A FMS rotary stability extension test


Chek believes that developing a training program for a client before you’ve evaluated them completely is, quite simply, a big mistake. Trainers who fail to do so may, in fact, be putting people at risk for injury. Another highly qualified fitness professional concurs. Gray Cook is a board-certified orthopedic clinical specialist with the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), and a certified strength and conditioning specialist with the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). “You first want to get your clients to move well, and then get them to move often,” he advises. Cook describes his philosophy clearly in his book, Movement: Functional Movement Systems: Screening, Assessment, and Corrective Strategies. Clubs that don’t utilize some sort of assessment system are also missing out on an opportunity to serve their members better, and, in the process, differentiate their business in their respective markets. Although more clubs are exploring and implementing comprehensive, functional-assessment protocols, many continue to operate without them. Why?


It’s a case, on the one hand, of standing at the beginning of a new learning curve, and, on the other, of lacking, until fairly recently, the necessary assessment tools. “There hasn’t been a system to help us gauge movement quality before we gauge movement quantity,” Cook points out. That, however, is beginning to change. Cook’s solution, developed in partnership with Dr. Lee Burton, the athletic program director at Averett University, in Danville, Virginia, has been designated a functional movement screen (FMS). A seven-step testing process that can be completed in less than 15 minutes, it allows trainers to effectively identify “functional asymmetry or major limitation in functional-movement patterns.”


During testing, clients perform a series of athletic-based movements, including push-ups, hurdle steps, in-line lunges, mobility stretches, shoulder mobility stretches, supine straight-leg raises, a quadruped rotary movement, and deep squats with over- head reaches. As the client performs these basic, fundamental patterns, the tester > Gray Cook


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