Please contact Robert by
email:
shermfit@msn.com
or by telephone
301.656.0885
if you are interested in having Robert teach one or more of these workshops
at your facility.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT LECTURES
**EVOLVING YOUR
TEACHING METHODS, BUSINESS OPTIONS AND HOW TO MARKET YOUR FUTURE
The business of health
and fitness is much more difficult than it looks. Making the right career
choices and whether or not to go into business for yourself or work for
someone else is tough. This lecture will help bring insight and new ideas to
the side of fitness that is challenging for creative thinkers. You will
learn methods of differentiation to set yourself apart and how to look for
new markets so your skills can be best utilized. Success is different for
each one of us, and learning to create “YOU” as a brand may be your next
step.
**SALES TACTICS: GET
AUTHENTIC AND FOLLOW YOUR PASSION IN THE FITNESS INDUSTRY
“A jack of all trades,
but a master of none”, is an age-old quote that couldn’t have more relevance
in today’s fitness world. Are you one of the many trainers and group
exercise instructors who try every possible program and then wonder why it
is hard to make a consistent business from your knowledge? You have
accumulated everyone’s philosophy on training and teaching but forgot the
most important one, your own! That is what sells! In this workshop learn how
to determine which path in fitness is right for you, how to pinpoint a
strategy to define yourself and your message and finally, make the sale.
Finding your calling is not easy, but this workshop will help simplify and
provide a clear start.
YOGA (mind/body) WORKSHOPS AND MASTERCLASSES
**THE NEW YOGA:
MOVEMENT SCIENCE + SPIRTUALITY = AWARENESS
This workshop addresses
the important need and understanding the movement science behind our yoga
practice without losing the deep internal focus and message. Understanding
the physiological and anatomic roots of movement can enhance the teaching of
yoga postures. Your teaching can go from a generic flow, to a directed
intensive class. This workshop will teach assessment and being able to
recognize imbalances. You will then learn corrective patterns, which will
lead to understanding and awareness to promote change.
**SENSATIONAL
STRETCHING AND FLAWLESS FLEX IBILITY (WORKSHOP)
Learn the reactive, PNF
quality of partner yoga and flexibility. This training is beneficial for
increasing range of motion, but also allows for gains in balance and
muscular control. The connection to touch is deeply rooted in each one of us
and opening ourselves up to this can unlock very positive emotions and begin
to break down fears. This workshop can shed light on a compassionate and
giving future for yourself and those around you.
**AGING STRONG (SENIOR
TRAINING LECTURE)
Aging Strong is about
understanding where you are today mentally and physically so you can learn
to make more balanced choices for exercise, fitness and health. I will teach
you to use my internal emotional compass with its four directional traits
and habits describing how we interact and make decisions. Also, I will
demonstrate movement assessment techniques to find a clear path to assess
how we think and move affects our entire wellbeing. This will give you a
road map to follow and can lead to a more centered life with less overuse,
wasted energy and discomfort. This lecture will describe how aging and
exercise is not a losing battle and that there is a perfect balance to how
we need to train and move at every stage of our lives that is also connected
to the global world around us.
THE GIFT OF YOGA FOR
PERSONAL TRAINERS: EFFORTLESS HIP, SHOULDER AND TRUNK STABILITY
Yoga is not just for
group classes only, to learn it’s benefits are simply a gift for the
personal trainer looking to find more meaning and new ways to approach their
clients instabilities. Explore new mental and physical techniques for range
of motion, flexibility and strength training progressions to work the body
from the inside out by focusing on exercises that demand core strength and
stability. Control muscles that stabilize the pelvis and spine to not only
increase performance but also prevent injury and relieve pain. The class is
taught in the tradition of yoga.
IN SEARCH OF YOGA: HOW
IT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU LOOK AT MOVEMENT
Change is good. As a
matter of fact, change is necessary! The importance of any training or
belief system is that is changes with the times or gets left behind. We keep
what works and create something new and more efficient and effective than
before. What is effective for a trainer is to use Yoga has the opportunity
to realize the assessment and corrective exercise progressions. It relates
to our clients needs while maintaining the beauty of tradition in a movement
and respiration system. Learn what Yoga is for you.
POWER VINYASA FOR
FUCTIONAL FITNESS YOGA.
Learn the benefits and
philosophy of ancient yoga traditions set in modern day fitness
environments. Some students will be inspired to dig deeper after learning
the practice and becoming more in touch with the connections on how to live
a more integrated, compassionate lifestyle, or they will simply find
physical benefit in the strength and flexibility gains of asana practice.
