Woo Hoo!
Passed my Corrective Exercise Specialist exam last week and still feeling a bit chuffed. I've been studying the theory for over a month and got a lot of feedback from the two day hands on workshop which put into practice all the theory.
Happy for a few reasons.
The main one is that this is the sort of PT I really want to specialise in. Corrective Exercise can be used to enhance and develop optimum movement patterns which can improve quality of life and reduce risk of injury.
The second reason is to stand out from the crowd; the bog standard personal trainer can be found anywhere, throw a brick into a crowd (theoretically of course) and you'd hit one who still uses the same skillset learnt from a course with outdated information, treadmill warmup, stretch, treadmill for twenty minutes, weights then stretch. Sorry, but exercise and sports science has moved on a bit since then!
Finally, it forces me to reassess how I train and motivate people. Anyone who can count up to a hundred can "beast" a client and pretend that's exercise, it takes a more structured and intelligent approach to deliver a programme covering all aspects of fitness, something the NASM model bases itself on.
