Posture & lifestyle
The C.H.E.K. Institute provides integrated education programs for the exercise professional, rehabilitation specialist, strength & conditioning coach, holistic health practitioner & orthopedic specialist.
Postural Assessment
If you suffer with back pain, shoulder or neck problems it could be related to poor posture. Sedentary lifestyles and office jobs often lead to poor posture and over time cause pain.
A key component that defines a CHEK Exercise Coach is the series of assessments used to identify posture, core, and autonomic nervous system dysfunctions.
CHEK Exercise Coaches accurately assess even the most complex client, designing a program to achieve exceptional results.
This service is great for back pain sufferers or people who suffer from other joint pain or discomfort. Rectifying muscle imbalances and encouraging perfect exercise techniques to improve the quality of your life.
This is a great starting place for people who are serious about exercise and gaining results.
What's involved in a full assessment?
· Exercise history
· Injury History
· 4 point plumb line assessment
· Measuring spinal curvatures
· Measuring other landmarks eg Forward head posture
· Comparative joint range of motion assessment
· Core stabilization and abdominal function assessment
· Flexibility assessment
From the results, a program, specific to your goals and needs can be planned. Stretch tight muscles and strengthen core and weak muscles to help balance your posture.
As you progress with your program the functional exercise will help to maintain good posture and keep you pain free.
Lifestyle
Holistic lifestyle coaches know that health and fitness is more than just exercise. True health and vitality starts from the inside! Training hard in the gym and not seeing results? Good nutrition is vital for your body.
Remember – YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT! Learn what foods are good for your body through METABOLIC TYPING.
Look at lifestyle and stress to see how it affects you in the gym, in your lifestyle. Look at how this can affect your bodies health and well being and most importantly how to adjust to a better you. Look at stress levels and how the body deals with it. Understand the ongoing negatives that are caused by a stressful job and lifestyle, then look at ways to support them.
Working through 6 questionnaires looking at areas like Digestion, detoxing, and much more to help identify areas outside of exercise that could be reducing your health and/or affecting your results in the gym.