Welcome To The Pre-Recorded Sessions.
These sessions were recorded at recent Mania® events and are included with your purchase of the recordings package. With this option, you’ll receive access to all of these session videos plus all the videos being recorded at Dallas Mania® 2026. To purchase this option, please click here.
Pre-Recorded Sessions
Pro Athlete Recovery
Dane Robinson
Join pro athlete Dane Robinson for an experiential dive into recovery-focused programming. Learn how to design intentional recovery workouts that go beyond rest days. This session offers key insights and a practical blueprint for smarter recovery strategies that you can implement with your clients for optimal performance.
BASIC to BADASS : Progressive Training Protocols
Siri Chilazi, MBA, MA
Go from sexy squats to a badass booty. Progress and regress exercises with tools and variations for specific outcomes. Distinguish between progressive exercises and progressive training by designing results-driven programs for PT clients, small group training, and GX classes alike!
Mobility Training – Online or In-Person
Ruston Webb, MS
Unlock the power of mobility training! Learn to integrate effective mobility sequences into group sessions to boost client results, retention, and revenue. Experience firsthand how these movements elevate performance and tap into a growing fitness trend. Join Ruston and stay ahead in today’s competitive market.
Pack Your PT Sessions: Successful Sales
Ann Gilbert, Amber Toole, Deborah Rothschild, MS, & Ruston Webb, MS, FMS II, TPI-CGFI III
Whether you’re a seasoned personal trainer or a studio owner, this session is your crystal ball to future-proof your business. Learn the art of selling with expert insights, debunking myths, and crafting strategies tailored to diverse clientele. Join our interactive panel and elevate your sales game to new heights! (Lecture)
The Art of Coaching
Jake Trione
Coaching goes beyond cues—it’s about connection. Discover how to prepare, lead, and wrap up sessions that inspire real change. Learn techniques to elevate client interactions, build lasting relationships, and become the coach clients can’t stop talking about. Drive transformation through purposeful, impactful coaching. (Lecture)
Strength & Grace: Back to Power
Rosie Lemons, MS, ERYT-200
Unlock the power of a strong, resilient back! Learn how to design effective programs that improve posture, relieve pain, and prevent injuries. Gain expert insights into common back conditions and refine your skills to help clients move with confidence. Build strength, stability, and flexibility for lifelong wellness!
Progressive FITT: Functional Tube Training
Keli Roberts
Resistance tubing offers endless possibilities for improving muscle endurance, posture, balance, and body control. This interactive session goes beyond the basics, teaching critical alignment, movement patterns, and cueing techniques for progressive functional training using tubing, enhancing client performance and results.
Intervals Reimagined: Strength – Power – Roll
Christine Conti, MEd
Discover how seamlessly integrating pressure point techniques into interval training enhances physical, emotional, and cognitive benefits. Learn key pressure points to boost focus, memory, circulation, and reduce stress. Elevate your fitness routines for enhanced recovery, vitality, and overall wellness.
Killer Core
Abbie Appel
There’s a thin line between love and hate with Core Training! Tune up your teaching techniques, alter intensity variables and add innovation to standard exercises that train your clients and classes to love Core Training. Discover how mixing slow, controlled movements with speed and tempo changes will heighten body awareness, build core strength, enhance spinal stabilization and add challenge for your most demanding class participants.
Hip Mobility for Peak Performance
Gail Bannister-Munn
Unlock your full potential with targeted strategies to enhance hip mobility, flexibility, and strength. This session explores techniques to optimize movement efficiency, prevent injuries, and boost athletic performance. Improve range of motion, reduce discomfort, and build a powerful foundation for peak performance in sport, fitness, and daily movement.
Creative Core Solutions
Tricia Madden
This workshop utilizes all three planes of motion in both prone and supine positions, along with small apparatus tools to give you endless ideas for your next core class or client session. Walk away with a library of new moves that students will love and feel successfully challenged in your next class or training session.
Glute Training: Beginner to Advanced
Greg Johnson, MS
All hail the king of athletic performance! The glutes are finally getting their well-deserved place in the gym, despite our quad-driven fitness world. From glute activation, isolation and enhancement to correction, strength, power, and hypertrophy, you will learn the best exercises for all clients and goals.
