Onsite registration will be available at the registration table. Want to save time in line? Click here to access the onsite registration form, complete and bring it with you to the congress registration table. Credit cards or checks are accepted for payment.
Onsite registration will be available at the registration table. Want to save time in line? Click here to access the onsite registration form, complete and bring it with you to the congress registration table. Credit cards or checks are accepted for payment.
Visit the Region 6 Trade Show Hall to chat with exhibitors and check out the latest products and services in the industry, including equipment, apparel, technology and more!
Fear is a common struggle for gymnasts, whether it’s fear of failing, fear of injury, or fear of performing under pressure. This session will equip coaches with tools to help gymnasts understand and manage their fears, ultimately turning those fears into motivation for growth. Coaches will learn techniques for building trust, helping gymnasts reframe their thoughts, and providing the right balance of encouragement and challenge to ease anxiety. The presentation will include strategies for desensitizing fear through gradual exposure, visualization techniques, and fostering a safe environment where athletes can push their limits without overwhelming fear. Coaches will leave with actionable strategies to help gymnasts face fear head-on and perform with confidence.
This session will update you on the current rules for taking “up to the level” deductions on Floor Exercise for Levels 8, 9 and 10. Each level will have examples to determine if they meet the criteria and if there is a deduction. We will cover acro, dance and last salto.
Having games in your back pocket can be invaluable. Waiting for your area? Waiting in line? Need to build strength? Team build? Just have a bit of FUN? Come ready to get moving and PLAY- the most important part of your day.
Gain a deeper understanding of the mechanics and progressions for teaching twisting across all four events. This session covers key technical concepts, common errors, and drills to develop confident, consistent twisting skills — helping athletes transfer technique from one apparatus to another with greater ease and safety.
Get ready to rethink customer service! In today’s fast-paced world, social media and rising customer expectations have completely changed the game. Let’s dive into the new rules of customer service and make your gym shine!
With each exercise I will demonstrate the importance of flexibility for women’s uneven bars. Having taught multiple releases and skills over the decades and some innovative, I’ll share methods to help your athlete improve their ability to master the fundamentals of uneven bars. From beginner to Elite.
I’ll have examples on how to improve athlete readiness for bar progressions.
Always a favorite! In this session, we’ll dive into the magic of Preschool Theme Weeks—both minor and major—and explore how to use them to enhance engagement, learning, and fun in your preschool program. We’ll answer key questions: How often should you run them? What’s the real purpose behind them? And most importantly, how can you add that special “Disney-style” sparkle that keeps kids excited and parents impressed? Walk away with creative ideas and practical tools to bring your themes to life all year long.
Hello my little cheese balls, you think you know everything there is to do with a cheese? You don’t know Jack! In queso you didn’t know, a cheese can be used to sharpen your little muenster’s skills on all events, not just tumbling. Bars, beams, vault, even warm ups and conditioning! By the end of this session, you’ll be a certified “Cheeze Whiz!”
Get hands-on practice spotting a variety of recreational-level skills on vault, bars, beam and floor.
Vault: basic vaulting skills.
Uneven Bars: Pullovers, Back Hip Circles, Swings and Regrips, Squat-Ons.
Balance Beam: Handstands, Cartwheels.
Floor: Cartwheels, Back Walkovers, Front Walkovers, Backward Rolls, Handstands, Back Handsprings.
Space in this session is limited! Reserve your spot by signing up at the Congress registration desk beginning Thursday at 5:30p.m.
Session attendees aged 18+ must be U110 SafeSport Trained to participate in hands-on spotting activities.
Understanding the bio-mechanics, progressions and analysis of dance skills in the competitive program.
Think your business needs to spend big to have a big impact with Moms? Think again. Award- winning marketer and author Katrina has a long, proven track record in marketing on a shoestring budget—she attracted 150,000 Moms to her first business on a tiny marketing spend. She shares the five top replicable strategies (including partnerships, brand story and a couple of surprises) to grow Mom-centric brands and businesses using creativity rather than mega bucks.
Knowing how to market with no money to Moms is super relevant right now: 58% of small business owners find marketing overwhelming and struggle to work out the best ways to grow their business. Drawing on her marketing experience as both a Fortune 100 team leader and entrepreneur, Katrina demystifies marketing to Moms and steps you through using existing resources and focusing on unconventional approaches to differentiate your business from rivals and generate buzz.
What you will learn:
* Develop your own Marketing With No Money strategy to attract, convert and retain your ideal Mom customers.
