VINKOFEST 2007

Le séminaire que vous ne pouvez pas vous permettre de manquer!

Eric Cressey

Eric Cressey received his Master’s Degree in Kinesiology with a concentration in Exercise Science through the University of Connecticut Department of Kinesiology, the #1 ranked kinesiology graduate program in the nation.  At UCONN, Eric was involved in varsity strength and conditioning and research in the human performance laboratory.  Previously, Eric graduated from the University of New England with a double major in Exercise Science and Sports and Fitness Management. 

An accomplished author, Cressey is a regular contributor to Testosterone Nation, Men’s Fitness, and Elite Fitness Systems, and Rugged Magazine, authoring over 140 published articles in all.  Eric has been an invited guest speaker all over the U.S. and abroad.  His Master’s thesis, “The effects of 10 weeks of lower-body unstable surface training on markers of athletic performance,” was published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.  He is also a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

As a competitive powerlifter, Eric holds several state, national, and world records.  A mainstay in the Powerlifting USA Top 100 lifts in his weight class, Cressey is rapidly approaching Elite status with competition bests of 540 squat, 402 bench, 628 deadlift, and 1532 total in the 165-pound weight class.  He trained at the world-renowned South Side Gym in Stratford, Connecticut from 2005 to 2006

Eric has helped athletes at all levels - from youth sports to the professional and Olympic ranks - achieve their highest levels of performance in a variety of sports.  Although prepared in a variety of bodies of knowledge, Cressey specializes in applied kinesiology and biomechanics as they relate to program design and corrective exercise; maximal relative strength development; and athletic performance enhancement.  He is a highly sought-after coach for healthy and injured athletes alike, and currently trains athletes and weekend warriors alike in Greater Boston
Feel free to contact Eric at ec@ericcressey.com

Website www.ericcressey.com

Joe DeFranco

Joe is one of the country’s most highly sought after performance enhancement specialists. This is due to his reputation throughout the country for producing extraordinary results with his athletes. These results have not come by accident. Joe’s academic background, coupled with his “in the trenches” experience, has proven to be a recipe for success.

Some of Joe's accomplishments are as follows…

• Joe has helped produce over 50 NFL draftees!
• Joe compte plus de 15 000 heures passées à entraîner ses athlètes durant sa carrière en conditionnement physique. 
• Joe has logged over 15,000 hours of training athletes during his career in strength & conditioning. During this time, Joe has trained well over 1000 high school and college athletes from various sports. This includes All-State and All-American performers in football, baseball, wrestling, basketball, track & field, lacrosse and hockey
• Joe’s Football Combine DVD & Super-Strength DVD have become a worldwide success in 9 different countries!
• Joe has authored over 50 articles on training & sports performance and he is currently a contributing writer for the famous online publications Elitefts.com & T-Nation.com
• Joe has co-authored 2 best-selling training manuals - “The 40-Yard Dash” & “The Vertical Jump”
• Joe’s website newsletter boasts over 10,000 subscribers and it has developed the reputation as the leader in hardcore strength & conditioning information on the internet
• Joe has trained NFL football players from all 32 NFL teams!
• Joe’s training techniques have been featured on Fit-TV’s “Insider Training” as well as various publications & news channels
• Joe has lectured worldwide on the topic of “Strength and flexibility training for enhanced sprinting speed”

Website: www.defrancostraining.com

Charles Poliquin

Charles Poliquin is a native of Ottawa, Canada. While completing graduate studies in Exercise Physiology in Canada, Charles began coaching athletes, a career move that has resulted in hundreds of medals, wins and personal bests of many elite athletes. He is known worldwide for producing faster athletes. When a country wants a Gold medal, they come to Charles.

Coach Poliquin has been hailed as the most successful strength coach in the world. He has spent years-researching European journals (he is fluent in English, French and German) and speaking to other coaches and scientists in his quest to optimize training methods. He has perfected the art of writing routines that produce results, and his books and courses are the culmination of his theories and knowledge.

Charles Poliquin has lectured extensively on practical and theoretical aspects of physical conditioning in eight different countries and in 3 different languages. Charles has also written over 500 articles for various web sites, magazines and journals. His work has been translated in 7 different languages. English, Swedish, German, French, Italian, Dutch and Japanese.

Website: www.charlespoliquin.com

Mike Robertson

Mike Robertson is the President of Robertson Training Systems and the Director of Custom Athletics in Indianapolis, Indiana. Mike has made a name for himself as one of the premier performance coaches in the world, helping clients and athletes from all walks of life achieve their physique and sports performance goals.

