The MELT Education Series offer the most comprehensive information about the human body available in the health and fitness industry today. Sue Hitzmann has assimilated, integrated, and condensed the new science of the human body and then translated it into an applicable method that dramatically improves the body’s ability to maintain pelvic stability, core integrity, and connective tissue hydration throughout a lifetime.

This 55-hour certification program explores this groundbreaking science behind MELT and participants become experts in the application of the technique. These trainings will also broaden and ground your knowledge of movement and whole-body synergy, and shed light on what is missing in the current fitness models.

The MELT Education Series is comprised of these three distinct trainings, all of which qualify for ACE, AFAA, and NASM CECs:

• New Science of the Living Body: The MELT Living-body Model™
• MELT Core
• Melt Length Teacher Training (level 1)
• The MELT Group Exercise Intensive
• Become a MELT Group Exercise Instructor




New Science of the Living Body: The MELT Living-body Model™
upcoming workshops
(5-hour course)

Do your clients ever mention body tension or pain? Do you have pain? A recent survey of personal trainers and group exercise instructors found that over 88% experience chronic pain. In fact, 80% of all orthopedic injuries are sports or exercise induced. So why is the current fitness model creating so much injury, dysfunction, and chronic pain? Before now the answer was unknown. New research has revealed the root cause of pain in active people—and it is not muscle imbalance, strength, or flexibility—it cannot be resolved with current exercise protocols.

Course description:
This workshop reveals revolutionary science regarding connective tissue, pelvic stability, and the core systems. We will introduce an applicable Living-Body Model™ that offers a comprehensive foundation for assessment and fitness program design that provides injury prevention, maximum movement potential, and posture improvement.

Course Objectives:
· Gain a scientific understanding of new research of the human body regarding pelvic stability and mobility, the role of the diaphragm, tensional relationships and connective tissue, and how the reflexive and rooted core work to maintain postural integrity.

· Understand the role of connective tissue regarding structural strength, stability, and integrity, and how the body maintains head to toe connection via the “myofascial lines.”

· Apply the new science to the traditional fitness model and improve your skill of implementing sound program strategies.

· Explore an applicable, dynamic model, the MELT Living-Body Model™, which offers a foundation for comprehensive assessment and program design.

Prerequisite:
Current certification/license in fitness (i.e., yoga, Pilates, or personal training), manual or physical therapy, or equivalent experience.

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MELT Core
upcoming workshops
(15-hour course)

Did you know that traditional core exercises do not necessarily create a more stable, upright body? In fact, they often instigate greater dysfunction in the body. New science on the pelvis, core, and connective tissue reveals the missing link to the traditional models used in fitness and rehabilitation today.

Course description:
This course is an in-depth study of the new science of core stability and the vital interrelated systems that create balance in the human body. Learn a new model which synthesizes this science, The Reflexive And Rooted Core™, and its application to improve your ability to stop poor repetitive patterns and improve your clients' results.

· Discover revolutionary new science about the pelvis and gain a sound understanding of what the “core” is, how it works, and why many people struggle with traditional abdominal exercises.
· Gain an understanding of the Reflexive and Rooted Core™ model and show how this system function to innately stabilize, protect and communicate to maintain whole-body integrity.
· Learn the basic MELT Core Series used to rebalance the core system, achieve integrated movement of the spine and pelvis, and bring a body back to a more aligned position.
· Learn how to retrain clients with pelvic instability, low back pain, and poor muscle tone.

Prerequisite Course:
New Science of the Human Body: The MELT Whole-body Model™

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MELT Length Teacher Training (Level I)
(30-hour course in two parts)
Maintaining healthy connective tissue is vital to long-term health and wellness. Treating this tissue improves posture, joint range, muscle hydration, and even cellulite. MELT (Myofascial Energetic Length Technique) is the first fitness program ever to focus on this resource in the body. This revolutionary approach to pain-free living uses a specialized foam roller and MELT hand and foot balls to empower people at all stages of life and fitness levels to take control of their aging process and maintain an active lifestyle. MELT is a one-of-a-kind method that is backed by science and approved by clients and clubs.

Course description:
This life-changing certification program covers the theory, science, and applied movements of this groundbreaking, self-treatment technique This method, based on the up-to-the-minute science of the M.E.L.T. Whole-Body Model, can be combined with your Pilates, yoga, movement or manual therapy education and used as a tool to teach your clients how to maintain an active, pain-free lifestyle for years to come. MELT can transform your current practice into a destination for pain prevention and peak performance. Graduates are certified to teach private and semi-private training sessions.

Prerequisite Courses:
New Science of the Human Body: The MELT Whole-body Model™
MELT Core

Become a MELT Length Group Exercise Instructor:
Graduates are given an opportunity to audition to be certified to teach MELT Length in a group exercise setting. Group exercise classes are an excellent vehicle to expand your private practice and are a platform to further develop your communication skills in a group setting.


Course objectives:
Learn the three distinct techniques of MELT Length: MELT Whole-Body and Lengthening techniques and the Hand and Foot series the accompanying assessments, MELT Maps, and MELT principles and precautions.
· Gain an understanding of how to treat dysfunction, discomfort, and imbalance by concentrating on the connective tissue.
· Discover how to rehydrate and reactivate the connective tissue to reacquire length and space in the joints and rebalance body alignment—resulting in an immediate change.
· Learn how to self-assess your body to gain an understanding of what to pay attention to during client sessions.
· Learn how to enhance your client's ability to move with ease, while reduces their overall risk of pain and injury.
· Learn how to empower your clients to take charge of their performance and aging process by teaching them self-treatment techniques which will also improve the results they achieve in their sessions with you.

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The MELT Group Exercise Intensive
upcoming workshops
(4-hour)

This workshop prepares certified instructors to translate the MELT Method™ into an on-going group exercise class, 8-session series or MELT workshop-intensives. Learn how to effectively cue the movements, convey the principles and precautions of MELT, and create MELT Maps using MELT Core and Length Techniques. Also learn the necessary modifications based on varying fitness levels, injury, pregnancy, and other intricacies.

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Become a MELT Group Exercise Instructor
Graduates must audition to be certified to teach MELT in a group exercise setting. If competency of the method is shown, Longevity Fitness will assist certified instructors in securing clubs to teach MELT as well as give them all necessary materials to teach MELT in a group exercise setting.

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