Take Both & Save - Mar 15, 2025
Livestream Workshop
FUSION STRENGTH!
With Libby Norris
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! .
THE CUEING HIERARCHY!
With Janice Hutton
In today’s hybrid movement environment, the type and timing of movement cues you deliver has an immediate impact on participant experience and safety. In this workshop, we will develop an easy-to-implement cueing system that highlights how to progress from essential cues to layer more focused cues that teach, educate and motivate your participants. Learn how to leverage the power of your words to deliver the best possible class results.
Come along on this insightful journey to learn about the transformational power of food and nutrition. Together, we will discover the keys to living a longer, healthier, and more energetic life. Why wait? Your path to better health starts right here.
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. Libby is also on the Advisory Panel for canfitpro.
Janice Hutton
Janice has a deep and diverse background in the health, fitness, wellness, sport and coaching industries. She has an honors Bachelor of Physical Education (McMaster U), a Master of Arts in Coaching (Western U) and a Bachelor of Education (Ottawa U) along with experience as a professor at the University Level (U of Manitoba, Western U) and the College Level (Humber and Mohawk College).
She grew up as a nationally ranked swimmer and has experience coaching elite athletes and developing international sport performance programming used by coaches and athletes worldwide through her work with Twist Sport Performance.
As the first certification director with canfitpro, Janice collaborated with multiple industry leaders to create 11 of Canada’s premium fitness industry certifications including the highly recognized Fitness Instructor Specialist and Personal Trainer Specialist foundational programs. She is a regular contributor to the canfitpro magazine.
As a certified Life and Executive Coach, Janice is the owner of Vibrant Life Empowerment Coaching and has enjoyed many years of mentoring industry leaders in business and personal development. Working as a co-founder of the Active Recovery Management (ARM) system she had success integrating a high-performance recovery strategy for executives and leaders to develop resilience in high risk occupations.
Recently, Janice joined forces with Leslee Bender and Blanche Hold of the Ageless Training Academy to co-author the innovative Essentials and Pilates Essentials programs that blend a myofascial release practice with integrated movement and an ageless mindset to support the development of resilience for individuals of all ages and abilities.
As a member of Your Fitness Sisters, Janice is very excited to collaborate with these outstanding leaders and presenters to share fresh and creative new ways to develop health, wellness and fitness for all.
Her long-term vision is to live in a world where laundry folds itself, the sun never stops shining and the next generation never has to deal with the health issues the world is currently facing. When not out there trying to make a difference, Sherry can be found researching new recipes, listening to the latest true crime podcast or enjoying a lake day in mid-summer.