Athletic Conditioning on Stability Cushions™

Discover a new and intensive core training workout featuring the Stability Cushions. Controlling instability with a pair of cushioned disks requires activation of the stabilizing muscles of the torso, shoulders and hips. Exercises are designed to illicit greater proprioceptive awareness and recruit the deep support systems of the whole body while developing greater co-ordination and control. Discover a new facet to Matwork programs that increase body awareness and core stability in movements that bridge the gap between simple core training routines and functional movement patterns necessary in athletic conditioning.

Functional Athletic Core Conditioning & Training

Effective athletic training and conditioning requires a complete blend of both customary and alternative training methodologies. Discover a fusion of traditional Pilates moves and principles with familiar fitness and resistance training using a multi purpose mat unit. Utilizing a moveable bar to facilitate positions which enable greater range of motion, explore how it can provide support resulting in increased movement variability. Spring resistance is also incorporated to increase specialized programming options and conditioning requirements.

Athletic Core Conditioning on the Cardio-Tramp
NEW not available until June 1, 2011

In this workshop, participants will learn innovative new programming on the STOTT PILATES Reformer and Cardio-Tramp. The workout, designed to stimulate both cardiovascular and muscular effectiveness is ideal for both the recreational and professional athlete. Discover how to combine progressive plyometric intervals, varying both in length and intensity, with muscular strength and endurance moves on the vertical mini trampoline. The routine features non-traditional Pilates exercises that use the incredible diversity of the Reformer to effectively train both concentric and eccentric muscular ability.

Cardio & Core on the Mini-Tramp

Working out on a mini trampoline is safer and burns more calories than running! This energizing workout combines 30 minutes of intensive cardio on the gravity-defying Mini-Tramp with 20 minutes of powerful STOTT PILATES® Matwork to condition the core. Participants will learn proper technique to get the most of the aerobic component and develop agility and coordination. The specially chosen mat exercises will complement this high-energy routine which will give any client a reason to come back for more.

Pilates Weight Loss Boost

Kick your metabolism into high gear with this intensive, energy-boosting mat workout. Take advantage of the body’s natural ability to burn fat throughout the day and also help chase away stress while building overall strength and endurance. Select STOTT PILATES® Matwork exercises are combined in innovative and powerful sequences that gradually increase in rhythm, pace and intensity to help rev up the body’s fat burning capacity.

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

Clients with specific postural issues require specialized programming to effectively realign the skeleton and re-balance muscles. This lecture/demo reviews exercises from the Essential Reformer repertoire and explores how these movements can be modified for each individual. Specific postural habits are discussed with particular focus paid to muscular imbalances associated with aspects of the following postures: kyphosis-lordosis, sway back and flat back. How to recognize and target lengthened, weak, shortened or tight muscles due to postural habits, what exercises to select and appropriate cues and modifications will be examined.

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 will focus on the programming, cueing, and correction skills you need to safely progress your 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 give modifications and transitions that work.

Personal Training Matwork: Teaching Skills & Programming Choices

Specific tools and information are needed to better train Pilates clients one-on-one. Learn how to cue and correct to help clients achieve optimal form. Discover how to observe clients to see if they are stable, correctly aligned, moving fluidly and efficiently, using the right amount of resistance or using correct equipment adjustments. See how to modify exercises using starting position, range of motion, preparations, and varying dynamics to make the exercises even more appropriate.

Personal Training Reformer: Teaching Skills & Programming Choices

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

Matwork Choices for Personal Trainers
using the Flex-Band^® exerciser, Fitness Circle^® resistance ring and Stability Ball™

Personal trainers everywhere are recognizing the benefits of incorporating Pilates-based exercises with their clients. This workshop will break down certain key Matwork exercises that will bridge the gap between personal and Pilates training. Learn variations of basic exercises using the Flex-Band® exerciser, Fitness Circle® resistance ring and Stability Ball™ and explore their application to individual clients. Train the eye to pick up variances in stability, mobility and movement patterns. Discover how to cue, correct, use props and modify either to challenge clients further or support them in achieving optimal form.

Teaching Matwork to First-Timers OR Matwork Orientation Session

The Introductory session may be the most important group Matwork class taught. This workshop provides the tools required to ensure this class is motivating, stimulating and will keep first-time clients coming back for more. Selected STOTT PILATES® Essential-level Matwork exercises are 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 cuing 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 taught. This workshop provides the tools necessary to ensure this class is motivating, stimulating and will keep first-time clients coming back for more. Selected STOTT PILATES® Reformer exercises are 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 cuing and correcting will be discussed while focusing on group safety in the studio.

