
Take them both for the special full day price of: |
FROM GOOD TO GREAT: CREAM RISES
For Group Fitness Instructors and Personal Trainers
Learn how to move beyond the "safe and effective" parameters of group fitness and personal training instruction to what makes the cream rise to the top. With his Master's Degree in education, Lawrence will give you practical skills and actual practice as you transition from good to great, looking at what "teaching" and "education" really mean. Lawrence will be giving away many teaching and presenting secrets, sharing lessons from the past thirty years in fitness training and travel. Learn presentation skills, three-dimensional cueing, musicality, and exercise progression/regression design for both instructors and trainers. Whether you teach dance, cycle, yoga, pilates, body sculpt, or train clients, you can learn something new, hone your skills and elevate your teaching abilities. |
GLIDING INTO EVOLVED ENERGIES
EVOLUTION MIND-BODY: WHERE EAST MEETS BEST
The following is best offered as a PRECONVENTION WORKSHOP with a MINIMUM of FIVE hours: Spend a day with one of the world's leading pioneers of mind-body hybrid programming as we fuse the best of the next generation of mind-body fitness applications: yoga, Pilates, T'ai Chi, and Feldenkrais with popular gym equipment. Suitable for both group exercise and personal trainers, this "minds-on" workshop will give you:
- new exercises with equipment (foam roller, Gliding disk) based on the principles of T'ai Chi, Yoga, Pilates, and Feldenkrais for equipment
- practical class formats and choreography progressions with names and exercises
- evolved exercises from each discipline that stand alone strong, including exercise progressions and regressions
- ideas on creating and implementing mind-body fusion programs with classes and clients
Equipment: inflated 55cm stability balls if possible, Gliding disks, foam rollers (3 feet long, 6"diameter), powerpoint projector, screen, yoga mats |
AQUATIC PERSONAL TRAINING PRINCIPLES
A huge trend in the personal training market today is aquatic personal training. Truly, aquatic personal trainers rarely can satisfy all the demands of potential clients and their waiting list is often full. Spend a day with Lawrence Biscontini, MA, aquatic personal trainer of the Caribbean's Golden Door Spas, (or another faculty member) learning about the components of an aquatic personal training session. We will review the fundamental principles of aquatic fitness, attend group strength and cardiovascular aquatic sessions, and learn individualized personal training techniques adapted especially for the aquatic personal trainer. You will take away a career path to help add personal training in the aquatic environment to your job description, including both deep and shallow water training, no equipment training, and movement patterns and exercises using the most popular aquatic equipment available today. (Equipment: lcd projector, webbed gloves, aquatic noodles, water buoys, and elastic tubing) |
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