Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up. My name is Brock Armstrong,

and I'm the Get Fit Guy. As I said in a podcast episode called Turn Your Fitness weaknesses into fitness

strengths, being fit can be boiled down to this statement. Fitness is being able to move

through this world with as few limitations as possible. To achieve that goal, we need to focus on our

weakest parts rather than our strongest. And the functional movement screening test is a great way to find

those weaknesses. My job as a coach is to prepare an athlete for the variety of movements that

they will need to be able to perform in order to participate in their chosen activity. To help with that,

I often include some sort of analysis of fundamental movements into

their preparation for training. This type of screening can help determine what abilities they

possess or lack, where their strengths are and where they may need some specific attention.

This gives me a great idea of where to start building their fitness program.

At its root, a functional movement screening, or FMS, is a test that is used to identify

asymmetries or deficiencies in an individual strength, flexibility, and general movement.

The FMS aims to identify as many imbalances in mobility and stability as is possible,

using seven fundamental movement patterns.

The seven movement patterns are designed to allow someone like me, a coach, a trainer, or a physiotherapist

to observe your performance of basic locomotor, manipulative, and stabilizing movements

by placing you, the athlete, in extreme positions where your weaknesses and imbalances are

most noticeable.

Then, once these deficiencies have been identified through the FMS, we can create a program

of corrective exercises that will shore up these deficiencies before they can, number one,

cause injury, and number two, create some poor movement patterns that can be hard

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