1.2 CEU's available through:

ACE
NSCA
ACSM

Anthony Carey will be offering the final Movement By Design seminar ito the public, March 1st and 2nd 2008 in Vancouver, B.C. .  The overwhelmingly positive feedback by the hundreds of attendees has been a testament to how important this information is to the health and fitness professional. 

The course continues to evolve as a result of the research, practical application and attendee feedback. 

The course has also been filmed and is available on DVD through the ACE website here

Interested in hosting a seminar?  Email education@functionfirst.com for costs and requirements.

What Can You Expect To Learn In The Movement By Design Seminar? 

You will learn tools and perspectives that are not taught by anyone else in the industry.

This workshop will challenge many current ideas of assessment and functional training and will change your entire training paradigm.

You'll never look at your clients the same again…..guaranteed!

Functional Anatomy
 
"Function" and "core" are popular buzz words in the industry. 

The irony of this is that many health and fitness professionals don't understand functional anatomy.  They may understand gross anatomy and isolated muscle action. 

Yet that's not how the body works. 

So if one does not understand functional anatomy, how can they understand function? 

You can intellectually comprehend the concept, the same way you would educate a client on the concept.  But if you don't understand how the body is integrated functionally, how can you create a personalized functional exercise program?

We must understand:

• the integrated slings and chains the body utilizes through tensegrity
• how the body transfers force(s)
• the properties of stabilization
• the interdependency of the various systems within the body
• the multilink response   

Assessments

You can't manage what you don't measure.  In other words, you can not gauge progress if you don't know where you started. 

How many trainers do you know that design exercise programs based on what works for them personally, or what they saw in the latest magazine or what piece of equipment is currently available in the facility? 

I personally believe it is a crime for a trainer to be training a client without the client's file in their hand.  Their right to train people should be revoked!
 
The assessment is the departure point for anything you will do with your client.  Without assessing, you are not able to design an exercise program that will meet the musculoskeletal needs of your client. 

Sure, you may burn calories or increase their bench press.  But how can you determine if your intervention is working, or working without negatively affecting other aspects of their musculoskeletal system?

This program extensively covers three forms of assessment:

1. Postural
2. Single leg stance
3. Overhead squat

Motor Learning

Understanding motor learning is like putting on a pair of glasses that allows you to see the world of exercise in an entirely new light. 
You'll suddenly see why an individual would experience challenges with specific movements. 

You'll see how slowing down can actually accelerate progress!

And then you'll rethink many of the ways you have chosen to design exercise programs in the past.

The principles are the same for everyone.  Some people get to start sooner in the process and some people have to start all over again.  It has nothing to do with level of fitness or past accomplishments.

Those new glasses you put on will help you understand:

• the stages of motor learning
• synergies and strategies
• altered motor control strategies

 
Corrective exercise
 
This is a place very few health professionals ever venture.  Many fitness professionals lack the academic background and training and therefore don't utilize the benefits.  But many physical therapist and chiropractors with the academic background also skip right over this critical part of the functional continuum as well.

Do you want to talk about results? 

Your client might not drop 10 lbs. or increase their vertical 5", but they will establish a foundation from which to do all of that and more - functionally, efficiently and pain free.

Within one hour of the right exercises for the right person, you can:

• Release hypertonic muscles
• Activate latent muscles
• Elicit proprioceptive awareness of desired muscle groups
• Influence postural alignment and the body's COG
• Improve the instantaneous center of rotation of the joints
• Integrate functional changes across multiple motion segments

Two-Day Seminar Cost:  $269.00

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For dates and locations of a Movement By Design seminar near you, go to the Events Calendar page

More About The Movement By Design Philosophy

Muscular Balance

Movement By Design is based on fundamental anatomical, neurological, physiological and biomechanical principles. By using the evolved blueprint of the human body as a guide, the goal of the approach is to bring about a state of muscular balance and internal homeostasis to the individual. 

An individual whose body deviates (compensates) from this design must do so for a reason. That reason (in cases not involving past trauma) is a muscular imbalance and faulty movement patterns.  

Even those with congenital circumstances and/or trauma will have muscular imbalances that have progressed over time as the body seeks the path of least resistance.

Postural Changes Directly Impact Joint Mechanics

Because postural and structural changes occur over time, the length-tension relationship of the muscles is part of that change.  Occurring also, as part of that change is atrophy of unstimulated muscles and compensation by other muscles and muscle groups.  These postural changes then begin to directly impact joint mechanics.

The impact of postural changes movement compensations affect individuals in different ways and at different rates.  A person's age, activity level, occupation and weight are just some of the factors that will help determine where and to what extent a person will be affected anatomically. 

Movement Impairments And Decreased Performance

What is certain is that given postural deviations are highly susceptible to specific movement impairments.  The process begins with an alteration of normal joint mechanics.  This alteration (or compensation) leads to a decrease in performance. 

That decrease in performance could be expressed in the way a pitch is thrown, to difficulty rising from a chair.  Often these changes go unnoticed because the body subconsciously avoids the low grade pain stimulus or the extra muscular demand. 

