This November, we close out the 2026 NRL EDGE Webinar Series with a session focused on two areas that can have a major impact on performance—how you prepare to train and how you recover when training is over.

Building Better Performance: How to Design Purposeful Warm-Ups & Develop Sustainable Sleep Strategies

Sean Hayes

Director of Player Performance, UFL

The Workout Is Only as Good as the Warm-Up: Creating a Road Map to a Great Training Session

A great training session starts before the main workout ever begins. In this session, Sean Hayes will break down how to build purposeful warm-ups that prepare the body for the demands of training, competition, and everyday performance.

Sean will explore the differences between preparing for a workout and preparing for competition, how to incorporate prehab strategies based on common injury sites, and how the warm-up can create a road map into the primary training session.

Whether you're coaching a team, training individual athletes or clients, or looking to improve your own workouts, this session will provide practical strategies for creating warm-ups that have a purpose—not simply going through a routine.

Cristi Bartlett

Assistant AD / Director of Strength & Conditioning, NC State University

Translating Sleep Science into Actionable Behaviors

We all know sleep matters—but knowing that and consistently getting quality sleep are two very different things. In this session, Cristi Bartlett will take the science behind sleep and turn it into practical strategies that can be applied in the real world.

Cristi will discuss the importance of sleep for performance and recovery, the everyday realities that can make quality sleep difficult, and practical strategies for developing better sleep habits. The focus will be on creating sustainable behaviors rather than chasing perfect routines that may be difficult to maintain.

Whether you're working with athletes, helping clients improve their health and performance, or trying to improve your own recovery, this session will provide actionable strategies for turning what we know about sleep into habits that can actually last.

November 17, 2026 | 7:00 PM ET | Live on Zoom

Learn practical strategies you can use immediately, participate in a live Q&A with both speakers, and connect with the speakers and other attendees during The Let Out networking session.