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Fitness and Wellness Class
by NASM Podcast Network
Want to learn the best practices and techniques in the fitness and wellness industry? This is the podcast for you. The Fitness and Wellness Masterclass brings together the best minds from the National Academy of Sports Medicine to provide insight and information on topics that impact both individuals and professionals. The best part? Fitness professionals can earn Continued Education Units. Find out how in the show description!
Episodes
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Encore Presentation: Percussive Therapy—More than Recovery, Powered by Therabody®
As the world leader in percussive therapy, Therabody is relentlessly committed to providing the latest research and education in this breakthrough modality. In this episode, you will gain a deeper understanding of the science behind percussive therapy and how to integrate percussive therapy into...
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Encore Presentation: How to Fix the 3 Main Movement Compensations in Linear Speed Development
Linear speed is a necessary characteristic for almost all ground-based athletes. And though we can train the strength, speed and power needs that form the foundations for getting fast, movement compensations frequently occur that will lead to energy leaks that diminish the end result. In this...
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Encore Presentation: Don’t Eat THAT! How Words Shape the Way We Eat
What if we started our fitness classes by telling participants what they shouldn’t be doing… or, all the things they are doing wrong? Do you think they would be motivated? As fitness professionals we’re in the business of trying to make people feel good, so let’s focus on the “good” in nutrition!...
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Encore Presentation: How to Personalize Your Weight Loss Diet
With all the different diets out there, it can be hard to know what works, what doesn’t, and how to put together the best nutrition plan to support your weight loss goals. In this encore presentation, we’ll talk about the science behind weight loss and explore various popular diets through that...
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Encore Presentation: The Art of Professional Networking: Tips, Tales and Techniques
Networking is not just about making connections. It is all about creating, building and establishing long-term, lasting relationships. On this episode, host Fred Hoffman, MEd and gain valuable tips and resources to help you fine-tune your networking skills so you can broaden your reach in the...
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Encore Presentation: Fitness Games for Youth Athletes: Performance and Fun
Kids love to play! So, let's capture their attention by creating fitness games that will motivate them, while providing a fun avenue to improve their fitness and sports performance. As most kids don’t tend to like long, slow distance-type exercise, fitness games that feature short bursts of...
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Encore Presentation: CEx – Next Level Integration
Movement is more than muscles working in isolation. When we see faulty movement in our clients, we need to dig a little deeper to find a solution. So, if you want to get the most from your corrective exercise programming, you must know your slings. In this encore episode with Master Instructor...
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Encore Presentation: Nutrition Strategies to Support Adaptations to Strength and Conditioning
What dietary practices and nutrition variables are necessary for optimal strength training and overall conditioning? Join Laurent, Bannock, PhD for a discussion on nutritional practices that could influence adaptation to training, the importance of recovery, and practical applications for your...
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Encore Presentation: Talk to the Foot, Powered by Vibram®
In this encore presentation, learn why it’s important to train your whole body from head to toe by helping your clients reconnect with their feet. You’ll walk away (no pun intended) knowing how to customize training programs to improve balance, agility, and functionality. This is one episode you...
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Encore Presentation: 10 Guerrilla Marketing Ideas that Generate PT Leads
If you want more personal training clients in a very short period of time and don’t have much money to spend on getting new clients, then this episode will blow you away. In this encore presentation, learn 10 effective strategies to get personal training leads right away from guest host Michael...
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Encore Presentation: The Art of Micro Progressions
Are you spending too much valuable time writing the perfect program, just to throw it out because your client’s needs have changed? If so, you are not alone. In this encore presentation, host Andrew Mills show you how you can save time AND optimize client results without having to write a new...
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Encore Presentation: Balance Training - Scientific Principles and Program Design for the Fitness Professional
Do you know the three physiological systems humans use to maintain static and dynamic balance? Do you know how to progress and regress clients of all levels using unstable devices? In this encore presentation, Dr. Scott Cheatham, DPT, PhD discuss the science of human balance and key strategies to...
