What is the structure of the Integrative Movement Specialist™ Certification?
Participants will attend 4 live classes (Friday – Sunday) and complete home study between modules.
| Module I | The ABC's of Function: Assessment, Breathing, Core | January 2011* |
| Module II | Complete Lower Body Conditioning | March 2011* |
| Module III | Complete Upper Body Conditioning |
May 2011* |
| Module IV | Complete Program Design and Professional Development. Discover how to activate inhibited muscles using the V.I.P. Method™. | July 2011* |
*Dates are subject to change with proper notice. All modules will take place in Chicago Illinois.
(Friday: 8:30am – 5:30pm; Saturday: 8:30am – 5:30pm; Sunday: 8:30am – 12:30pm)
What skills will you acquire as a Integrative Movement Specialist™?
You will discover:
- Precise assessment and evaluation skills to help identify movement dysfunctions as they relate to decreased ROM, poor movement patterns, pain and injuries
- Exact training strategies and cueing techniques to improve movement dysfunctions and increase performance with your clientele
- The keys to performing precise muscle testing so you can quickly and easily assess dysfunction in your client and determine whether an exercise is appropriate or not for the client to perform
- Specific muscle testing and movement assessments to identify exact causes of compensation postures and movement
- The secrets of understanding primitive reflex patterns and how to use these patterns to help unlock you clients' potential
- How to identify even the slightest movement dysfunctions in your client and how that can save them from needless decreases in performance and pain...
- The most effective ways to re-program the neurological system in your clients and why that is important for building functional strength, endurance and coordination
- Discover how to activate inhibited muscles using the V.I.P. Method™:
- Visualization
- Isometric Contractions
- Proper Breathing
And much more… including the keys to performing and progressing key pushing, pulling, core and hip patterns, activating the proper muscle sequences for optimizing performance, how to structure your workout for maximum success, how to enroll clients as participants in their own health and well-being!
How does the Integrative Movement Specialist™ Certification differ from other certification programs?
• You will work with a small group of like-minded dedicated professionals which will allow for more hands-on time and one-on-one instruction…
• You will learn the skills most applicable to the clients you serve most; the general population, pre/post rehab, and pre/post natal clientele…
• Become the go-to resource and the ones they seek out to help them achieve their health and fitness goals…
• You will become a movement specialist and establish yourself as ‘the expert’ in your target niche...
• We will help you identify your target market and develop your business around this identifiable market…
• You will have direct input into the development of the program because you possess a unique skill set that will help contribute to other’s success...
• We will help you think bigger about who you are as well as what your contribution is to this industry and to the world.
What specifically will I learn as Integrative Movement Specialist™?
The Integrative Movement Specialist™ Certification will consist of 4 modules and home study that will be assigned prior to and after each module.
MODULE 1:
The ABC’s of Function: Assessment, Breathing, Core Neurology: Understanding the fundamentals of function
Why neurological approaches are the future of rehabilitation and conditioning
- What neurology teaches us about function and dysfunction
- Understanding dysfunction
- Why people get injured
- Effects of trauma including surgery, overuse, childbirth on the neuromuscular system
- Why many of the current training strategies are breaking clients down
- How to determine whether or not your training is helping or harming your client
The Functional Debate
- The Great Debate: Isolation vs. Integration
- Why functional training can be breaking your clients down
- Why not understanding true function can break your clients down
- Why you must understand functional anatomy and kinesiology to be considered an expert
Why you must understand and perform muscle testing
- What does it tell you and what value can you discern from muscle testing
- Muscle weakness vs. muscle inhibition – there is a huge difference
- Understand how muscle inhibition leads to functional weakness and compensatory patterns
- How to assess muscle function and what to look for to identify compensatory patterns
- Why if you are not muscle testing you don’t know what your true effect is on the body
- How to use the functional quadrant scan to determine whether you are dealing with global or local dysfunction
- The differences with specific muscle testing
- Break testing vs. neurological testing
Research
- The value of research vs. the misleading use of information
- Why EMG does not always tell you the true story of muscle function
Neurodevelopemental Model of Function
- What we can learn from child development
- What the development markers can tell us about adult function
- How we can use primitive reflex patterns to improve adult performance
Motor control and learning
- The real methods to improving performance – affecting the central nervous system
- How to become an expert at teaching and why this may be single biggest determinant to your success as a fitness professional
How to use range of motion (ROM) to assess dysfunction and why bilateral comparison is a more true assessment of ROM
- Why clients get tight and lose ROM
- How to improve flexibility and ROM without stretching
- How to increase effectiveness of stretching without shutting down the nervous system
- Using principles of reciprocal inhibition
Stabilization vs. mobilization
- Why you must understand where the body needs to be stable and where it needs to be mobile
- How to improve regions of dysfunction
Stability
- What is stability and what it means to be unstable
- Why being too stable leads to early degenerative joint disease and movement dysfunction
- The myth of the weak core and why very few of your clients have a weak core The core stabilization system
- The muscle chains
- Intra-abdominal pressure
- Hydraulic amplifier
- Feed forward mechanisms
Activating or ‘turning on’ inhibited muscles?
