Transcript Using the Functional Movement Screen in Team Settings

Using the Functional
Movement Screen in Team
Settings
Michael Boyle
www.strengthcoach.com
www.bodybyboyle.com
Do We Use It?
• The most common question we get it
“do you use the FMS with your teams?”
• The answer is yes. The next question is
“How?”
• The purpose of this presentation is to
answer how and hopefully, why.
Why I Like Gray Cook
• I like Gray Cook because he helps me
to achieve my goals.
• I want to get my athletes better.
• I have no financial interest in any of this.
• This is about results and “best
practices”
Do I Use the FMS
• We use the FMS with every injured
athlete.
• We have used the FMS with enough
athletes to see trends.
Who’s Program Is It?
• It’s yours!
• I don’t run Gray Cook’s program and
you don’t have to either.
• In fact, I don’t agree with Gray on
everything.
• We use very little of his corrective stuff
as we have not found it “group friendly”.
As I understand more, I integrate more.
Strength and Conditioning?
• The question is does Gray Cook and
the FMS have the ability to make us
better at our jobs?
• I absolutely believe it does.
An Assessment
or A Sales Tool?
• Stop thinking of the FMS as an
assessment and start thinking of it as
the best tool you can have to sell your
athletes on your program.
• It may not change what you do but it will
change how your players perceive what
you do.
What the Results Mean
• FMS results generally reinforce program
design concepts.
• FMS results direct program design.
A well designed program
yields good FMS scores.
What Does This Mean?
• MBSC example
• Our coaches all scored very high.
• Not surprisingly, our coaches at the time
were all former athletes who had spent
years on our program.
Reinforce?
• How many of you in the audience have
attempted the FMS Rotary Core
Stability test?
It’s Easy to Sell Core Training
After They Bomb This!
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Influence of FMS on the
Thought Process
• The FMS changed the entire way we
think, coach and train.
• The knowledge gained from Gray and
correspondingly the FMS, drives our
entire thought process.
Follow Thoughts, not Gurus
• “Stability before mobility”
• Maybe one of the smartest things I’ve
ever heard.
Mobility or Stability Issue?
• A consistent problem is a mobility issue.
• Ex- poor squat in standing, inability to
flex hips while supine
• An inconsistent problem is a stability
problem.
Continuums
• Static stretching ( slow or no motion)----> AROM ( conscious motion, in place------> Dynamic Warm-up ( conscious
motion, while moving?)
• A fluid continuum. Where does stuff fit?
Does it matter?
Develop Progressions
• How? Think about movement patterns.
• Stable to Mobile
• Confusion?
Movement Progressions or
Exercise Progressions?
• For movement, proper mobility must
precede developing stability ( see
constructing a warm-up)
• For exercise progressions the athlete
must be able to be stable prior to adding
mobility ( i.e. multiplanar actions)
Follow Patterns
• Transitional postures
• 1/2 Kneel ( lunge, decrease number of
joints to control)
• Stand ( increase number of joints to
control)
• This follows the stability first idea.
Lift Progression
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1/2 Kneel Stable
1/2 Kneel Sequential
Standing
Step Up
Stability to Mobility
1/2 Kneel Stable
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1/2 Kneel Sequential
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Standing
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Step Up Lift
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Don’t Add Strength to Dysfunction
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What does this mean?
If you can’t squat, don’t squat.
Go single leg
Don’t modify stance to get depth. If you
can’t squat low, don’t squat heavy.
Risk versus Benefit
• Difficult versus beneficial
• Difficult versus safe
Thought Process
• Less joints moving -->more joints
moving.
• Stability to mobility
• 2 Leg to 1 leg
Single Leg Progression
• Split Squat ( two stable points)
• Rear Foot Elevated Split Squat
(decrease in stability)
• 1 Leg Squat ( another decrease in
stability)
Split Squat
Rear Foot Elevated
1 Leg Squat
A Totally New Thought Process
• Different joints need different
approaches?
• You are a stacked pile of joints
Joint
Primary Need
Ankle
Mobility
Knee
Stability
Hip
Mobility ( ROM +)
Lumbar Spine
Stability
Thoracic Spine
Mobility
Scapulo-thoracic
Stability
Gleno-humeral
Mobility?
