PLEASE NOTE: Depending on your cohort and learning journey, this content might be spread across multiple sessions:
- Consultation – looking at the assessment checklist and how you might evidence each criterion
- Creating a folder to support the consultation
- SMART goal setting – we also praticed how to make goals SMART
- Stages of change
- Risk stratification with a focus on Irwin and Morgan
- Questions: open and closed
- Interviewing skills – body position, barriers, body language, paraphrasing
- Choosing fitness tests
- Taking measurements during the consultation
- Posture types, (hyper) lordosis, (hyper) kyphosis
- Group induction – practice sessions and formative assessments
Resources for SMART goal setting
Some slides to support the consultation (detailed information can be found in your manual)
Paperwork for the Client interview:
Fitness Testing
Many fitness tests will also include “norms” tables which indicate that the average person should be able to achieve – sometimes grouped by age. It is now thought that norms tables don’t have real value because a client should always be producting their best score when tested. So the initial test result is ther benchmark norm and they can aim to improve on that over time. As the fitness professional, you might want to check the norms tables – but consider if there is any real value in linking your client’s results to these norms.
Below is an example of a gym practical 1:1 assessment