Assessments
You Can't Improve If You Don't Measure
If you are signed up for the Fitness Boot Camp at All 4 Sports and Fitness, you have the opportunity to sign up for the Fitness Boot Camp Assessments, which include; The Functional Movement Screen, iMett Cardiovascular Analysis, and Circumference Measurements.
This FBC Journal will address the specifics of what exactly we are assessing and how it will help design a program to fit your needs.
Functional Movement Screen
The Functional Movement Screen is a tool and system designed by a Physical Therapist from Dansville, Virginia. He and his partner Lee Burton, who is a good friend of mine, have been teaching the movement screen process for years but it has only recently caught on in pro sports.
The basics of the system rely on the concept that all humans possess basic functional movement patterns that get lost over the course of life. Old injuries, repetitive movement patterns, and a sedentary lifestyle can all lead to a loss of these fundamental movement patterns and produce movement dysfunction.
The problem with movement dysfunction is that it can lead to muscles and joints that get over worked because they are doing jobs they are not supposed to do. We call these compensations. You can live, play, and workout with these compensations for a while but over time they lead to microtraumas, microtears in muscle, and overuse injuries. If you have pain somewhere it is probably not due to a defect in that spot, but something else in the body is not doing it's job.
What the Movement Screen does is identify these dysfunctional patterns so a trainer, coach, or individual can then begin to work on rehearsing some moves as a warm up. We call this Movement Prep.
Movement Prep will ensure that you are not adding strength, power, and conditioning to bad movements, as well as work towards a permanent correction of the problem.
iMett Cardiovascular Analysis
The iMett Cardiovascular Analysis and Program Software was designed by Paul Robbins, a metabolic specialist at Athletes' Performance Institute in Tempe, Arizona. I have known Paul for 4 years now and his system is the best that I have seen to accurately prescribe cardiovascular programs for athletes and clients.
The Analysis is basically trying to find out where your Ventilatory Threshold is.
Ventilatory Threshold (sometimes called Anaerobic Threshold or Lactate Threshold) is the point where you are expelling more carbon dioxide than you are taking in oxygen.
If you were to get up now and start running up a hill, the point where you can't link a sentence together between big breaths is your Ventilatory Threshold. With the iMett assessment, once we find this point, we can then prescribe to you a program based on this analysis and what it is you are trying to achieve.
There are about 180 types of programs in the system from weight loss to marathon protocols.
Circumference Measurements
A few years ago I wrote a newsletter and blog post called skinfolds, scales, and screens.
I mentioned that people that start an exercise program are always so concerned about what they weigh and get discouraged when they start to gain weight. When you start a weight training program you may gain weight..... muscle weighs more than fat. But, you will lose inches.
What do you want to lose, weight or inches? Nobody will know what you weigh if you stop stepping on scales and start to focus on your belt notches!!
This is the exact reason that we take body circumferences at the hips, waist, thigh, and upper arm.
We want to quantify inch loss, not weight loss. Or for some, maybe muscle size.
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