The practice integrates a creative use of the primary series with the
benefit of learning and listening to what their bodies and minds need most.
This assessment becomes the asset the instructor needs to reach diverse
populations, all receiving the message yoga gives without judgment or
labels, only the truth.
HIP OPENERS AND ARM
BALANCES: UNLOCK YOUR BODY'S POTENTIAL.
Overuse, lack of mobility
in the hips and weak core strength tend to limit our participants or
clients' potential for breaking through plateaus in training. Explore new
flexibility and strength training progressions to work the body from the
inside out by focusing on exercises that demand core strength and stability.
Control muscles that stabilize the pelvis and spine to not only increase
performance but also prevent injury and relieve pain. The class is taught in
the tradition of yoga.
PERSONAL TRAINING WORKSHOPS AND MASTERCLASSES
MANAGING THE MAT:
CUEING AND MOVEMENT FOR YOGA/TRAINER PRECISION- (WORKSHOP)
Learn a “hands on and
off” approach to making a difference in your client’s use of yoga for
health, strength and flexibility benefits. The progress and success of your
clients can literally rest in your “hands”. Learn the methods of hands on
and verbal assistance to produce the desired motor learning pathway to
quality driven and safe yoga progressions. This focus will take your
training technique and communication skills to a new level where increased
range of motion and body awareness will occur after the first session.
**CAN YOU FEEL WHAT I
SEE?
TRAINER’S
ABILITY TO ASSESS, COMMUNICATE, AND CORRECT MOVEMENT PATTERNS WITH NEW
CLIENTS.
Communication between a
trainer and a client is essential to success in being able to reach the
goals in any training setting. Are you hitting the target? Without assessing
imbalance and correcting movement patterns a trainer could be missing the
mark and spending time training poor movement quality, in essence, wasting
the client’s time, and money. Frustrated clients are bad for business. This
workshop teaches you the training system necessary to make the right
exercise selections every time and how to open the lines of communication to
give the corrective feedback necessary to stimulate change.
ABSOLUTELY ABDOMINALS
Find out the truth about
abdominal training and the best way to begin authentic core training.
Extensive research will be presented to find out which abdominal exercise
are the best and how to teach them. You will learn how to focus your
exercises to the appropriate population and understand the paradigm shift
for each.
HARD AND SOFT:
MEDICINE BALL AND ELASTIC TUBING TRAINING FOR THE UPPER BODY
The trainer will gain the
ability to create progressions and purposeful training options through the
use of elastic tubing and medicine ball for the upper body. You will learn
the unique quality of muscle activation and corrective exercise using
creative tools to enhance a trainer’s skills and endless numbers of
exercises. Reaching the clients goals and staying creative are the keys to
being successful.
HARD AND SOFT:
MEDICINE BALL AND ELASTIC TUBING TRAINING FOR THE LOWER BODY
The trainer will gain the
ability to create progressions and purposeful training options through the
use of elastic tubing and medicine ball for the lower body. You will learn
the unique quality of muscle activation and corrective exercise using
creative tools to enhance a trainer’s skills and endless numbers of
exercises. Reaching the clients goals and staying creative are the keys to
being successful.
REEBOK RNT:
THE FIVE POINT MOVEMENT ASSESSMENT SCREEN.
This is the first program developed for personal trainers to assess one's
functional movement. The program is comprised of a number of assessments
that enable the trainer to identify musculo-skeletal imbalances that are
caused by repetitive stress, sports participation, and the rigors of daily
life. Once the imbalances are rectified RNT offers moderate and high-level
programming based on sports conditioning coupled with motor learning
techniques. The Trainer can assess his client and recommend exercises to
work on the imbalances found through the screen.
ONE TO ONE FLEXIBILITY
Reebok One to One Flexibility training is the
latest educational program for Personal Trainers designed by Reebok
University. This workshop teaches trainers how to assess range of motion,
mobility and flexibility. Specific stretching protocols such as active
assisted and contract relax are demonstrated and practiced extensively.
Personal trainers will learn how to set up a 30-minute flexibility session.
The Reebok One to One Flexibility Program will enhance the trainer’s
expertise and bring value to any health club's personal training program.
POST- REHABILITATIVE
PROGRAMMING OPTIONS
Begin to take yourself to
the next level as a personal trainer by learning to be part of the health
care continuum. Learn to be able to work with clients needs as they
transition back from rehab into a life of fitness and physical well-being.
