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Functional Movement Screen
The Functional Movement Screening (FMS) process is used by CORE Fitness to be proactive in our approach to injury prevention. The FMS was created to identify individuals who have movement pattern problems that increase their potential for injury. The screen's seven tests focus on fundamental movements that make up everyday human movement, such as squatting, lunging, pushing, reaching, etc. The FMS demonstrates how athletes with elite strength, power, speed, agility, and sport skills may have fundamental flaws that do not show up on a stat sheet. For the average personal training client, the test can identify limitations that lead to poor efficiency, potential for injury, and decreased performance. A focal point of this program is that significant limitations or right and left side imbalances exist in some individuals at the very basic levels of movement. |
The body should be free of restrictions and free of imbalances prior to training, conditioning, competition, and fitness activities. The significant limitations in right-left imbalances drastically distort movement perception, motor learning, body awareness, and mechanics. They rob the body of efficiency and are very often hidden by individuals who learn to compensate and substitute with other movement patterns. The human body is naturally obligated to reset muscles if you restore movement patterns. The FMS is used to demonstrate fundamental flaws in movement patterns that typically go unnoticed in typical personal training studios. By indentifying these flaws, CORE Fitness offers its clients a safer and more efficient path to increased performance and a way to decrease aches and limitations during these everyday movement patterns.
Reference: Cook, Gray & Burton, Lee. CORE Training Systems: The Functional Movement Screen and Exercise Progressions Manual. 2007.