Power in the Transverse Plane: How to Become a Rotational Powerhouse
Dr. Jonathan Mike, PhD
Want to increase real life rotational power for clients and athletes? Every program out there should be utilizing fundamental rotational power. This presentation examines the science of and real-life and unique application and hands-on session with many practical and useful movements to employ to enhance rotational power.
The Core 6: Strength & Movement Essentials
Gail Bannister-Munn
Master the six key movement patterns—Squat, Hinge, Lunge, Pull, Push, and Carry—in this high-energy class. Build strength, stability, and mobility for daily life and athletic performance. Perfect for all fitness levels, this class helps prevent injury, improve fitness, and empower you to move better, feel stronger, and live healthier!
Broken to Beast Fitness Programming
Christopher Poirier
Transform injuries into strength with “Broken to Beast”! This course teaches corrective exercise techniques to address mobility, posture, and movement dysfunctions. Empower clients to recover, build resilience, and turn setbacks into comebacks, helping them achieve their full potential—pain-free and stronger than ever.
Metabolic Disruption
Tara Turner
HIIT Tabata Monster Sets with a twist! Learn complex metabolic drills that can be used for 4- to 6-week workouts with progressions, regressions and added challenges so clients FEEL progress from week to week. Experience drills that challenge cardio strength and core with variations that will keep the workout results happening.
Kettlebell Training for Women
Master Phil Ross, MS
Empower your fitness journey with kettlebell training designed specifically for women! This session focuses on building strength, enhancing endurance, and sculpting muscles through dynamic, functional movements. Perfect for all fitness levels, you’ll learn techniques to maximize results and boost confidence. Join us to lift, swing, and transform your body in a supportive and energetic environment.
Optimal Overhead Pressing
Jonathan Mike, PhD
This hands-on session discusses and identifies the mechanics, technical intricacies, and execution of the overhead press addressing variations for personal trainers and coaches. Review the importance of optimal technique from an implementation, training, and application perspective.
Pilates: Mat to the Max
Abbie Appel
Max out your Pilates Mat class with 10 authentic advanced exercises from the original repertoire. Revisit Pilates principles and optimal alignment to understand what it means to be “advanced”! Dissect each exercise and discover how to modify and progress movements for your intermediate to expert students. Take your Pilates practice up a notch by safely and successfully adding challenges.
Ayurveda for Self-Care
Tracy Jennings-Hill, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT
Discover the transformative power of Ayurveda Yoga in this dynamic workshop! Dive into the three doshas—pitta, vata, and kapha—and learn how to weave these ancient principles into your self-care and client yoga practices. Experience a vibrant mix of theory and meditation to invigorate and enhance your holistic well-being.
Sleep Habits: Key to Fitness
Melissa Layne, MEd
Discover how sleep optimizes performance and recovery. This session covers how quality rest improves muscle repair, energy, metabolism, hormonal balance, and overall fitness. Learn practical, research-backed strategies to enhance sleep patterns for better health and athletic results. (Lecture)
Gentle Yoga For Mobility
Sara Kooperman, JD
This yoga practice emphasizes joint health, muscle tension release, and a mindful approach to alignment through core stability. The movements can be incorporated into your daily life, helping to maintain or improve mobility, stability, and flexibility for functional, healthy aging.
The Recovery Barre
Ashlynn Howe, MEd
The Recovery Barre blends a recovery-style meeting with a beginner-friendly barre workout, creating safe spaces for those sober, sober-curious, or in long-term recovery. Explore movement, gratitude, and connection through trauma-informed, body-neutral, and choice-driven instruction. Gain tools to design inclusive classes that expand access and support lifelong recovery.
Pilates Functional Powerhouse
Lauren George, MS
Fuse Pilates precision with functional training in this dynamic session! Explore unilateral moves, anti-rotation drills, and standing sequences that challenge core stability, balance, and total-body control. Take your clients beyond the mat with purposeful movement that builds real-world strength and coordination.
