How would you rate your current level of fitness? What would you use as a scale? How much you bench? How fast you can run a mile? Can you touch your toes? These are all standards that have been used at some point in time by fitness professionals. And I would agree that each does has some merit. But the problem is that if you ask 20 fitness professionals how do they rate someone’s fitness, you’ll probably get 20 different answers. There needs to be a standard. When you visit the doctor, they take a few specific measurements to compare between visits. They typically take your blood pressure, temperature, weight, and resting pulse rate. Shouldn’t trainers have some type of standard to monitor someone’s current fitness state? Well actually we do.
A brilliant physical therapist, known for working with professional athletes, named Gray Cook came out with a screen called the Functional Movement Screen or the FMS as it’s more commonly referred to. This screen checks the quality of your movement patterns, in 7 of the most common ways we all move. It has a simple scoring chart, and it allows you to use it as an assessment. You may not be able to squat parallel or perform a correct push up without compensation, or put your arm overhead… like you do in overhead presses. The screen will check for that. I started using this screen a few years back. It’s helped me tremendously, specifically with program design. How can you determine how much weight to give someone in a squat if you’ve never seen them perform a squat? You can’t. What if squats aren’t a good option for someone, but you don’t know that? And what happens in gyms everyday is that most trainers & strength coaches guess. Now most of the time that won’t get you in trouble, except for that one time where the guy has really tight calves or hamstrings & compensates with his lower back. After a month in the chiropractor’s office he returns to the gym, but this time without performing squats. It doesn’t happen frequently, but I have turned people away because they weren’t cleared to start a program. They needed a few sessions of physical therapy before they jumped into a workout. I believe exercise can cure a lot of things, but it can’t heal a pre-existing injury. In the Torch Workout every person is put through a movement screen to determine what they can handle. Before they pick up a kettlebell or sandbag, I know how strong their core is. One of the cool things is that in a class we can have 4 people performing 4 different exercises at the same time. Their score will determine which exercise and the intensity of their exercise. I wrote a book last year about this work. You can download it for FREE below to read about the science behind the Torch Workout.
The Torch Workout- A Personalized, Non-traditional HIIT Workout Class for Fat loss
We have 5 days left to receive the August discount on your membership for the Torch Workout. As I mentioned before, we are offering a 30 day 100% money back guarantee with all memberships. So there is no risk! The only thing you have to risk is fat & inches. So please give me a call (702) 892-0400 or shoot me an e-mail Doug@janddfitness.com to book a class or stop by to check out a class. See you at the studio.
-Doug
A brilliant physical therapist, known for working with professional athletes, named Gray Cook came out with a screen called the Functional Movement Screen or the FMS as it’s more commonly referred to. This screen checks the quality of your movement patterns, in 7 of the most common ways we all move. It has a simple scoring chart, and it allows you to use it as an assessment. You may not be able to squat parallel or perform a correct push up without compensation, or put your arm overhead… like you do in overhead presses. The screen will check for that. I started using this screen a few years back. It’s helped me tremendously, specifically with program design. How can you determine how much weight to give someone in a squat if you’ve never seen them perform a squat? You can’t. What if squats aren’t a good option for someone, but you don’t know that? And what happens in gyms everyday is that most trainers & strength coaches guess. Now most of the time that won’t get you in trouble, except for that one time where the guy has really tight calves or hamstrings & compensates with his lower back. After a month in the chiropractor’s office he returns to the gym, but this time without performing squats. It doesn’t happen frequently, but I have turned people away because they weren’t cleared to start a program. They needed a few sessions of physical therapy before they jumped into a workout. I believe exercise can cure a lot of things, but it can’t heal a pre-existing injury. In the Torch Workout every person is put through a movement screen to determine what they can handle. Before they pick up a kettlebell or sandbag, I know how strong their core is. One of the cool things is that in a class we can have 4 people performing 4 different exercises at the same time. Their score will determine which exercise and the intensity of their exercise. I wrote a book last year about this work. You can download it for FREE below to read about the science behind the Torch Workout.
The Torch Workout- A Personalized, Non-traditional HIIT Workout Class for Fat loss
We have 5 days left to receive the August discount on your membership for the Torch Workout. As I mentioned before, we are offering a 30 day 100% money back guarantee with all memberships. So there is no risk! The only thing you have to risk is fat & inches. So please give me a call (702) 892-0400 or shoot me an e-mail Doug@janddfitness.com to book a class or stop by to check out a class. See you at the studio.
-Doug