Mobility Essentials for Personal Trainers Package (21 CECs)

Credits: 21 CEC's
Approx 15 to 20 hrs of coursework

Mobility Essentials Level 1 (11 CECs)

Mobility and Movement Level 1

• The traditional understanding of how the body works lecture and practical
• The progressive understanding of how the body works lecture and practical
• Tensegrity, tissues, everything is connected lecture
• 3 Major joints, the myofascial lines lecture
• The 4 step movement screen practical

Myofascial Mobility

• Scope of practice, properties of fascia, introduction to myofascial mobility lecture
• Practical on mobility for superficial front line
• Practical on mobility for superficial back line
• Practical mobility for lateral line
• Practical mobility for deep line
• How we are affecting the tissues, making notes on your movement screen

Specific Mobility Sequences

• Desk worker mobility
• Parent sequence
• Runners sequence
• Contact sports sequence

Mobility and Stability

• What are mobility and stability?
• Strength training explored, mobility explored, are they the same, and what is ‘true strength’
• Skeletal limitations and the tissues of our body, all influence on mobility and stability
• Does releasing tissue improve mobility or stability
• Compartmentalising and integrating training, not being too serious

Hypermobility

• Intro and what is hypermobility
• Types of hypermobility and the anxiety link, tissues of the body
• Ways to approach and help hypermobility

Mobility Essentials Level 2 (10CECs)

10 Step Movement Screen

• The ‘other’ lines, introduction to the 10 step movement screen
• Practical 10 step movement screen
• Coaching cues for the 10 step movement screen and scope of practice, deeper understanding of the properties of fascia

Myofascial Mobility Menu

• Functional lines
• Arm lines
• Spiral lines, plus relevant mobilisations for the other lines learnt previously
• Superficial front line & Superficial back line
• Lateral line and Deep line, coaching cues and how we’re affecting the tissues

Practical Application In Real Life

• Real life example and what to expect and why in client cases
• Common issues practically explained
• A new dimension in mobility training and redefining our approach to movement, conclusions

Mobility video webinar series

• Intro and then practical whole body myofascial mobility example session
• Monkeybility: Hanging mobility practical demonstrations with appropriate equipment, plus hanging success stories
• Tight Hamstrings
• Tight Hip Flexors