Happy Monday to you!

What an interesting start to the day.  First black ice and now melting.  Go figure.

So I've got new skills and I want to put them to use so I can master them and make them more 2nd nature.  I talked it over with Vanessa and she thinks I should practice on you.  Here's what the skills are, why they're valuable to you, what I'm offering and what the timeline will look like.

Functional Movement Screen (FMS):  assesses movement quality to find areas where you're strong and move well, areas where you could move better and if you have any pain with any of the movements.

Selective Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA):  a pain diagnostic system to locate where specifically the cause of your pain is, not necessarily the location of your pain.  Even if you don't have pain when I do the FMS on you, I'd like to do this screen to get the reps in.  Whether you have pain or not, its super cool because to go through these movements because its different and its a lot of personal attention.  After I put you through the monkey see, monkey do, (10) top tier movements, we move onto a breakout section, where we get very joint, motion & tissue specific.  This part can be very hands on, so you'll hear me say, "is it o.k. if I do this or that, or is it o.k. if I put my hands here or there to assess this or that".  

Functional Capacity Screen (FCS):  this one is a performance screen to find your biggest opportunities to get better and though you're in boot camp, there may be occasions where your medical history and/or what I know about you causes me to skip some screens and/or all of them as they may not be worth it or they may be not worth the risk.  However if it is appropriate for you, you'll love them, especially if you love boot camp.  

Corrective Exercises:  each of these screens come with exercises to help improve your movement quality, performance and/or decrease your pain.  

Breathing:  breathing can improve and/or fix most movement problems, possibly decrease pain and possibly improve performance.

The FMS takes about 20 minutes for me right now.  They tried to get us down to 10 minutes.

The SFMA Top Tier takes me around 3-4minutes and they'd like us to get down to 2 minutes.  The breakouts probably take me 30+ minutes and they'd like us to get down to 15minutes.

The FCS might take an hour, so would be a separate day.

The corrective exercises might go on the FCS day or if there's time at the end of the FMS + SFMA day.

Breathing I'll teach as a corrective if appropriate and possibly a Saturday morning group workshop w/ other skills. 

The more experienced you get the more granularity your quality becomes.  This will help you discover the things you already know about yourself, but you don't know what to do about it; and things you don't know about yourself, your movements, your trouble spots and the causes of your trouble spots you didn't even know existed and what to do about them.

It'll also help you to get MORE out of your training time both with me and on your own.  Plus the data and things you'll learn will help to increase your performance so you get better quicker.  

This is as personalized as it gets outside of doing a DNA, blood, urine and fecal sample and it'll be fun and cool to learn more about yourself and hang out with each other.

I'm offering (2) private appointments with me (60min each):  (1) to assess your movement quality (FMS & SFMA) and (1) to find the right corrective exercises for you and/or assess your performance quality (FCS).  At the end of our time together, I'll give your top 3 exercises to do on your own to help you get better.  All of it for FREE.  (If we don't need the 2nd appointment, I'll tell you).

If you want a custom program to do on your own, like a Custom Corrective Cardio program, then that'll be an option available to purchase afterwards.  No hard sell.  

The main purpose of this email and proposal is to give you an experience to learn about yourself and get better while I get to practice the new skills I've learned.  If you want more help after we meet with using what you learn about yourself, then that option will be available.  Cool!?

I'll have (1) time slot in the afternoon on M / W / F of a boot camp week, when the Mackenzie Center is not being rented.  I'll send out an invitation.  I'll ask you if you have current pain (Y or N).  If you do, you'll go to the top of the invite list.  If you don't, you'll get to choose your appointments based on your membership anniversary date.  Ideally you'll pick your appointments on back to back days when it's freshest in both our minds.  

Members with Pain (prioritized by anniversary date)

Members without Pain (prioritized by anniversary date)

So basically any member with pain or a current problem will go first starting with 2009 members all the way to 2019 members.  

Then members without pain who joined in 2009 will go first, finishing with members who joined in 2019.

So think about this and let me know what you think.  I'm looking to start after the Anniversary Party.  

Happy Training!

Coach Mike