Biomechanics student testimonials

Module 2!!!!! The course I have just been on was awesome I enjoyed it soo much the ITS team were fantastic (Rachel,Martin and Fletch).

A big thank you to those guys they make learning fun and more to the point understandable! I didn't care for learning much in school I'm definately making up for it now feel a right geek and I am sure my brain has increased in size since going on ITS courses! Thanks to you all!

Claire, Biomechanics Coach

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Hi Martin,

Thanks for such a fantastic time on the course. I really loved it although have been shattered today and can't even think about what I've learnt!    I really felt the 4 days were brilliant and the final day was my favourite - the glue that starts sticking it all together.

I read this quote yesterday and thought it was appropriate:

'An hour spent across the table from a wise teacher is worth a lifetime spent with books' - Anonymous

Mandy, Biomechanics Coach - Channel Islands

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Hi Mim,

I thought I'd write a testimonial for you guys. I know it might be quite long but I had a bit say.

"You just have too....

I have come from a personal training background, and I can't recommend the diploma enough. If any trainer genuinely cares about their clients then they have to do this course. The results you get with clients are fantastic. And anyone who suffers from aches and pains and is always getting injured can feel amazing after just days.
You will also know how to train people harder without injuring them. It is also a must for anyone who, like me, really wants to help improve sporting performance.
It's taken me 5 months to get around to writing this as I have been that busy! Since completing the initial part of the diploma I have helped all my clients achieve more than they could have expected, I have moved to a new gym and this has helped me get busy very quickly. I have also been flown up and down the country to consult for a multi-million pound professional team.
My client list includes professional golfers as well as personal training clients. I am still amazed at how many opportunities the biomechanics coaching diploma with ITS has opened up for me. What seemed like a large investment at first now seems like the best investment ever. What my clients and career opportunities have gained from this is worth at least ten times the price of it.

Joshua Ford - Manchester"

Joshua Ford
Biomechanics coach

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Hi Rachel

Thank you for your email and you were spot on that I was way out of my comfort zone but I learnt a lot about Bio-Mechanics and also about myself. By the time I got home I was on a real high and I went to my Yoga class and explained what I had been doing and that I needed bodies to screen. The result has been amazing with more than half the class interested including the instructor. So far I have 7 people signed up and it's only Monday!
I want to thank you and Chris for superb teaching even if I was a bit slow, it takes a little longer for the brain to process information as we get older!
I may well take you up on meeting up to go over the exercises and I would of course come to the office.
Many thanks once again.

Regards
Catherine (Biomechanics Coach Diploma)

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Dear ITS Team;

Thank you for your kind consideration. You have our full cooperation and trust. I will discuss this with Haifa, and let you know as soon as I have a plan.
Tomorrow Marie and I are traveling to Al khobar to join the Spectrum team to Open our new Center there! I will discuss the idea of ITS there and get some feedback for more courses there.
I will let you know. FyI Biomechanics is all over the Center! Day and Night screenings are happening and the Manuals are on all the desks.

Great energy has been started by Sarah and Jo.

My daughter Daniya has already felt the difference and just passed all the screens!!! She's been working on the exercises for 8 weeks...
We will keep the energy moving!

Tracy (Spectrum - Riyad, Saudi Arabia)

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Hi Rachel,

Just to let u know I had my first client today complaining with non specific back pain, I screened him with all the tests u armed us with. He tested positive on his right hip for dysfunction (pirifomis in spasm) and had a LLD of 5/6 mm. We did some anti spasm exercises (4sign) and when I tested again his dysfunction had cleared up.........Wow!!!!!! I can't tell u how motivated I am now to crack on with my diploma and thank you so much for all ur help ;)

Angus :0)

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“I have only been on 2 courses in the last 7 years which have the ‘WOW’ factor and this is one of them. The courses provide tangible and useful information that have dramatic effects on athletes”.

Scott Grace, Performance & Development Coordinator
(Athlete & Coach Development) England Athletics South East

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Martin,
I just thought I would send you a quick email to say thanks for last week. I thought the diploma course was amazing and I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I have taken away so much from it and it can be incorporated immediately, whether it is with current clients or targeting a new direction. I now have a lot of changes and additions to make on my website, linkedin, twitter and Facebook pages haha amongst other things. Saying that….I really like the new layout on the iTS website, looks really smart!
All the best,

Chris Wright, Personal Trainer

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“Of the many courses I have attended this has been the most productive and enjoyable. I wish more of the courses I have attended were like this”.

Gregory Copp, PGA Golf Teaching Professional

 

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"I want to say thank you to both you and Chris for making last week such a great experience. The quality of teaching completely exceeded my expectations and despite having the odd 'moment', I feel as though I have learnt so much already".

 

Vanessa, Personal Trainer

 

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“A really great course, the collection of the three have expanded my knowledge and provided numerous considerations when coaching clients. I would be really interested in progressions in the course”.

