Author Symposiums

PTontheNET.com has created an exclusive forum for industry experts to share their wisdom, perceptions and progressive thoughts on a variety of topics, with the results often controversial, yet insightful. Author Symposiums are about celebrating diversity by providing a space for industry leaders to gather in one place and share their varied perspectives on hot topics, so that personal trainers, sports coaches and fitness professionals can listen and read and decide for themselves what is truth, and what works best for their clients and athletes!

Here's a list of current PTontheNET.com Author Symposiums :

Strength vs Function - Part 2  | 02 Aug 2007

Join the industry’s leading educators and pioneers in strength and function as we take a look beyond the trends and buzzwords, into the true essence of human movement, function and vitality. Are we an industry divided by tradition and pioneering thought, or are we all really moving in the same general direction – whether we realize it or not?!

Participating Authors : Charles Poliquin; Gary Gray; Mark Verstegen; Mel Siff; Mike Clark; Paul Chek
Strength vs Function - Part 1  | 07 Jun 2007

Join the industry’s leading educators and pioneers in strength and function as we take a look beyond the trends and buzzwords, into the true essence of human movement, function and vitality. Are we an industry divided by tradition and pioneering thought, or are we all really moving in the same general direction – whether we realize it or not?!

Participating Authors : Charles Poliquin; Chuck Wolf; Ian O'Dwyer; Mel Siff; Michael Boyle; Mike Clark; Paul Chek
The Truth About Youth Training - Part 2  | 02 Sep 2006

Welcome to the third official PTN Author Symposium and another powerfully controversial and vitally important topic for the fitness and wellness world. As every wise voice in this symposium shares in his own way, the children are indeed our future and our most vital legacy. May we join together and shift the tides back in the direction of true health, happiness and balance for our youth in fitness, wellness, sport and in LIFE!

Participating Authors : Brian Grasso; Donald Chu; Gary Gray; Mark Mancino; Michael Boyle; Peter Twist; Tyler Wallace
The Truth About Youth Training - Part 1  | 02 Aug 2006

Welcome to the third official PTN Author Symposium and another powerfully controversial and vitally important topic for the fitness and wellness world. As every wise voice in this symposium shares in his own way, the children are indeed our future and our most vital legacy. May we join together and shift the tides back in the direction of true health, happiness and balance for our youth in fitness, wellness, sport and in LIFE!

Participating Authors : Brian Grasso; Charles Poliquin; Donald Chu; Juan Carlos Santana; Lee Taft; Mark Mancino; Paul Chek; Tyler Wallace
The Truth About Core Training - Part 2  | 04 Apr 2006

Virtually every trainer around the world engages in core training with their clients each day. So why do so many of our greatest minds and educators in fitness have such differing views when it comes to activating and training the core? Or do they??? Join Chip Richards and a host of PTN's top guns in an exploration of the CORE!

Participating Authors : Gray Cook; Mark Verstegen; Matthew James Wallden; Michol Dalcourt; Paul Chek
The Truth About Core Training - Part 1  | 02 Mar 2006

Virtually every trainer around the world engages in core training with their clients each day. So why do so many of our greatest minds and educators in fitness have such differing views when it comes to activating and training the core? Or do they??? Join Chip Richards and a host of PTN's top guns in an exploration of the CORE!

Participating Authors : Anthony Carey; Gary Gray; Mel Siff; Michael Boyle; Paul Chek
The Truth About Protein - Part 2  | 16 Sep 2005

We've covered the benefits and dangers of Soy and Whey in Part 1, now join a handful of PTN's nutritional guns for Part 2 of the Protein Symposium as they lay out the general guidelines for the body's protein needs, how best to serve those needs and when!

Participating Authors : Carla Sottovia; John Mamana; Matthew Kadey; Paul Chek
The Truth About Protein - Part 1  | 17 Aug 2005

Join a handful of PTN's most diverse experts to explore the nutritional building blocks of the human body, the truth behind what we are eating and how to get  the right amount of the "good stuff" each day! Part 1 takes a look into the offerings and controversies of whey and soy!

Participating Authors : John Mamana; Matthew Kadey; Paul Chek
The Truth About Stretching - Part 2  | 18 May 2005

From "Flexibility Highways" to "3-D MoStability," join a handful of PTN guns for Part 2 of The Truth About Stretching series, as they explore the functions, benefits, dangers and consequences of stretching the human body.

Participating Authors : Chuck Wolf; Gary Gray; Juan Carlos Santana; Lenny Parracino; Rowan Ellis
The Truth About Stretching - Part 1  | 21 Apr 2005

Join a handful of today's leading fitness educators for a detailed exploration of flexibility training - one of the most controversial and often misunderstood elements of fitness. Where does scientific research meet reality when it comes to stretching the human body?

Participating Authors : Annette Lang; Gray Cook; Greg Roskopf; Paul Chek