Mike received his Masters degree in Sports Biomechanics at Ball State University. His graduate assistantship was performed in the Biomechanics Lab, a division of the Human Performance Lab. In his time there, Mike was responsible for setting up a complete online exercise database, assisting in research on strength and power development, and also played an integral role in starting up the strength diagnosis clinic. Working in the athletic weight room is where Mike found his calling, however, and he put in nearly 1400 volunteer hours as an assistant strength and conditioning coach in 2 years time. Mike worked primarily with the football, volleyball and soccer teams, while counseling and coaching individual athletes from all of Ball State's 26 varsity sports.

Finally, Mike is an accomplished athlete and coach in the sport of powerlifting. Mike has totaled 1400 pounds in the 198 pound weight class, and has improved in each and every meet he has attended. Mike has coached several National champions in the Collegiate ranks, and as an assistant coach for the 2004 USA World Bench Press Team, Mike helped the team clinch a second and first place finish for the Men's and Women's teams, respectively

Website: www.robertsontrainingsystems.com

Christian Thibaudeau

Thibaudeau (pronounced Tee-Bow-Doh) is yet another French Canadian phenom in the strength and conditioning community. He's successfully trained a wide array of athletes from Olympic lifters and strongmen to hockey players and figure skaters. He's also a competitive Olympic weightlifter, a football coach, and has completed his M.Sc. degree in exercise science. Judging from his articles so far at T-Nation, he also knows a heck of a lot about packing on mass

Yvan Campbell

Kinésiologue, professeur, conférencier, expert reconnu en traitement de la lombalgie et de la douleur chronique, Yvan Campbell a complété une maîtrise en physiologie de l’exercice à l’université de Montréal.  En 1992, il est cofondateur d’Actiforme Consultants, une firme oeuvrant dans le domaine de la kinésiologie, qu’il quitte en 2004 pour fonder l’Institut de Kinésiologie du Québec, une entreprise voué à la promotion et l’amélioration de la forme physique et du mieux-être grâce à l’expertise en exercice de son fondateur et ses employés. 
Avec son expérience de travail à l’hôpital Charles-Lemoyne et le programme Prévicap, il collabore avec des médecins et des professionnels de la santé de tous les domaines pour amener une meilleure compréhension de l’activité physique et de la santé.
Professeur à l’université de Montréal depuis 2002, il contribue à passer la flamme de sa passion à plusieurs générations de professionnels de l’exercice au département de Kinésiologie.

Site web: www.yvanc.ca

Denis Pedneault

Denis Pedneault est un culturiste de niveau international, professeur à l’université et thérapeute chevronné.  Titulaire d’une maîtrise en kinanthropologie, il a complété un D.E.S.S en exercices thérapeutiques afin de pouvoir aider ses clients aussi bien dans une salle de traitement que dans la salle d’entraînement.  Spécialisé en musculation, il possède une expertise de pointe en anatomie et en biomécanique, en plus d’enseigner à la faculté d’éducation physique et sport de l’Université de Sherbrooke. 

Passionné par l’entraînement sous toutes ses formes, c’est à l’âge de 16 ans qu’il entreprend le parcours qui le mènera jusqu’au plus haute sphère du culturisme, ayant participé récemment aux Championnats Mondiaux dans cette discipline.

Michel Portmann

Originaire de suisse, athlète aux Jeux olympiques de Mexico en 1968, entraîneur de Claude Ferragne et Claude Forget aux Jeux de Montréal en 1976, Michel Portmann est aujourd'hui un universitaire fort respecté dans son domaine. Docteur en physiologie de l'Université de Montréal, il est, depuis 1973, professeur au département de kinanthropologie de l'UQAM. Pour en savoir plus sur lui, cliquez ici

Nicolas Roy

Ayant travaillé avec Christian Thibaudeau durant ses études, Nicolas Roy est préparateur physique dans la région de Sherbrooke. Depuis 4 ans, il entraîne des athlètes de différents niveaux (jeunes jusqu’aux professionnels) pratiquant des sports où les qualités de : force maximale, force-vitesse, d’accélération et d’agilité  prédominent. Il est formateur pour le Programme National de Certification des Entraîneurs de l’Association Canadienne des Entraîneurs et il s’occupe des laboratoires pratiques des cours de méthodologies d’entraînement à la Faculté d’Éducation Physique et Sportive de l’Université de Sherbrooke. Son entreprise se nomme Fonctions Optimum
Site web : www.fonctionsoptimum.com  

Alain Watier

Alain Watier est un préparateur physique à Montréal. Il travaille avec plusieurs athlètes dans une multitude de sports différents. Sa spécialisation est surtout les athlètes de puissance et le développement de la force maximale. Il entraîne régulièrement des joueurs de baseball, football et hockey. De plus, il encadre aussi des athlètes avec des demandes énergétiques différentes comme le soccer, le patinage artistique et la natation. Il est aussi expert dans la transformation physique ayant lui-même passé de 26% à 10% de gras en moins de 6 mois. Finalement, il est aussi un athlète qui a joué pendant plus de 13 ans au baseball de façon très compétitive.