The Battle for Mobility
Irene McCormick, MS, CSCS
The relationship between flexibility, mobility and stability includes components that are largely misunderstood. Mobility is about the joint, flexibility is about soft tissue, and stability is a major influencer. This session explores the science of flexibility and mobility, how to care for your fascia for greater mobility, and spinal stability.
Ageless Pilates
Leslee Bender
Gain a functional approach to Pilates that prioritizes extension and rotation, essential for daily movement. Learn to reduce strain on the spine and neck by avoiding excessive supine flexion. Explore fascial lines and planes of motion, using small equipment to create dynamic, pain-free movement for lifelong health.
Qi Gong: Breathe, Balance, Energize
Elian Haan
Recharge with Qi Gong! Flow through gentle movements and breathwork to boost energy, reduce stress, and restore balance. Improve vitality, clarity, and strength in this mindful movement practice. Perfect for all levels, this session leaves you refreshed, centered, and empowered from the inside out.
Teaching Restorative Yoga Without Props
Gusti Ratliff, MEd, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT
Restorative yoga promotes relaxation and stress reduction through release—muscular, mental, and energetic. Focused on peace, it allows compassion, connection, and courage to emerge. With external support providing steadiness (sthira), true ease (sukha) comes from mental and physical softness, fostering deep relaxation and release.
Breath Empowerment
Joshua Craddock
Uncover the science of breath and its impact on health and dysfunction. Learn how improper breathing may affect clients and explore techniques to build energy (qi). Experience a powerful breathing method that oxygenates, heals, and promotes a heightened sense of qi and overall well-being.
Deconstructing Asanas
Gusti Ratliff, MEd, E-RYT 500, C-IAYT
Early yoga progress—like increased flexibility, strength, and balance—comes from improved proprioception and neuromuscular facilitation, especially for seniors and beginners. Learn to use muscular release, precise cueing, and progressive strategies to create balanced, accessible classes that support safe skill development and long-term growth.
Trauma-Informed Care on the Mat and Beyond
Elian Haan
Trauma’s impact on healthcare and mental wellness is increasingly recognized. Trauma-informed care fosters healing, empowerment, and resilience on and off the mat. This session introduces the six principles of Trauma Informed Yoga (TIY) and explores its powerful, transformative potential for wellness and recovery.
Stretch-Breathe-Recover
Kimberly Spreen-Glick
Strength isn’t just about how hard we push, but how fast we recover. This practice helps reboot the nervous system and promotes recovery between workouts, leaving you feeling rejuvenated. Give yourself the gift of self-care as we reset, recharge, and enjoy a collective exhale together.
Boost Your Pre-Workout & Recovery
Danielle Ontiveros, Amber Toole, Melissa Layne, MEd & Rosie Lemons, MS, ERYT-200
Unlock your body’s full potential with personalized pre- and post-workout strategies. In this fireside chat, discover how tweaks in nutrition, supplementation, and hydration can optimize energy, performance, and recovery. Learn what works best for your body type, including tips for HIIT, fasted cardio, and more. (Lecture)
Breathing Meditation
Yury Rockit
“Those who breathe together, meditate together.” The moment we begin to pay attention to our breath, we uncover a valuable treasure that’s been right in front of us—and depending on our nose—all along. Observing the patterns of your breath not only deepens your awareness of your physical body, but also reveals insight into your emotional state.
Dynamic Stretching
Shalom Singer
Kickstart your client’s session with dynamic stretching and unlock serious benefits—think better mobility, faster recovery, fewer injuries, and less stress. By customizing stretches to their tight spots and goals, you’ll prime their body to perform and crush workouts. It’s the ultimate warm-up with purpose and power.
Meditation is My Medication
Elian Haan
Explore the healing power of meditation as a tool to manage stress, anxiety, and boost mental well-being. Learn practical techniques including breathing exercises and mindfulness practices to foster inner calm, emotional balance, and relaxation. Discover how to integrate meditation into daily life for lasting wellness benefits.
