Using the FMS on individual clients is relatively straightforward. Screen them, apply the correctives, train, a few weeks later screen them again, then send them home. What if you are training a team? The idea of the functional movement screen is that everyone is different, each person has developed their own compensation or poor movement pattern over time in some fashion, and doing the same things with everyone won't be effective.
But there are strategies you can use to help your team, especially with limited resources. First, you need to thoroughly screen the entire team, and remember: when in doubt, score low. Second, you need to track all their scores. At Excel Training Designs we offer score sheets that allow you to do this:
Having a tracker such as this allows you to see multiple trends.
First, it shows individuals such as Athlete 20 who are at extreme risk for injury, and should be medically cleared before activity, especially if they have multiple zeros (pain when performing the movement).
Second, it shows individuals whose total score is low, such as Athlete 6, who got an 11/21. This is a very low score and several 1's were received during testing. If you have the time and resources, you can individually apply correctives to these people to get their number to that magic 14.
Third, and this is where most coaches can find a huge benefit in applying the FMS to their programming, you can see team trends along the bottom. The Hurdle Step and Inline Lunge both had averages less than 2 across the whole team. Knowing that collectively the team performs these movements poorly, you can actively apply correctives to help fix these movement patterns. These correctives can be addressed as a part of a warmup, or as active recovery between their main training movements.
So how do you keep track of the correctives you are applying? Simple, first make the series of corrections you want to use, it can be as simple as 1 or 2 exercises designed to help the movement. Track them, using a sheet like this:
Lastly, use our exercise builder to apply the correctives to a team:
We can add these in to any custom training cards, as well as complete FMS corrective sheets such as this one:
These are great for the coaches to have when applying the correctives in the warmups or between sets as active recovery.
Training time is very valuable, in both collegiate and private settings because the time you have is limited with your athletes. Once you have applied a series of corrections, in this case to the Hurdle Step as it is the lowest score, there is no need to re-screen every test, simply re-screen the test you are trying to correct. If you have increased the average score to an acceptable level, you can then move on to the next series of correctives for a different screen, in this case the InLine Lunge.
For a better example see the video of the program in action:
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