* Understand why partnerships and collaborations are the fastest way to achieve business objectives.
* Learn how your brand story will help you grow and attract more of your ideal customers.
* Identify the reasons why video marketing is essential for every brand.
* Understand why testimonials are critical to your growth (and how to get them.)
* Discover how to create and enhance your own customer experience to activate word of mouth marketing.
Children with Special Needs are becoming more and more prevalent. We cannot ignore this group. Now is the time to offer a place in our gyms for these children that will also open our hearts. There are several different types of classes that can be offered to these important families in our communities. Gymnastics can truly do wonders for these kiddos.
Drills and games to play during your vault rotation that have nothing to do with going over the table! Fast paced and fun vault activities to build speed and confidence.
What is your judging process? Identifying a consistent “process” to determine the Start Value and ultimately the score, specifically working with Uneven Bar routines.
Guided Hands-on Spotting Practice:
Uneven Bars: Kips
Beam: Cartwheels, Handstands, Back Walkovers, Cartwheel-Side Handstand Dismounts
Floor: Front Handsprings, Back Handsprings
Space in this session is limited! Reserve your spot by signing up at the Congress registration desk beginning Thursday at 5:30p.m.
Session attendees aged 18+ must be U110 SafeSport Trained to participate in hands-on spotting activities
I will share examples of how to increase tumbling speed without running clear across the mat. I will use examples of how to tumble using leverage, apposed to running fast. I’ll also give various training drills for tumbling improvement.
A comprehensive behavior management system designed for easy implementation in gymnastics schools. We focus on a proactive approach- anticipating and planning for issues. Learn step-by-step implementation guidelines, and get staff and customer communication and staff training resources for the most seamless transformation possible. This owner/director course goes along with my second lecture, “Coaching Zen” which helps coaches master the art of behavior management in their classes.
Designed for coaches at all levels, this session explores key strategies to help athletes translate training success into competitive performance. Learn how to raise expectations for skill execution—from beginning to end—and how to train the mind alongside the body. Discover how discipline, structure, and clear expectations create consistent, confident competitors.
Nutrition in gymnastics has long been a very stigmatized topic that many in the community are afraid to talk about and for many decades, the only times nutrition was discussed for a gymnast was if there was some sort of “problem”. As a result of years of research and practice, it is now known that nutrition is an essential component of building strong, resilient, happy, healthy, high performing gymnasts. Learn about a positive food culture and how to create one in their gym, gain an understanding of sports nutrition basics for gymnasts, understand the role of the coach in nutrition conversations, walk away with conversation starters to have conversations about fueling with parents and/or athletes that are within their scope, and take home strategies to make fueling for performance a priority in your gym.
Hungry for knowledge? Grab some lunch and discover what you’ll need to prepare for the National/Brevet categories at this informative lunchtime learning session presented by Pat Panichas. Meal not provided. Please bring your own lunch.
Curious about TeamGym? Bring your lunch and learn all about this exciting and fast-paced discipline that brings the energy of artistic gymnastics, tumbling, and trampoline together in a dynamic team-based format. Presented by Kristi Bender and Rachel Hallett. Meal not provided. Please bring your own lunch.
Recreational beam can often feel boring and scary for kids, but it doesn’t have to be! This lecture will provide tips to make beam activities creative and fun, introduce beam circuits designed to build kids’ confidence, and share strategies to turn recreational beam into a favorite event. Say goodbye to the boring dip kicks and hello to an exciting beam experience that kids will love!
Footwork is a key element of performance quality and can often distinguish good from great routines. This session will provide insights on footwork learned from a professional dancer and choreographer and apply these principles to encourage the consistent application of footwork deductions in women’s gymnastics.
Guided Hands-on Spotting Practice
Uneven Bars: Clear Hips
Floor: Back Handspring Series, Front Handsprings, Front Tucks
Space in this session is limited! Reserve your spot by signing up at the Congress registration desk beginning Thursday at 5:30p.m.
Session attendees aged 18+ must be U110 SafeSport Trained to participate in hands-on spotting activities.
In this session, coaches will learn how to guide gymnasts through mental and emotional setbacks, whether it’s recovering from injury, performance anxiety, or a loss of confidence. The presentation will provide strategies for fostering resilience in athletes, including how to create a supportive environment and teach gymnasts how to use failure as a tool for growth. Coaches will walk away with specific exercises and tools to help gymnasts bounce back stronger after adversity.