Boost Better Balance
Deborah Rothschild, MS, NASM-CPT, ACE-CPT, AFAA-CGFI
Explore how balance training supports healthy aging. Discover strategies to reduce fall risk, boost neuromuscular health, and improve stability. Gain practical tools to help older adults maintain independence and a high quality of life through effective, functional movement practices.
No Floor Core and Balance
Melissa Layne, MEd
Elevate the active aging journey in a standing core and balance workshop! Discover tailored exercises that strengthen the core and improve balance, enhancing stability in everyday activities. Join us for a fun and engaging session that promotes confidence, mobility, and well-being, all from a standing position.
Fall Prevention for Fitness Professionals
Christine Conti, MEd
What are you doing to educate your clients about fall prevention? In this session, you will explore the most effective fall risk assessments and best practices to reduce falls at any age. Learn valuable techniques to aid in overcoming the fear of falling as well as how to get up from a fall. (Lecture)
Nail the Perfect Warm-Up
Siri Chilazi, MBA, MA
If you ever struggle to come up with a good warm-up for your class, this session is for you! Learn a simple checklist for creating functional, engaging warm-ups for any class and leave with 5 full warm-ups perfect for different modalities (general group exercise, Pilates/core, HIIT, Barre,
and dance).
Dare to Chair
Ann Gilbert
“Dare to Chair” introduces an innovative seated workout that blends low-impact cardiovascular exercises with functional movements. Perfect for those with mobility challenges or seeking a gentler approach, this program focuses on Purpose, Performance, and Population (PPP), offering a tailored solution for the aging population and anyone needing a more accessible fitness option.
Total Body Shaping
Sheldon McBee, MS
Old school meets new school! Studios all over the world are creating brilliant programs that feature a combination of functional training, strength training, circuits, metabolic conditioning, yoga, and more. Experience a successful class that focuses on bodybuilding principles designed to develop and shape muscle. Leave this workout with inspiring and effective programming ideas.
Functional Training with Foam Rollers
Herson Garcia
Foam Rolling is not just for flexibility anymore. Integrate exercises perfect to promote mobility, proper posture, integrated strength, and core stability. Learn simple strategies to effectively assess your clients promoting total body conditioning. Utilize traditional foam rollers as well as the new smaller rollers perfect for all demographics.
Chair Yoga
Kimberly Spreen-Glick
Chair yoga is growing in popularity among the active aging population. It’s accessible and adaptable for all ages and fitness levels. Discover how to successfully integrate this valuable practice into your offerings as a fitness professional or yoga instructor.
Comprehensive Active Aging Strategies
Deborah Rothschild, MS, NASM-CPT, ACE-CPT, AFAA-CGFI
Discover science-backed techniques to boost cardiovascular fitness, strength, and balance in older adults. Learn practical exercises, programming tips, and choreography to enhance coordination, endurance, and mobility. Help clients age confidently and independently with workouts that build stability, resilience, and functional movement for everyday life.
Tailored Training For Active Agers
Amber Toole
This session is all about safe and effective workout routines for Active Agers. Discover personalized training strategies that cater to the unique needs of older adults, promoting mobility, strength, and overall well-being. Learn how to empower your senior clients to age gracefully and healthily.
Age Defying Mobility Training: Enhancing Longevity
Ruston Webb, MS, FMS II, TPI-CGFI III
Unlock the secrets to longevity with Age Defying Mobility. This session reveals how targeted mobility training can enhance functional independence, slow aging, and improve balance. Learn practical, easy-to-follow movement sequences that boost client retention, results, and youthfulness. Don’t miss this chance to transform aging with mobility training and stay competitive in the evolving fitness landscape.
Dementia Client Strategies for Trainers
Deborah Rothschild, MS, NASM-CPT, ACE-CPT, AFAA-CGFI
Learn research-based strategies to train clients with dementia. Discover how to collaborate with caregivers and communicate effectively with this population. Gain practical tips to design safe, beneficial sessions that support cognitive and physical health.
Perfect Programming for Active Agers
Amber Toole
PT Programming for active aging clients does not have to be boring! Incorporating a variety of exercise types blended with functional training offers a chance to wow your clients. Walk away with fun, challenging workout sequences that will increase the quality of life for our 50+, 60+, and 90+ clients. Leave with a perfect program for all levels of active agers.
