FitPro Spring Convention

Well, it’s that time of year again and we’re busy preparing for FitPro, the one of the industries main fitness shows in the UK. As well as exhibiting at the show, we have a demonstration area where we can show PTs and coaches the best biomechanical screening techniques for their clients and athletes to help improve their functional training programmes. So please drop by so we can explain the sort of biomechanical screening that you can do to help your exercise prescription.

We will be joined on the stand by our friends from Flexi-bar from time to time over the FitPro weekend and we’ll be discussing how we link their flexi-bar and XCO products into our training courses.

Also, we’ve been invited to present at the show too. I’ll be presenting at 8am on Sunday 13th April. Yes, we’ll be discussing functional training and no doubt we’ll be discussing core training too. But perhaps more importantly we’ll be talking about how all the functional training in the world and all the core training in the world can work against you if you have poor biomechanics. If you try and pattern particular functional movements, in 3 planes using multi joint patterns for example, and your client has biomechanical problems (which is very common), you can be sure that they will ‘break’ or get injured sooner or later. Functional training is not new and we’ve been using it in rehab for years, so we cannot underestimate its importance, however as good as functional training and screening is, it’s critical that your clients are prepared biomechanically, otherwise you’ll find the functional training you are doing is merely teaching your client faulty movement patterns. And this ultimately leads to injury.

Although biomechanics can be very complex, and indeed the principles of our work is heavily research lead, the actual practical application is very simple. We have been teaching PTs and coaches the biomechanical screens for some time now and the feedback is incredibly positive – please drop by if you can, I think you’ll find our evidence based work very interesting and will hopefully help you think further out of the box than you already do.