Learn appropriate exercises that create essential motor learning patterns
for shoulder, hip, knee and ankle related imbalances. Using an integrated
musculo-skeletal approach to exercise prescription will be the training
tools you will need to know and use.
SPORTS YOGA FOR PERSONAL TRAINERS
Learn why yoga is essential for developing optimal strength. Muscular
integrated strength of the entire body is the answer so many clients are in
need of, yet traditional strength training modalities have never been able
to address. This workshop will be the information you need to teach your
clients of the benefits of yoga and how it will help them become stronger
and “whole” in regards to health and well-being. In addition, increase the
performance of the athletes you train by using yoga forms to give them
direct internal feedback on what their bodies need most: range of motion in
the presence of stability. No matter what sport you play, the benefits of
flexibility and core strength are your keys to success. This program
combines motor learning to create a balanced body with functional strength
training.
TRAIN ONE, TRAIN ALL!
Learn how the system of
training one client applies to training small or even larger groups. Every
trainer needs a set of appropriate guidelines that work for training all
clients. The use of a variety of reactive equipment will provide the
appropriate feedback to assess and create unbelievable exercise programming
to reach every client’s goals.
ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE
TRAINING FOR SPEED AND SPORT
Learn how to incorporate
training protocols for performance training and gain a specific methodology
to train efficiency for any athlete or individual. Learn team training
drills and gain a deeper understanding of assessment, the use of reactive
and functional equipment and progressions towards success.
GROUP TRAINING WORKSHOPS AND MASTERCLASSES
**“REACTION TRAINING”
BASED STRENGTH CIRCUITS
Reactive training is a system for conditioning
that has grown from the science used in sports rehabilitation and
conditioning programs for elite athletes. The goals of a conditioning
program are to improve performance and prevent injuries. The single most
important factor determining one’s ability to change performance is motor
learning. Form follows function, so when motor learning needs have been
addressed, the limitations of time, space and equipment will pale in
comparison and efficiency will improve. Reactive training increases the
quality of movement patterns and therefore decreases the needs for
quantity-excessive time, effort and expense. Applications for a personal
trainer will include methods for overall conditioning for fitness
enthusiasts as well as sports-specific techniques.
STABILITY BALL
TRAINING SERIES
Stability Ball training
is and intensive, hands-on lecture/workshop consisting of three training
components: Ball for body awareness and core activation, strength and power.
Participants will be introduced to the physiological, biomechanical, and
kinesthetic awareness principles, which form the foundation of stability
ball training programs. Integrated with fitness training principles of
strength, flexibility and agility, practical application creates programming
ideas and exercises for all populations. This training covers proper
technique and progression, safety cues, adaptation for specific
programs/populations, and incorporation of resistance training tools.
(Workshop description for Stability Ball for power and performance,
Stability ball for strength and Stability ball for core strength and
awareness.)
STABILITY BALL FOR
POWER AND PERFORMANCE
Stability Ball training
is and intensive, hands-on lecture/workshop consisting of three training
components: Ball for body awareness and core activation, strength and power.
Participants will be introduced to the physiological, biomechanical, and
kinesthetic awareness principles, which form the foundation of stability
ball training programs. Integrated with fitness training principles of
strength, flexibility and agility, practical application creates programming
ideas and exercises for all populations. This training covers proper
technique and progression, safety cues, adaptation for specific
programs/populations, and incorporation of resistance training tools.
STABILITY BALL FOR
STRENGTH AND ENDURANCE
Stability Ball training
is and intensive, hands-on lecture/workshop consisting of three training
components: Ball for body awareness and core activation, strength and power.
Participants will be introduced to the physiological, biomechanical, and
kinesthetic awareness principles, which form the foundation of stability
ball training programs. Integrated with fitness training principles of
strength, flexibility and agility, practical application creates programming
ideas and exercises for all populations. This training covers proper
technique and progression, safety cues, adaptation for specific
programs/populations, and incorporation of resistance training tools.
STABILITY BALL FOR
CORE STRENGTH, MUSCLE ACTIVATION AND AWARENESS
Stability Ball training
is and intensive, hands-on lecture/workshop consisting of three training
components: Ball for body awareness and core activation, strength and power.
Participants will be introduced to the physiological, biomechanical, and
kinesthetic awareness principles, which form the foundation of stability
ball training programs. Integrated with fitness training principles of
strength, flexibility and agility, practical application creates programming
ideas and exercises for all populations. This training covers proper
technique and progression, safety cues, adaptation for specific
programs/populations, and incorporation of resistance training tools.
