RESTORE AND ENHANCE
FUNCTIONAL MOVEMENT

As coaches, we tend to make movement more complex than we need to. Our body moves based on where we are today, how we’ve moved in the past, and what we do on a daily basis. We are born with appropriate ranges of motion, but it’s what we do throughout our lives that allows us to hang on to it or lose it. 

NOW MORE THAN EVER, COACHES NEED:

To understand the “why” behind movement deficiencies

The ability to take what they know from anatomy and apply it to real-world coaching

Confidence to create the right program based on their client’s assessment data

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  • You will learn the different systems of the human body and how they relate to human movement and exercise. This gives you a deeper, psychological understanding of what you are seeing in your coaching practice and informs your protocols to improve movement.

  • You will learn the basics of human anatomy and dig specifically into how the joints and tissues impact human movement. By understanding human anatomy, you will be able to problem solve at a deeper level in coaching, assessing, and cueing movement, as well as designing training programs.

  • You will learn the principles of assessing as well as how to assess clients across all patterns of human movement. As a coach, you must have a starting point to design a training program. This module gives you the ability to assess clients to provide the answers you need to design training programs for results.

  • You will learn the principles of improving movement quality and how to design training programs that improve movement. A base of understanding built on principles allows for a seamless transition from theory to application. After this module you will immediately upgrade your movement progressions and ultimately your program designs.

  • You will learn to coach and cue your clients in all patterns and how to best program movement. Having knowledge is only one step—you must also be able to practice what you’ve learned in program design and on the gym floor. Upon completion of this module, you will be able to effectively coach your clients and understand how to design proper movement training programs.

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A DEEPER DIVE INTO THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN

MOVEMENT—AND HOW TO CONNECT IT TO COACHING

Learn frameworks for observing, describing, assessing, understanding, and incorporating movement into your clients’ fitness program. This online course breaks down the complex science behind movement and then simplifies it for you to use in real-world scenarios with your clients.

Through this course, you'll learn how to support implementation, how to assess movement, how to link movement faults with their fixes, how to design training programs based on movement discrepancies, and how to coach and cue patterns of movement.

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Dr. Whitney Reese, with her unique background as a Doctor of Physical Therapy and an OPEX CCP Coach, joins the OPEX team of instructors. Whitney has served as faculty at several universities and on numerous professional committees. In addition to her teaching role, she currently owns her own company, coaches for OPEX Round Rock and OPEX RC, and is the OPEX Programming: Movement instructor. Through both her clinical, athletic, and personalized fitness coaching experience, Whitney bridges the gap between academia and the practice of coaching.