Jumpboard Strength & Conditioning NEW

This workout highlights the Junkboard’s versatile ability to place a major emphasis on programming to improve the strength and stability of hip, knee and ankle joints in both supine and standing positions. Increased spring resistance emphasizes strengthening of the arms and shoulder girdle and the legs. The Jumpboard is used as a stable platform to focus on proper biomechanics of the entire lower kinetic chain, allowing the hip joint to be in a more anatomically neutral alignment when transferring forces from the soles of the feet up through the body. It also serves as a firm support when doing standing work. Individual components of this workshop are ideal as a warm up before any sports activity, or as complete workout.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
	Apply the principles of STOTT PILATES® method to exercises on the Jumpboard.
	Understand movement essence and exercise goals as applied to athletic conditioning.
	Discover how simple moves and increased tension can address specific strengthening goals.
	Learn how to alter starting positions to increase core strength and stability.

FORMAT:
	Workshop

AUDIENCE:
	Pilates instructors, personal trainers, group fitness instructors

TIME REQUIRED:
	2 hours

EQUIPMENT REQURIED:
	Reformer (1:1), Jumpboard (1 per Reformer)

AV EQUIPMENT REQURIED:
	Head mic & sound system

CECs:
	up to 0.2 STOTT PILATES; ACE

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, learn how this complete body workout retrains muscles that may have become unbalanced and take clients to a new level of strength and agility.

Athletic Conditioning 1 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. This workshop has 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 2 on the Reformer

Athletes and trainers alike recognize the benefits of alternative performance enhancing training methods like Pilates. This second-level Reformer workout builds on the first full-body routine placing even more emphasis on core stability, while challenging strength, power and agility. Learn new variations of familiar exercises and unique moves that challenge unilateral movement, weight transference and torso rotation – as well as strength and mobility of arms, legs, shoulders and hips. This high-caliber workout will be perfect for very fit and accomplished sports enthusiasts.

Athletic Conditioning 3 on the Reformer NEW

When you need an additional challenge, this high-level workshop will provide the motivation and the means. An intense athletic-based program, discover how the Reformer can function more like a traditional fitness tool as opposed to strictly facilitating Pilates moves. The Reformer Box is featured in the long box and short box alignments and exercises reflect sport-specific drills from football, track, swimming, gymnastics rowing etc. This workout is ideal for all level athletes or conditioned individuals who want to take their game to the next level.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
	Apply the Five Basic Principles of STOTT PILATES® to conditioning exercises on the Reformer.
	Understand when and how these moves can be incorporated in an intensive workout.
	Learn how to replicate many sport-specific moves with spring-resistance.
	Discover how to challenge strength, mobility and control on the Reformer.

FORMAT:
	Workshop

AUDIENCE:
	Pilates instructors, personal trainers, group fitness instructors

TIME REQUIRED:
	2 hours

EQUIPMENT REQURIED:
	Reformer (1:3), Fitness Circle (1 per Reformer), Reformer Box (1 per Reformer), Padded Platform Extender (1 per Reformer)

CECs AWARDED:
	0.2 STOTT PILATES

LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY:
	Intermediate / Advanced

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Athletic Conditioning 4 on the Reformer NEW

This extreme Reformer session, developed by the Merrithew Health & Fitness™ team, draws from the unique and challenging exercises from previous athletic conditioning workshops and intensifies them. The result is a series of advanced-level moves that place a major emphasis on strength and stability of the upper body. A progression of plank-related exercises performed on the Padded Platform Extender reduce the height advantage and increase the challenge to core strength. This demanding program is presented more as a collection of exercises that can be woven into any other workout and less as a full workout on its own.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
	Apply the Five Basic Principles of STOTT PILATES® to conditioning exercises on the Reformer.
	Understand when and how these moves can be incorporated in a high-level workout.
	Learn how to replicate many sport-specific moves with spring-resistance.
	Discover how to challenge strength, mobility and control on the Reformer.

FORMAT:
	Workshop

AUDIENCE:
	Pilates instructors, personal trainers, group fitness instructors

TIME REQUIRED:
	2 hours

EQUIPMENT REQURIED:
	Reformer (1:3), Jumpboard (1 per Reformer), Padded Platform Extender (1 per Reformer)

CECs AWARDED:
	0.2 STOTT PILATS

LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY:
	Advanced

Introduction to Athletic Conditioning on the V2 Max Plus™ Reformer*
2 Hour Format

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™ Reformer – 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, learn how this complete body workout retrains muscles that may have become unbalanced and take clients to a new level of strength and agility.