REP-REEBOK
Rep Reebok is a
revolutionary reinvention of traditional group strength training. Reebok
brings the science of getting stronger to group exercise with the only
program that is periodized. Simply, Rep Reebok rotates training focus thru
endurance, strength and power cycles. Rep Reebok utilizes a method of
cueing and monitoring appropriate load for each exercise; a proven technique
for getting real results while keeping your choreographed workouts fresh
without frustrating training plateaus. Rep Reebok is fun, inexpensive and
easy for clubs to implement using dumbbells and barbells. (Six hour
workshop)
REEBOK FLEXIBLE
STRENGTH (FITNESS YOGA)
Reebok Flexible Strength is an inclusive training program that blends
strength with flexibility, endurance, balance, coordination, and
concentration. Its unique East-West synergy yields strong, fluid, movements
that require a focus of mind and body that is as challenging as it is
invigorating. Reebok Flexible Strength is based on principles of Ashtanga
"Power" Yoga, with special emphasis on the quality of movement. (Six hour
workshop)
INDOOR CYCLE TRAINING WORKSHOPS AND MASTERCLASSES
CYCLE REEBOK
FOUNDATION TRAINING
The Cycle Reebok
foundation training program is designed to teach instructors the education
necessary to teach group class formats based on sound biomechanics, exercise
physiology and sport psychology. Instructors will learn the four components
of training that can be developed in an indoor group setting and taken out
on the road. Whether the participant is looking for overall health related
goals, like weight loss, or training at a competitive level, the outcome
will be the same; success. Extensive music and motivational techniques will
be learned to prevent boredom and burnout. Through scientific rational and
interval training techniques, the instructor will build on the foundation of
solid principles of conditioning and seek the internal spirit and passion
that drives each one of us to reach beyond plateaus and move into a future
of enhanced performance. (Six hour lecture/workshop for personal trainers or
group cycling instructors)
CYCLE REEBOK INTERVAL
PROGRAM
Interval Conditioning
refers to a form of training that involves cardio-respiratory work efforts
that are performed at higher intensities than those achieved during
continuous training. Interval conditioning has been used effectively in most
sports to enhance the performance of the athlete. The Cycle Reebok Interval
Program is designed to provide a variety of skills and techniques for the
instructor to incorporate into a Cycle Reebok class. Each skill will be
defined and technique explained. The instructor must have a sound
understanding of the Foundation Program prior to adding interval training
into their class. The terms and definitions utilized in interval
conditioning are based on the proficiency of the Foundation Program.
**LEARN THE SIX
ESSENTIAL HABITS TO TEACHING SUCCESSFUL INDOOR CYCLING.
The six essential habits
to teaching successful indoor cycling classes will provide an instructor
with the mental and physical lessons needed to reach a consistent, clear and
motivational message every class. Direction and drive are the two
attributes that tend to evade instructors over time, resulting in less than
inspiring workouts. The six habits will provide immediate tools to keep the
same passion and enthusiasm as was in the first three months of teaching.
Three habits will give internally driven messages and the other three habits
define physical externally focused ones. The combination of the two groups
will allow instructors to remain creative, intense, and for the benefit of
the clients and club program as a whole, more consistent.
**IN-DOOR CYCLING AND
THE ART OF ASSESSMENT
Indoor Cycling and The
Art of Assessment is a workshop that will teach the instructor how to find
the small and large imbalances in their students cycling technique that will
begin to unlock their potential for performance. To set your self apart from
the rest, an instructor needs to rely on teaching skills that very fe w
have, and to be able to see and correct asymmetries immediately is truly a
talent. This workshop will teach these skills and more.
CYCLE REEBOK
VIRTUAL VIBE AND MOVING MEDITATION:
Virtual Vibe is a cycle
journey that is connected to mood and emotion with the use of teaching
methods such as breathing techniques, guided imagery, visualization and
music variety. The instructor will learn new ways to motivate and inspire
their classes with a ride that will ignite the senses. Learn ways to
increase focus and deeper levels of concentration to keep rider’s “dialed
in” the entire journey. After this experience, indoor cycling will never be
the same.
**CYCLE REEBOK
INTERACTIVE RIDING TECHNIQUES:
Learn skills and drills to keep your class fresh and get your riders
actively involved. Learn new hands-on ideas and materials for instructors to
apply to any class. Get 10 techniques that instructors can incorporate into
their classes to keep them fun and exciting, as well as motivating. Learn to
work with pace lines, multiple teams, explosions, circuit training, play
tag, do the wave and ride sets of stadium stairs.
