<span style="font-weight: 400;">Walking down the street, training at the gym, watching girls teeter in high heels on a night out or walking knock kneed in their Uggs, watching the way people sit at events, at work or in the waiting room at the doctors is something I find quite fascinating. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Call me voyeuristic but I genuinely am just a geek and fascinated when it comes to watching human movement and analysing physical variations in our body types and the way we move because of those variations. </span>

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<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why does THAT happen? Why do THEY walk THAT way?</span></i>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Being on holiday the examples of our differences are more obvious with less clothing and what I noticed while on holiday was that we really should...</span>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">..Embrace OUR Genetics!</span></i>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Having spent 2 weeks half naked, with half naked people, lying around a pool watching each other walk to the bar or apply cream, step into a pool, swim, pick up kids, eat ice cream etc etc...</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">It really does emphasise human movement variations and of course the variations of aesthetics. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">It is truly fascinating to see the many different body types from large to small, tall to short etc. It made me think about the ‘ideal’ body concept and in fact how dull and boring it would be if we all looked and moved the same way or if we ALL had those 'magazine cover' bodies, the same hair styles, the same limb lengths, waist circumferences etc!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">What Do You Think?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">..in MY opinion using aesthetics as THE goal is possibly not the best way to plan exercise programmes even if that is ultimately the clients perceived end goal. If you were to delve deeper with the client about their TRUE goal there is a good chance it is really all about how they FEEL about themselves, inside their skin. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">(Here I am talking about the average client as opposed to competitive bodybuilders of course, since bodybuilding is an aesthetically judged competition rather than health and fitness being the goal)</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Creating a goal that is more health and/or fitness related will of course still result in improved aesthetics based on THEIR body type, THEIR frame and THEIR genetics. Having this shift in the training programme goal offers more opportunity for positive achievement/s AND a more positive shift towards a realistic body image. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Which is better...A better you or striving to look like someone else?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">There is of course the beautiful aspect of our differing bodies types. From the cute PSIS dimples above large OR small and maybe wide OR narrow round buttocks. These dimples can appear wide or narrow or some people don't see to have any! There are various textures of tanned skin, even different ‘shades’ of white skin and some have scars or birthmarks that no one else in the world has!  </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">There is a huge variety of long OR short soleus calf muscles above feet that turn out OR turn in OR </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">flick</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a certain way during their bare foot walk across the tiles. Some spines rotate and some stay rigid during movement. LONG shins, short shins, slim arms, muscly arms, baggy triceps and bulging ones.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Seriously imagine if we ALL actually looked the same!!! </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">BOOOOOOORRRRIIING!!!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">As exercise professionals we get frustrated that every client wanting to look a certain way, like in the magazines. Asking for 6 pack abs, more rounded delts, pert buttocks, slimmer thighs and yet some of us are just not built that way. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">We also struggle to understand why people move the way they do, right?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">BUT WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">So of course this will be a challenge for anyone trying to apply a system to human movement…</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">NO ONE SYSTEM WORKS THE SAME FOR EVERYONE!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">So we should receive an education that embraces the differences between us all rather than EXPECTS us ALL to look or move the same way. We should maintain an open mind to what our clients are capable of when using their bodies. A realistic aim or goal should always be individual to that person in relation to their history, genetics, lifestyle, diet, biomechanics and movement ability or capacity.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">You do realise the MORE you know, the LESS you realise you know, right? </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">So we should also demonstrate duty of care to our clients by continuing to attend up to date CPD’s, further training and we should also read more and do our OWN research to develop our OWN methods of application for the best care of OUR clients.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">WELL did you know as a fitness professional you already learn't one of the simplest and applicable methods to analyse human movement (without any fancy equipment) as an exercise professional?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">YUP</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Group Action of Muscles is what we call our </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">movement analysis</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> study in our academy. This is where we take our learners back to their A&amp;P training, which often gets forgotten due to the fact we only ever using lay language with our clients! So we lose the skill of recalling the analysis of abduction, rotation, flexion etc as part of movements during our exercise prescription. PLUS the skeletal movement is disguised by lots of soft tissue (muscle, fat, fascia, nerves, skin etc) covering it which is the part of the anatomy we use to understand those joint actions. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">In my experience it is very rare that a learner has come in and easily nailed this session. Yet it is what we are taught right at the beginning of our training!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Here are the reasons professionals give for attending our CPD workshops:</span>

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<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">I want to understand the body and movement better </span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">I want to learn more about the anatomy </span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">I want to understand how we move on the inside</span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">I want to understand why people move badly</span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">I want to understand how to help people move better</span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">I want to understand why they ache hurt get injured</span></i>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">If we remembered out level 3 A&amp;P we would already have many of these skills and be more confident. We also hear…</span>

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<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“but I never use this language with my client!?”</span></i>

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<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">agonist </span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">antagonist </span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">synergists</span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">dynamic stabilisers </span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">fixators</span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">abduction</span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">adduction </span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">rotation </span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">flexion </span></i>

<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">extension </span></i>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">..of course, me neither !! BUT if we talk to </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">each other</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> this way then at least we can enhance our recall AND memory of it. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Sadly the fitness industry in particular causes many of us to feel we can't admit to how bad our A&amp;P memory really is. If we are really honest it’s really poor isn’t it and therefore not surprising many exercise professionals lose confidence in what they are looking at when watching clients move! </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We are expected to achieve so much when it comes to improving movement when we cannot even work out the WHY from WHAT we see. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Clients are suffering more and more due to lifestyles and our job of choosing the best exercise programme is getting even harder as everyone has SOMETHING limiting them, eh!</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">In our academy we GIVE YOU REASONS to remember your anatomy which gives you increased confidence when watching your clients move. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">So while embracing our differences, let's start getting serious about understanding human movement and improving confidence in movement, being in our own skin and of course function.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Remember PERFECTION does not exist…that would be SO dull! In fact... embrace the imperfections!</span>

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