Health & Fitness Continuing Education Workshops and Certifications

Have you been obsessing with losing weight for years? Are you ready to stop waging war on your body and start feeling the confidence you deserve? If that’s the case, this conference is for you. Nutritionists are diet experts who are trained to understand the complexities of weight management and its psychological components. You’ll better understand how to get closer to achieving a healthy weight and how to develop a healthy relationship to food. This conference will explore: The 10 principles of mindful eating; The different types of hunger (physiological, emotional, environmental, rational); Our cultural obsession with being thin and how to better redefine our own health and body goals; The impact of stress on our appetite, weight, and health; A few mindfulness exercises to slowly discover the “Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body” approach, which means working together with your body to achieve a perfect mental/physical health balance.

Learn how to effectively implement kickboxing movements into your fitness routine. Fun, easy, effective tips will be shared on how to bring kickboxing movements into your group fitness classes, individual training with clients, or just to spice up your personal fitness routine.

Fitness leaders know that our services positively impact not only physical but also mental health. Most of us, however, aren’t clear as to how we should communicate the benefits of fitness on stress, anxiety, or mood disorders. Nathalie provides simple ways you can not only confidently guide your clients and classes towards positive mental health within what you already offer, but also mindfully coach them to strengthen their resilience and cope with mental health challenges.

Bringing together participants with a variety of fitness levels has always been challenging, and our clients are emerging from the pandemic with even greater discrepancies in their abilities. In this workshop you will learn to confidently apply elements of variation to cater to all levels of fitness, creating seamless fitness experiences where each one of your clients feels united and successful.

Exercise and being physically active helps people living with cancer in many ways. It can help them feel better mentally and physically both during treatment as well as during remission and beyond.
In this workshop, the exercise program elements that should be considered when designing an exercise program for your client will be presented. This is part two of a workshop that was presented in 2020.

You can improve and maintain a flexible body with regular flexibility training. Stretching exercises are a vital component of flexibility training, along with strengthening exercises and balance work. When combined properly, they achieve lasting results. We’ll dive into what “flexibility training” is and the role stretching plays in achieving full-body flexibility. We’ll discuss the techniques we use in our flexibility training programs. Followed by a class demonstration.

In training, no exercise, and definitely no machine, can produce the same level of activity in the nervous system, stimulate muscles, and work the entire body the way a properly executed squat can. Just like the deadlift, squats are a fundamental move anyone who works out should learn. This practical workshop will touch on possible progressions and will lead to a good understanding of proper squat techniques. Technical movement analysis; How to prevent injury by warming up properly; Learn how to perfect the movement by focusing on progressions; How to detect and correct client errors; Learn the different types of squats and their features (back, front, overhead, etc.)

The deadlift is one of the most popular exercises in training. Most importantly, the hip hinge is a fundamental movement for long-term lower back health. Lower back strength is an important element for health and performance and the deadlift strengthens the lower back better than any other exercise. A poorly executed deadlift, however, is potentially dangerous for back health and lumbopelvic function. As such, mastering the deadlift is important both for prevention and performance.
In this workshop, you will learn how to assess the structural and functional requirements for an optimal deadlift. Among other things, we discuss the influence of proportions, foot stability and joint dissociation. The practical component provides you with strategies to optimize deadlift preparation and execution.

This conference/workshop will enable you to better understand the different practical aspects that a fitness trainer must know to properly advise runners and better plan running sessions. What are the best warm-up exercises? What are the technical aspects of running that a trainer must analyze to prevent injury and improve a runner’s performance? How can you improve your running technique? What are the training methods and content specific to 5K, 10K, 21K, and 42.2K runners? How do you build a training plan (phases) that includes physical preparation, skills development, and competition phases? This conference/workshop will answer all these questions and more!

This six-hour gap course for trainers with existing YMCA Canada Individual Conditioning Certification to upgrade/update their certification to YMCA Canada Personal Trainer has been developed. This course can also be taken to obtain continuing education credits for all the FIT certifications.

This six-hour gap course for trainers with existing YMCA Canada Individual Conditioning Certification to upgrade/update their certification to YMCA Canada Personal Trainer has been developed. This course can also be taken to obtain continuing education credits for all the FIT certifications.

This six-hour gap course for trainers with existing YMCA Canada Individual Conditioning Certification to upgrade/update their certification to YMCA Canada Personal Trainer has been developed. This course can also be taken to obtain continuing education credits for all the FIT certifications.

This six-hour gap course for trainers with existing YMCA Canada Individual Conditioning Certification to upgrade/update their certification to YMCA Canada Personal Trainer has been developed. This course can also be taken to obtain continuing education credits for all the FIT certifications.

This six-hour gap course for trainers with existing YMCA Canada Individual Conditioning Certification to upgrade/update their certification to YMCA Canada Personal Trainer has been developed. This course can also be taken to obtain continuing education credits for all the FIT certifications.

This six-hour gap course for trainers with existing YMCA Canada Individual Conditioning Certification to upgrade/update their certification to YMCA Canada Personal Trainer has been developed. This course can also be taken to obtain continuing education credits for all the FIT certifications.

This six-hour gap course for trainers with existing YMCA Canada Individual Conditioning Certification to upgrade/update their certification to YMCA Canada Personal Trainer has been developed. This course can also be taken to obtain continuing education credits for all the FIT certifications.

This six-hour gap course for trainers with existing YMCA Canada Individual Conditioning Certification to upgrade/update their certification to YMCA Canada Personal Trainer has been developed. This course can also be taken to obtain continuing education credits for all the FIT certifications.

This 42-hour theoretical and practical specialty course will provide you with the tools required to evaluate and train clients according to their individual needs. This course includes postural assessment, muscle and joint testing, and the application of basic functional tests. These skills provide the trainer with a more accurate blueprint for the strength and conditioning needs of his/her clients. Athletic, injured, and de-conditioned clients will benefit greatly from corrective conditioning programs. Pre-Requisites: YMCA FIT or College or University Education in related field. This workshop is given in english.