Athletic Conditioning on the V2 Max Plus™ Reformer*
3 to 4 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™ Reformer – 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, learn how this complete body workout retrains muscles that may have become unbalanced and take clients to a new level of strength and agility.

Complete Athletic Conditioning on the V2 Max Plus™ Reformer*
4 to 6 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™ Reformer – 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, learn how this complete body workout retrains muscles that may have become unbalanced and take clients to a new level of strength and agility.

Athletic Conditioning on the Stability Chair™

The Stability Chair™ can be an ultra-effective, compact piece of equipment for specially designed athletic conditioning workouts. Learn a variety of exercises that can benefit any level of athlete by retraining imbalanced muscles and building on the strength and agility of the whole body. This well-rounded workout provides 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.

Pilates on the Green, Matwork for Golf: Level 1

This workout is designed specifically for golfers looking to increase club head speed and get more distance on the drive. 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 will be able to use this workout to benefit any level golfer from amateur to professional.

Pilates on the Green, Matwork for Golf: Level 2

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, learn how to use these specially designed intense Matwork exercises to help clients sharpen all of those areas. Focus on isolating key physical components that will aid in increasing club head speed to send the ball further down the fairway and get that extra advantage on the green.

Pilates on the Green, Matwork for Golf: Levels 1 & 2
A combination of Level 1 and Level 2

A movement as complex as a golf swing requires focus, strength, flexibility, balance, and power from the ground up. In this interactive two-level workshop, learn how to use specially designed Matwork exercises to help clients sharpen all of those areas. The workshop begins with a warm up at the tee then progresses to modifications and variations which work on increasing focus and body awareness, isolating crucial core muscles and combining the elements of strength with flexibility. Next, more challenging moves that incorporate hand-held Toning Balls™ are demonstrated and executed with a focus on isolating key physical components to help get that extra advantage on the green.

Golf Conditioning on the Reformer

Help raise clients’ golf games to a new level with targeted STOTT PILATES® exercises designed specifically 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. 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™ Reformer*

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. Discover how to use the unique features of this groundbreaking unit to perform specially designed Reformer-based exercises raise a 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 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 Toning Balls™ and innovative exercise choices to focus on precision and control.

Reformer Workout for Men

Adding these specially designed STOTT PILATES® Reformer exercises to a male client’s routine will boost athletic performance and strengthen the core to minimize the risk of injury. Learn how to tackle this total body workout for optimum strength, endurance agility and conditioning. Discover how adding hand-held Toning Balls™ to a Reformer workout can build coordination and challenge the body from the inside out.

Muscular Strength & Endurance for Teens NEW

Mind-body exercise like Pilates can be essential to the development in mind and body of pre-teens and teenagers. This mat-based workout incorporates Toning Balls™ and the Fitness Circle® and will provide tons of exercises that can be used to create fun and enjoyable workouts designed to keep teens engaged and challenge them both physically and mentally. In youth, overall body awareness can be beneficial, good posture promotes improved body image and proper breathing techniques help with stress reduction. These issues and more will be addressed with simple functional exercises that focus on stability, balance and flexibility in a fun, quick moving routine designed to promote active lifestyle choices.

Reformer Resistance Training for Teens NEW

Mind-body exercise like Pilates can be essential to the development in mind and body of pre-teens and teenagers. This mat-based workout incorporates Toning Balls™ and the Fitness Circle® and will provide tons of exercises that can be used to create fun and enjoyable workouts designed to keep teens engaged and challenge them both physically and mentally. In youth, overall body awareness can be beneficial, good posture promotes improved body image and proper breathing techniques help with stress reduction. These issues and more will be addressed with simple functional exercises that focus on stability, balance and flexibility in a fun, quick moving routine designed to promote active lifestyle choices.

Matwork Interval Training

Kick your metabolism into high gear with this intensive, energy-boosting mat workout. Take advantage of the body’s natural ability to burn fat throughout the day and also help chase away stress while building overall strength and endurance. Select STOTT PILATES® Matwork exercises are combined in innovative and powerful sequences that gradually increase in rhythm, pace and intensity to help rev up the body’s fat-burning capacity.

