Instruction Perfection:

Perfecting your Practical Skills for Assessment Success

A few months ago, we asked all of our students to weigh in on the idea of having some practical workshops to accompany your online studies. The results were overwhelmingly in favour of us running some extra workshops that were up to a day in length, were optional and helped to implement some of the key theoretical concepts in a practical manner.

As such, we're going to trial the first workshop here at the Network office in Sydney in June with the aim to be able to expand our reach to other capital cities down the track.

The first workshop that we'll be running is targetted at our Cert III students who are working towards their GYM INSTRUCTOR practical assessment and will give you all the key tools to not only master the practical assessment but to also become a fantastic gym instructor for your entry into the industry.

Limited to 10 students and only $109 for this 6 hr workshop run by Kathryn Weihen and Chris Dounis, we're anticipating that spots will fill fast so get in today to secure your spot.

For more information or to book your spot, click here.

For those of you who have not yet had correspondance from Belinda Fong, she is our new (super awesome) Online Trainer for Certificate III. Aside from learning the ropes of the Certificate III course over the last few weeks, she was busy with her dedicated training regime for her very FIRST EVER IRONMAN competition last Sunday at Port Macquarie. This consisted of 3.8km swin, 180km cycle and a marathon (42.2km run) - all back to back. I am exhausted just thinking about it!

Bel or, as she was more commonly referred to during her Ironman training, The Fonginator, completed her epic race in 12 hrs 56 minutes.

A huge CONGRATULATIONS to her from all of us.

If you do have correspondance from Bel in the upcoming weeks, you must refer to her as "The Ironman Woman" or " The Fonginator" !

 

I was told to prepare for 4 days of total madness and mayhem so to say that I was a little apprehensive is an understatement. Having not been to FILEX before in any capacity I really didn’t know what to expect, but all I can say after experiencing the event from the front lines is that it was simply an amazing experience and I'm already looking forward to it in 2013!

 

The sheer variety of topics and seminars that were available to attend was amazing – and a real credit to our industry that we can manage to get some of the greatest minds in the world of health and fitness all in the one place at the one time. Having been involved in this industry in some capacity for nearly 10 years now as a Personal Trainer or Accredited Exercise Physiologist I was sceptical that I would learn much – despite the experience that most of the speakers had and the topics that they were presenting on. I couldn’t have been more wrong!

 

Whether you are interested in ways to grow your future or present business, learn about new rehabilitation techniques, new training methods or if you are more inclined to get down and dirty and try your hand at the multitude of new pieces of equipment that seem to be coming out on a monthly basis through the various practical workshops this event has you covered from start to finish. There are up to 14 sessions for you to attend over the 3 days, with a dozen or so topics available at each slot. The hardest aspect of FILEX must surely be which sessions to attend!? I know that was the problem for me.

 

I really cannot stress just how impressive this event is – surely the leading event of its kind in the world and it is right on our doorstep! If you are serious about becoming the best Personal Trainer that you can be and want to learn from the best minds that our industry has to offer than you simply should not miss FILEX 2013. You would not regret it for a second.