This lecture explores why strong HR practices are essential to a gym’s success, going far beyond just hiring. Attendees will learn how to attract the right candidates through effective job descriptions and interviews, and how to build a solid onboarding and training program that reduces turnover and sets new hires up for success. The session also covers how to manage staff performance using SMART goals, regular feedback, and meaningful recognition. In addition, it provides guidance on staying compliant with labor laws and handling conflicts professionally. Gym owners walk away with practical tools and templates to build a motivated, legally compliant, and high-performing team.
How to Energize Your Recreational Classes with Fun and Positivity!
Kids are becoming device-bound. Wildness, tree climbing, skinned knees and grass stains are disappearing from childhood. We’ll discover ways to put rowdy imagination back into the physical experience, discover again the joy of making noise and journey to ‘The Island of Misfit Props”, showing how to go well beyond the traditional bean bags and hula hoops and discover props and teaching tools that light up every student from preschoolers through teens! Let’s get back to maximizing crazy-fun and thoroughly awesomizing your rec classes. WARNING: Not a quiet lecture.
Watch the judging and coaching worlds collaborate in this live, dynamic session. A judge will evaluate beam skills, providing real-time deductions and feedback. Then, a coach will step in with targeted drills and corrections to address the technical flaws and improve performance. Learn how to spot errors, understand where deductions come from, and apply effective fixes that make a difference.
Gen Z represents 20% of the US population but 40% of its consumer spending power. And in the US, first time Moms are around 27, younger than many Western countries. That means Gen Z Moms are here, now, with money to spend on brands they trust, attracted by marketing which speaks directly to them. With a short attention span, huge native tech awareness and no fear in breaking up with brands and businesses that disappoint—almost 8 in 10 Gen Z have done it—this tech-reliant mom segment is drawn to brands with deep insights about their needs, habits and communication preferences.
This is a huge opportunity—and it’s urgent. Most US children’s activity providers are still obsessed with Millennials and have been left behind by Gen Z’s emergence. Using latest research, data and trends, Katrina shares why millennial marketing strategies won’t work with Gen Z, the critical differences between the generations and how to develop a marketing blueprint to future proof your brand in 2025.
What you’ll learn from this session:
This session is designed to help the Women’s Program community understand all the rule changes that were approved at the 2025 annual committee meetings. You’ll hear directly from members of the Administrative, Technical, and Development Program committees as they walk through the key updates — including changes to the Rules and Policies, the Development Program Code of Points, the Compulsory Book, and the Operating Code. These updates will take effect for the upcoming 2025-2026 competition season, so this is a great chance to get clear on what’s new.
Master the art of behavior management in your classes. This course equips coaches with proven techniques to improve both their teaching method and their athlete’s performance.
Coaches will learn to create a positive and structured environment that fosters growth, motivation, and discipline. By mastering behavior management strategies, coaches will build stronger relationships with their athletes, increase their focus, and drive consistent, measurable progress.
Explore effective vault drills and sides side stations that do not utilize a vault table. This session focuses on progressive training methods for Front Handsprings, Tsukaharas, and Yurchenkos.
Master the full turn on beam with stability and precision. In this session, we’ll break down the key technical positions required throughout the turn to ensure a smooth, wobble-free execution. Coaches will also learn progressions leading to more advanced turns, including the Wolf Turn, L Turn, and Y Turn.
Learn how to quickly screen and treat the ankles of your gymnasts. Learn important pre-hab and strengthening tips to help prevent ankle injuries.
What does it mean to be successful? In this presentation, Katrina demonstrates that success differs for everyone as she shares the seven most important strategies she’s learned on her journey from corporate businesswoman to stay at home Mum to successful entrepreneur.
This is Katrina’s signature motivational keynote designed to entertain, inspire and motivate your audience to question how they view success and reflect on their personal contribution to their organisation.
This session is designed to help the Women’s Program community understand all the rule changes that were approved at the 2025 annual committee meetings. You’ll hear directly from members of the Administrative, Technical, and Xcel Program committees as they walk through the key updates — including changes to the Rules and Policies, the Xcel Program Code of Points, and the Operating Code. These updates will take effect for the upcoming 2025-2026 competition season, so this is a great chance to get clear on what’s new.
In this interactive session, we’ll start with a fun deconstruction game and then we’ll focus on sharpening our coaching techniques by identifying the critical component that’s holding an athlete back—and learning how to correct it for real progress. This session is specifically geared toward instructors of Preschool and School Age recreational classes, with practical, hands-on strategies you can take straight to the gym.