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Encore Presentation: Eating Disorders in Fitness - What Fitness Professionals Need to Know
As a fitness professional, you have probably met (or seen) individuals who have endured disordered eating at one time or another. This can be a difficult thing to overcome. We invite you to this “industry focus” podcast, as Abbey Griffith, a survivor and body positive gym owner, breaks down her...
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Encore Presentation: Exercise, Stress, Hormones and Inflammation
Exercise may be a good stress (eustress), but life is filled with harmful stress (distress) that alters hormonal levels, health, and inflammation. How do exercise and our ‘life stress’ impact these effects? In this encore presentation, Fabio Comana takes a deep dive into understanding these...
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Encore Presentation: How Much Protein Do You Really Need?
Protein is a hot topic in the dieting world these days. Protein shakes have been common for decades, but now there are protein chips, pancakes, and even high-protein macaroni and cheese. So why is protein so important, and how much do you really need? The RDA sets protein needs at 0.8 g/kg, yet...
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Encore Presentation: Nutrition for Cognitive Optimization!
In this episode, learn the do's and don'ts for peak brain performance each and every day with Michelle Ricker RDN. She defines the ideal foods to eat and basic supplements that can make a huge difference in brain processing for optimal performance, as well as vital information that addresses risk...
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Encore Presentation: Set Your Client Up for Success: How to Keep Lost Weight Off!
Join Katie Coles, MS, RD for a discussion on how to help clients keep weight off. Most Americans don’t have a problem losing weight. They have a problem keeping it off! Upwards of 95% of people who lose more than 10% of their body weight end up putting it back on (and then some). In this encore...
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Encore Presentation: Dietary Strategies for Cardiovascular Health
Join NASM nutrition expert Dr. Brad Dieter for a discussion on dietary strategies and cardiovascular health. Cardiovascular disease is developed across a lifetime accumulation of risk. Numerous independent and synergistic cardiovascular risk factors can be induced by unhealthy dietary patterns....
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Encore Presentation: How to Keep Lost Weight Off
Most Americans don’t have a problem losing weight. They have a problem keeping it off! Upwards of 95% of people who lose more than 10% of their body weight end up putting it back on (and then some). On this episode, Katie Coles, MS, RD discusses how traditional diets set your body up for weight...
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Encore Presentation: Recovery – More Than Just a Day Off!
Loading the body with stress through exercise is easy to do. And unloading the body from accumulated stress can be just as easy. In this encore presentation, NASM Master Instructor Ken Miller reviews techniques and program design to unload and destress the body from high intensity and the high...
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Encore Presentation: Emotions in Motion: Exercise as an Anxiety Intervention
This workshop reviews the research on what types of exercise can mitigate symptoms of anxiety, so you can better understand this complex relationship and what it means for your clients (and you!). This “Fitness Wellness Class” was so nice, we had to play it twice! Did you hear? The most trusted...
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Liberate Your Posture: Creative Techniques to Improve Everyday Function
This workshop will discuss common daily positions that alter optimal posture. We’ll cover the primary joints, joint actions, and surround musculature, as well as identify common positions that influence posture. Using NASM’s Corrective Exercise Continuum, participants will learn how to apply...
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TRX® Evolution—Breakthrough Workout
There is no better way to kick off your day than with this TRX® high intensity workout. Experience that “next level HIIT” with innovative programming concepts wrapped in an unforgettable training experience. Come to this workout and walk away with ideas and inspiration for your own workouts. Did...
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Smart Strength
Intelligent ideas for strength and conditioning workouts that make sense! In this interactive learning environment participants will review functional training principles and focus on the practical application of program design for group strength classes. Utilizing a step, resistance tubing, and...
