Workshops & Webinars
As members of MFC, we look for our members to stay up to date in their Continuing Education Opportunities. Here you will find webinars/workshops we host throughout the year (more will be added as they become available).
Online LIVE for two Webinars with Glen Bergeron - May 4th, 2024
If you can't join live these will be recorded and available to view later!
May 4, 2024
10:45 am-12:00 pm = Pelvic Imbalances and Associated Injuries (2.5 CEC's)
with Glen Bergeron
This presentation will discuss the central role of pelvic posture as it relates to upper and lower body injuries. The skeletal and muscular anatomy will be reviewed and its impact on normal and abnormal function.
May 4, 2024
1:00 - 2:15 PM = Common Fitness Leader injuries and how to prevent them (2.5 CEC's)
with Glen Bergeron
This presentation will look at the most common injuries sustained by fitness leaders. The anatomy, mechanism of injury and preventative strategies will be presented for the most common upper and lower body injuries. Participants will be welcome to share their own experiences.
Register Here! $36.75 for each session or $57.75 for both.
Kettlebell Training Workshop
March 26, 2024
Time: 6 - 7:30 pm at Fukumoto Fitness - 50 Burnett Ave. (in-person event)
Kettlebell Training Workshop
Will focus on:
-a very thorough warm-up and readiness of the posterior chain
-brief overview of proper KB deadlift form
-transition to proper KB swing
-intro to turkish get up
-3 (CECs) Please Register Here.
Bio:
Johnny Fukumoto and his wife Jen, have run Fukumoto Fitness in Winnipeg's North Kildonan area for 15 years. This family-friendly and award-winning community personalizes group training in a revolutionary way in terms of ongoing assessment, progressions, and a relationship centred approach. They work primarily with general population in their 30s to 60s and also specialize in things like kettlebell training, pelvic floor and menopause application, mobility, and mental health! Johnny is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier's Kinesiology program, a former elite level hockey player and Team Canada obstacle course athlete, and current master's athlete and student in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. He has a heart for people working through tough injuries, mental health issues, parents and grandparents, and using fitness to help the less fortunate. He spends time almost daily at the rink with his 3 young boys so the coaching continues!
Another Workshop Date added - April 30th = Register Here
Webinar - The 'Ins & Outs' of Breathing during Exercise
February 12, 2024 online - Free webinar = 1 CEC
EVENT DETAILS: Breathing is an essential part of life, but we rarely have to think about it until it becomes difficult. Exercise challenges our respiratory system in several ways, and breathing during exercise may be harder for some than for others. During this talk, we will discuss contemporary issues related to how humans breathe during exercise. In particular, we will focus on recent advances on the influence of sex and aging on the respiratory response to aerobic exercise. The overarching goal of the session will be to explore how the lungs are built for exercise!
Presented by Dr. Yannick Molgat-Seon who is an exercise physiologist with a particular interest in respiratory physiology. The overarching aim of his research is to improve our understanding of the influence of respiratory factors on exercise performance in healthy humans across the lifespan and in patients with chronic respiratory disease. To accomplish this aim, Dr. Molgat-Seon employs an integrative approach involving in vivo assessments of respiratory, cardiovascular, and muscular function during whole-body exercise. Current projects are focused on determining the effects of sex-differences in respiratory system morphology on the integrative response to exercise in healthy adults and how this might be modulated by the healthy aging process.
Webinar - Flex for Access - Prioritizing Access for All
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 7:00-8:00pm - ONLINE webinar
Movement is a mechanism for life. It signals creation and progress. It empowers and leads. Why then, is adaptive fitness not prioritized in the mainstream for individuals who are part of special populations? It wasn't until Flex for Access became a Non-Profit Organization.
Flex for Access' vision emerged from our Jess Silver's (the founder)personal story, passion for fitness and sport, and the realization that there needed to be a shift in education, and awareness of Cerebral Palsy (CP), specifically and other physical disabilities, and actionable opportunity for adaptive fitness and sport as ways to manage physical disability and acquired injury.
This webinar is worth 1.5 CECs. This webinar will be available for purchase and viewing after the session.
Jess Silver is a Medical Writer, Motivational speaker, Adaptive Fitness Personal Trainer, and Founder of Flex for Access Inc. She is also a 2x Amazon Bestselling Author of Run: An Uncharted Direction (2020) and Life's Lava: Quotes, Values and Reflections That Light Our Souls and Colour Our Days With Reason (2021). She has an MA in Creative Writing, A PGD, in Medical Writing and Editing, and is a Certified TPCS 2.0 Researcher on Human Subjects. She founded Flex for Access Inc. because of her own lived experience with Cerebral Palsy and passion for exercise and sport. Through engaging in daily rigorous exercise, Jess saw first-hand the difference that exercise made in managing CP and she has always endeavored to redefine the awareness of disability. Through Flex for Access this is done, by creating actionable opportunity for adaptive fitness and sport within mainstream settings.