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UNIQUE EDUCATIONAL CONTENT FOR EXERCISE PROFESSIONALS
Most modern modalities and approaches either focus on pain signal interference (medication, shots, etc.), secondary system responses (muscle tightness/stiffness), patient/client education, or some version of resistance training. Decision making tends to follow the reductionist frame of “local symptom must mean local issue, so therefore apply a local intervention” approach. Sometimes this works, many times it doesn’t.
The mixed bag of the Bio-Psycho-Social Model, the Evidence Based Medical Model, the Modern Rational-Empirical Model, Decision Science Models, etc. can be overwhelming when trying to apply them in the real world with limited time and against the unique client/patient situation in front of you.
We offer a systematic process to address this.
What do you do when your current approach and thought process aren’t yielding the changes in a client’s movement and subjective sensations that the research, your education, and your experience have led you to believe should be seen? Especially when you have previously experienced intended movement and subjective sensations change in similar client situations.
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“Overall movement capacity is directionally proportional to overall joint health and functionality.”
-Dr. Andreo A. Spina
FRA is a measurement based assessment system that provides objective measures of an athlete or individuals movement capacity for each and every articulation. Then training inputs (FRC®) can then be directed at the individual’s specific deficits.
Personalized FRC® programs can become a stand-alone training pursuit, or it can be easily integrated into your current training regimen as we do with our many amateur and professional athletes.
The goal of Functional Range Conditioning is to address your specific movement and mobility needs. Mobility is in many ways the most important quality to train as it creates the pre-requisites necessary for all other forms of training (weight lifting, endurance work, power development, etc). We focus on improving the health, and function of your joints…what you do with them afterwards is up to you
The FRC system can be implemented by anyone no matter your current physical state. As a matter of fact, FRC has been successfully utilized with a vast array of individuals including:
Professional/Amateur athletes
Recreational athletes
Sedentary individuals
Post-surgical cases
Injured populations
Elderly population
Children
“You can never have too much control of your body”
– Dr. Andreo Spina
Mobility is in many ways the most important athletic quality to train as it creates the pre-requisites necessary for all other forms of training (weight lifting, endurance work, power development, etc). Using the Functional Range Assessment (FRA), our trainers are able to identify even the smallest determents, or imbalances in mobility and/or joint control. Our training program then specifically addresses these issues in order to maximize movement capacity, which dramatically improves athletic performance
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Exercise Professionals
We define an Exercise Professional as any practitioner who employs exercise as a modality regardless of the demographic with whom he/she works. Personal trainers, group exercise instructors, physical therapists, chiropractors, performance specialists, strength coaches, skill coaches, etc. all employ exercise along a continuum of client/patient abilities, tolerances and goals. Yet there are specific areas and levels of knowledge that are not taught in any of the related degrees or certifications.
A Professional's Focus
RTS offers truly PRACTICAL education for the Exercise Professional, not bound by tradition, and not biased by sciences like physiology that cannot possibly influence exercise design decisions. The focus is on an ever-expanding foundation of principles and information that enables the decision making process, enhancing the Exercise Professional's skills of investigation, custom exercise design, progression, and exercise delivery specific to the idiosyncratic and changing needs and tolerances of the individual client. While generalized assessments, exercise instructions, and protocols of progression are acceptable standards of education and practice for physical therapy and personal training. At RTS we considered anything that is not Client-Defined™ as subpar for true Exercise Professional! Everything must be modified based upon "Who, Goal, Have, Own, and Tolerate"™!
A true professional's education is not based upon gathering more support for what he/she already believes. It is not comprised of sound bites that people mistake as "science". Science is not memorized facts or misapplied research. It is a process of constant questioning and investigation! It s process requiring openness, not ego! A true professional seeks both text book and practical knowledge that is only of value as applies to each individual client or patient and his/her responses and outcome.
Exercise Mechanics
"The term 'Exercise Mechanics' was coined by Tom Purvis in the 80's
and RTS was the first and only course teaching it for decades."