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Tools for Fat Loss: Diet Breaks and Diet Re-feeds
When it comes to fat loss, diet breaks and diet re-feeds are the current hot topics in the field of nutrition and exercise. Research over the last few years has demonstrated that implementing these types of intermittent energy restriction strategies can be effective for fat loss. This session…
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Performance Focused Nutrition for Competitive Athletes
What athlete doesn’t want to get stronger, better and faster? Well, you can only get there with the right training program, and yes, nutrition plan! This enlightening session provides an overview of the science of body composition and its relevance to health and performance. In addition, you’ll...
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10 Proven Principles for Success in Business (and Life)
In business and life, ALL problems are leadership problems. If you’re not where you want to be yet, it’s simply because you haven’t yet learned how to lead yourself and others through the obstacles you must overcome in order to achieve your goals. Whether you’re a newly certified personal…
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Upper Extremity Movement Impairments: Movement Screening and Corrective Exercise Strategies
Proper muscle function and joint alignment reduces stress on the body and helps to enhance performance. However, due to repetitive movement patterns, injury, or a sedentary lifestyle, dysfunction may occur in the upper extremities and trunk. When this happens, muscle balance, muscle recruitment…
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The Merging of Mental Performance Training in Dietary Practice
Sport and performance psychology seek to optimize athletic performance through a host of mental skill strategies that build confidence, resiliency, motivation, and reframe one’s perception of given circumstances. Across health professionals, many rationally propose that most individuals know…
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TRX® Beyond the Basics
Redefine what you know about TRX® suspension training in this enlightening workshop. You’ll gain access to the latest and most relevant research, techniques and coaching recommendations. Expand your TRX exercise library with a series of more nuanced, yet highly effective TRX movements and...
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How to Personalize Your Weight Loss Diet
With all the different diets out there, it can be hard to know what works, what doesn’t, and how to put together the best nutrition plan to support your weight loss goals. In this session, we’ll talk about the science behind weight loss and explore various popular diets through that lens, getting...
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Fusion Frenzy: Super Charge Your Classes with Multiple Formats
Group exercise is ever-evolving. Today, more than ever, fusion workouts remain popular! Much of the time, we see instructors combining two or three different formats in one class. Have you ever thought about combining more than five? Well we’ve done it! In this super-charged, interval training...
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10 Steps to Creating the Ultimate TRX® Experience
As professionals it is easy to get excited about the science, coaching and efficiency behind a workout. But let’s face it…for most of our participants, it is the EXPERIENCE that keeps them coming back for more! Learn how to deepen and expand your programming process to include multiple layers of...
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Know Your Competition! Then Make Them Sweat!
Many fitness professionals don’t understand the breadth of the competitive landscape facing them. The reality is that competition does not only include people with the same title as them, but also any solution that can help them efficiently and conveniently get to their goal. This session will...
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Eating Disorders in Fitness: What Fitness Professionals Need to Know
As a fitness professional, you have probably met (or seen) individuals who have endured disordered eating at one time or another. This can be a difficult thing to overcome. We invite you to this “industry focus” podcast, as Abbey Griffith, a survivor and body positive gym owner, breaks down her...
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Talk to the Foot, Powered by Vibram®
In this episode learn why it’s important to train your whole body from head to toe by helping your clients reconnect with their feet. You’ll walk away (no pun intended!) knowing how to customize training programs to improve balance, agility, and functionality. Want to earn CEUs for listening? You...
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The Art of Professional Networking: Tips, Tales and Techniques
Networking is not just about making connections. It is all about creating, building and establishing long-term, lasting relationships. On this episode, host Fred Hoffman, MEd and gain valuable tips and resources to help you fine-tune your networking skills so you can broaden your reach in the...
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Percussive Therapy—More than Recovery, Powered by Therabody®
As the world leader in percussive therapy, Therabody is relentlessly committed to providing the latest research and education in this breakthrough modality. In this episode, you will gain a deeper understanding of the science behind percussive therapy and how to integrate percussive therapy into...
