SWIS Symposium 2016

As a regular reader of MUSCLE INSIDER, you’re always on the lookout for the newest training strategy that the champions are using, or the latest diet protocol that everyone is doing. It gets tiring looking for the next best way to train or diet on YouTube or someone’s blog, especially since one person or coach’s strategy doesn’t always work for everybody. There’s always some little tip or trick that, if you could just ask the guru how to make it work for you specifically, would make all the difference.

As a MUSCLE INSIDER reader, you want advanced information specifically on hardcore training routines and techniques. You also want the most effective diet and supplement plans to help you maximize muscle hypertrophy and fat loss, especially if you compete in any category onstage. Many other seminars focus on health, and not so much on maximal muscle with the lowest amount of body fat possible. However SWIS 2016 is focused on bringing you presenters that are the best in the world and not just “YouTube stars” that can give you well-intentioned “bro” advice.

What is SWIS?
The purpose of SWIS (Society of Weight-Training Injury Specialists) is threefold. The first purpose is to put on large symposiums where the best in the world come and share their techniques with each other and others who attend the symposium. The second is to produce online educational videos for the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation exercises of weight-training injuries. The third is to hold small seminars learning specific assessment and rehab techniques for weight training injuries.

With that said, how would you like to get personally coached—onstage—by six-time Mr. Olympia Dorian Yates on your bent-over row technique. Or have Dr. Stu McGill, who is one of the top low back rehab specialists in the world, show you live and in person some advanced plank exercise tips? Or have MUSCLE INSIDER’s own Victoria Felkar show you how she gets women into competition shape? Not only that, but you could also hear her discuss the anabolic steroid situation that she has been writing about in the past few issues of MUSCLE INSIDER on the “Supplements and Steroids Panel,” where she will be joined by Dr. Eric Serrano, Patrick Arnold, Dr. Darryn Willoughby, Brad Hull, David Sandler, and me. Sounds like some pretty educational and informative (and once-in-a-lifetime) opportunities, no? Well, you have an opportunity this fall to get all your questions answered in person by the best in the world!

On October 13–15, 2016, in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, some of the greatest bodybuilders, powerlifters, strength coaches, doctors, therapists and nutritionists will come together at SWIS 2016 to share their training techniques, strategies and information. You will have direct access to Dorian Yates, Dave Tate, Dr. Mauro Di Pasquale, Bill Kazmaier, Dr. Eric Serrano, and me, plus 50 other presenters! It’s your chance to ask your questions, learn new training techniques, and network with new colleagues.

The SWIS 2016 symposium is on Friday October 14 and Saturday October 15 and is split up into four streams that run simultaneously: training, nutrition, treatment, and rehab. Go to SWIS2016.com for a full schedule and times. Here’s a list of the streams, the presenters, and the topics they’ll be speaking about:

Training Stream

Dorian Yates – Bodybuilding Techniques of a 6-Time Mr. Olympia
Matt Nichol – The Art and Science of Sports Assessment
Bill Kazmaier / Jerry Pritchett – Squat, Bench, Deadlift, and Strongman Technique Coaching Points Workshop
Matt Wenning – Deadlift Assessment and Technique Coaching Points Workshop
Christian Thibaudeau – Olympic Lifting Technique Coaching Points Workshop
Lorne Goldenberg – Advanced Strength and Conditioning for Hockey
Dave Tate – Should You Open a Gym or Studio?
Chris Duffin – Foot Mechanics, Cueing, and Corrections to Maximize Performance Workshop
Mindi O’Brien and Stephanie Worsfold – Tips, Tricks and Advanced Weight Training Techniques for Bikini, Fitness and Physique Competitors Workshop
John Meadows – Tips, Tricks and Advanced Weight Training Techniques for Physique/Bodybuilding Competitors Workshop

Nutrition Stream

Nanci Guest – The Genetics of Fat Loss and Muscle Hypertrophy
Eoin Lacey – Applying Heart Rate Variability to Maximize Training and Nutritional Success
Rick Collins – Personal Trainer and Strength and Conditioning Coach Scope of Practice and the Law
Dr. Robert Silverman – Pain and Inflammation Supplementation for Weight Training Injuries
SWIS Nutrition Panel – Supplements and Steroids – Myths, Misconceptions and the Truth
Victoria Felkar – Muscle Hypertrophy and Fat Loss Nutritional Strategies for Female Competitors
Dr. Rob Rakowski – Nutritional and Supplementation Protocols for Sleep
Dr. Jeffrey Stout – Nutritional / Supplement Strategies to Modulate Immune and Inflammatory Response to Intense Exercise
Dr. Darryn Willoughby – Nutritional Needs of Strength and Power Athletes
Dr. Dom D’Agostino – Nutritional Ketosis: Effects on Metabolic Regulation and Signaling

