Accurate assessments are the key to designing effective exercise programs and group fitness classes. However, the overwhelming amount of information available about assessment can make the process confusing and sometimes key components get overlooked. This session will teach you the basics of performing a musculoskeletal assessment and provide you with a step-by-step format to use with every client.

Accurate assessments are the key to designing effective exercise programs and group fitness classes. However, the overwhelming amount of information available about assessment can make the process confusing, and often key components get overlooked. This session will teach you the basics of performing a musculoskeletal assessment and provide you with a step-by-step format to use with every client.

As a Pilates, yoga, spinning, dance-based or other group fitness instructor, you often see clients in your classes with musculoskeletal imbalances. Finding time to address these problems during the class is difficult. This session teaches you how to identify imbalances in a class setting and also how to communicate and incorporate appropriate corrective exercises into your group sessions.

This fully interactive hands-on workshop reveals the functional anatomy of the lumbo-pelvic hip girdle and teaches you how faulty movement patterns and/or biomechanics lead to structural malalignments. You will learn how to assess imbalances of the lumbo-pelvic hip girdle, learn an array of corrective exercises, and have the opportunity to create your own corrective exercises. These techniques will help to alleviate your clients’ pain and improve function.

Effective corrective exercise program design obviously requires an understanding of the imbalances you want to correct. Another essential aspect involves choosing and teaching exercises in such a way that your clients learns to adapt these new movement patterns as their own. Discover how to design outstanding corrective exercise programs based on the principles of motor control, neuromuscular coordination and effective client communication.

The fascial system is an important, but often overlooked, system of connective tissue that spreads throughout the entire body. Restrictions in the fascial system can cause postural malalignments, asymmetries and muscle tension-this spells pain! This hands-on workshop will help you understand the fascia and how to use specific exercises to keep it healthy so you can improve client fitness and eliminate dysfunction.