If you've taken every course out there (including all the 3-letter acronym brand name ones), this course is for you.
This 12-hour course aims to offer a simple yet robust framework for prescribing exercise to our patients. We will focus on the tools of the trade, evidence (informed by experience and logic), and the principles that will allow us to load anyone with any ailment at any time. No proprietary information, marketing gimmicks, or complex systems here. Just the why, what, and how of prescribing targeted exercises to every single patient that walks through your doors.
If you find yourself frequently offering low-load elastic-band exercises (which your patients usually neglect to do), this course is DEFINITELY for you.
At the core of this course you will learn one important skill: IMPROVISATION.
Once you understand a logical, evidence-informed framework (not an algorithm, not an intervention library, not a technique) your goal as a therapist is to create a tailored exercise intervention for each and every client, regardless of age, equipment, fitness, co-morbidities, or other roadblocks.
Let us show you how to take all those valuable principles, certifications, and ideas and put them to use immediately for the patient in front of you.
Why Improvisation?
Delivery Style
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20% Lecture
Where we introduce important principles, contextualize them from the research, lend evidence to their utility, and tell stupid/funny stories.
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20% Demonstration
Where we show you what we mean, give you pertinent examples, and embarrass ourselves endlessly.
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60% Breakouts & Application
Where you work through the material, create your own applications, expand the way you think, and apply the principles across a broad domain of cases.
Course Objectives
Instructor
Dr. Benjamin Stevens
As the owner-operator of Somatic Senses Education, Dr Stevens has seen it all. Having attended 200+ seminars and delivered over 100 courses/lectures himself, you won't find a more entertaining and engaging educator.
Drawing from over a decade of clinical experience in a variety of settings, not to mention two decades as a personal trainer and strength coach, Dr Stevens teaches with a highly improvisational style, an attention grabbing pace, and a deeply researched topic matter.
Oh, and he's done a shit-ton of those 3-letter certifications he's talked about (DNS, FMS/SFMA, NDS, ART, FRC, FR, CES/PES, CSCS, etc etc).
What's with the Astronaut?
There are many mental models and perspectives to use when approaching knowledge acquisition. One such approach involves asking the question, "What if the opposite were true?". For this course, outer space provides the answer to the questions, "What if we remove load entirely?" or "Do we even need loading?"
Year over year, aerospace has become an increasingly important area of research, not just because we might end up needing to vacate this planet in the future, nor because space exploration is cool. We study humans in space because it is a vacuum of normal inputs. Human physiology is designed to interact with and adapt to earth's usual environment, so space becomes a great place to answer the question "What happens if we don't have X?". In the context of this course, we are studying load and specifically what happens when we nuance how we apply it in the context of a normal human.
In outer space, due to the lack of gravity, our bodies don't experience almost any load. And guess what happens? Nothing good. Our immune systems crash, our bones become brittle, our muscles atrophy irreversibly, our digestion changes, and nearly every marker of health gets worse.
Space travel has helped us answer the question: Do we really need to load and exercise? Well, the answer is not exactly rocket science...Yes we do.
