Functional Movement Screen now available

At xo fitness, we believe everybody is an athlete. Whether you are inclined to sports or mostly just reclined to watch them, you rely on your body every day to move you about. If you aren't moving your body the way it was intended, you are setting yourself up for injury.

The truth is that nearly everyone compensates. Some of us have tight hamstrings (the muscles running along the backs of your thighs) and we are forced to rely on the flexibility in our back when we pick things up off the floor. Weak muscles are automatically supported by nearby muscles to get the job done. Either of these situations make us inefficient and prone to injury because we aren't using the right muscles for the right job.

It makes no sense to exercise and reinforce a bad movement pattern. You've got to identify and fix the problem first, and then work to get stronger. Anything else is building the house before the foundation is complete.

So how can we identify our flexibility and strength deficiencies? A physical therapist named Gray Cook developed the Functional Movement Screen to quickly identify mobility and stability problems and assign corrective exercises to fix these problems. We are proud to offer Functional Movement Screening (FMS) to our clients. Ask us how it might be applied to your active lifestyle.