Filed Under (Corrective Exercise, Exercise Rehabilitation, Fitness Education, Rotator Cuff Exercises, Scapular Stabilization, shoulder impingement, Shoulder Injury) by Rick Kaselj on 21-08-2010
Foundations of Upper Body Conditioning
DESCRIPTION:
It can be confusing on how to approach upper body conditioning with your clients. Most times fitness professionals start with strengthening and hope for the best. It is important that fitness professionals have a systematic approach to assessing the upper body, corrective exercises that match the assessment results and a detailed program structure in order to get maximal and rapid results for the upper body. If you are looking for an active and practical course, where you will leave with a comprehensive upper body assessment, an expansive list of corrective exercises and training techniques to increase your success training the upper body.
OBJECTIVES:
- How to perform a structural and movement assessment of the upper body
- Quick screens to identify dysfunctional joints and muscles of the upper body
- Connecting corrective exercises with dysfunctions found in the upper body assessment
- Simple and fast tubing exercises that your clients can do anywhere for upper body injury prevention
- Why to perform a dynamic warm-up prior to upper body exercises
- Effective modifications to common upper body exercises to prevent joint irritation
- How to implement the foundations of upper body conditioning into your current client programs
- Functional Anatomy of the upper body
This course is for fitness professionals looking to bridge the gap between theory learned to application in the real world clients. The technical level will be at a beginning to intermediate fitness professional. This this will be an active and practical course, wear active gear. No jeans.