Join us for an evening of fun and celebration at the 2025 Region 6 Congress Banquet. Ticket purchase required. Cocktail reception begins at 6:30 in the Grand Pavillion foyer. Click Here for Tickets!
Rise and Shine! Begin the day with a rejuventating morning stretch session led by Annette Robert Koerth. Awaken your body, mind, and spirit in preparation for an invigorating day of learning and professional growth!
Onsite registration will be available at the registration table. Want to save time in line? Click here to access the onsite registration form, complete and bring it with you to the congress registration table. Credit cards or checks are accepted for payment.
Visit the Region 6 Trade Show Hall to chat with exhibitors and check out the latest products and services in the industry, including equipment, apparel, technology and more!
This session will explore how to build strong foundational tumbling skills through creative drills and fun games. We’ll cover effective ways to reinforce proper landings, helping to prevent injuries, and offer progressions for advancing tumbling techniques while prioritizing safety. Perfect for coaches looking to improve both skill development and injury prevention in their classes!
Did she choose to step, or did she have to step? What about body position? Evaluating the landings on Vault, Bars, Beam and Floor.
Get ready for an interactive and inspiring session designed for coaches and judges! This live lecture will spark your creativity as we explore fun, effective ways to motivate athletes and choreograph movement that looks and feels great. Come ready to move, take notes, and share ideas as we bring choreography to life together!
All the building blocks for outstanding bars.
Let’s take a deep dive into your daily practices and polices; are you spending time on the rights things each day to get the most done? What can you delegate out to others? Can you make parent complaints evaporate? We will uncover strategies to make our work week more manageable and NOT have our time sucked away on non-value issues.
Incorporate these 10 skills into your coaching curriculum to elevate your team’s performance.
Attendees will review the most important injury prevention exercises every gymnast should be doing and understand the biomechanics of hanging, handstands, landing, and back handsprings to prevent injuries. These injury prevention exercises will also help gymnasts gain more power and perfect execution of the skills.
Watch their preschool or recreational students. Why are they having so much fun yet look so accomplished even though they only attend one hour per week? (Remember, your kids’ performances are YOUR coaching report card.) There are certain unbreakable, unbreachable laws that the greatest coaches follow that set them apart from the status quo. Laws like:
These are principles that can’t be broken. They’re laws that, when taught to new teachers, launch them light-years ahead in their path to becoming a valuable instructor They’re laws that the best educators have internalized and live by.
This interactive session will pose various situations to participants and ask them what would/should you do? Categories include: judging errors, equipment woes, professional behavior, and safety.
Guided Hands-on Spotting Practice:
Uneven Bars: Flyaways
Beam: Back Walkover-Back Handspring; Back Handspring-Back Handpsring; Back Handspring-Layout
Floor: Aerials, Front Tucks, Standing Back Tucks
Space in this session is limited! Reserve your spot by signing up at the Congress registration desk beginning Thursday at 5:30p.m.
Session attendees aged 18+ must be U110 SafeSport Trained to participate in hands-on spotting activities.
Physical preparation for high level development.
Explore drills and progressions that develop active flexibility to enhance power, control, and range of motion in both tumbling and leaps. This session focuses on building strength through motion, improving technique, and supporting safe, dynamic movement across all levels.
Our sport requires vast amounts of time, energy, and commitment from our amazing, unique, young athletes. Let’s create gym environments that foster positivity, achievement, support, and friendships. This session is devoted to creating a team climate that not only helps you develop every level of athlete in terms of gymnastics skills, but how to do this in a way that your athletes keep coming back year after year. By infusing these burnout prevention strategies into your daily workouts and throughout your training schedules, you can create a team climate that every athlete wants to be a part of.
This lecture focuses on safe and effective methods to enhance both strength and flexibility in young gymnasts. It emphasizes age-appropriate strength-building exercises to support physical development, along with proper stretching techniques that improve flexibility while minimizing the risk of injury. A key theme is maintaining a balance between strength and flexibility to optimize overall athletic performance.
Practice judging Levels 3 and 4 on all events to provide a review of common and not-so-common errors.
Guided Hands-on Spotting Practice
Uneven Bars: Low Bar Giants
Floor: Roundoff Back Handsprings, Back Tucks and beyond
Space in this session is limited! Reserve your spot by signing up at the Congress registration desk beginning Thursday at 5:30p.m.
Session attendees aged 18+ must be U110 SafeSport Trained to participate in hands-on spotting activities.