Rehab Stream

Paul Gagne – Postural Sports Performance: Advanced Technologies for Training Athletes with Low Back Pain
Donnie Thompson – Advanced Low Back Mobility Techniques
SWIS Rehab Panel – Demonstrating Their Favorite Rehab Exercise for Specific Weight Training Injuries
JL Holdsworth – Hip Assessment and Rehab for Low Back Injuries
Kevin Darby – Fascial Stretch Therapy Techniques for the Low Back
Dr. Dale Buchberger – Advanced Soft Tissue Techniques for Low Back Injuries
Ian King – Coaches Guide to Prevent, Identify, Manage, and Rehab Lower Back Injury Workshop
Dr. Stu McGill – Tuning the Body for Performance and Injury Resilience
Dr. Eric Serrano – Unusual Exercises for Rehabilitation and Treatment of Weight-Training Injuries
Paul Chek – Back Pain as Emerging Consciousness

Treatment Stream

Dr. David Leaf – Muscle Testing Weight Training Low Back Injuries Workshop
Dr. Peter Jaillet – Brain Based Treatment for Low Back Weight Training Injuries Workshop
Dr. Karim Dhanani – Advanced German Biological Treatment for Metabolic Disorders
Dr. Ken Kinakin – Assessment, Treatment and Rehab for Powerlifting Injuries Workshop
Dr. Mark Scappaticci – Functional Integrated Techniques for Weight Training Low Back Injuries
Dr. Anil Makkar – The Science of Jaw Power: Increase Weightlifting Performance with a Proper Bite
Dr. John Rusin – Advanced Physical Therapy Strategies of Assessment, Treatment, Rehab, Training
Kelly Armstrong – MPS Neurostim for Weight Training Low Back Injuries
Dr. George Roth – Matrix Repatterning for Weight Training Low Back Injuries
SWIS Chiropractic Panel Demonstrating Specific Adjustments For Weight Training Injuries

Want to spend an entire day with Dr. Stu McGill listening to him talk about advanced sports training, or Dr. Rob Rakowski speaking on sports nutrition, or Dr. David Leaf on performance based muscle testing to get in-depth knowledge and coaching? You can, on Thursday October 13 from 8:00-4:30!

Or if you can’t get the time off work, or don’t have the cash to go, then join us for free presentations on Thursday night from 6:00-9:00 for “Ozzie Talks.” These are short 20-minute presentations on a variety of topics, plus a guest lecture from Dr. Mauro Di Pasquale. Ozzie Talks are short presentations that help raise money for rescue dogs, and are free to the SWIS delegates and public. Topics for this night include the following:

Dr. Mauro Di Pasquale – Epigenetics of Nutrition
Mike McKinnon – Food Addiction – Strategies to Overcome it
Gaetan Boutin – Performance Strength Mechanics: Introducing Torque, Core Stabilization and Performance Breathing to Athletes
Renee Primeau – Bikini and Figure Post Competition Eating and Emotional Management Strategies
Dr. Erin Saltzman – Shockwave Therapy Applications and Demonstration
Mat Boulé – Posturology for the Deadlift
Dr. Martin Lai – Grip Strength Assessment and Training Protocols
Dr. Scott Christie – Reps and Sets Determination through Technology
Victoria Felkar – The Good, the Bad and the Juiced: A Critical Conversation about Muscle
Nutritional Panel – Subjective and Objective Assessment Strategies to Determine the Best Diet For You

The Mission of SWIS
The mission of SWIS is to have therapeutic professionals work with professional trainers who train clients in a one-on-one or group setting. The goal of SWIS is to create a win-win-win relationship between the doctor/therapist, the trainer, and the client. The trainer will be able to know certain doctors or therapists that understand weight training and how to fix different injuries for their clients that they can refer over to them. The doctors and therapists will feel confident to refer over a patient to a trainer knowing that they will not reinjure the patient due to inadequate training technique or program design. The patient/client will know that they are taken care of properly since everyone is working together. This is the win-win-win relationship. So SWIS is focused on creating a “bridge” for the doctors/therapists and the gym trainers. This will allow each profession to do the best work they can.

Come Join MUSCLE INSIDER at SWIS 2016
Scott Welch, the publisher of MUSCLE INSIDER, and Dr. Ken Kinakin, the founder of SWIS, have been discussing SWIS 2016 and the impact it can have on the bodybuilding and weight training industry. So MUSCLE INSIDER is coming on board as a Gold Sponsor to help promote and cover the event so everyone can have access to this incredible event.

Special MUSCLE INSIDER Discount for SWIS 2016
As a reader of MUSCLE INSIDER you are entitled to a 10% registration discount. Just apply the discount code “muscleinsider” at the end of registration checkout to get 10% off.

So join us on October 13–15 for SWIS 2016 for one of the most hardcore weight training symposiums. Go to SWIS2016.com for more information and registration on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the best in the world presenting all their information and coaching.