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Where Football Meets Flexibility
2 years ago, in FMS Fitness by Gray Cook, Keith Fields & Lee Burton
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A program for assessing and achieving functional flexibility in football players
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To Discover Elite Bowlers, Look for Athleticism
11 days ago, in FMS Fitness by Chris Gorski
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FMS benefits the unique, repetitive and asymmetrical sport of bowling.
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Gray answers the following question: “In the sidelying rotation drill, you progress until you get your shoulders to rest on the ground while doing your sets. Once this is accomplished, is that the end of the progression? Or do you then work to reduce the size of the ball under the leg?”
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INTERRATER RELIABILITY OF THE FUNCTIONAL MOVEMENT SCREEN
2 years ago, in FMS Research by KYLE B. KIESEL
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Minick, KI, Kiesel, KB, Burton, L, Taylor, A, Plisky, P, and Butler, RJ. Interrater reliability of the Functional Movement Screen. J Strength Cond Res 24(2): 479–486, 2010—The Functional Movement Screen (FMS) is a series of 7 tests that categorize fundamental movement. Each test is scored on an ordinal scale with 4 categories. The purpose of this study was to determine the interrater reliability of the FMS. Forty healthy subjects were videotaped while performing the FMS. The videos were independently scored by 4 raters, including 2 experts who instruct FMS training courses and 2 novices who completed a standardized training course on the FMS. Interrater reliability was analyzed using the weighted kappa statistic. The novice raters demonstrated excellent or substantial agreement on 14 of the 17 tests, whereas the expert raters did the same on 13 of the 17 tests. When the novice raters were paired with the expert raters, all 17 components demonstrated excellent or substantial agreement. These data indicate that the FMS can confidently be applied by trained individuals. This would suggest that the FMS can be confidently used to assess the movement patterns of athletes and to make decisions related to interventions for performance enhancement, and the FMS may assist in identifying athletes at risk for injury.
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An article on how the Functional Movement Screen became to be and why it is important to have good movement patterns as oppose to single areas of injury.
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A look at six principles and seven exercises for training todays baseball athletes.
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Gray discuses three major things that you see being done by trainers in commercial gyms that if they could be fix, would make a major difference in the level of service they could provide for their clients. o
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