Forget multiplanar. I want multilocation. Why oh why can’t I be in all sessions at the same time? There are so many amazing options to up the ante on education and I am feeling anxious. While I want to be taking notes on the unstable pelvis and how to assess masses and spaces, I also want to be trying out the five different variations on the Turkish Get-up and I also want to take on the heavy rope. Argh! I want it all and I want it now!
In short, Training with a Purpose means finding your purpose and training within that beautiful realm of self-knowing. It means responding to that inner jump of passion that wakes you when you hear your truth. It’s the meeting of the minds here at IDEA Personal Trainer Institute--and I am feeling my own mind light up like Gary Gray’s 3D Matrix. Yes! Body-mind/mind-body. It’s that integration thing you keep hearing about.
That leads me to one of the words of the weekend: neuro. This is the “it” word in fitness right now, in my opinion. Or at least one of them. Training is not relegated to the body, and never really has been. However, thanks to an avalanche of research that’s come out recently, we now have a better understanding of just how crucial the nervous system is in fitness and wellness programming. Muscles, bones, connective tissue, fascia--it takes nerves to train someone the right way.
I really wish you were here. Forget the education stuff--we’re having fun. Seriously, although it may seem as if they’re are way too many cooks in the kitchen when you walk into a room of 120 personal trainers, by the same token they’re all coaches and most of them are “people” people. So attendees are getting free assessments from their colleagues. They’re playing games with slam balls, tubing and weird configurations of agility ladders. And in some sessions it’s more like being in a spa. People leave Sue Hitzmann’s and Cassidy Phillips’ sessions looking as if they just got a Thai massage.
And then there’s the subtalar joint puppet. This is the term I have coined for Gary Gray’s informative and unique teaching style whereby he personifies an area of the body, in this case the subtalar joint. When Gray gives this joint a voice, he tells you what and how proper usage will do for the rest of the kinetic chain. Apparently, the subtalar joint is in cahoots with the gluteus maximus, among others. It’s a fun way to better understand why I keep having issues with my illiotibial band and why, perhaps, my piriformis is currently upset with me.
How’s your masses and spaces? Your clients’? What’s the biggest news in your inner circle? I’d love to hear from you.
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