THE ESSENTIALS OF FLEXIBILITY WORKSHOP

0.8 CEUs

9:00am to 6:00pm

Sunday December 4th, 2011

at

 Hanson Fitness, 42 Wooster Street, NYC, NY 10013. (between Broome and Grand Streets)

• Essential scanning exams for range of motion
• Essential primitive movement sequences
• Essential post-workout sequences
• Essential tools for recovery

This one day workshop will cover the essential components of flexibility training, from assessment to pre and post workout active movement sequences.  A comprehensive review of self-myofascial release tools will be presented to help untangle the marketing maze of available products.  This workshop is both an addendum to the Focus on Flexibility and FCES sequence as well as a precurser.  The workshop is open to all.  Lunch will be served.  The workshop has been submitted to NSCA for CEUs.  Approval pending.

$125 Before November 28th. - $150 after.  Registration closes Thursday December 1st, 11:59pm.

Sponsored By

THE FOCUS ON FLEXIBILITY AND FCES WORKSHOPS WILL BE BACK IN 2012

The Focus On Flexibility Workshops are CEU approved.

The Focus on Flexibility and FCES workshops are designed to give fitness professionals guided hands on practice and skills they can imediately incorporate into the programs they design for their clients.  The full three weekends of training provide participants with indepth knowledge, skills, and abilities that take their services to a new level of personalization for their clients.  Assessment, advanced PNF, static and active stretching techniques, self-myofascial release, and corrective exercises are presented and practiced encouraging participants to create unique and personalized warm-ups, flexibility and corrective exercise programs.  Focus on Flexibility 1 and 2 can be taken in any order but both must be completed before taking the FCES (Flexibility and Corrective Exercise Specialist) certificate of advanced training.  All three weekends are approved for ceus.

Focus on Flexiblity 1 - The Extremities:

The pathogenesis and predisposing anatomical and postural factors leading to injuries will be covered to give the fitness professional a basis for understanding pre and post-rehabilitation exercise programming. Participants will assess posture, kinetic chain function, muscle length, and recruitment patterns, as well as learn: effective body mechanics; hand placement; positioning for advanced PNF techniques; and progressions for scapular stabilization, rotator cuff, hip, knee, and ankle strengthening. Open-chain, closed-chain, strength, balance, functional, deceleration, agility, and power exercises will also be presented.

Focus on Flexibility 2 - The Trunk and Self-Myofascial Release: 

Participants will learn assessment tools to quickly and effectively spot postural distortion patterns that can lead to injury of the spine, and how to develop corrective strategies for the musculature of the trunk. Class will cover guidelines for developing and adapting flexibility, effective body mechanics, hand placement, efficient positioning for the trainer, self-myofascial release theory and technique, pre- and post-rehabilitation programming, as well as a full spectrum of exercise variations to appropriately and safely progress any client, including older adults, and clients with neurological dysfunction.

Flexibility and Corrective Exercise Specialist:

The F.C.E.S. certificate is designed for those using corrective exercise techniques to achieve safer and more effective workout programs with their clients. This two-day workshop allows candidates supervised practical experience in applying the assessments, stretching techniques and corrective exercises taught in the Focus on Flexibility 1 and 2 workshops.

About the Instructor:

Vincent Metzo was born and raised in NYC. His early years were spent studying acting and dance. During his time as an undergraduate at NYU Tisch School of the Arts studying acting he renewed his interest in movement and acrobatics. After studying acrobatics and tumbling with Chuck Kelly at Broadway Dance Center and Pilates' based mat work Vincent decided to return to NYU to pursue a Master's Degree in Exercise Physiology and Fitness Management.
After a few years working in corporate fitness and receiving his Diploma and License as a Massage Therapist, he began teaching at the Swedish Institute where he now runs the Advanced Personal Training Course and is the Chairman of the Science Department in the Massage Program. In addition to maintaining a private massage therapy practice and personal training business where he works with track and field athletes, Broadway dancers and fitness clients, Vincent spent two years conditioning and massaging a Broadway dance troupe as a member of the medical staff.
Vincent lives in Westchester with his wife and twin sons. All of whom train with kettlebells. He is the creator of the FCES (Flexibility and Corrective Exercise Specialist), Focus on Flexibility and Periodization of Sports Massage workshops, is a Senior Instructor for Kettlebell Concepts (also teaching their Level 1 Instructor Trainings), and is currently working on the “Low-Tech, High-Effect Physical Culture Workout” workshop and training which teaches trainers to program using body weight, dumbbell, kettlebell, sandbag, rings, ropes and pull up bars to help clients learn body management and move better.
For information on consulting, ceu course offerings, corporate trainings, or private training and massage contact him at Vincentmetzo@yahoo.com or find him on the web at www.kettlebellbootcampnyc.com or www.physicalculturepress.com.