Although vaulting is regarded as the easiest event to learn, there are many moving parts that have to be taken into consideration to ensure not only the athletes continued progress but more importantly their safety. What I will cover in my lecture, is the breakdown of those moving parts as it will pertain to what ultimately will be the key to advance vaulting.
Learn about new ways for gym owners to structure their businesses to provide for financial efficiency and tax minimizing. We will also cover the largest tax misunderstanding for small business owners. With the new administration in office there’s already new opportunities for the small business owner!
When you understand the athlete’s mind, you have the ability to bring out the best in them in a positive and caring manner.
Bite-size learning with a full-size impact! Grab your lunch and learn all about the Inquiry process in this informative lunchtime session presented by Laurie Willey. Meal not provided. Please bring your own lunch.
Looking at all the ways we use and measure angles in Xcel, with reminders of the most general ways in which Xcel differs from the Development Program.
Guided Hands on Spotting Practice
Vault: Yurchenko Training
Uneven Bars: Overshoots
Beam: Dismounts
Space in this session is limited! Reserve your spot by signing up at the Congress registration desk beginning Thursday at 5:30p.m.
Session attendees aged 18+ must be U110 SafeSport Trained to participate in hands-on spotting activities.
How to develop and maximize direct and indirect acro bonus on floor.
The Full Customer Journey. Often, businesses work to market to prospects, they sign them up, then they focus on getting the next customer. Rarely do we focus on “The Journey”… from the moment a customer first hears our business name, to their inquiry, registration, participation, purchases, sibling enrollments, birthday parties… all the way up until they give notice that they’re moving on. Businesses that pay attention to the steps of this journey have more than ‘customers’, they create relationships that endure and multiply. Here’s a wildly visual ‘tour’ of how to create “The Customer Journey” from the moment of enrollment through each week in your care.
Take advantage of the short amount of time you have with the most important team group. From warm up complexes and handstand development to conditioning and shaping, learn how to run EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE PreTeam workouts.
Let’s get these younger ones in our gym earlier. Motor skills, movement, social interaction, music, and sensory processing are naturally found in gymnastics classes and are extremely important to these little ones. These families that start at the gym this early will likely stay in your gym for years to come. They may even become your Jr coaches and then your team coaches. This is an investment that brings the best return!
Keeping Your Gymnast Healthy – Mind, Body, and Soul [Extended 2-hour Session]
Join us for an engaging and informative session led by a multidisciplinary panel of gymnastics medicine and wellness experts, each dedicated to supporting the whole athlete — today and for years to come.
Our expert team includes:
Together, this comprehensive team will provide valuable tools and strategies to keep your gymnast healthy in mind, body, and soul — not just for the season ahead, but for a lifetime of well-being.
Using the balance beam to introduce shapes and strength needed for bars support and casting??? YES
Want to build straight tumbling? Beam is the answer!
Come have fun exploring non traditional ways to use your beams!
This session will emphasize the amplitude of some common and unusual release elements. Judges will compare the amplitude, body position, and shorthand for each of the skills.
This practical session will focus on building effective floor line drills that help athletes progress toward combination tumbling. We’ll break down key drills, shapes, and progressions that keep athletes moving with purpose and confidence. Ideal for Xcel coaches, this lecture will give you tools to create a training flow that builds both skill and connection. Come ready to learn, share, and energize your floor training!
Small biz owners face problems that bigger companies need to deal with. This presentation will cover items such as lack of knowledge; information overload; lack of direction; innovation; finding employees; keeping clients and so on.
This lecture will cover common errors on specific major elements and text discrepancies. Be prepared to get involved because we will be sharing ideas. Drills and fun ways to make your kids score higher will be offered. Make sure to come with questions and ideas!
Embark on a thrilling adventure with your little ones through this engaging lecture! “Dynamic Duo Delights” offers a treasure trove of 101 creative ideas for parent and child gymnastics classes. From whimsical warm-ups to playful partner activities, discover how to strengthen the parent-child bond while fostering physical development and coordination. Join me as we explore exciting, age-appropriate activities that make gymnastics a joyous shared experience for both parents and their budding gymnasts. Get ready for a world of smiles, laughter, and gymnastic milestones!
What to do when the question is not in the Code of Points.
Discover how to design effective beam complexes that incorporate dance drills and progressions for athletes from beginner through optional levels. This session will highlight technical tips, circuit-based training strategies, and the critical role of basics in developing advanced skills. Learn how addressing weak areas leads to stronger performance—and how twisting and turning on beam connects to success across all events.
