Educational Workshops

CEC-Approved Live Workshops For Fitness & Wellness Professionals

Host a CEC Workshop for your Fitness Team!

Choose from previously created workshops or request custom content based on your community’s interests or needs. Workshops can be completed live, in person, or virtually, costing between $500 and $4,000 + travel costs.

All workshops can be submitted for CECs through ACE, ACSM and NASM.

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Available Workshops

Investigation & Planning: Strategies to Support the Success of New Clients

Health and fitness can be so overwhelming for our clients and participants. In this workshop, we’ll discuss strategies that help fitness professionals guide participants to understand their wants and needs and how to make fitness choices that support their present and future selves. We’ll discuss how to be more effective at using behavior change and motivational strategies, helping to set meaningful goals with clients, and the importance of working with the client to choose activities that align with their needs. Ultimately supporting the participant’s overall success and future adherence to physical activity.

1. Understand your role in caring for others through fitness and health
2. Spot mindsets or actions that do not align with the participant’s wants and needs
3. Effectively utilize behavior change and motivational strategies with participants
Approved By:
- ACE 0.10
Duration: 1.5-2 hours
Location: Virtual or In-person
Personal Trainers, Group Fitness Instructors and Fitness Managers

10 Ways to Support the Adherence of New and Returning Exercisers

Supporting new and returning exercisers to maintain their fitness routines requires innovative and empathetic approaches, especially in today’s world, where many struggle to adhere to regular physical activity. This workshop dives into the psychology and practical strategies needed to create welcoming and supportive fitness environments by offering fresh perspectives on how to enhance exercise adherence and foster a sense of belonging among all exercisers.

1. Review the importance of caring for new & returning exercisers differently.
2. Utilize behavior change and learning theories to support new & returning exercisers.
3. Understand how to leverage your community to engage and connect new & returning exercisers.
4. Identify the appropriate teaching and coaching practices for new and returning exercisers.
Approved by:
- ACE: 0.10
- ACSM: 1.0
- NASM: 0.10
Duration: 1-1.5 hours
Location: Virtual or In-person
Personal Trainer, Group Fitness Instructor and Fitness Management

Caring for Yourself While Supporting Others

You spend your days caring for the wellness of others, yet making time for your comprehensive health can be hard. Do you find yourself feeling burnt out or in a rut? Even with the advanced knowledge and skills you hold, addressing your well-being may not be easy.

This workshop explores the unique challenges health and fitness pros can experience and validates that you are not alone. You will learn how to reflect on your own comprehensive well-being and use targeted behavior change principles and motivation concepts to better care for yourself and your clients.

1. Appreciate the importance of self-care and identify areas needing support
2. Understand the unique behavior change and motivational elements that affect health and fitness professionals
3. Apply your full set of professional skills to your own benefit
Approved by:
- ACE: 0.10
- ACSM: 1.0
- NASM: 0.10
Duration: 1-1.5 hours
Location: Virtual or In-person
Personal Trainer, Group Fitness Instructor and Fitness Management

The Managers Guide to Retaining New Exercisers

The member experience is the summation of all the elements of your business, including your marketing, communication, customer service, facility operations and programming. The overall experience is what determines if a new or returning exerciser will continue participating with your business. In this workshop, we’ll discuss the importance of understanding the fears and vulnerabilities of new exercisers and the impact it can have on your business and retention rates. We’ll identify specific action items you can utilize within each element of your business to provide more care for new exercisers.

This workshop will help managers have a deeper understanding of the comprehensive member experience and, specifically, the needs of new exercisers. It will provide specific action items that will help you deliver more intentional care for your members, which will positively affect their experience and adherence, and your retention.

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1.     Define the standard new exerciser experience, their feelings about exercise spaces and their unique needs.
2.     Identify key practices to best serve and retain new members.
3.     Identify specific action items within each of the five areas of impact: communication, customer service, marketing, operations and programming.
4.     Three steps to implementing changes to your member experience.
Approved by:
- ACE: 0.10
Duration: 1-1.5 hours
Location: Virtual or In-person
Fitness Management, General Management

Designing Your Health & Fitness

Health and fitness can be so overwhelming! There is so much information, and exercises and activities to choose from that it can be hard to know what is right for YOU. In this workshop, we'll discover just that. Reviewing relevant behavior change theories and motivational strategies and understanding what's important to your present and future self. You'll leave with a greater understanding of the healthy habits that are your priority and how to plan for them.

1. Recognize the need to have your health and fitness be personalized to you instead of doing what others do.
2. Understand the basic behavior change and motivational elements that support healthy habits
3. Identify your health and fitness wants and needs, both present and future
4. Define your health and fitness mindset
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Duration: 1-1.5 hours
Location: Virtual or In-person
Fitness professionals, management, direct-to-client/members

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Workshop Testimonials

“I appreciated the different perspective/POV on how to take care of yourself. I definitely will be using the tools/worksheet to focus more on my overall wellbeing. Christin was great at presenting this topic, and I learned a lot, especially since I recently just started a new role in fitness/wellness.”
“[I loved] the honesty and openness - it was an important reminder that I am not alone in this.”
“Christin is a great speaker and makes it very easy to ask questions and get clarification, great methods of engaging us through zoom which can be challenging!”
“Christin was a very captivating speaker! I loved her real-world examples of how she personally engages with her clients during sessions, as well as the examples of meaningful topics of measurement she discussed early in the presentation.”