CK-FMS Day 1

I arrived yesterday minus my luggage. It was left in Chicago apparently someone in Louisville tagged it wrong and was never transferred to my flight from Chicago to Minneapols/St. Paul. It finally got here aroud 10am. Unfortunately it came in after I was long gone to the workshop.

Day 1 started off with the snatch test. I did 40 each arm which was 24 total more than necessary. It was easy.

The rest of the day was lecture and hands on assessment of 7 basic movement patterns. This course is already making me think of ways to restructure our classes to help you guys fix some of your movements issues. Rather than piling on exercises and making you fitter we need to work on your movements so you can fix underlying issues, then add on the fitness component.It will be a part of the new FitCamp beginners course which starts September 8th.

What is a CK-FMS? CK = Certified KettleBell, FMS is the Functional Movement Specialist. It is based on the Functional Movement Screen a system devised by Gray Cook, Physical Therapist and Orthopedic Clinical Specialist, because he was tired of seeing athletes being "fixed" by making them work harder or by adding more weight rather than seeing the underlying problems and devising corrective strategies.

The FMS is a system consisting of seven movements and athletes (that would be you) are assessed as they are walked through the movements. The tests make it very easy to see where a persons' movement restrictions are. Tomorrow we work on taking those assessments and figuring out how to fix the imbalances or weakness uncovered by the assessment.

Gray is an excellent speaker and is very passionate about what he does.

 Brett Jones, Master RKC is the other instructor and he too brings a wealth of knowledge and passion to this course. He has a Masters in Rehab Science a B.S. in Sports Medicine and a CSCS. Brett was one of the first people to take Gray's FMS course and has been working with Gray ever since. They have been working to incorporate the principles of Gray's FMS with the RKC system to make better trainers of us all.

The main benefits of this system are:

• reduce the potential for training and sports injuries
• provides a simple grading system to assess movement
• easy to use by sports medicine and fitness professionals
• identifies physical weakness or imbalances
• rehabs those imbalances and weaknesses with simple corrective exercises

There is a strong focus on both mobility and stability, you need both to function well and some parts of the body are meant to be stabilizers, such as the foot and lumbar spine, while others or supposed to be mobile, like the ankle and hip.

The degree of lack of mobility or stability causes use to compensate by changing the way you. Doing so causes imbalances and muscles begin to fire at the wrong time or not at all which leads to more issues. If we continue to pile on more and more work/weight to these problems injury will occur. The goal then is to identify the problem areas and fix them before trying to increase work capacity.

The RKC is a constantly evolving system. Pavel is always looking for ways to make it simpler but at the same time focus on proper movement patterns. As part of that they change they way the six basic lifts are taught and today I discovered they have changed the Turkish getup teaching progression as well as how it is performed. That means you get to re-learn the TGU!

 All in all I'm very excited to be a part of this workshop, I'm learning a lot and this will give me more knowledge to help you. And this is not a paper cert where you walk in pay your money and get a piece of paper saying you are certified. I will have to take a test after the course is over and video-tape myself working on someone to demonstrate I understand what I was taught and can apply it

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Phillip Humphrey   |Registered |2008-08-09 18:44:47 That all sounds awesome, Dave. I can't wait to be FMSed by you to see where I need corrections. This will really add a valuable weapon to your arsenal. What do you need luggage for?? All you need is your RKC speedos! Ha! Take care out there. Phillip Reply | Quote 0   0

Dave Randolph   |SAdministrator |2008-08-09 19:09:00 I have to have clean speedos you know. They do get rather smelly. You need corrections everywhere. It might even fix your knee Reply | Quote 0   0

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