Personal Fitness Trainer: Screening Assessment

Screening your client

What you'll learn

Why a screening process is important

How to screen a client

Analyze the joint movements of a client

Determine which muscles are overactive

Determine which muscles are underactive

How to perform a static screening

How to perform an overhead squat screening

What key check-points to look at

How to address the postural problems

Requirements

No prior knowledge is needed, however it is recommended

Description

In this course you will learn how to perform a screening with clients and become a better fitness trainer. We will discuss the static- and overhead assessment. You don't need any prior knowledge about fitness or exercising (however if you do, that makes it easier). This course is taught by Jeroen who is an internationally certified personal trainer and internationally certified nutrition coach with over 12 years of experience helping clients and teaching other personal trainers and nutrition coaches how to better help clients reach their goals.In this course you'll learn the basics of screening a client and it will give you a solid foundation that you can use in the future to better your skills.This course is going over the important concept of screening. So we focus only on that part. If you want to have more in depth knowledge about the muscles, joints, exercises and functions of the body you're welcome to follow the personal fitness trainer course.In this course you will learn about why it is important to perform a screening assessment and how it benefits your clients. We go over the static screening and the overhead screening. We will discuss things like knee valgus and knee varus, ankle dorsiflexion problems, arms that fall forward and even why the torso falls forward during a squat. We cover the upper cross syndrome and the lower cross syndrome. You learn why these problems occur, how to recognize these issues and what muscles are causing these postural problems.When you know what causes the issues you'll know how to take on these problems and fix them for your clients, so you will learn what to do with overactive muscles and underactive muscles.To improve the way the body of client moves you need to be able to perform a screening, it is important as a fitness trainer. So when you are done with this course you'll understand why it is important to perform a screening, know how to do a screening and what to look for and how to fix the problems.So if you want to become a better fitness trainer then this is the course for you!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 About this course

Section 2: Screening

Lecture 3 A screening

Lecture 4 The screening process

Lecture 5 The static screening

Section 3: Postural problems

Lecture 6 The upper cross syndrome

Lecture 7 The lower cross syndrome

Lecture 8 Anterior pelvic tilt

Lecture 9 Posterior pelvic tilt

Lecture 10 Forward lean

Lecture 11 Arms fall foward

Lecture 12 Knee valgus

Lecture 13 Feet turning out

Lecture 14 Feet fall flat

Beginner personal fitness trainers,Personal trainers,Fitness trainers,People who want to improve their posture,People who want to improve their training sessions and results