RTS focuses and excels at the progressive presentation of Exercise Mechanics, an application of engineering and physics to the understanding, implementation, and delivery of exercise. The upper levels of the RTS programs have proven time and time again to exceed the vast all major university kinesiology, biomechanics, exercise science, or sports medicine classes in terms of the applicable presentation of mechanical principles and their specific application to various individuals. The integration of orthopedics and motor learning with the physics of resistance application along with the skills of client/patient education set RTS apart.
Determine Your Own Entry Level
The RTS programs have progressed from a single 5-day course in 1997 to multiple levels of courses including the 6-day domestic and internationally RTS Foundations to the 120 hour online prerequisite lectures + 9-day hands-on RTSm.
We offer educational courses and programs nationally and internationally which allow us to further our mission of changing the perception and delivery of exercise by bringing substance and objectivity to how we study, teach, and apply exercise idiosyncratically to each individual client or patient for whom we accept responsibility.
Are you committed to extremely advanced learning? In very specialized study within field of that typically requires a commitment to traveling. (50% of RTSm students are international; one even learned English just to attend!)
If logistics or your level of commitment don't allow keep you within a tighter geographical radius, there are RTS2 courses in many regionally and expanding annually.
Your Expectations Define Your RTS Experience
Ultimately, your experience with RTS, will be determined first and foremost by the attitude and filter with which you attend. Attendees of RTSm have include NBA and NFL strength coaches, university professors, Specialty Certified DPT's, MD's, DC's, high school coaches, "celebrity trainers", "master" trainers, recently certified personal trainers, Pilates instructors, yoga teachers, etc. Exercise Mechanics and delivery transcends all versions and levels of exercise. Be open and you will walk away with new skills and insights that can help evolve your decision making process... if you so choose.
The Bottom Line
If you're entirely satisfied with your level of knowledge and skills in application; if you're completely satisfied with your ability to meet the needs of every single type of client from the exceptionally tolerant athlete to the orthopedically and neurologically compromised 50 year old to the average 80 year old; if you're happy with the standards of practice in the industry, or if you're just apathetic, then RTS is not the place for you... yet.
The History of RTS
RTS is the culmination of 40 years of experiences as a lifelong student and inquisitor, decades of teaching experience and professional practice, as well as both physical achievements and challenges... all of which culminated in thousands of mistakes... a virtual breeding ground for hundreds of original insights into Exercise Mechanics and working with every person regardless of where they current are along the continuum of physical abilities and tolerances.
In 1989 the founder of NASM, Dr. Robert Goldman, recruited Tom to develop the Biomechanics Lectures and Hands-on portions of what was the first Personal Training certification in the US. By 1999 Tom was continuing to increase the depth and details of these presentations, while NASM was eliminating its advanced courses for the more lucrative standard courses.
You could view that decade building NASM as the incubator for the development of the information that was to become "RTS". For several years Tom had been doing professional continuing education courses for therapists and trainers under the RTS name, so at that point RTS became the sole home and delivery site for his continually advancing explorations and presentations. Over 30 years later RTS continues to evolve and offer one of the most advanced specialty educational programs in the Exercise Professional world.
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We read or hear about it every day: Exercise is crucial to overall health, athletic conditioning, prevention of disease and quality of life as we age. But incorporating exercise into daily life properly can require the guidance of an experienced professional. Individuals trained in fitness and wellness management help people from all walks of life achieve good health and happiness. You can be one of them.
Cal Poly Humboldt's Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology with an option in Exercise Science combines science-based classroom study with practical experience in our state-of-the-art Human Performance and Biomechanics Laboratories. Your studies culminate in an internship with an organization in need of your specialized skills.
Our graduates are ready for professional certification by the American College of Sports Medicine and the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Many go on to seek rewarding careers as health and fitness specialists in corporate, clinical or community settings, or as strength and conditioning coaches. Some go on to medical school, while others pursue graduate studies in Exercise Science or a related health field.