Golf Conditioning on the Reformer

Help raise your client’s golf game to a new level with specifically-designed, targeted
STOTT PILATES® exercises on the Reformer. With a better understanding of the conditioning requirements of golfers, these moves will help improve balance and flexibility and condition the entire body. This workshop will discuss the unique benefits of working with Reformer exercises to enhance core stability and body awareness creating a lasting performance boost for any level athlete.

Golf Conditioning on the V2 Max Plus

There are few pieces of fitness equipment that will help golfers realize the same off-course training benefits as the STOTT PILATES® V2 Max Plus Reformer. In this workshop participants will discover how to use the unique features of this groundbreaking unit to perform specially designed Reformer-based exercises raise your client’s golf game to a new level. With a better understanding of the conditioning requirements of golfers, these moves will help improve balance and flexibility while enhancing core stability and body awareness. The height adjustable vertical pulley system allows exercises to be performed in sitting, kneeling and even standing positions to create a workout never possible before.

Pilates on the Green for Golf: Matwork Level 1

This workout is designed specifically for golfers looking to increase club head speed and get
more distance on the drive. Participants learn specifically chosen and modified STOTT PILATES® Matwork exercises, which work on increasing focus and body awareness, isolating crucial core muscles and combining the elements of strength with flexibility. Trainers can use this workout
to benefit any level golfer from amateur to professional.

Pilates on the Green for Golf: Matwork Level 2
Note: This workshop requires a DVD player and screen to show the golf drills.

A movement as complex as a golf swing requires focus, strength, flexibility, balance, and power from the ground up. In this interactive level-2 workshop, participants learn how to use these specially designed intense Matwork exercises to help their clients sharpen all of those areas. We'll also focus on isolating key physical components that aid in increasing club head speed to send that ball further down the fairway and get extra advantage on the green.

Pilates on the Green for Golf: Matwork Level 1 & 2 Pre-con
Note: This workshop requires a DVD player and screen to show the golf drills.

Combination of level 1 and level 2 includes warm up at the tee.

A movement as complex as a golf swing requires focus, strength, flexibility, balance, and power from the ground up. In this interactive level-2 workshop, participants learn how to use these specially designed intense Matwork exercises to help their clients sharpen all of those areas. We'll also focus on isolating key physical components that aid in increasing club head speed to send that ball further down the fairway and get that extra advantage on the green.

Functional Fitness for Racquet Sports with Matwork & Reformer

Designed to give fitness instructors and personal trainers a better understanding
of the conditioning requirements of racquet sport (tennis, squash etc.) participants.
This workshop breaks down the essential components of the movements involved in
racquet sports. Participants are taught a series of STOTT PILATES® exercises designed specifically for these sports, including Reformer exercises and a discussion of the unique
benefits of working with the Reformer to enhance core stability and body awareness.
As well, exercises incorporating light equipment including the Fitness Circle® resistance
ring, Flex-Band® exerciser, and light weighted, hand-held Toning Balls are covered.
Participants will learn cues and corrections to help ensure safety and effectiveness.

Cueing & Modifications on the Reformer
for an Essential Level Client with Postural Issues

This lecture/demo teaches exercises from the essential-level Reformer repertoire selected and modified for specific postural habits with focus on muscular imbalances associated with one of the following postures: kyphosis-lordosis, sway back, flat back. How to recognize and target weak muscles weak due to postural habits, what exercises to select and appropriate cues and modifications will be reviewed.

Intermediate Matwork: Functional Anatomy, Cueing & Correcting

Focus on the details of cueing and correcting many of the more difficult Matwork moves in this Intermediate Matwork workshop. Select exercises will be broken down to identify the specific joint movement and muscular action. Learn cueing tips and modifications to help your clients progress into this more challenging work while maintaining good form. Review observation skills and verbal cues and see real changes in the way your clients move.

Intermediate Reformer: Functional Anatomy, Cueing & Correcting

Focus on the details of cueing and correcting many of the more difficult Reformer moves in this Intermediate Reformer workshop. Select exercises will be broken down to identify the specific joint movement and muscular action. Learn cueing tips and modifications to help your clients progress into this more challenging work while maintaining good form. Review observation skills and verbal cues and see real changes in the way your clients move.

