Posture Correction Fitness Coach Training Center

The anatomy content in the course should account for no less than 30% and should be practical-oriented, with at least 300 hours of teaching practice with real clients, and free follow-up training within 3 months of graduation. Those that do not meet these three points are basically "certificate training courses" that charge an IQ tax.

A while ago, my studio just dismissed a novice coach who applied for a job. He had an "International Senior Posture Corrector" certificate issued by an Internet celebrity organization and confidently said that he could correct any problem. I happened to have an appointment with an old client with round shoulders and upper cross syndrome that day for a follow-up consultation and asked him to do an evaluation. After touching for a long time, he said that the client's trapezius muscles were too stiff and the rhomboids were weak. He needed to loosen his shoulders first and then do back exercises. The plan was sound. When I asked him what the client's pectoralis minor muscle tension was, he couldn't even find the right location for palpation of the pectoralis minor. Later, I found out during the conversation that he had signed up for a 7-day crash course, and half of the class was spent on teaching how to create anxiety for clients and sell private lessons. He only learned anatomy knowledge for half a day, and he didn't even touch the skeletal model a few times.

There is a lot of noise in the industry now about the technical schools of posture correction, and many training institutions also like to take advantage of the trend. This year they will talk about "anatomical precision correction" and next year they will talk about "nerve control therapy". They would like to promote their courses as a magic medicine that can cure all diseases. In fact, if you stay for a long time, you will know that there is no saying that one of the mainstream schools can overwhelm the other: the purely anatomy-oriented school focuses on the starting and ending points of muscles and muscle tension, relaxes which contractures, and strengthens which ones are weak. To deal with mild rounded shoulders and wealthy bags caused by long-term desk work, obvious improvement can be seen in three or four times quickly, and it is very cost-effective. ； The functional school says that you cannot treat headaches and head and foot pains. The high and low shoulders may be the compensation of the lower limbs caused by the asymmetry of walking force. Simply loosening the trapezius muscles is useless. You have to change the overall pattern from gait to core. This is more suitable for customers who already have obvious pain and repeated rebound after local adjustments. ； There is also the neuro-oriented school that has become popular in recent years. It is believed that many chronic postural problems are essentially caused by problems with the brain's control of muscles. For example, the brains of people who have been sedentary for a long time have forgotten how to correctly activate the deep core. It is useless if you curl up and support the plank every day. You must first do neural activation to rebuild the control link. This kind of adaptability will be higher for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and postpartum postpartum postural disorders.

Many people who choose training centers are easily fooled by fancy certificate names, such as US certification and EU certification. To put it bluntly, most of them are printed by the institutions themselves, and few in the industry really recognize them. I once accompanied a friend to a trial training class in Shanghai. The teacher on the stage shook a skeletal model for ten minutes and then finished explaining the anatomy. The rest of the time was spent teaching the "seven steps of closing a deal", how to create anxiety by taking comparison pictures for customers, and how to sell a 300 yuan correction course to 800 yuan. The people who come out of this kind of place are not coaches, they are just sales in sportswear. There are also those who only teach static assessment, asking you to stand and measure the client's shoulder height and watch the forward and backward tilt of the pelvis. They don't even teach dynamic assessment - think about it, the client can't stand still all day long, right? Does your pelvis rotate when you squat? Will the center of gravity shift when walking? Will you compensate when you run? These static assessments cannot be detected at all, and after learning, they can only deal with the simplest surface problems, and problems can easily arise if they are slightly more complex.

Last year I went to a training center in Shenzhen to take classes. Their model was much more down-to-earth. The first four weeks were all about functional anatomy. The daily homework was for students to palpate each other. Those who couldn’t find the starting and ending points of muscles or feel the wrong muscle tension would not be allowed to leave the get out of class. In the next two months, they will be directly arranged to do internships in the cooperative community studios and lead public body adjustment experience classes. Each intern will be followed by a teacher with more than 5 years of experience, who will correct any wrong words or movements on the spot. I saw an intern adjusting the forward pelvic tilt of a client who was a programmer. As soon as he started, he asked someone to do a plank. The instructor went over and pulled him aside, pointed at the client's flat feet and said, "He fell forward because his arches couldn't support it. You didn't let him practice the arch force first, and after a year of core training, his pelvis still tilted forward." The young man's face turned red at that time. He went back and read the anatomy book for three days. After adjusting the plan, the client's back pain after sitting for a long time was relieved by 80% after three classes. Later, he even specially sent milk tea to the studio.

I have been in this business for almost 8 years, and I have seen wild people who dare to adjust scoliosis after taking a 7-day crash course, and I have also seen novices who just graduated from a reliable training center for half a year and can help customers reduce idiopathic scoliosis from 12 degrees to 5 degrees. After all, posture correction is not a metaphysics at all. Reliable training centers will never tell you that you will earn 100,000 yuan a month after completing the course. They will only tell you the truth: first calm down and learn the anatomy thoroughly, first be able to truly solve the round shoulder problem of 10 customers without rebounding, and then think about making more money.

Recently, many kids who want to join the industry have asked me whether they should spend tens of thousands of dollars to sign up for one of those imported certification courses. I usually ask them to get a trial class first, and then look at the proportion of practical exercises in the class schedule. If the theoretical and sales classes contain more content than hands-on practical exercises, they can just pass. After all, after studying, you will be able to help customers relax and train them, not go to graduate school and write a thesis. Being able to truly solve customers' problems is more effective than any golden certificate.