Starting a fitness routine at Success Health in Spanish Springs doesn't mean hitting the weights or the exercise ball or even these bands. Instead, it starts with just one step.
Literally.
To start, every client is given a functional movement screen.
“And the functional movement screen is a series of seven basic movement patterns that we all knew how to do by the time we were three years old,” says Don Holly.
Holly owns Success Health. He says this screening is used by many professional sports teams. He likes it because he believes it helps prevent injury. And it helps people get into a program they are ready for.
“And from there we take that information and build a program that will get them moving better so they will be able to move more often.”
Karen Barrett is a marathon runner. She's in great shape but still the screening found a weak spot.
“Boy harder than I thought. I thought I was a lot stronger than that and it would be fairly easy and it was surprising. It was a lot more difficult than it looked.”
Functional movement screen picks up problems with people's balance, range of motion and core stability.
Holly says it should be used on everyone. “And it's not just athletes. It's housewives, it's not a sport or athlete specific movement screen. It's for everybody that moves.