Intermediate Stability Chair: Functional Anatomy, Cueing & Correcting

Focus on cueing and correcting many of the more difficult Stability Chair moves in this Intermediate Stability Chair workshop. Select exercises will be broken down to identify the specific joint movement and muscular action. Learn cueing tips and modifications to help our clients progress into this more challenging work while maintaining good form. Review observation skills and verbal cue and see real changes in the way your clients move.

Group Matwork Classes: Teaching Skills & Programming Choices

Teaching group classes can be challenging. How do you ensure all your clients get a good workout safely in a group situation? This workshop will focus on the programming, cueing,
and correction skills you need to safely progress your clients through a series of Matwork
classes. Learn to keep the class moving while giving individual corrections, make exercise choices that make sense in a group scenario, and give modifications and transitions that work.

Group Reformer Classes: Teaching Skills & Programming Choices

Teaching group classes on the Reformer can be challenging. How do you ensure all your clients get a good workout safely in a group situation? This workshop focuses on the programming, cueing, and correction skills needed to safely progress clients through a series of Reformer classes. Learn to keep the class moving while giving individual corrections, make exercise choices that make sense in a group scenario, and provide modifications and transitions that work.

Personal Training Matwork: Teaching Skills & Programming Choices

This workshop gives specific tools and information to better equip for training Pilates
clients one-on-one. Learn how to cue and correct to help your clients achieve optimal form.
Discover how to observe your clients to see if they are stable, correctly aligned, moving
fluidly and efficiently, using the right amount of resistance, uand correct equipment adjustments. Discover how you can modify the exercises using resistance, equipment set up, starting position, range of motion, preparations, and varying dynamics to make exercises appropriate for your client. This workshop breaks down certain key Matwork exercises, looking at cueing, correcting and modifications providing the tools you need to help your personal training clients.

Personal Training Reformer: Teaching Skills & Programming Choices

This workshop will share the tools and information you need to enhance one-on-one training. Learn how to cue and correct to help your clients achieve optimal form. Discover how to observe clients to ensure if they are stable, correctly aligned, moving fluidly and efficiently, using the right amount of resistance and correct equipment adjustments. Find out how to modify the exercises using resistance, equipment set up, starting position, range of motion, preparations, and varying dynamics to make exercises appropriate for your client. This workshop breaks down certain key exercises on the Reformer, looking at cueing, correcting and modifications to give you the tools you need to help your personal training clients.

Matwork Choices for Personal Trainers

This workshop will break down certain key Matwork exercises providing the tools needed to help your personal training clients. Learn variations on basic Matwork exercises using the Flex-Band® exerciser, Fitness Circle® resistance ring and Stability Ball and explore their application to individual clients. Train your eye to pick up individual differences in stability, mobility and movement patterns. Discover how to cue, correct, use props and modify either to challenge your clients further or support them in achieving optimal form.

Matwork for Men

Get down on the mat for a workout that’s not for the faint-hearted. Welcome to the full-body workout athletes swear by for sports conditioning, cross training and a strong, injury-resistant core. Every last muscle will feel this challenging routine which uses only body weight, gravity
and innovative exercise choices to focus on precision and control.

Reformer Workout for Men

Adding these specially designed STOTT PILATES® Reformer exercises to your client’s routine
will boost athletic performance and strengthen the core to minimize the risk of injury. Participants learn how to tackle this total body workout for optimum strength, endurance
agility and conditioning.

Athletic Conditioning on the Edge™

Many athletes, whether professional or amateur, are recognizing the benefits alternative training methods like Pilates can provide. Utilizing the Pilates Edge™! and hand-held toning balls, this high-energy resistance workout strengthens the legs, arms and torso and improves balance and coordination, using powerful tools that add a new dimension to your programming. Always initiating from the core, you’ll learn how this complete body workout retrains muscles that may have become unbalanced and take your clients to a new level of strength and agility.

Athletic Conditioning on the Reformer

Learn to take your clients’ game to the next level in this sports conditioning workshop.
Improve strength, power and agility through new variations of familiar exercises that
challenge unilateral movement, weight transference and core stability. With a special
focus on the core, arms, legs, shoulders and hips as well as rotation, learn a format
on the Reformer perfect for your sports enthusiast clients and athletes of all levels.

