Neil Eriksen was one of the first ever professionals to join our academy back in 2008 and he was also previously nominated as a Biomechanics Coach™ of the Month. Here he wants to share with you one of his life changing moments..

<em>That was a really funny moment I'll not forget in my life. This is what happened...</em>

<em>I was on the full Biomechanics Coach™ Diploma, kind of the second time doing it, already done the previous model course way back in 2008 when it was first being delivered by Martin Haines and the team, just starting to put it out there for use in the fitness industry.</em>

<em>The more modern expanded model of Biomechanics Coaching™ I wanted to re-sit had evolved. It had been through years of development so I was keen to get on it to learn any new techniques and refresh on the old ones.</em>

<em>Although I had been practicing the screens and exercise prescription with clients to some degree over the 6 year gap, I definitely felt that I'd been playing Chinese whispers with myself and lost the way somewhat.</em>

<em>Mostly I simply ‘personal trained’ my clients and put a few bits of the Biomechanics Coach™ programme in there if it seemed applicable.</em>

<em>In fact I remember Martin sending me a nice email commenting on how 'low key' my website presentation of the system was and that's exactly how he liked to see it. I'd learned about sports injuries, sports massage and remedial therapy in my health and fitness degree so it was just another set of cool assessments…or so I thought.</em>

<em>Back to the diploma;</em>

<em>Rachel had just done my whole body assessment in class at the end of the complete Biomechanics Coach™ Diploma using me as the demo (I basically told her to DO ME! DO ME!). There were a number of things still showing dysfunctional after doing my 4 Sign and Leg Press anti spasms for a number of weeks and my back was still not a nice back to live with.</em>

<em>Things improved but I was not there yet; Downings Sign, Leg Length Discrepancy, Sciatic Nerve, Spinal Flexion, Pec Minor, Median Nerve, Upper Traps, Infraspinatus were all still positive for dysfunction.</em>

<em>So Rachel just tried the anti spasm on my Pec Minor left side, it was showing more tension than the right side, which we duly did. Then the retest of the whole body, all in front of the watching class and we wrote the results up on the flip chart for everyone to follow.</em>

<em>It was surreal over the next few minutes as the retest was being done. I remember the sound of jaws hitting the ground and watching the shaking of heads of disbelief. That was the sound of a paradigm shift in action, it was funny to watch. I didn't really feel anything so I was a bit left out of the action as everyone else was seeing the, no less than astonishing, results.</em>

<em>And then Matt made his classic comment "he's a stooge!".</em>

<em>Was it so amazing that he didn't believe his own eyes?</em>

<em>Well yes it certainly was, that's the integrated system in all it's glory and it appears that seeing is disbelieving!</em>

<em>That one moment has changed my life, not only because since releasing Pec Minor on the left side my whole body has become way more 'bullet proof', everything changed and I got myself a new upgraded body, but also because my quest is always to find that magic for other people.</em>

<em>Now as Rachel said at that time "Yeah, that was a good one, it doesn't always happen like that!" Things can become quite confusing/difficult/complicated etc when you concentrate on changing specific things that may well have been adapted to for many years for a myriad of reasons.</em>

<em>So I would to impart some advice to other professionals out there, it has been said before but here it is again: use it as a cool-tool guide but do not concentrate on fixing people with Biomechanics Coaching™, do what YOU do, whether that's PT, massage, yoga or whatever. That way when complications arise, and they will, or there is no magic, and sometimes there isn't, you're still doing you job, but with amazing insights and information from a very special systematic approach.</em>

<em>It is easy to get caught up in a personal quest for magic and forget the client's goals or that there's more than one way skin the old cat. It's got to kind of run as a background programme, it's certainly one that I would never uninstall, I'd rather chop off an arm!</em>

<em>I would love nothing more than to ramble on about the infinitesimal layers of the onion that you peel away over time using Biomechanics Coaching™, maybe I will, but that's for another day.</em>

<em>So to Matt, I'm not a stooge mate, just living the dream ;)</em>

<em>Thanks Martin and Rachel for helping me fix myself and helping me to help others (even when oftentimes they have no idea on what level we're working on).</em>

<em>Kind regards</em>

<em>Neil</em>

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