Dr. Michael Bracko, FACSMPresentation: Train Any Client, Anywhere: Rubber Resistance for Sports and Fitness

Do your clients tell you they don’t have time to be in the gym? Meet them where they can meet you! Maximize your personal and small group training by taking rubber resistance training anywhere and provide your clients with intense work-outs in non-conventional locations. Work-out with Dr. Mike and take away the top 30 rubber resistance exercises and progressions for closed kinetic chain movements, single-double arm-leg pushpullexercises, vertical core, and how to train for strength, power, and endurance. Show your clients that just because you can’t be in the gym it doesn’t mean you can’t get the work-out in!

Dr. Bracko is an exercise physiologist from Calgary. He works in three areas:1) Health and fitness - as a writer,presenter, teacher, and media consultant,2) Sports Physiology - he is the director ofthe Institute for Hockey Research wherehis research focus is female hockey players.He also works with male and female hockey players and teams of all ages for on and off-ice performance enhancement; and he is the strength & conditioning coach for the USA Men’s Deaf Olympic hockey team, and 3) Occupational Physiology with a specialization in back injury prevention, pre-work warmup,and ergonomics. Dr. Bracko is an active member with the American College of Sports Medicine serving on the Health& Fitness Summit Planning Committee.He is an Associate Editor, and regular contributor, forACSM’s Health and Fitness Journal®.