CYCLE REEBOK PRO
TRAINING TECHNIQUES:
Learn how optimizing bike
fit and pedaling technique affects muscle recruitment. Experience how subtle
changes in position and technique can improve your performance. This
workshop will provide results of EMG studies and review the latest
physiological research. In a sample workout, you’ll discover how to
incorporate exciting training methods used by top cyclists to get better
results for fitness enthusiasts and serious cyclists in your classes.
CYCLE REEBOK ENERGY AND EXERTION: R. U.
FEELING IT?
Learn easy methods to measure and connect to intensity and energy
expenditure. Experience different ways to cue ratings of perceived exertion
and give immediate feedback for clients to understand how “hard” the next
effort should be. Having and using traditional methods for measuring
exertion are reviewed to provide a basis for new and creative “real”
connections without having to know or be tested for ones VO2 max. This
workshop will give an instructor the confidence and motivational skills to
keep participants safe and working towards their personal best through
focusing on body awareness and responsiveness.
CORE BOARD TRAINING WORKSHOPS AND MASTERCLASSES
REEBOK CORE TRAINING:
THE CORE BOARD FOUNDATION TRAINING
This class is an introductory workout that will give you fundamental skills
and foundations needed to successfully participate in Reebok Core Training.
This workout focuses on improving balance while working on the reactive
surface of the Reebok Core Board. This is recommended as a pre-requisite for
all other Reebok Core Training classes. (Six hour workshop)
REEBOK CORE PILATES
This creative new program
from Reebok University combines movements from the world of Pilates,
Feldenkrais and Gyrotonics with the dynamic, reactive properties of the
Reebok Core Board. The focus of this program is on motor learning
strategies, body awareness, breath work, balance and functional movement.
Reebok Core Pilates is structured in several movement categories with 3
movement variations to include all levels of experience in on sessions
REEBOK CORE TRAINING:
INTEGRATED MUSCLE TRAINING
This workout focuses on developing functional strength by using a variety of
static and dynamic movements on the reactive surface of the Reebok Core
Board. The unique property of recoil causes the body / board to act / react
which improve strength, balance and agility. This workout combines compound
muscle strength training for total body conditioning.
REEBOK CORE ZEN/YOGA
This workshop focuses on
using reactive training techniques combined with a flow Vinyasa yoga
practice. Learn how to create workouts that enhance ones balance, strength
and flexibility on and off the Core board. This workshop also teaches
training progressions for multilevel participants, relaxation and breathing
techniques.
REEBOK CORE TRAINING:
CIRCUIT TRAINING
This workout can focus on one or more components of fitness. Depending upon
the choice of exercises, one may work on strength, balance, mobility and or
flexibility and integrate this with cardiovascular training on the floor and
the Core board. Learn single station or multiple station class set up option
for variety and challenge.
REEBOK CORE TRAINING:
ATHLETIC TRAINING
This dynamic workout takes movements from the world of sports and athletics.
The training enhances training intensity and reaction by placing movements
on the reactive surface of the Reebok Core Board. The class not only
promotes quality driven movements, but more importantly, ones that give the
edge in a three-dimensional, competitive application. Sport performance and
specificity are the focus and application of this workshop.
ATHLETIC AND PERFORMANCE METHODS PROGRAMMING:
(LEVELS I, II, III)
THE SOURCE:
STABILITY/YOGA - LEVEL I
The Source Stability/Yoga
is a program designed to touch the physical possibilities within each of us
through core activation, balance and reaction. The instructor will learn how
to create programming that will offer the participant a path of stability,
balance and integrity within a progressive practice of yoga postures and
training techniques. The practice will teach developing awareness of body,
mind and self for the awaking athlete. The benefit is a core of strength and
flexibility providing the foundation for all other movement programs.
**THE HEAT: STRENGTH
AND SPORTS CONDITIONING - LEVEL II
The Heat is a strength
and sports conditioning program that is rooted in conditioning and endurance
through efficiency. Efficiency will be developed by teaching movement
quality before quantity is addressed. The participant will learn new
performance driven exercises that push the edge needed to create change and
success.
**THE FORCE: POWER
TRAINING FOR PERFORMANCE - LEVEL III
The Force is a program
designed to recruit, stimulate, and reactivate muscles for higher levels of
performance and fitness. Through progressive mobility screens, the key to
unlocking imbalance is found and specifically addressed with integrated
exercises and power based drills. The instructor will learn all assessment
techniques and how to make the connection for performance and power
training.
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