This lecture explores leadership decision-making through a personal lens, drawing on the speaker’s real-life experiences with major business decisions and earlier missteps. It introduces practical tools and resources discovered during these challenges, offering a diverse collection of ideas and techniques. Attendees will leave with a valuable toolkit to improve both personal and professional decision-making, with insights tailored to leaders of all experience levels.
Unlock the secrets to the most essential shape in gymnastics—the handstand! This session covers shaping strategies, cast and press development, and pirouette technique with a focus on skill progression and deduction reduction. Perfect for coaches from Pre-Team to high-level Optionals looking to build or refine handstand-based skills.
How to put some excitement into your Boys’ Rec classes but teaching them in a modern Ninja style.
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Onsite registration will be available at the registration table. Want to save time in line? Click here to access the onsite registration form, complete and bring it with you to the congress registration table. Credit cards or checks are accepted for payment.
Join this interactive session to explore practical strategies for building and growing a successful men’s program. Learn how to start a men’s program at your club, recruit and retain male athletes for long-term success, and understand key skill requirements for each level. Discussion will also cover when and how to advance boys through the levels, plus additional tips and insights for building a strong and sustainable men’s program at your club.
Rhythm/Tempo, Stop, Concentration Pause: Evaluating all Connections on Balance Beam.
Drills and tactics for teaching, drilling, and perfecting Level 4 & 5 FWO/FHS + CW step In + Back Extension Roll, Level 2 & 3 Back Extension Rolls, HS Roll, HS Bridge Kickover, and Back tumbling.
Covering Handspring Front, Tsukahara, Yurchenko and Half-On.
How to improve and incorporate artistry, body posture, and presentation into dance routines.
In this lecture I teach gym owners how to hire, retain, and constantly evaluate their current staff to get them to their maximum potential. It includes a section on building positive workplace culture, who / how to hire, and how to evaluate.
Let’s investigate the most commonly asked Xcel questions of the year! Will you be able to solve the mysteries, or perhaps present more mysteries?
Effective and EFFICIENT tactics to teach Back Fulls, 1 1/2’s, and Double Fulls.
Your athletes rely on the “words that come out of your mouth” in order to improve, stay focused, and stay motivated. This session is designed to provide several strategies of HOW to give feedback to maintain motivation, increase the likelihood that your athletes continue to make corrections, and to decrease frustrations- both yours and theirs! Regardless of the level of athlete your work with, from the tiny tots to the Dev National qualifiers, they all need instructional feedback that helps them sustain motivation and continue to improve, and these strategies will help you do that for them!
A data-driven approach to balancing training load, recovery, and biomechanics using real-time athlete monitoring, workload management, and injury risk analytics to optimize performance and longevity.
In this lecture I will share the tactics that ETC Gymnastics, as well as Iron Business Solutions, uses to go from ZERO experience, to a coach ready to lead a recreational class in about 7 days. Including methods for attracting, evaluating, and retaining good people.
The goal of this session is to accurately differentiate between excellent, good, and average performances on Level 6/7 beam and floor. We will focus on ways to separate high quality performances from others by using a variety of throughout deductions, such as artistry, footwork, rhythm & tempo, and body alignment.
Drills and side stations for developing strong uneven bar skills.
How to develop powerful, safe front and back tumbling.
This business-focused session is designed to help gym owners streamline their daily operations through practical technology solutions. The lecture opens with a brief overview of the common operational challenges faced by gyms — such as manual tasks, outdated systems, and poor communication — and emphasizes how the right tools can dramatically boost efficiency and productivity. Attendees will explore key technologies including gym management software, parent communication apps, and skill tracking tools, while engaging in interactive exercises to identify and address their own operational pain points. The session also covers effective implementation strategies, such as team training, phased rollouts, and parent education, highlighted by real-world success stories. In the final section, participants learn how to measure tech success using KPIs, gather feedback, and continually optimize their systems. With a Q&A and take-home resources like a tech checklist and tutorial templates, this lecture offers a clear, actionable path toward smarter, tech-driven gym management.
Presented by the Positive Coaching Alliance, this FREE workshop gives coaches hands-on tools they can immediately use to create a positive sports culture with their team. Now more than ever, teen mental wellness needs our focus. Mental wellness affects how we think, feel, and act and determines how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. A positive sports experience, where athletes develop and build connections in an environment that is high on both challenge and support, can contribute to athlete mental wellness.
This course is FREE to congress registrants, but space is limited and pre-registration is required. Click here to reserve your spot!