Functional Fitness for Active Agers
Bill Shuttic, MBA, CPT
Stay strong, mobile, and independent with a bodyweight workout designed for active agers! Focus on practical strength, stability, and mobility exercises that support daily activities and longevity. With functional movements that improve balance, coordination, and confidence, you’ll feel empowered to live fully—no matter your age or fitness level.
Athletic Aging
Abbie Appel
Unveiling the “Perfect 60-Minute Challenge” – a groundbreaking exercise regimen meticulously crafted for the specific needs of physically active adults over the age of 45. This dynamic workout is designed to strengthen bodies at any age, offering a straightforward format, this challenge makes consistent workouts easily achievable, empowering your members.
Open the “Gait” to Fall Prevention
Ann Gilbert
Study ankle stability, mobility and major joint movements that train to transfer for gait efficiency. Review weight bearing movement in the active ager that prevents injuries while exploring a deep dive into speed, distance, direction, weight transfer, coordination, and patterning. Improve strength, flexibility, endurance, and power when you open the “Gait” to a healthier and stronger you!
Pickleball Power & Performance
Sara Kooperman, JD
Experience the best techniques used to train for power and performance for the ever-growing sport of Pickleball. This incredibly creative strength-focused tubing workout uses effective and manageable resistance techniques. Enhance speed, increase endurance, and decrease the risk of injury by training off the court. Hit the ball harder. Chase the ball faster. Enjoy the sport longer. This pickleball press program ensures your clients will compete at the highest level.
Joint Replacements: Returning Triumphant!
Keli Roberts
Help clients transition from physical therapy to full function in daily life and sports. With 3.2 million joint replacements performed annually, understanding hip, knee, and shoulder procedures is essential. Learn key strategies and hands-on techniques to design safe, effective pre- and post-surgery programs within your scope of practice.
Alcohol & Aging: Myths vs. Facts
Gregory Charlop, MD
Is moderate alcohol consumption helpful or harmful as we age? Explore the latest research on alcohol’s effects on brain health, metabolism, and overall well-being. Learn how to make informed choices that support longevity, cognitive function, and a balanced, healthy lifestyle. (Lecture)
Body Composition 101: Tools & Insights
Joseph Han, CSM, PMP
Explore the evolving science of body composition and learn what metrics truly matter in fitness and wellness. Compare today’s leading technologies and measurement systems. Evaluate devices, data and insights for PTs and GXIs. Understand key performance outcomes based on science, use-case and outcome potential that drive real-world results. (Lecture)
How to Know if You’re Under-Eating
Sohailla Digsby, MEd, RD, LD
Many gym-goers are focused on eating clean foods and staying in a specific calorie range to support weight control goals. However, our fitness clients are often under-eating, triggering their metabolism to backfire and causing the body to compromise important functions – without even meaning to! Could you or your clients be under-eating? (Lecture)
Supporting Clients on Anti-Obesity Medications
Ann Gilbert
This session explores effective programming for clients using Anti-Obesity Medications (AOM). Learn to tailor movement plans to support weight loss and address potential side effects. Participants will discover how to design sustainable routines that complement AOM treatments, enhancing overall client success and well-being. (Lecture)
Nutrition: Hot Topic Research
Melissa Layne, MEd
Research follows trends so what is the current research showing on collagen supplements, creatine for postmenopausal women, caffeine as a preworkout, and many other hot topics? We will also hit on the science as to why or why not these nutritional practices make physiological sense in the human body. (Lecture)
Mastering Macros
Amber Toole
Unlock the science of macronutrients and learn how to guide clients toward better nutrition. Explore how to assess client needs and implement macro-based nutrition for effective weight loss. Attendees will leave with practical strategies to confidently coach clients, stay within scope, and achieve sustainable, balanced results. (Lecture)
Cancer Exercise & Wellness
Christine Conti, MEd
Gain confidence in supporting clients affected by cancer. Chronic disease specialist Christine Conti shares safe, science-backed exercise and wellness methods to enhance recovery, strength, and quality of life. Ideal for fitness pros, caregivers, and survivors seeking practical, positive strategies to make a lasting impact. (Lecture)
Shoulder Savior – Conquer Shoulder Pain
Brendan Fox
Shoulder pain doesn’t discriminate—learn how to fix it fast. In this interactive session, practice simple, effective assessments and techniques to improve shoulder posture and function. Gain practical tools for all ages and fitness levels using minimal equipment—leave ready to restore strong, pain-free movement with confidence.