Pain And A Variety Of Problems Can Result

These mechanical changes eventually manifest themselves into a variety of pathologies and disorders if allowed to continue. These can include, but are not limited to, inflammatory responses to over stressed tendons and bursa, non congruency of joints surfaces, unequal loading of the intervertebral discs, nerve impingements, laxity of ligaments, muscle spasm and ischemia.

These problems are not limited to the musculoskeletal system.  As the foundation of the body is removed from its most efficiently functioning position, the nervous, circulatory, respiratory and digestive systems can all be affected. 

The internal organs can become misaligned or compressed, neural pathways are disrupted or impinged, and venous and arterial flow can be compromised.  Any one or a combination of these scenarios can contribute to a multitude of medical problems.

Self Healing Is Possible Through Movement By Design

As well as being a highly integrated structure, the body has a tremendous capacity for self healing.  To effectively facilitate this healing, we must first remove the noxious stimulus that has disrupted normal function. This is a major premise of Movement By Design.

An individual who has experienced either some sort of trauma or who has had surgery or both is not beyond benefit from this functional approach.  This individual has had some external dysfunctions placed upon an existing dysfunction.  The combinations of the layers of dysfunction can seriously impede the healing process. 

Cases in which surgery is performed to accommodate a chronic symptom will have the same outcome as therapy performed with the same goal.  It will not impact the cause of the symptom and therefore the symptom probably will return. 

Recovery from trauma with traditional rehabilitation or recovery from surgery following trauma are often much slower than expected by both client and doctor. This is because although the trauma created the symptom, or accelerated its' appearance, the body's structural/mechanical dysfunction will not allow it to heal optimally.  The noxious stimulus is never removed. 

Even if a person has been physically altered due to surgery or trauma, the rest of the body is not relieved of its responsibility to execute its function.  A body that lacks one of its components (i.e. meniscus, fused vertebrae), now more than ever needs the rest of the body to function as efficiently as possible to minimize the deficiency imposed upon it.

The right exercises alone are not the sole determining factor in improving structural/mechanical function. 

Three Primary Components

1. The application of specific exercises to a given individual's dysfunction.  Only those exercises, which apply to that individual, will be of benefit.  These exercises can only be determined by a comprehensive assessment.
   
   
2. The sequencing of the exercises within a given routine is critical.  Each session has a given objective.  That objective can only be reached through a properly designed program.  The exercises must be sequenced such that one exercise prepares the body for the next and that a successive exercise does not negate a prior exercise. 
   
   
3. The exercises are performed for an average of fourteen days.  At this point we re-evaluate the client and re-design the routine accordingly.  Often the exercises are of low demand and as the neuromuscular efficiency improves, the stimulus provided by the exercises become less effective.  Therefore, the body must be put under an increased or varied demand to adjust to the changes that have occurred as a result of the prior routine.  This provides the means to continued progress.

Fostering Good Health For All

The Movement By Design philosophy believes that structural strength and balance provided by a functionally operating musculoskeletal system is a primary factor in the good health of every human being. 

All systems of the human body operate most efficiently when the body is in a state of balance.  Therefore, anyone at any age can benefit from this approach to health.

Two-Day Seminar Cost:  $269.00

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Here’s What Anthony Carey Has To Say About This Seminar

Preparing for the 4th year of the Movement By Design seminar has challenged me even more than years past.  The industry as a whole is catching up on the information I have been teaching for 10 years now.

As the industry matures, it allows me to bring even more comprehensive and up to date information to the workshop.  Information that I use everyday with clients who come to see me from all over the country.

I can guarantee you this is not the same old information that is being regurgitated by others. The approach, perspective and application of corrective exercise and functional anatomy that I present is something special.

Levels of Competency

There are levels of competency in your clients' motor learning that they must achieve before they advance.  And there are levels of competency in our intellectual learning as well.

Sure it's lots of fun to go to a workshop and throw medicine balls and lunge your butt off.  How about thinking your butt off?  Movement for the sake of movement and without objectives based on assessments may do more damage than good to your client.

Unfortunately, I also experienced a hand-full of trainers that sat through the weekend just to get the CEU's.  I was thoroughly embarrassed for them.  What an opportunity they had to even take a few nuggets of information back to their clients and make a world of difference.   Some even commented that they would refer to the physical therapist connected with their facility rather than do their own evaluation!

So I learned. 

I Learned That For Many Trainers The World Of Musculoskeletal Assessments Is Black and White 

They do nothing or they refer out to a licensed professional.  Of course that begs the question:  "How do you design a program to positively influence your client's musculoskeletal system if you don't know anything about the uniqueness of that client's musculoskeletal system?"

The change in the types of clients that are seeking personal training creates an ever increasing professional responsibility on our part.  You either get the education you need to meet the needs of these clients, or you refer them out to another trainer who has the education and training. 

One makes for good business sense and professional growth.  The other doesn't. 

However, if the trainer lacking the education and training to deal with the special needs of these clients decides to take them on anyway, he/she exposes themselves to some potentially very risky repercussions.  Repercussions such as jeopardizing the health and welfare of a client and the legal ramifications that goes along with it. 

Being Prepared And Taking Quality Continuing Education Courses Is The Answer!

Two-Day Seminar Cost:  $269.00

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Two-Day Seminar Cost:  $269.00

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