FICs Education

13/04/2023

Important dietary considerations for female athletes.

Meet our presenter of this session, Dr Sacha Fulton.

It’s a must see session for fitness pro’s who want to learn this information for themselves or provide it to their female clients who like to train hard, whether in the gym or outdoors, pumping weights or doing cardio training.

Apart from being an Accredited Sports Scientist, Sacha worked with WA Institute of Sport for 9 years and is now a sort after speaker.
And she walks the talk, being a surf lifesaver and a keen athlete herself, and having represented Australia at the IM triathlon World Championships in Kona, Hawaii and completing the Rottnest Island Channel crossing on six occasions!

Thanks so much for agreeing to share your knowledge with us.
For more info on all our presenters and the big day out on May 14th head to www.ficseducation.org

09/04/2023

Meet your presenter Petar Djanis

Petar holds a BSc in Exercise & Sports Science and Movement Science, GradDip in Clinical Exercise Physiology, Masters in Exercise Science (research) and is currently completing his PhD on Monitoring Load and Fatigue in professional football players in the A-League. Petar is the Head of High Performance at South Fremantle Football Club and was the Strength and Conditioning Coach for Perry Lakes Hawks as well as working at the WACA with the Male and Female Junior and Senior Programs.

Petar has been lucky enough to work across many different sectors within the health industry such as an exercise physiologist working with seniors, personal training general populations and as a strength and conditioning coach with a variety of athletes from amateur all the way to Olympic level athletes.

Petar’s passion is promoting and providing general populations with the same high-level coaching that elite athletes get.

Don't miss Petar Djanis 75 minute session, where he shares his expertise with us all, at this year's conference!

All the deets on the website www.ficseducation.org

GET YOUR FITNESS FIX AT FICs

03/04/2023

GET YOUR DOSE OF SCARLETT DUNCAN

Please welcome our FICs 2023 presenter Scarlett Duncan - who is taking our running techniques, which by the way, you don't have to do any running in if you don't want to. It's half theory and half practical.

This is for all you fitpros who run bootcamps or classes with running components in them, as well as those who are supporting their clients in their first fun runs or ultra-marathons and the rest of us, who also just want to be better runners :-)

Scarlett holds a Bachelor’s degree in Preventative Health Specialising in Exercise and Sport Science. She’s an Athletics Australia qualified coach, Pilates Instructor, Ultra-marathon runner and passionate coach.

Her coaching is evidence informed, and her 10+ years of coaching and competing experience has allowed her to effectively translate and apply this to ‘gen pop’ novice and recreational runners through to sub 3 hour marathon, and ultra-marathon athletes.

Scarlett attributes her effective compassionate coaching approach to her personal challenges, including falling from being a strong competitive athlete to navigating a crippling autoimmune disease diagnosis at age 20. She rebuilt and regained her health to an extent that’s seen her podium in ultra-marathon events, run her successful business and fuel her appetite to continually learn from a broad scope of experts to elevate what it means to be a running coach.

You can read more about Scarlett www.doserunning.com.au

AND GET YOUR FITNESS FIX AT FICs at www.ficseducation.org

30/03/2023

LAST CHANCE TO WIN THIS MONTH'S FREE ENTRY TO FICs 2023 - THE FITNESS INDUSTRY'S CONFERENCE IN PERTH

Share the love and tell someone who you know would love to get to a full day of high quality industry education, and the cool surprise of scoring a freebie ticket to it all.

-Maybe a new grad?

-A new staff member at your club who is doing awesome things?

-Someone from a rural town - to make it just that little bit easier on them to come in to Perth for it?

-Someone who is doing wads of volunteer work and a crazy good deeds to help people stay fit and healthy.

Just by registering their interest in the conference or grabbing an early bird priced ticket and they'll be in to win a freebie entry or their money back if they've already handed over the dosh.

Entries close midnight tonight. Drawn and announced on sunny Sunday.

Tickets at www.ficseducation.org


Catch Fitness

28/03/2023

LSKD VOUCHERS ADDED TO OUR GOODIE BAGS!

In addition to $50 USD vouchers for Wendy Smith-Sweet MyMT™ Menopause Weight Loss Coach Trainer's Programme, and a free copy of the Winter Edition of the Sweat Equity Coaching Magazine, as well as in the VIP Package we have 60 hours of sessions from industry greats at the Fitness Industry Technology Summit, we now have - a $30 voucher to use when you spend $100 with LSKD, plus a few giveaways!

Thanks heaps for the hook up to our presenter and FICs committee member Brooke Turner - Balance Fitness and Nutrition We are super excited to have LSKD on board and can't thank them enough for their support and helping add even more excitement to the day.

In more wonderful Wednesday news we may have some giveaways from a local company doing great things in the area of gut health Watch this space.

EARLY BIRD PRICED TICKETS FLY AWAY MIDNIGHT SATURDAY - GRAB YOURS AT WWW.FICSEDUCATION.ORG

To stay up to date and join in on all the Conference action please jump in and join our private group page. https://www.facebook.com/groups/491306336045300 for


Catch Fitness

27/03/2023

• PERTH FITNESS CONFERENCE •

WA based exercise professionals, FICs Education is THE event for you!

It’s happening in Perth on May 14th and until 1st April, your can save $100 on your ticket. With goodie bags and giveaways including some offers from LSKD, it’s an event not to be missed!

I am pumped to be heading to the big smoke to present at this epic local event 🤩

My session is Too Scared to Squat? Something I’ve navigated postpartum & a phrase I have heard from many women!

