Winter Workshop Series

For Pilates & Fitness Instructors! Learn new skills and enhance your old ones! These 3-hour workshops are designed to show you something new, and help add pzazz to your normal mat routine.

Ball Trio Blast – Friday, December 16th – 5-8 p.m. - Are your clients still going to a gym when you would like to keep them coming to you? Learn how to add balance training, superior core training, heightened resistance training, reactive training and power training to your Pilates mat workouts with this all encompassing workshop! Traditional Pilates Mat exercises focus mainly on core training, and yet all populations, from athletes to the elderly can benefit from the incorporation of the many types of training in their exercise regime. With these three props, students will
learn over 60 exercises to strengthen & challenge their clients, regardless of fitness level or age. The bevy
of balls provides a unique way to present a myriad of training styles, all in the comfort of a Pilates studio.
Exercises will be broken down into both level and training category for maximum programming
effectiveness.  Workshop Cost – $75 for 3 hours of instruction

Foam Roller Challenge – Friday, January 13th – 4-7 p.m. - The foam roller and core challenge roller are fantastic for myofascial release (tight IT Band, anyone?), but that’s certainly not all! Pilates exercises with the foam roller and core challenge roller offer a unique way to target core stabilizers, tap into muscles you might forget to use and introduce variety to your mat class. The foam roller and core challenge roller can also be used to simulate some Reformer and Cadillac exercises.

In this workshop students will learn over 12 myofascial release techniques and 30 Pilates exercises using
these teaching tools to integrate into a beautifully balanced and complete workout. Corps Physique – Mat Pilates Extras. Workshop Cost: $75 for 3 hours of instruction. Bring your own roller, or rollers are available for purchase.

 

SUPilates Instructor Workshop

Learn to teach Pilates on the Stand Up Paddleboard!

Pilates Instructors across the country are taking Pilates to the water in their nearest ocean, lake, or river on Stand Up Paddleboards.  These boards (also called SUPs) are the latest fitness sensation and fastest growing water-sport across the globe. SUPs appear to be large surfboards, and are propelled by standing paddler who uses an extra-long canoe paddle.  Stand Up Paddling originated in Hawaii, which mixes the traditional Polynesian outrigger canoe paddling with surfing. The result of this wonderful combination is a new sport that is easy for anyone to do. Fitness professionals have flocked to Stand Up Paddling not only because it’s fun and the cardiovascular benefits of the workout are superb, but also for the core-based balance challenge that the board provides to their clients.

Since the board is floating on water, the paddler must constantly recruit deep stabilizing muscles of the pelvis and spine just to stand on the board and paddle it. Taking it further, adding core-based exercises to the board will enhance the recruitment of such muscles. Hence, adding Pilates exercises to the board will enhance the challenge and benefits of Pilates.

In this 2-day workshop participants will:

• Learn the basic techniques of Stand Up Paddling
• Learn the foundations of Pilates and basic Pilates Exercises
• Learn how to format and teach a SUPilates class
• Learn the business concepts of teaching fitness classes on Stand Up Paddleboards

Participants of SUPilates workshops will recieve:

• A SUPilates course manual
• A pre-formatted basic SUPilates class structure

Cost: $350

For more information, visit the SUPilates website, contact Karen Mirlenbrink at karen@supilates.com or call 727.510.3493

CEU’s are currently in approval process.

Stand Up Paddleboards will be provided by SUP Paddleboard.

This course is also available outside the Tampa Bay Area. Please contact Karen for details.