"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets

even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that

all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a

great street sweeper who did his job well. "

                                          - Martin Luther King Jr.

If you are going to make a commitment of your time, effort, energy and money to attend a fitness conference, what benefits do you intend to receive for your investment? Everything can be synthesized down to “Return On Investment”…ROI! You make a decision to invest when the expected ROI is an equal or greater value than the investment that you make. 

The National Fitness Tradeshow (NFTS) made the same decision when inviting the International Fitness Professionals Association (IFPA) to bring the highly accomplished and acclaimed IFPA Faculty, featuring the world’s best fitness, sports conditioning and nutrition educators, to become a big part of the NFTS Team. The NFTS is extremely gratified to have the IFPA provide all of our fitness enthusiasts and professionals the opportunity to attend world-class lectures and sessions on the most current topics and challenges concerning the fitness industry. The IFPA’s extremely unique approach to education is to require the practical application of the most current scientific knowledge, and the benefit to you: the IFPA will teach you precisely what you need to know to improve your knowledge and skill in fitness, sports conditioning and nutrition. You will not waste a second, a calorie or a penny of your investment in time, energy or money on irrelevant “academic minutiae” or worthless “scientific mumbo-jumbo.” The IFPA Faculty will be as focused as a laser to present the courses and curriculum that will teach you exactly what you need to know to make a quantum leap ahead in your understanding of fitness, sports conditioning and nutrition. You will gain the knowledge, skills and secrets you need to improve your lifestyle and the lifestyle of others. You will learn the answers to the questions that have haunted you for so long. The answers will give you the Mastery over your fitness, sports conditioning and nutrition dilemmas that will lead you to success - success for yourself and success for others.

Many decades ago, a wise Franciscan Nun told her class of 4^th graders that…“the world should be a better place because of what you have accomplished with your life…” You probably made the decision to share your love, passion and knowledge of fitness because you too were once inspired by some caring teacher to…“go out and make the world a better place.” You now have an opportunity before you to learn from the world’s most passionate fitness educators, the IFPA Faculty. All of the IFPA Faculty have dedicated themselves to the mastery of fitness knowledge and the mastery of passing that knowledge onto others, just like you.

The IFPA Faculty has the combined experience and wisdom of centuries of teaching and clearly understands that to pass their knowledge on to you requires them to take current scientific knowledge and present it to you in an easy to understand and entertaining format. The IFPA has undertaken the painstaking labor of struggling through thousands of resumes, interviews and tryouts to find the elite few, the special few that can qualify to become IFPA Faculty. The benefit to you: Every time you are taught by an IFPA Faculty Member, you will know that you are learning the best, from the best and that this process will lead you to becoming an expert at your fitness craft. 

How does this process work for you? In order for you to be your very best, to do your very best, you must first learn the very best from the very best. Knowledge is power and that knowledge can be gained from the limitless expertise of the IFPA. The IFPA was founded to give you that knowledge, knowledge you can gain, but you must be willing to invest your time, effort and energy. Your ROI can make you wealthy beyond all measure or your lack of interest can leave you right where you are.

If you desire success, you must seriously consider the following quote from George Bernard Shaw:

This is the true joy in life; the being used for a purpose, recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature, instead of a feverish, selfish, little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, that as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live.

I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have a got a hold of the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before passing it on to future generations.

                                                                   -------------George Bernard Shaw

Thank you for considering Mr. Shaw’s most eloquent expression of the meaning he found in life. Thank you for your consideration of a decision you must make: Will you make the decision to be “…used for a purpose…?” Will you dedicate yourself to becoming “…a Force of Nature…?” Will you accept the “…Splendid Torch….” that the IFPA Faculty are willing to pass on to you?