Bottom line Pilates is a body weight training class based in Ballet, Pilates and resistance training.  You will feel your thighs, abs and shoulders.

Burn 200-400 calories in the short 30 minute workout!

Bring your body, your mind and your butt.

Moves you will experience… Read the rest of Join Andrea Metcalf Saturday Morning for a Bottom Line Pilates Class!»»

Join Paolo Sambrano and Susan Ito (“Foodie McBody”) as their fitness blogs come to life on the stage!

Paolo is not above lying to the clerk at Popeye’s, saying that the 24 piece chicken strip meal he’s buying is for his family when what he really intends is to construct chicken strip-biscuit-french fry-mashed potato sandwiches while watching Star Trek: The Next Generation in the dark. Between kettlebells, strippers with hearts of gold, and weighing food, I Get Wet is about being a fatass, not being a fatass, and being a fatass again.

Foodie McBody was an overweight, rice-loving couch potato when she got the wakeup call that threatened diabetes. Follow her roller coaster ride in “FoodFoodBodyBody”, from the doctor’s office to Weight Watchers and the world of Couch-to-5k and secret blogging. Can she have her cake and have her health too?

Susan and Palo will be performing Friday night at 8PM in Salon A and/or B, we are still working on some details!

Building community is necessary for the success of your blog. You’ll need to not only inspire your community but balance it with a monetizing strategy. Join us for Building an Online Community: Balancing, Monetizing and Inspiring were we will discuss:

• How to build real life events to create a community that can transition seamlessly from offline to online and back.
• How to spread the love by pushing out content from other bloggers in the community.
• It’s more than just getting free product. We’ll talk about how to leverage brands to grow your blog, even if you are not offered money for a brand relationship.
• How to define and protect your brand so that you work with the right advertisers.
• The importance of celebrating the progress of people in your community and creating challenges so that everybody wins.

Part of the “Design 101″ session will include a design critique of blogs written by participants brave enough to submit their sites for public review. As part of her session, web designer Jennette Fulda from Make My Blog Pretty will point out areas for improvement in your design and highlight the things you’re doing right. She promises not to make you cry. If you’re interested in potentially having your site reviewed, leave a comment below with your blog address.

What if you could create curiosity and evoke enthusiasm and emotion with social media?

How do you create community and facilitate a following?

Join Ben Teal in the Newbie room for Social Media 101: It’s a Jungle Out There–Seeing the Rainforest for the Trees…

Help Ben prepare… What are your two biggest, most burning questions about social media?

Join us Friday for the panel, The Laughing Cow Community Leader Model: Exploring The Relationship Between Blogger and Brand where we will…

• Discuss how The Laughing Cow is growing their community by fostering a connection between prospective community members through current community leaders with expertise in the following fields: fitness, food, nutrition and healthy lifestyle.
• Community Leaders will talk about how the relationship with The Laughing Cow brand works within their own brand/persona and in general the structure for working together.
• The Laughing Cow community leaders will share their experiences working with brands to help show the blogger audience some strategies and ideas for how they might support/engage The Laughing Cow or other consumer brands.

Panelists include:
Patricia Bannan, M.S., R.D., The Laughing Cow®’s Nutrition Community Leader
Sarah Dussault, The Laughing Cow®’s Fitness Community Leader
Roni Noone, The Laughing Cow®’s Food Community Leader

Moderator:
Nicole D’Alonzo, The Laughing Cow® Community Manager

Do you know how long people are on your site? Can you tell a potential advertiser the percentage of traffic clicks through to the outgoing links you write about? Or, How many people tried to fill out your contact me form and failed?

Scott Stawarz will provide answers to these questions and more. In this session, Scott will discuss: Read the rest of Session Overview: Know Your Stats: Mining your website analytics to improve your blog.»»

Join New Balance Fitness Ambassador Holly Perkins for an in-depth discussion about emerging workout and diet trends and the science behind these latest developments. Holly will cover topics that include metabolic workouts, choosing proper footwear, women & cravings and nutrient timing around workouts. You won’t want to miss this fun, informative and interactive session!

Holly’s session is Friday morning of the conference at 9:30AM. Click here to see all the other fabulous sessions!

Photos should make a good blog post even better. It doesn’t take a fortune in software and equipment to be an effective photographer.

Jim Doran will walk you through:

• the basics of digital photography
• choosing a camera
• software options for photo editing
• tips for getting great results with what you already have to work with

Attune foods’ believes what matters most is what’s inside- inside your body and inside the food you are eating. They make foods for digestive health like Uncle Sam high fiber cereals, Erewhon organic certified gluten free cereals and attune certified gluten free chocolate probiotic bars. Get excited because they are going to sponsoring breakfast and a coinciding Q&A on Friday called “Go with your Gut: How Nutrition and Digestion Affect Your Performance.” Keep your eyes peeled for your swag bag- each one includes one of their attune chocolate probiotic bars- a tasty treat that’s low in sugar and chock full of probiotics. Read the rest of Attune Foods’ sponsored breakfast and Q&A panel»»

Are you tired of your self worth being tied to the number on the scale?

Do you want to stop the cycle of binging and dieting?

Do you long for a life without guilt, shame and deprivation? Read the rest of Session Overview: Ditch The Diet: Eat Intuitively»»

What can….

• give you credibility, content, celebrity status, and circulation?
• help your site’s SEO and Google Ranking?
• give you a presence on YouTube – the 2nd most used search engine?
• help prove that you are trustworthy?
• lead to bigger and better things such as speaking gigs or book deals?

Video can! And it’s not as hard as you may think. Join Jendi Pagano for the Vlogging 101 session at FitBloggin’11. Check out Jendi in action… Read the rest of Session Overview: Vlogging 101: Break into Video Blogging»»

If you enjoy blogging as a hobby but are interested in taking it to the next level, don’t miss this session! Join Esther (ShePosts), Jen (PriorFatGirl), Josie (Yum Yucky) and Ryan (No More Bacon) as they share their insight in taking blogging from Hobbyist to Professional.

You’ll leave the session knowing…

• simple blog design tweaks to increase your daily dollars.
• outside the box methods to increase blog exposure.
• ideas on how to engage your readers.
• and other things you didn’t know you didn’t know!

Have you been blogging with WordPress and Blogger, but are ready to move over to your own domain?

Or are you ready to take the big leap from the very start? Read the rest of Session Overview: Move to Self Hosting: Everything you need to know to make the switch.»»

Does Fit Blogging have to be serious? According to our panel, Finding the Humor in it: Growing your blog one laugh at a time, the answer is a resounding NO!

From the satire of Jack Sh*t, the raw honesty of Operation Shrink Charlie’s Big Butt, or the snark of MrsFatass, each participant on this panel has their own way of using humor to share their story. This session will deal with keeping ideas fresh, finding inspiration, and allowing even the most serious of messages to come through with a laugh.