The Australian Institute of Personal Trainers is an organisation committed to raising the standards and improving the profile of personal training in Australia.
The ARM is proud to be involved in this forum. As a participating association we will provide coverage to this program and distrubute an invitation for this event. In return the ARM logo will be included on a list of supporters, and a link placed on the website, in the program and in all marketing material
Registered Training Organisation called the Australian Institute of Personal Trainers. We are putting on an event called the International Health and Fitness Forum (IHFF) with the primary objective of bringing together allied health professionals. The conference will take place over 2 days, 28-29 October 2011 at the Sydney Cricket Ground. On the 28th of October we are bringing out a fitness star from the US to run a day of workshop whereby the presenter will deliver new techniques, styles and trends in practical classes for personal trainers and health professionals. We are negotiating with the curator of the grass at the SCG to hold this part of the IHFF on the centre field. We have already secured use the score board and the sound system for the SCG. On the 29th of October we will be holding the conference element of the IHFF. We will commence with an opening panel discussion on tackling obesity in Australia. We will then move into 2 streams one focussed on health/fitness and the second focused on business. There will be three sessions in each stream. Speakers locked in so far for the panel discussion and streams include: · Jane Flemming, Olympian and Commonwealth Games Gold Medallist
· Professor Kerryn Phelps, former President of the Australian Medical Association
· Dr Ken Crichton, pre-eminent physio
· Dr Joanna McMillan, Dietician, author and Channel 9 Today shownutrition expert
· Kerry Pottharst, Olympic Gold Medallist Beach Volleyball
· Guy Leech, Ironman and Personal Trainer
· John Symond AM, founder Aussie
· Paul Greenberg, founder www.dealsdirect.com.au
We have outstanding invitations to the State Health Minister and two more health and fitness experts. We have been very lucky to secure such a strong array of speakers.
The purpose of speakers such as Dr Crichton, Dr McMillan and Prof Phelps is to have speakers and topics that will entice allied health professionals from all areas of specialty to participate in this forum.