Fusion Strength - Mar 15, 2025
Livestream Workshop
FUSION STRENGTH
This session is a blend of cardio, conditioning, core, balance, and flexibility using moves inspired by functional training, Tai Chi, Yoga, Pilates, and Qigong. Learn how to add segments into your existing classes or to create hybrids that add to your mind/body offerings. Get new ideas using some of your favorite pieces of portable equipment - Bender Balls, Gliding Discs, and hand held weights!
Libby Norris
With over 3 decades of experience, Libby’s scope in the fitness industry has covered wellness, education, media, and recreation. Libby graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University with Bachelor Arts in Communication and Physical Education and throughout her career, has creatively combined those disciplines.
For 20 years, Libby owned and operated Inspired Energy, a boutique corporate fitness and wellness company providing onsite facilities and programs at Fortune 500 companies including GE Canada, Purolator, Medtronic of Canada, TJX Canada and McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada. Much of her work focused on ergonomics, conducting workplace assessments, assisting in the evaluation of distribution centres, and designing pre-employment physical demands evaluations for organizations including Air Canada.
Libby is proud to have contributed to fitness programming with several colleges. She was a program development team member at both George Brown and Humber Colleges and taught in the part time personal training program at George Brown College. Libby also co-wrote the group exercise course for the Sheridan College Fitness Certificate and Kinesiology and Health Sciences program with Ruth Parliament where they served together as part time faculty for 8 years.
Starting her fitness presentation career combining fitness and boxing, Libby was a sponsored athlete by Everlast and the TKO. She then joined the Reebok University faculty as a Master Trainer and had opportunity to expand her scope of formats, presenting at conferences in Europe, Australia, and North and South America. She wrote the first boxing fitness certification in Canada and was the recipient of the canfitpro Specialty Presenter of the Year award.
A sought-after expert, Libby spend 12 years as the Fitness Correspondent for CTV’s Canada AM morning show along with numerous appearances on Breakfast Television, Global News, and the Women’s Network. She has also written articles and appeared in features including the Globe & Mail, The Financial Post, MORE Magazine, and Chatelaine.
Libby now serves as the Fitness Manager with the City of Mississauga overseeing fitness, therapeutic, and hospital partnerships programs across 13 community centre locations.