PHRE 3043 – Functional Movement and Conditioning

Progressing from Principles of Fitness exercise techniques, Students will learn additional training strategies in order to design exercise programs for client’s wishing to improve anaerobic capacity, movement quality, and occupational requirements (e.g. police and paramedic). Students will be introduced to various training techniques such as: joint mobility, dynamic warm-ups, multi-joint lifting techniques, lunging/stepping patterns, grip strength, advanced cardiovascular interval and tempo training, circuits and more.

Target population: Adults (18-65), healthy

  • Course Instructor: Tim Rush
  • Lab Instructors:Tim Rush and Sarah King
  • Lab Technician: Bryant and Lucas
  • Semester: Three

Lab Sections:

  • Section 1: Friday 8 – 9 AM
  • Section 2: Friday 9 – 10 AM
  • Section 3: Wednesday 9 – 10 AM
  • Section 4: Wednesday 10 – 11 AM
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Course: PHRE 3043 - Functional MovementMovement Pattern: HingeTarget: GlutealsSynergist(s): Hamstrings
Exercise
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Key Teaching PointsExpectation: [if 456 equals="Supervised Practice"]Supervised Practice [/if 456][if 456 not_equal="Supervised Practice"]Independent Learning[/if 456][579]
Description:

Set-Up:

  1. Grasp dowel with hand in lower back and hand behind neck
  2. Perform a hip hinge with a dowel against your back to full flexion and extend back to standing.
  3. The dowel must touch your tailbone (coccyx), hand against lower back, dowel touches upper back, hand behind neck, and dowel touches head throughout the entire movement. Record angle where any contact point is lost.

Scoring:

3 – Client is able to achieve >60° hip flexion with dowel remaining in contact at all points.

2 – Client able to achieve 45-60° hip flexion before dowel loses contact.

1 – Back rounds or dowel loses contact before client achieves 45° hip flexion.

0 – Client unable to hinge OR pain occurs

Common Error(s):
Spotting:
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