<span style="font-weight: 400;">From my humble beginnings, I most definitely have felt like a fraud at times. Thinking things like... "how on earth did I get on this stage speaking to hundreds of fitness professionals." </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">My colleague, Mark Laws, is also very open and honest about not having a degree nor even spending any time studying at a university, yet we both find ourselves in influential positions in the health and fitness industry. We regularly find ourselves presenting to hundreds, maybe thousands of people regularly across all media and face to face platforms which is a huge responsibility neither of us takes lightly. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The fact we do NOT have a degree under our belts is by no means any reflection of our intelligence, nor our passion for learning. In fact, this is quite likely the very reason we have so much passion and desire to learn and also share our experiences.  </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">During all of my schooling years, I was told I was ‘non-academic’ even by my parents, who were both teachers! They meant well however it had left me with the belief that I was not intelligent and so would have to accept a less ambitious work lifestyle. </span>

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<h3><b>Did You Ever Experience This Kind Of Feeling?</b></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">So many learners that come into our academy, privately take me to one side, call or email me at some point to explain their knowledge of anatomy isn’t that great and would I bear that in mind when asking questions in front of the group. The fear of being caught out as a fake when it comes to, in particular, A&amp;P knowledge is extremely common in my 12 years experience of teaching.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Everyone thinks everyone else knows more than them!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">This I find fascinating but it also drives me to do all I can to pass on the techniques I used to improve my learning ability, self belief and therefore confidence to do what I now do. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We all managed to pass our level 2 A&amp;P, then dread our level 3 A&amp;P because they then want us to recall all of those damned muscle attachments. If you were anything like me back then, I ignorantly/arrogantly wondered why I needed to remember where vastus medialis was when I knew how to teach someone to squat, for goodness sake!?!?! Oh how naive I was.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">But let me tell you that I have yet to meet any learner who comes into our academy either </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">knowing</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> their anatomy or that </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">think</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> they know their anatomy and then we do tasks that prove we literally forgot everything we were taught, right!?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We had no practical reason to remember them! Clients only ever really needed to know ‘bum’, ‘thigh’ or ‘arm’ didn’t they?</span>

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<h3><b>Talking Anatomy To Physiotherapists Or Even Surgeons</b></h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">When things go wrong that's when you realise you don't know enough or you talk to a physio or therapist and they can recall more of the theory A&amp;P and there is a good chance this makes you feel inferior</span>

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

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Because what Mark and I have proved is ‘non academics’ are not dumb, not unintelligent nor actually not academic, we just didn't find our reason to recall it yet or our preferred method to truly absorb the information. We were not inspired when at school or in that particular learning environment.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">So what can we do to improve our confidence?</span>
<h3>How Do You Improve Your Anatomy &amp; Physiology Knowledge &amp; Recall?</h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Well we could simply read for hours about muscle attachments but this was the problem in the first place for many of us. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We could find </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">reasons</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to recall them or </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">methods</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that help recall them. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">This ability to recall then increases our confidence and when you feel confident you enjoy it more and it starts to become something you want to do it more.</span>

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<strong>Example: I bet if you have ever had an injury that you <i>know</i> the anatomy of that injury, right!?</strong>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">You looked in the books, researched and found all of the details you needed to understand how YOU could make it better so you could help yourself recover quicker. You had an important reason to research and recall!</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">So let’s find good reasons to recall our anatomy and start with the easy stuff. Like understanding movement. If you are in the fitness industry you MUST surely be a human movement geek?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">During every single one of our workshops we meet all sorts of human movement geeks just like you and me. We quite deliberately make things as simple as possible. With a subject like ‘biomechanics’, things can be really complex simply because of the many differences between us. For example:  </span>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Some of these things we can change, some we can’t but each will make us move slightly differently to the next person. </span>

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<h3>3 Step Process For Personal Trainers Wanting To Improve Their Anatomy &amp; Physiology Knowledge</h3>
<span style="font-weight: 400;">Back To Basics - </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Group Action of Muscles Task </span></i>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Let me give you some tips that we give to our learners within our academy:</span>
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 	<li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Start simple -</strong> Unless you are an </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">anatomist</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the most important part to gaining confidence in anatomy is understanding </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">movement</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. This is why we learned skeletal movements first. Flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, rotation etc. There is no point moving onto learning the muscles until you are confident with movement analysis since this is more important part of our job as a trainer or coach.</span><strong> </strong></li>
 	<li><strong>You should know your major muscle GROUPS.</strong> The hip flexors, the hip extensors, the knee extensors etc. Confidence in this language allows you to communicate with your peers about movement. It also allows you to programme more effectively when you understand how much of your programming works each of these movements.</li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Then start watching your clients movement and see if you can work out, during specific exercises what is happening.</strong> Forget muscles ONLY think of the movements and ask yourself </span>
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Which joint is moving? </span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What action it is going into?</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What are the prime movers? (Groups of muscles)</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What are the antagonists? (Groups of muscles)</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What are the synergists? (Groups of muscles)</span></li>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Once you are nailing these 3 skills, THEN, go back and start to learn which individual muscles make up the groups. This is when it starts to be more challenging because some muscles do more than one thing. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Have a go and let me know how you get on but if you would prefer to do this in a classroom or on a webinar PLEASE do hit the link below or send your details and we will happily teach you just how simple it can be to remember all of the necessary anatomy you need!</span>

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