Look at all the ways to make positive changes in your facility: 85 seminars in 9 tracks!
Wednesday, May 27
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM All-Day Session (with 1-hour lunch break)A01 Training from the Ground Up
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
B01 Anatomy of a Profitable Fitness Budget
B02 Hiring Right: 32 ToolsB03 Things They Never Tell You About the Secrets of Marketing & Selling Yourself
B04 There's a Hole in My Bucket! Plugging the Retention LeakB05 What the Personal Training Certifications Will Never Teach Your Trainers
B06 Aquatic Fitness for Older Adults
B07 Sports Nutrition - Promises and Pitfalls of Supplements
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
C01 How to Finance Your Company Expansion or Start Up Club
C02 Your Business is in Their Hands - Managing the "Net" Generation
C03 Tapping into the Corporate Sales & Marketing Opportunity
C04 Fun, Fitness and Financial Success Through Retention Programs
C05 "I Want More Muscles" - Training Your Clients for Shape and Size
C07 Nutrition, Exercise and Weight Loss: Perspectives on Decreasing Fat Mass and Improving Muscle Development
2:00 PM - 5:30 PM 3-Hour Session (with 30-minute break)
C06/D06 Strong Women; Strong Members
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
D01 How to Renovate Your Club Successfully
D02 Stop Revolving. Evolve! Become a More Effective Manager
D03 Generating Memberships with Word of Mouth Marketing
D04 Improve Your Member Experience Delivery in 10 Innovative Steps
D05 From Good to Excellent - Training Strategies to Improve Your Practice
D07 Cutting-Edge Nutrition for Your Clients
Thursday, May 28
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM All-Day Session (with 1-hour lunch break)
A02 Customer Service and Communications Skills: Creating a Culture of EXCELLENCE in Your Club
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
E01 The Fitness Business Has Changed. Can You Stay on Top?
E02 How to Avoid the 5 Deadly Sins of a Club Start-Up
E03 150 Ways to Generate Leads
E04 This is How We Roll – Medicine and Stability Ball Training
E06 Programs to Increase Your Non-Dues Revenues
E07 Employer-Driven Wellness - Current & Future Trends
E08 Roundtable: Group Fitness Programming for the Future
8:30 AM - 11:30 AM 3-Hour Session
E05/F05 Turning Club Members into Personal Training Clients
10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
F01 Paving a Career Path: Tying Staff Compensation and Incentives to Performance
F02 Legal Issues for Individual Clubs, Personal Trainers and Other Small Businesses
F03 10 Biggest Marketing Mistakes Club Operators Make
F04 Healthy Back: From Post Rehab to Sports
F06 How 'Fit' is Your Group Fit? Make It a FORCE
F07 Jump Training for Prevention of ACL Injuries
F08 Roundtable: Strengthening Your Personal Training Business in a Weak Economy
G01 Club Success Through Powerful Financial Spreadsheets and Data Analysis
G02 Setting Up an Effective and Revenue-Generating Functional Training Department
G03 Mastering the Marketing Mix-Proven Strategies to Pump Up Your Profits!
G04 Zero Resource Exercise Training
G05 Time-Efficient Strength Training for Advanced ParticipantsG06 Generate Revenue from Semi-Private Personal Training and Small Group Training
G07 Successful Wellness Programming
G08 Roundtable: Managing Sales and Marketing in a Multipurpose Facility
Friday, May 29
A03 Functional Training and Sports Conditioning
H01 Critical Ways to Cut Costs During These Difficult Economic Times
H02 Networking - The Key to Your Net Worth
H03 Social Media Marketing Strategies: Making Sense of Web 2.0
H05 High-Intensity Training
H06 Youth Fitness – The New Horizon for Personal Trainers
H07 Fitness to Wellness: How Your Facility Can Join the Revolution!
H08 Roundtable: How to Optimize Your Fitness Career
H04 / J04 Sales and Retention: The Key Dynamics to a Successful Club
J01 Competing with a Low-Cost Competitor
J02 Be Your Own CEO While Working for Others
J03 Marketing on a Budget
J05 Strength Training for Real Weight Change
J06 Fun and Fitness for Baby Boomers and Beyond
J07 How to Establish a Powerful Medical Referral Program
J08 Kids' Fitness Center Roundtable
K01 Winning the Weight Loss Customer
K02 Become a Thought Leader in the Fitness Industry: How to Get Yourself Published
K03 Membership Sales - The 2009 Model
K04 Member Retention - The Financial Equation
K05 Posture & Body Alignment: Analyzing, Assessing and Developing Corrective Exercises
K06 Building Blocks: Building a Profitable Post-Rehab ProgramK07 Alternative Therapy: The Road to Wellness
K08 Roundtable: Corporate Fitness and Wellness Programs
Saturday, May 309:00 AM - 10:30 AM
L01 THE Retention Strategy for Future Success
L03 Maximizing Membership Sales Opportunities within Your Club!
L04 Dynamic Flexibility for Function
L05 How to Make Your Personal Training Program Your “Million Dollar Baby’!
L06 Creating a Prenatal & Postpartum Training Niche Market
L07 Great Weight Challenge - The Team Approach to Weight Loss
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM 3-Hour Session (with 30-minute break)
L02 / M02 7 Habits of Highly Effective Health Club Managers
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
M01 Case Study: Discovering Customer Service Excellence from a Pizzeria
M03 Sales with Integrity: Turning Prospects into Members and Members into Clients
M04 Become an Expert in Teaching Resistance Training Exercises
M05 Core Training with Small BallsM06 The 4 Billion Dollar Youth Sports Performance Market - Take Advantage of an Exploding Youth Market Inside Your Existing Health Club
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