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Space Exploration - Fitness Innovation

Space Exploration - Fitness Innovation

New York Strength presents first ever Personal Trainers Conference at the Kennedy Space Center uniting Space Science with Fitness Training

(PRWEB) January 30, 2003

The performance consulting firm New York Strength has introduced it’s Project Infinite Endurance™ conference at The Kennedy Space Center, the first Personal Training Continuing Education Certificate program for extremes of strength and endurance, including preparation for the challenges of Space Flight.

Anticipating what NASA predicts will be a 20 Billion dollar private sector industry in space altitude flight, transportation, commerce and “space tourism” by 2010, “Project Infinite Endurance” was created to prepare Trainers with the proper techniques and technologies necessary to support these, and other athletes challenging the extremes of strength and peak performance on earth and beyond.

The Kennedy Space Center Fitness Director Starley Gensman welcomed the Training Professionals with a keynote presentation and two time Shuttle Astronaut Guy Gardner spoke to this gathering of Trainers during the lunch break at the convention center within the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex. Astronaut Gardner also participated in a question / answer session about the challenges of space flight.

“Project Infinite Endurance is a bold step in combining space age technology with fitness innovations for the benefit of every person.” stated New York Strength President Dr. Jack Barnathan, who created this daylong presentation. “Fitness Training has come of age and the Certified Fitness Training Professional accepts the challenge of a population in need of both cutting edge information and innovation in their quest for vigorous health, strength and endurance.”

New York Strength and itÂ’s team of Master Trainers serve as an International consulting firm for the sports and fitness industry, presenting cutting edge seminars that combine space age research with firmly established fitness principles in their personalized consultations for athletes, trainers and teams on both the Pro and Olympic level. New York Strength President Dr. Jack Barnathan travels the country over 35 weekends a year lecturing and consulting for many of the worldÂ’s top athletes, most exclusive spaÂ’s, events and organizations, and serves as Director of Fitness Science for the International Sports Sciences Association.

New York Strength’s annual Performance Conference for Trainers will be held in New York City May 16,17,18, 2003. The next module of the Project Infinite Endurance Certificate Program in Endurance and Strength for Lasting Performance will be announced in March and the next “Project Infinite Endurance” conference is scheduled for January 17, 2004 at the conference center of the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida.