Fitness guru conducts gab to Holiday staff

THE staff of Holiday Gym and Spa, the premier health and wellness center in Davao City, attended a training with a health and fitness expert in Cebu recently. Striving to maintain excellence in the fitness industry, Mark “Macoy” Quijada, Ted Uy, Mark Norman “Cocoy” Malbog, Irlyn Joy “Jet”  Togonon-Tombo, Ivy Fernandez, Ronnie Bulanda, Korn Cocjin and Joel Bontuyan of HGS Davao attended the training in Cebu under Lawrence Biscontini, an IDEA and ACE Awardee as Fitness Instructor of the Year.
Biscontini was the special guest of Holiday Cebu and Davao last 2008. Due to lack of time this year, he visited Holiday Cebu and Davao intructors had to fly all the way to be able to get fresh ideas from the master himself.
One of the topics tackled was from his new book “Cream Rises” where he says that cream is excellent than milk.. Biscontini taught tips on how one can cross over from just being a good instructor or fitness professional to being an excellent one.
Lawrence Biscontini, M.A., has made fitness history as a Mindful Movement Specialist by being the first to receive the following awards: Presenter’s Choice Debut Premier ECA Award (2009), Best International Program Chosen for Japan for “Shakti” (2007), Best Corporate Trainer for Xerox Greece (2006), Best Mind-Body Presenter (ECA, 2005), Specialty Presenter of the Year Award (Can Fit Pro, 2004), and Instructor of the Year Awards from IDEA (2004) & ACE (2002). Lawrence’s programming at the Golden Door Spa in Puerto Rico went on to receive Conde Nast Traveler Awards’ tenth place in the world for innovative spa programming. Lawrence has been Spa Consultant and Trainer for leading international spas including Cavo Tagoo Mykonos, Greece (2008), Canyon Ranch (2007, 2008), and Greenbrier, among others. As Nutritional Counselor, Lawrence has also created complete nutritional menus for spas from Manhattan to Mykonos. Lawrence has celebrity clients like cast members of ABC TV’s soap opera “General Hospital,” and appears on news (CNN Headline News) and television (“LIVE! With Regis and Kelly”). He is Contributing Author to industry magazines like AFAA’s American Fitness, IDEA’s Fitness Journal, and Spa Asia. His books include Morning Cardiovascular Workouts, by Human Kinetics and, most recently, Running the Show: Excellence in Fitness Customer Service, and Cream Rises: Excellence in Private & Group Education. In the USA, he has created aquatic, yoga, and T’ai Chi programming enjoyed at illustrious fitness chains and spas, including Equinox, 24 Hour Fitness, Gold’s Gym International, Bally, and Golden Door Spas. A percentage of all of his website sales goes to charity, and to inspire career wellness development, he has instituted several Biscontini Scholarships for the fitness and spa community and “Yo-Global,” a program to take yoga to the underprivileged.
Other topics discussed were “Train The Brain”, “Total Body Makeover”,  Foam Roller Training, Buddha Camp, Shake your Buddha,…he also gave some new insights as to how to treach step and hi-lo and aqua (yoga, pilates, cycle in the pool!)
Of the 8 staff from Davao who attended, Ivy, Ted, Cocoyand Jet earned continuing education credits from attending Biscontini’s training. The credits are essential to renew their certification from American Council on Exercise.
Trust only the experts in health and fitness. Visit or call Holiday Gym & Spa along Torres St., Davao City, with telephone numbers 222-3041.