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Don’t Eat THAT! How Words Shape the Way We Eat
What if we started our fitness classes by telling participants what they shouldn’t be doing… or, all the things they are doing wrong? Do you think they would be motivated? As fitness professionals we’re in the business of trying to make people feel good, so let’s focus on the “good” in nutrition!...
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The Art of Micro Progressions
Are you spending too much valuable time writing the perfect program, just to throw it out because your client’s needs have changed? If so, you are not alone. In this episode let host Andrew Mills show you how you can save time AND optimize client results without having to write a new program! In...
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Nutrigenomics for the Fitness Professional, Powered by Quest Nutrition®
Your clients have heard the same old advice for years — get more protein, load up on healthy whole foods, avoid excess carbs. Isn’t it time to give them a more personalized approach that reaches them on a genetic, not generic, level? This week's host Kristin Kirkpatrick is a dietitian and…
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Micronutrients and the Immune System, Powered by dotFIT™
A properly nourished human body is the greatest known pharmacy. No one has been able to duplicate it or we would not need vaccines. In fact, a vaccine is a “product that stimulates a person's immune system to produce immunity to a specific pathogen and related disease, protecting the person from...
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Conventional Program Design Made “Unconventional”
Weeks in advance we program with the best of intentions. But the reality is that optimal loading is a daily conundrum between biology and logistics where individual variance reigns. Clients will tolerate and respond differently to the magnitude and frequency of training load, with too much stress...
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CEx: Next Level Integration
Movement is more than muscles working in isolation. When we see faulty movement in our clients, we need to dig a little deeper to find a solution. So, if you want to get the most from your corrective exercise programming, you must know your slings. In this episode with Master Instructor Andrew...
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Make Money Training Clients Online! Powered by NPE
Many fitness trainers took a serious look at online training during the initial COVID-19 lockdowns. Some made it work and succeeded beyond their expectations. Others have struggled. You may ask yourself, “Is online training right for me? How do I get started? How does it work?” In this session,...
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How to Fix the 3 Main Movement Compensations in Linear Speed Development
𝙒𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝘾𝙀𝙐𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜? 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙗𝙮 𝙟𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙉𝘼𝙎𝙈 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙪𝙣𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙠 𝙪𝙣𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝘾𝙀𝙐𝙨. 𝙂𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙨...
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10 Guerrilla Marketing Ideas that Generate PT Leads
If you want more personal training clients in a very short period of time and don’t have much money to spend on getting new clients, then this episode will blow you away. Learn 10 effective strategies to get personal training leads right away from guest host Michael Gelfgot. 𝙒𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤…
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Diabetes—We Are So Close to Preventing It!
𝙒𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝘾𝙀𝙐𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜? 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙗𝙮 𝙟𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙉𝘼𝙎𝙈 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙪𝙣𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙠 𝙪𝙣𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝘾𝙀𝙐𝙨. 𝙂𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙨...
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Fitness Games for Youth Athletes: Performance and Fun
𝙒𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝘾𝙀𝙐𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜? 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙗𝙮 𝙟𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙉𝘼𝙎𝙈 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙪𝙣𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙠 𝙪𝙣𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝘾𝙀𝙐𝙨. 𝙂𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙨...
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Sleep Science and Swoleness: How to Maximize Sleep for Performance
𝙒𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝘾𝙀𝙐𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜? 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙗𝙮 𝙟𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙉𝘼𝙎𝙈 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙪𝙣𝙡𝙤𝙘𝙠 𝙪𝙣𝙡𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝘾𝙀𝙐𝙨. 𝙂𝙚𝙩 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙨...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Want to learn the best practices and techniques in the fitness and wellness industry? This is the podcast for you. The Fitness and Wellness Masterclass brings together the best minds from the National Academy of Sports Medicine to provide insight and information on topics that impact both individuals and professionals.
The best part? Fitness professionals can earn Continued Education Units. Find out how in the show description!
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