Rethinking Obesity Treatment: Elevate your Business
Dr. Renee Rogers, PHD, FACSM
Obesity is a complex metabolic disease that typically cannot be addressed with a one-size-fits-all program. The fitness industry has cycled through generations of weight loss trends, often providing solutions rather than creating supportive environments. This session focuses on using behavior strategies to enhance your business approach. (Lecture)
Inflammation: The Exercise-Nutrition Nexus
Amanda Fearheiley, RDN, LD, CPT
Discover the buzz around reducing inflammation and its profound impact on health. Inflammation is linked to various health issues, but you can learn how to combat it with nutrition and exercise strategies. Uncover how these interventions can not only reduce inflammation but also enhance your athletic performance. (Lecture)
Preventing Common Fitness Injuries
Dr. Edward Laskowski, MD
This session will discuss common fitness and sports injuries seen in a sports medicine practice. Evidence based strategies for recognizing and preventing these injuries in your training population will also be discussed. (Lecture)
Solve 30 Training & Nutrition Mistakes
Dr. Jonathan Mike, PhD
Discover the 30 most common training and nutrition pitfalls in this enlightening presentation. This session will help you gain strategies to circumvent these difficulties and optimize your health and fitness performance. Join Dr. Mike and learn about the science and real-world practical solutions to maximize
your training and nutrition. (Lecture)
Where Healthy Meets Happy
Sohailla Digsby, MEd, RD, LD
It is absolutely possible to fully enjoy life’s indulgences and maintain long-term fitness simultaneously! Sohailla will unveil the blueprint that will guide you to the intersection of lasting health and happiness, leaving guilt behind. Once the secret formula is uncovered, you’ll realize that relentless, stressful efforts are not required to strike your life-giving balance. (Lecture)
Bringing Medicine and Fitness Together
Dave Appel
Learn how to balance weight loss drugs, like GLP-1, with wellness strategies and fitness protocols. Discover practical ways to integrate therapies like NAD+ and Sermorelin, enhance client engagement, and boost income. This session offers real-world tools to improve client outcomes, foster meaningful connections, and grow your fitness practice with confidence. (Lecture)
Healthy Aging Weight Loss
Raina Childers-Richmond, MS, RDN, CHC
Help older adults address the growing obesity challenge with tailored nutrition and lifestyle strategies, especially as obesity medication use rises. Personalized approaches are key. Providing the right support and information empowers them to adopt sustainable habits, improve health, and enhance their quality of life. (Lecture)
Nutrition & the Menopause Journey Panel
Melissa Layne, MEd, Amber Toole, Deborah Rothschild, MS, Danielle Ontiveros, & Renee Rogers, PHD, FACSM
Nutrition plays a crucial role in managing menopause, influencing hormone balance, energy, and symptoms like hot flashes and mood swings. As nutritional needs change during perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause, making informed food choices and using supplements can support bone, heart, and overall health.
Hydrate Before You Dehydrate
Jaymar Saniatan, RD, CPT
Unlock the power of hydration! This dynamic session dives into the science of dehydration, highlighting its impact on performance and health. Discover practical tips to stay hydrated, prevent dehydration, and boost your energy. Get ready to hydrate like a pro and keep your body at its best! (Lecture)
Healthy Eating for Active Agers
Rosie Malaghan, MS, ERYT- 200
Expand your knowledge of the nutritional needs of our over 50 clients. Examine caloric needs, protein, fiber, hydration, longevity, disease avoidance, and more! Your active agers need your support because of their decreased appetites, increased social needs, and their constant battle with inflammation. Help them navigate these challenges with effective coaching options. (Lecture)