Results of Joint Dysfunction
• Joint dysfunction will effect the joint
above or below.
• Poor ankle mobility=knee pain
• Poor hip mobility = low back pain
• Poor t-spine mobility = cervical pain
Without Gray Cook and the
FMS, I Wouldn’t Have Had
These Thoughts
Hockey Example
• 18 out of 20 got 2’s on the hurdle step.
• This indicated an obviously
dysfunctional pattern of hip flexion.
• Finding: poor psoas/iliacus activity
• Solution: work on hip flexion from the
top down
Hockey Players Have Trouble
Doing This
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Why?
• Maybe because they are always bent at
the waist?
FB Example
• Abundance of OH Squat 2’s
• Problem- ankle mobility
• Solution- add ankle mobility to warm up
Video Examples- Ankle
Mobility Progression
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Real Life Examples
• We have made millions ( for others) with
FMS data
Quick Thought
• Is In-Line Lunge a Lunge?
• By my definition no.
• I refer to it as a split squat. A static
exercise.
• A lunge has motion and would be
classified as dynamic.
• Lunge has a transitional component.
• I think Gray is looking at a single leg
pattern
Why We Added 1 Leg Squat
• We think lunge and 1 leg squat are too
disimilar.
• Both at MBSC and at AP we added 1
Leg Squats to the screen.
Example 1- In Line Lunge
• Subject- NBA All Star Guard
• Problem- Torn oblique
• Finding? 0 on the In-Line Lunge on the
Left Leg
• Significance? History of turf toe?
What Does Turf Toe have to
do with Oblique Strains?
• Turf toe led to altered gait
• Externally rotated hips and supinated
feet.
• Externally rotated hips took away hip
mobility for “spin” moves.
• Lack of hip mobility caused an
abdominal tear
Example 2- Chronic
Hamstring Strains: NFL Wide
Receiver
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FMS finding
1 Rotary Stability
3 Rotary Mobility
The “perfect storm” of back pain.
Great mobility w/ no control
The Plot Thickens
• This guy stopped lifting after college due to
numerous back strains.
• The reality is that he should have never been
loaded in college
• Solution- unilateral program to develop
glutes.
• Previous rehab had centered on hamstrings.
Hamstring issues were a symptom of poor
glutes, not the cause of the strains.
• In the absence of glutes, hamstrings will fail
every time. They are a secondary extensor.
Example 3- NFL Defensive
Lineman
• Abdominal surgery, back surgery,
current complaint L knee pain.
• 0 Single Leg squat test. Painful collapse
on the left.
You Have to Able to do This!
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If You Can’t?
• You’ve got problems.
• Big problems.
RNT Squats
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Colts Example
• 17 w/ 3 assymettries
• Asymettry is a more significant problem
than 2’s
Developing a Strength Program
• Don’t throw out the baby with the
bathwater?
• You can squat and olympic lift and use
the FMS.
What You Need
• You need to combine your favorite tools
with the FMS findings.
• Look at your poor patterns.
• Reinforce them in the warm-up or in the
workout, or ideally in both
Example
• 1 Leg Squat progression show
previously
• 1 Leg SLDL pattern ( hip hinge)
Reaching
1 Leg Good Morning?
1 A 1L SLDL
2A 1L SLDL
Developing a Warm-up
• How?
• Joint by Joint
• The joints that need mobility lose it, the
joints that need stability often become
unstable.
• Ex- Lumbar and GH
Ankle Ideas
Knee Stability?
Hip Mobility ( passive)
Hip Mobility ( active)
Lumbar Stability?
Lumbar Mobility?????
T-Spine?
• Passive ( tennis balls) vs active (
drivers)
• Be careful of drivers as t-spineoften
goes off course and goes lumbar. Tspine is hard ( big band), lumbar is easy
( small band). They should be reversed.
T-Spine- passive
T-Spine- active
Scapulo-Thoracic Stability and
GH Mobility
• GH mobility sounds like a mistake, it is
not.
Wall Slides
Conclusion
• The FMS in team settings may not allow
you to help each individual but, the
results will clearly help your team.
• Look for trends and design a team
program that corrects your trends.
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