- The ‘VIP’ System
- Visualization- how to tap in to the power of the mind to improve muscle function and movement patterns
- Isometrics- how to utilize isometric contractions to immediately improve muscle strength and joint ROM with minimal stress on the joint structures
- Proper breathing –
1. why optimal breathing patterns must be restored prior to any other correction strategy
2. how to utilize breathing to produce the quickest and most effective activation of an inhibited core system
Kinesiology of the core: the lumbo-pelvic- hip and thoraco-lumbar complexes
- Understanding the relationship between the thoracic spine, lumbar spine, pelvis, and hips
Muscles of the core
- Origin and insertion
- Nerve innervation
- Spinal relationship
- Functional anatomy – isolated and integrated function
- Force couples
- Reflexive function
Muscle testing of the thorax
- Spinal and Trunk Muscles
- Quadratus lumborum
- Lumbar erector spinae
- Thoracic erector spinae
- Abdominals
- External and internal obliques
- Transversus abdominus
- Diaphragm
Breathing
- Why if your clients can’t breathe properly, they can’t perform optimal patterns
- Understanding the anatomy of breathing and its relationship to core function
- How to assess and improve breathing disorders
- How to use proper breathing to immediately improve functional deficits, muscle imbalances, and movement compensations
Core Activation
- The debate between bracing vs. drawing in
- The most effective strategies for improving function
- Why most core exercises create dysfunction
- The fallacy of the weak core
Functional Movement Patterns
Set up, correction, cueing, and performance of key patterns including:
- Supine patterns
- Prone patterns
- Quadruped patterns
- Plank patterns
- Chops
- Rotations
What is the value of myofascial release and stretching
- How to determine when, how, and why to perform release techniques
MODULE II.
Complete Lower Extremity Conditioning
Kinesiology of the hip complex
- Understanding the relationship between the pelvis, hip, and lower extremity
Muscles of the hip and lower extremity
- Origin and insertion
- Nerve innervation
- Spinal relationship
- Functional anatomy – isolated and integrated function
- Force couples
- Reflexive function
Lower extremity muscle testing
- Gluteus medius – 3 divisions
- Gluteus maximus – 3 divisions
- Gluteus minimus – 2 divisions
- Piriformis
- Deep external rotators
- Psoas – major and minor
- Iliacus – major and minor
- Rectus femoris
- Vastii – 3 divisions
- Hamstrings – 4 divisions
- Adductor complex
- Tensor fascia latae – 2 divisions
Hip Dominant vs. Quad Dominant Patterns
- Is there a difference and does it matter?
Understanding centration of the hip joint
- Why this is the key to improving hip function and decreasing pain
Functional Movement Patterns
Set up, correction, cueing, and performance of key patterns including:
- Deadlifts
- Straight leg Romanian deadlifts
- Bridges
- Lunges
- Squats
- Step ups
- Single leg patterns
MODULE III.
Complete Upper Extremity Conditioning
Kinesiology of the thoraco-scapulo-humeral complex
- Understanding the relationship between the thorax, scapula, and upper extremity
Muscles of the shoulder and upper extremity
- Origin and insertion
- Nerve innervation
- Spinal relationship
- Functional anatomy – isolated and integrated function
- Force couples
- Reflexive function
Upper extremity muscle testing
- Serratus anterior
- Upper trapezius
- Lower trapezius
- Middle trapezius
- Rhomboids
- Levator scapula
- Pectoralis major – 3 divisions
- Pectoralis minor
- Subscapularis
- Rotator cuff
- Supraspinatus
- Infraspinatus
- Teres minor
- Subscapularis
Understanding centration of the shoulder joint
- Why this is the key to improving shoulder function and decreasing pain
Functional Movement Patterns
Set up, correction, cueing, and performance of key patterns including:
- Push patterns
- Horizontal
- Overhead pressing – cables, bands, DB’s
- Chest presses – cables, bands, DB’s
- Push ups
- Pull patterns
- Horizontal
- Rows – cable, bands, DB’s
- Inclined pull ups
- Pull ups
- Pull downs – cables, bands
MODULE IV.
Complete Program Design, Professional Development, and Examination
Program Design
- Designing the Corrective Neuromuscular Conditioning Specialist™ system
- Putting it all together
- Designing the ideal program for your individual client
- Understanding and utilizing design variables:
- Reps
-Sets
-Tempo
- Designing programs for:
- individuals
- semi-private
-groups
-special populations
-club setting
-private setting
- Professional Development
- The 10 rules to becoming a successful Integrative Movement Specialist™
- Learn accelerated learning techniques – this will differentiate you from 95% of the heatlh care and fitness professionals
- Improving the service model – how to best marry the needs and wants of the client
- Functioning as a professional – utilizing and understanding why and how to incorporate:
- Intake forms – why it is imperative to obtain a thorough history whether your client has a simple or complicated medical history
- Questionnaires
- How to ask key questions and interpret results in order to best understand and serve your clients needs and wants
- Screening
- How to perform quick and efficient assessments
- Interpreting and using the information to develop the most effective plan
- Client education
- How to explain what you do to clients
- Educating your clients on appropriate exercises programs, home exercises, lifestyle modifications, etc.
- Liability concerns of the fitness professional
- Scope of practice – understanding exactly what you can and cannot say as a CNS specialist as well as when to refer out to a professional
- Professional boundaries – understanding professional boundaries between you and your client as well as between you and other medical professionals
- Examination
-Sunday of the final weekend will be your certification examination. Each participant will be required to complete a 20 essay question examination and a 20 minute hands-on practical to become a Corrective Neuromuscular Conditioning Specialist™.
Book Yourself Solid
This internship will also include the 8 week Book Yourself Solid® program via a 3-part teleseminars series. You will discover and develop your own action plan based upon the principles as taught by the Book Yourself Solid author Michael Port. Discover the essentials to getting yourself booked solid including;
Module I. Your Foundation
• Develop your Red Velvet Rope Policy
• Discover why people buy what you’re selling
• Develop your personal brand
• How to talk about what you do
Module II. Building Trust and Credibility
• Who knows what you know and do they like you
• The 6 keys to the Book Yourself Solid Sales Cycle Process
• Using the power of information products
• Super Simple Selling
Module III. The Book Yourself Solid 7 Core Self-Promotion Strategies
• Networking
• Direct outreach
• Getting referrals
• Using the power of the web
• Speaking and demonstrating
• Writing
• Keeping – in – touch