Athletic Conditioning on the V2 Max Plus™

Serious athletes – whether professional or amateur – benefit greatly from performance enhancement training. This high-caliber workout is designed for instructors and trainers
working with very fit and accomplished athletes. Using the STOTT PILATES® V2 Max Plus™ –
an all-in one machine that combines the superlative function of the Professional Reformer with the key features and benefits of the Cadillac, experience the virtually endless programming options this piece allows. Always initiating from the core, you’ll learn how this complete body workout retrains muscles that may have become unbalanced and you’ll be able to take your clients to a new level of strength and agility.

Introduction to Athletic Conditioning on the V2 Max Plus™, 2 Hour

Serious athletes – whether professional or amateur – benefit greatly from performance enhancement training. This high-caliber introductory workout is designed for instructors and trainers working with very fit and accomplished athletes. Using the STOTT PILATES®
V2 Max Plus™ – an all-in one machine that combines the functionality of the Professional Reformer with the key features and benefits of the Cadillac, experience the virtually endless programming options this piece allows. Always initiating from the core, you’ll learn how this complete body workout retrains muscles that may have become unbalanced and you’ll be able
to take your clients to a new level of strength and agility.

Athletic Conditioning on the V2 Max Plus™, 3 Hour Format

Serious athletes – whether professional or amateur – benefit greatly from performance enhancement training. This high-caliber workout is designed for instructors and trainers
working with very fit and accomplished athletes. Using the STOTT PILATES® V2 Max Plus™ –
an all-in one machine that combines the functionality of the Professional Reformer with the key features and benefits of the Cadillac, experience the virtually endless programming options this piece allows. Always initiating from the core, you’ll learn how this complete body workout retrains muscles that may have become unbalanced and you’ll be able to take your clients to a new level of strength and agility.

Athletic Conditioning on the V2 Max Plus™, 4 hour format

This workshop will break down certain key Matwork exercises giving you the tools you need
to help your personal training clients. Learn variations on basic Matwork exercises using the
Flex-Band® exerciser, Fitness Circle® Resistance Ring and Stability Ball and explore their application to individual clients. Train your eye to pick up individual differences in stability, mobility and movement patterns. Discover how to cue, correct, use props and modify either
to challenge your clients further or support them in achieving optimal form.

Essential Reformer on the V2 Max Plus™ Reformer

Explore how altering the angle of resistance can facilitate and expand the existing Reformer repertoire. In this workshop, participants will learn a series of essential level exercises using the V2 Max Plus™ Reformer’s* adjustable pulley system and extensor straps. Using the height-adjustable pulleys on the unit’s vertical frame, learn how the angle of resistance can be changed to help fire the appropriate muscles and achieve increased range of motion in triplanar movements. Ideal for instructors from beginner to expert and for clients at any fitness level.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
	The unique features of the STOTT PILATES V2 Max Plus Reformer.
	The many programming options offered by altering the angle of resistance.
	How to apply the principles of STOTT PILATES to exercises using the various features of the apparatus.
	Movement essence and exercise goals.
	Effective cueing, correcting and modifications to address all client needs.

Athletic Conditioning on the Stability Chair

This workshop will introduce participants to a variety of exercises on the STOTT PILATES®
Split-Pedal Stability Chair that can benefit any level of athlete. The capabilities of the Chair
will be highlighted, and all its features will be utilized in the context of a well-rounded workout designed to retrain imbalanced muscles and builds on the strength and agility of the whole body. Discover functional movements against spring resistance in a variety of positions that train core stability while working bilaterally, unilaterally or reciprocally with the limbs to enhance sport-specific performance or everyday life.

Teaching Matwork to First-Timers OR Matwork Orientation Session

This introductory session may be the most important group Matwork class you teach and this workshop provides the tools to ensure your class is motivating, stimulating and keep your
first-time clients coming back for more. Selected STOTT PILATES® essential-level Matwork exercises – some using the Flex-Band® -  will be examined with an eye to maintaining pace
and flow so participants ‘feel’ the workout, while still ensuring proper technique. The use of demonstration, imagery and concise cueing and correcting will be discussed while focusing on group safety in the studio.

Teaching Reformer to First-Timers OR Reformer Orientation Session

The FIRST session may be the most important group Reformer class you teach. This workshop will give you the tools to ensure this class is motivating, stimulating and will keep your first-time clients coming back for more. Selected STOTT PILATES® Reformer exercises will be examined with an eye to maintaining pace and flow so members ‘feel’ the workout, while still ensuring proper technique. The use of demonstration, imagery and concise cueing and correcting will be discussed while focusing on group safety in the studio.