If you work with female clients or members, this is one not too be missed.

🗺 Regional based peeps working for local government fitness & rec facilities or gyms ➡️ send this to your boss & tell them you need to go.

👋 Self employed? When is the last time you invested in yourself? Lock this in your calendar & make a weekend of it 🙌🏼

Professional development, networking & connection is where it’s at!

I’d love to see you there 😀 Link below to learn more ⬇️
https://ficseducation.org

25/03/2023

A live conference for Fitness Professionals in Perth - 17 presenters, 20 sessions. an international keynote. The latest research. Prices at their cheapest until midnight April 1st. No joke.

19/03/2023

The integrated approach to chronic issues – including knees, low back and shoulders. A 75 minute session at FICs 2023.

DESCRIPTION
Knee issues, back issues, shoulder issues – these are the “big three” barriers to exercise for so many people. Wouldn’t it be great to have a few tricks in your toolbox to move past many of these, and other ongoing niggles, so you can get on with enjoyable training sessions?

JP has spent a decade creating an entire movement approach to enable exercise professionals handle all types of chronic movement problems.

Join for this session and learn how to better understand these, their root causes and some techniques to move beyond them. You will never look at human movement in the same way after feeling the change in your own body, during this practical, and inspiring, session.

YOUR PRESENTER - JOHN POLLEY (JP)

Educator of the Year 2019, Exercise Association of Aotearoa, New Zealand - international presenter, mentor, writer and specialist in movement from the perspective of the ‘3 human dimensions’ – mental, emotional and physical.

His passion for sharing information, practical skills and thought-provoking content is infectious.

He loves to connect and help people find their unique pathway to realise the best in themselves and has a natural, light-hearted and free flowing approach to education that people find engaging and fun.

GET YOUR FIX AT FICS
Early Bird rate of just $175 only until April 1st
www.ficseducation.org

John Polley, Catch Fitness Fitness

14/03/2023

Let's be like lipstick!

Are you feeling a recession oncoming in your personal training business? How is that effecting your fitness business spending?
One of the recent fitness conferences I attended there was a lot of talk of how to recession proof your business. I might be biased as someone with 10 years of university study with a PhD behind me but education is where it is at for increasing earning capacity during a recession. I also would say, become like lipstick. Lipstick has an upward spike in sales proportional to the inverse downturn of spending in other areas! Have a read: and sign up to FICs Educationconference in May or Exercise New Zealand conference in November.

https://www.drsuzsquad.com/post/how-to-weather-the-economic-recession-as-a-personal-trainer

11/03/2023

Hypertrophy Training – a 2023 research update.
One of our industries hottest topics.

Back by popular demand with a topic voted on by our attendees, Dr Dan Jolley is doing what he does best, delivering the latest and greatest, most accurate research as it relates to hypertrophy training, and lucky for us, it will be at the FICs 2023 Conference in Perth, in May.

Dr. Dan holds a BSc in exercise science and an MSc in exercise physiology AND he has completed a PhD in educational psychology at Curtin University, looking at the knowledge, and sources of information, of personal trainers.

Dan also worked as a strength and conditioning coach in a number of sports, including cricket (with the Perth Scorchers), and Australian Football (in the semi-professional WAFL competition). He also represented Australia in American Football as both a player and a coach, and was the head of the strength and conditioning program for the men’s national team for the 2011 and 2015 World Championships.

Dan is currently the course coordinator for the Certificate III and IV in Fitness program at South Metro TAFE, where he has taught since 2011 and was recently a national ‘Accredited Exercise Professional of the Year Finalist’.

Dan’s website full of interesting articles specifically for PTs is called Critical Fitness.

Catch Fitness Critical FitnessSarah Ford Fitness Sweat Equity Coaching Brooke Turner - Balance Fitness and Nutrition DTM Health and Fitness

08/03/2023

TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY.

And International Men's Day is November 16th 🙂

When we have a fitness business, days like this, apart from bringing awareness to issues, offer a great excuse for us to put good information out to our clients and class members, to create 'Health and Fitness Challenges' around issues that can benefit both our members and a worthy cause, to create fun moments with themed classes, or raise money for a good cause.

In honour of this day I'm sharing three things

A pic of this year's amazing FICs female presenters. There is just so much more to these incredible ladies than these pictures can possible reveal and I know that those of you who can to get FICs and get to listen to them will totally agree.

And I'm also sharing this interview with Dr Martine Rothblatt, https://tim.blog/2020/12/16/martine-rothblatt/ who designed the world’s first electric helicopter and piloted it to a Guinness world record for speed, altitude, and flight duration. Her company is dedicated to manufacturing an unlimited supply of transportable organs. In the legal arena, Dr. Rothblatt led efforts of the transgender community to establish their own health law standards and of the International Bar Association to protect autonomy rights in genetic information via an international treaty. It's an easy listen and some wonderful stories in it.

And this link about Heart Attacks in women. Nothing new for us Fitpros in this one just an apt reminder of info worth sharing with clients and members.
https://www.australiawidefirstaid.com.au/resources/heart-disease-in-women-missed?utm_source=active+campaign&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=text+link+section+1&utm_content=First+aid+tips+for+March%C2%A0&utm_campaign=march+newsletter&utm_campaign=Monthly+Newsletter+-+March+2023

COMING UP SOON:
March 20: International Day of Happiness
April 1: Run 50 km a day day. Just kidding 😉
April 26th: Get Organised Day
May 13th & 14th: FICs Conference Days