Matwork Interval Training, Level 2 NEW

Mix up your workouts and maximize power, endurance and metabolic potential with this simple but effective series of Matwork exercises. Studies show that in order to continue seeing results, long-time clients need to challenge muscle memory and mix up training methodology. Sticking to the same workout routine may cause them to plateau. Combinations of movements integrate different planes and motor patterns in more intense intervals, and provide more challenge once a level of stability and strength has been established. Incorporate the theories of interval training and even those who doubt the benefits of Pilates will ‘feel the workout’.

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Core Stability Barre™ Training Level 1

The Merrithew Health & Fitness™ team brings you this fun and exciting new workout that focuses on building strength and stability as well as improving balance and flexibility with unique exercises derived from the best of the dance world. Learn how the elements of dance are combined with the fundamentals of STOTT PILATES® resulting in a fluid, flowing routine that challenges the strength and stamina of the entire body. Small props are incorporated along with the exclusively designed Core Stability Barre™ to create a workout that will bring out the dancer in everyone.

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Core Stability Barre™ Training Level 2

This unique and highly effective workout, created by the Merrithew Health & Fitness™ team, offers sound biomechanical principles alongside current concepts in functional fitness and dance training while incorporating the Foam Roller™, Mini Stability Ball™ and Toning Balls™. Using the support of the exclusively engineered Core Stability Barre™ Trainer, this workout will continue building strength and stability as well as improving balance and flexibility. Bring out the dancer in yourself and your clients with this series of fluid exercises that combine the best of the dance world with the foundations of STOTT PILATES®.

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STOTT PILATES® Programming on the Tower Trainer™

Designed and engineered by Merrithew Health & Fitness™, the new Tower Trainer™ is a unique piece of equipment that can provide resistance or assistance to any fundamental workout routine. The spring-equipped tower and mat combination is ideal to improve balance, strength and flexibility while developing critical core stability. A hybrid of Pilates, dance and traditional fitness moves, this workout utilizes the various elements of the unit to provide modifications and variations using the bar, springs and straps. The Arc Barrel facilitates a series of modifications to Matwork that add to the repertoire of this piece. Learn how to make necessary adjustments in order to customize exercises for each client or group requirement.

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Athletic Conditioning for Strength & Agility on the Mat NEW

Sometimes all you need is a Mat to get an intense full-body workout. This routine, developed exclusively by the Merrithew Health & Fitness™ team, demonstrates how to create dynamic movement sequences that take full advantage of the body’s own weight and gravity. These moves are guaranteed to develop ultimate strength and stability particularly through the core, including the lumbo-pelvic region. The workout features an intense abdominal series, sequences with rotation and mobilization as well as a section dedicated to front and side planks. Let this energetic routine boost your stamina, power and control all on its own.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
	Apply the STOTT PILATES® Five Basic Principles to exercises on the Mat.
	Learn specific exercise sequences designed to challenge stability and control.
	Understand how these exercises challenge strength and coordination.
	Learn cues and corrections for safety and effectiveness.

FORMAT:
	Workshop

AUDIENCE:
	Pilates instructors, personal trainers, group fitness instructors

TIME REQIRED:
	2 hours

EQUIPMENT REQURIED:
	Pilates Mat (1:1)

CECs:
	0.2 STOTT PILATES

LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY:
	Intermediate

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Core Stability Barre™ Training with Reformer & Cardio-Tramp™ Rebounder NEW

The Merrithew Health & Fitness™ team has created this exclusive program designed to develop stamina and control along with cardiovascular fitness and endurance. Experience how this program presents elements of dance and flexibility training with the solid foundations of STOTT PILATES in a workout like none other. The Cardio-Tramp™ Rebounder serves as the sturdy barre support as well as a resilient platform for rebounding work. Learn how this all-in-one workout can provide challenge and novelty to any private or group training session.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
	Apply the Five Basic Principles of STOTT PILATES to a variety of jumping and dance-based exercises.
	Understand how the Cardio-Tramp™ Rebounder can be used as a firm support for barre style moves.
	Learn how to combine cardio intervals with standing work.
	Discover how to utilize the Cardio-Tramp in non-traditional training routines.

FORMAT:
	Workshop

AUDIENCE:
	Pilates instructors, personal trainers, group fitness instructors

TIME REQIRED:
	2 hours

EQUIPMENT REQURIED:
	Reformer (1:3), Cardio-Tramp Rebounder (1 per Reformer)

CECs:
	0.2 STOTT PILATES

LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY:
	Essential