The Twist Education and Summit Team have just returned from a powerful weekend in Toronto, for our Sport Performance Summit. Twist Conditioning would like to thank our Summit Staff, Presenting Team, and all Delegates that made the weekend so memorable.

Thank you to all that came out for our 2nd Annual Sport Performance in Toronto, Ontario Oct 25th, 2009. The weekend started off to a great success with 6 high energy sport conditioning pre-summit workshops on the topics of Sport Conditioning for Soccer, Hockey, Youth, Athletes, and Adults. The workshops took place at our two Sport Conditioning Centres in Whitby, ON and Burlington, ON and were led by our Sport Conditioning Centre Directors- Jeff Roux and Scott Atkins.

The Summit doors opened at 8:15am on Sunday October 25th, 2009 and a flood of athletic, eager and high energy delegates entered. Each and every person we spoke to over the weekend, all had slightly different reasons for attending, as well came with a whole host of backgrounds and clientele, one similarity seen in each of them was the passion they had for their career. Thank you to all delegates who made the weekend so enjoyable for the Twist Team of presenters and staff.

The morning began with a keynote speech presented on "Developing Champion Athletes" by Peter Twist, followed by three entertaining and informative lectures on Deceptively Fast- by Scott Atkins, The Perfect Point of Balance- by Douglas Brooks, and Strong and Powerful- by Peter Twist. After a morning of lectures the delegates were ready to move- the afternoon had each delegate cycling through 3 practical sessions on Movement, Strength and Balance. The day ended with a cool down presented by Arielle Nash, with a question and answer period for our presenters.

We thank all that attended, as we value each and every face to face opportunity we can have with our advocates, to learn, get inspired and hear their stories of their individual and athletes successes. Each of you make us who we are, and value your opinion and your dedication to our team greatly.

We look forward to the next year!

If you want more- check out the Advanced Training Tools Workshop taking place on Nov 21st 9:45am-11:45am, 2009 at Ryerson University or our upcoming 2 Day Mentorship Program taking place out of our Twist Sport Conditioning Centre- Burlington on December 10th-11th

-The Twist Sport Performance Summit Team-

Dean Shiels from the Twist Presenting Team Travels to SPAIN!

After a 12 hour flight around the world and a 6 day tour of Italy we arrived in beautiful Barcelona, Spain. My wife, 1 year old daughter and I had never been to Europe before so we were in absolute awe everyone we went. Our trip included planes, trains, buses, ferries, taxis and multiple hotels in multiple cities so we were excited to land in Barcelona where we could get grounded for more than a day. The purpose of the trip was to present the Twist training methods and training tools to the Spain fitness market at the biggest fitness conference in Spain, Planeta Barcelona.

We arrived late on the Thursday with the conference beginning on Saturday morning. Our goal was to see as much of Barcelona as possible in 1 day. And that we did. I never realized how big of a city Barcelona is. In a our 1 day Barcelona adventure we jumped on the hop on hop off Bus tours and saw the Olympic Stadium, Gotti’s magnificent architectural sites, the Sangrila Familia, walked down the world famous La Rambla, had a sangria on one of the amazing beaches, and listened to Cold Play live outside the Olympic Stadium. Wow, what a beautiful city Barcelona is.

The conference began on Saturday morning. I walked down to the conference and was greeted and introduced to the team from Aerobic and Fitness who were hosting the conference. Maria, Pilar, Astrid and Ann were all very friendly and helped in ensuring I was comfortable in presenting to the Spanish audience as they new my Spanish vocabulary was extremely limited. They introduced me to my translator, Isaac, who was from the industry and spoke very good English.

Isaac walked me down to the conference room where I was presenting my first workshop on the Smart Gym. I must say I was a bit nervous presenting as I had never used a translator before and the fact that nobody had ever seen our training model before. How would my message come across in translation and how would they respond to a new training system were a few questions I had in my head. I began the session with an introduction in which I carried on for about 45 seconds until I realized I needed Isaac to translate. I looked over at him and said “that was a bit too long wasn’t it”, he laughed and pieced it together for me. From then on we got in a groove and had the group of Spanish trainers and coaches rocking with trialing a new training style, new training tools and many new drills.

Over the course of the 2 day conference I presented the Smart Gym, 1 on 1 and Partner Training Methods, Plyometric Progressions for Athletes and Everyday Clients and Neural Complexity. Each of the sessions were received with an enthusiastic response from the delegates. They were challenged by the drills but excited about this new style of training they had not seen before. What an amazing experience this trip was. To be able to experience a new culture, interact with great people, tour the beautiful city and to deliver our training system to a very receptive industry was fantastic. I look forward to returning next year.


Dean Shiels

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