My Movement Philosophy
I have been studying movement for over 20 years through a variety of modalities. From teaching and coaching sports to training and teaching martial arts it has become very clear to me that all are related and that certain movements are fundamental to a diverse set of categorized activities. A squat for example is found in sports like basketball and football and in martial arts and sometimes dance.
Since 2015 I have been working for Functional Movement Systems (FMS) Health and Safety branch as a; screener, corrective exercise prescriber and quality control manager. I am a believer in their methodology of analyzing movement through the FMS screen for several reasons the most important being that the company and its founders have not rested on their laurels using what is an internationally successful product. They consistently upgrade and develop new ways of looking at movement using the same base principles. I am a huge skeptic of any fitness fad or trend, I learned how to be a skeptic while spending almost 10 years in academia studying for my 3 degrees in Kinesiology, I don't endorse lightly but I do endorse the FMS Program and the products and services it offers.
With that being said, its not the be all and end all of functional movement, its a start, a bloody good one, but everyone is individual and once the base is created you must continually work towards the apex, which will look different for everyone. Through working with elite athletes at UCLA and training several Law Enforcement Officers for the past few years I have been able to apply not just my knowledge from my degrees and FMS, but knowledge of martial arts and neuroscience that has helped individuals with their movement needs.
Since 2015 I have been working for Functional Movement Systems (FMS) Health and Safety branch as a; screener, corrective exercise prescriber and quality control manager. I am a believer in their methodology of analyzing movement through the FMS screen for several reasons the most important being that the company and its founders have not rested on their laurels using what is an internationally successful product. They consistently upgrade and develop new ways of looking at movement using the same base principles. I am a huge skeptic of any fitness fad or trend, I learned how to be a skeptic while spending almost 10 years in academia studying for my 3 degrees in Kinesiology, I don't endorse lightly but I do endorse the FMS Program and the products and services it offers.
With that being said, its not the be all and end all of functional movement, its a start, a bloody good one, but everyone is individual and once the base is created you must continually work towards the apex, which will look different for everyone. Through working with elite athletes at UCLA and training several Law Enforcement Officers for the past few years I have been able to apply not just my knowledge from my degrees and FMS, but knowledge of martial arts and neuroscience that has helped individuals with their movement needs.