IOL Strength and Conditioning

4-disc DVD set, a joint project from Movement Education Group and Functional Movement Systems

This live workshop, filmed in HD video using four cameras, took place during Perform Better’s Long Beach pre-conference workshop, August 2011, and features Gray Cook assisted by Brett Jones. Their most recent DVDs, Kalos Sthenos, Dynami and Club Swinging Essentials, covered how to do specific exercises right. This one flips that idea and instead covers how to pick the right exercises. It’s a comprehensive 4-disc Applying the FMS Model DVD set that will fill in the blanks and answer your questions about using the Functional Movement Screen when working with your clients, athletes and patients. Although different people have a variety of programming needs, we all require a baseline movement map to enhance safety and maximize results, and this workshop lays down that foundation.

A properly executed movement screen provides a unique perspective, and in this workshop Gray shows us how to use the basic technology as a tool to develop programming unique to each individual. But it’s much more than a movement screen discussion, because what Gray is best at is seeing how people move, how we learn to move, and how we re-learn movement. He’s gifted at explaining what most of us don’t even see, and you’ll find yourself pausing the video over and over to stop and ponder concepts that he makes sound obvious, but that you’ve never considered.

Only about a third of the room had been through the Functional Movement Screen workshop. You don’t need to be FMS certified or even use the screens to benefit from this material. Certainly people who use the screens will get more practical use from the workshop, but Gray’s off-the-cuff pearls and insights? Over and over I found myself stopping to think through these simple-sounding ideas.

I was at the live event, listened to the audio file, edited the text file and worked through the video seven or eight times, and each time I discovered something new, something I missed the other times or that had a deeper meaning as I got more familiar with the ideas. For many trainers, strength coaches and medical professionals, this material could be the key to how you work with clients patients and athletes in the years to come.

The workshop covers the age spectrum of fitness clients, post-rehab clients and athletes of all levels. With tremendous insight and enthusiasm, Gray discusses the logic of movement that all of us share. And because this movement logic is common to all of us, you’ll be able to apply this new material in your work the very next day.

4-disc DVD set—nearly 4 hours, plus bonus material
Filmed live at a Perform Better Summit Workshop

Disk One
Introduction
Standard Operating Procedures
Movement Matters
Squat Discussion
Stabilization and Repatterning
Our Movement History

Disk Two
Functional Movement Screen Review
Scoring the Screens
Filters and Key Points
Live Screens
Scoring Criteria
Programming the Results

Disk Three
Screen Results Analysis
Order of Screen Priority
Hip Hinge and Deadlift Strategies
Movement Motor Learning
Movement Principles
Self-Limiting Exercise

Disk Four
Extra corrective strategies footage
Full lecture in MP3 audio format for listening in your car or on your portable device
A 61-page typeset transcript of the lecture
Movement Principles excerpt from the Movement book
FMS scoring criteria and verbal instructions
Presentation slides PDF
Video clips from Gray’s Powerpoint presentation
Self-limiting activities chart

you can order via this link.

Dropping in with a quick status update (a real one, not a facebook one), because things are looking clear enough to toss out some time guestimates.

The postman carried away the Perform Better CD set on the way to the replicator yesterday; this was one of the three big jobs on the slate, nice to see that list move to two. This is a set of 26 CDs containing the audio files of each of the sit-down lectures from the Summit in Long Beach a couple of months ago. It also includes a data DVD holding a slide presentation pdf from each lecture, plus a folder full of mp3 files of the lecture line-up. That line-up lists some of the best presenters in the field, and soon you’ll be able to listen to their most recent lectures in your car, from your computer or on your iPod. These will only be available at the Perform Better site, and they should have them in about three weeks.

Second in the project list, and now next up, is Gray Cook’s new DVD, which should ship to the replicator in about three weeks, well in time to hit your Christmas list if you plan ahead. This is the live workshop we filmed in Long Beach; it’s four DVDs, plus the audio file of the lecture, a transcript pdf of the lecture, and a pdf of the presentation slideshow. This is step two after learning the Functional Movement Screen — what do you do with the screen results? Gray, with help from Brett Jones, shows example live screens, then we watch while the two of them make corrective recommendations. We also included extra video of him teaching his newest corrective techniques, plus an overview of the full screening system. This will be available on our site, on the FunctionalMovement.com site, and at Perform Better, our partner on this project.

In the ebook department, we’re about a week away from having Dan John’s Never Let Go available on the Barnes & Noble site (it’s already on Kindle). We’re a couple of weeks from having Michael Boyle’s Advances in Functional Training live on amazon.com as a Kindle book, and on bn.com as an epub. By the end of the month, you’ll see Movement in electronic format, and also Dan’s Mass Made Simple.

Toward the end of the month as these get wrapped up, I’ll shift attention back to the audio lecture website we talked about last summer. There are about 35 lectures almost ready to go live, and another 12 recorders in the field. We’ll launch the site by early December with 50 newly recorded lectures ranging from bodybuilding to Olympic lifting, iron history to supplements, hormones to wheat allergies… kettlebells to football strength to physical rehabilitation. Most of these run about an hour, and will be available as an MP3 file with a transcript pdf for $6.95. It’s a wonderful collection; you’re going to love it.

THEN comes rest, am I right?