 

Rob Numan, Personal Trainer

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Hi Martin,
I am enjoying biomechanics so much its unbelievable, although doing downings and SLR on a 20 stone bodybuilder can be a challenge! I really think you have come up with something amazing here!
All the best

Anthony
Biomechanics Coach

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We had a client with severe arthritis in his left hip. He was diagnosed with Perthes disease when he was younger.
He has several issues with range of motion in both internal and external rotation of his hip joints. His Leg length discrepancy was 30mm! He had to have someone put his sock on for him as the was so much dysfunction, which he was convinced was down to shortening of the neck of the femur.
If you remember I had asked you about how to do the 4-sign exercise with him as he couldn't get his ankle past his shin. Well i plugged on with your advice and three weeks later he has actually passed all of the normalise tests. What is even better is he can now put his shoes and socks on.
Something that I find quite amazing is both the doctor and the physio said there was nothing they could do for him. He is over the moon! Actually quite tearful.
Thank for your help and advice

John Scriven MSc, BA (Hons), ASCC.
Biomechanics Coach
Strength and Conditioning Coach

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Hi Jo,
Just a quick note to say thankyou for a completely awesome and inspiring
weekend.I am sorry I had to rush off because I wanted to highlight that there
was no space on the feedback form to comment on how great the Tutor was.
You were both patient and encouraging whilst at the same time being crystal clear
in your delivery.(I sound like an assessor now dont I?!)
Seriously,I know I would not have been able to relax and get so much out of the
course if it had not been for your steady,calm approach.
I could have let myself drown in all the information,but thanks to you I didnt,
and I have come away excited and highly motivated.
In the meantime,I wish you a happy and well deserved break in Poole with
your hamsters! Hopefully see you at the Mentor day.
You are a star!

Suzy

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Just to let you guy's at intelligent training systems know that I very much enjoyed the diploma, it taught me a lot of valuable information and as a result I feel I'm a much better trainer. The course content was perfect and the teaching staff were very helpful and couldn't have been better. So I would like to thank everyone for delivering a great course.

Gavin Frecklington
(PT, L5 Biomechanics Coach)

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For 20 years I had been a Personal Trainer, working with general Joe Public and Olympic Athletes, with passion and professionalism throughout.
My charges for Personal Training started at £15 per hour (all those years ago) because at the time it was only the Rich and Famous who could afford the luxury.
I spent a lot of money training and educating myself to enable me to perform the role of Personal Trainer to the best of my ability. Somehow the PT Client fee’s never balanced to the cost of wearing the badge ‘Personal Trainer’.
Since then, I trained as a Biomechanical Coach with iTS and everything about my work life and personal life went into the ‘positive’.
I started charging £40 per hour for a Biomechanical Screen and as my confidence grew within the subject matter so did my hourly rate. The value for money each one of my clients gained from coming to see me with biomechanical problems was unbelievable, and this helped my realisation of how effective and efficient Biomechanical Training is.
To date I charge £100 per hour, I have more free time (something unheard of as a PT!!) and my body gets ‘time’ out too.

I have worked with clients who despair therapist and treatment, mainly due to broken promises. Clients who have lost trust in systems of analysis and clients who were days away from booking surgery to ‘fix’ the problem. Since working with these clients, using the simple but fundamental techniques and skills you will obtain from iTS training, all my clients are fully functional and enjoying the life they love. One of the clients who was seeking a hip replacement has now become a Triathlete at the age of 45 years young!
This is the ‘missing link’ within Peak Performance of your clients and Athletes, enjoy the Revolution!

Jo Rainsley, Biomechanics Coach (ITS)

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My apologies for filling your inbox. Just wanted to say thank you for Saturday you said it would be awesome and it was, oh and mind blowing.
Your teaching skill is absolutely spot on. I look forward to crossing paths with you soon.

Yours in health
Andrew Kailou

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"A must do course for anyone in the fitness industry"

Wayne Fryer

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I thought Martin and his team are dearly passionate about their subject. Their content is Paradigm Shifting, and I know it will make an immediate positive difference in the way I treat my patients”,

James Tomkies

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"This has been a fantastic tool to run alongside my PT income and gives me an additional edge"

Chris Husbands

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"Fantastic knowledge base backed up with real life examples"

Jo Everill-Taylor

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"Ten years ago I began teaching Pilates after doing my initial training with Michael King in London. Following onto that I completed my Diploma in Pilates again with Michael, which then expanded into Machine based, Remedial, Special populations, Back care etc. I continued to teach mainly 1 to 1 and four or five big classes per week which gave me good knowledge/experience of the technique and various conditions etc. I thought I could learn no more and that this was as far as I could take my career without retraining as a physio or osteo.

Then I attended a lecture by Martin Haines on Biomechanics in Loughborough at a Fitpro convention. I was instantly interested, so much so that I booked up for the individual day courses straight away. Then the Diploma course came around so I cancelled the day courses to attend the 5 day course. This course goes deeper than what I have learnt through Pilates. It makes you link the body together to achieve an overall view of your patient/client. The body doesn't lie in the screening process, allowing you to see pathway's you may have seen before but not really knowing why or more importantly how to treat them. My Pilates training has definitely helped but this is more powerful ! With regards to the delivery of the course it is well presented and put over with a big emphasis on practical ability, allowing you to leave the course feeling confident enough to start straight away on your already existing client base.
I do feel that if this course hadn't come along then I would have seriously considered a career change or going back to teaching only PT in a gym environment. I now have more knowledge and confidence to take my Clients further but knowing that I will still be able to progress them with their Pilates, the two can definitely be linked together.

Nigel McHollan (Biomechanics Coach L5)

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Prior to seeing Jo at ITS I was struggling with recurrent hip, knee and Achilles injuries, which I had almost accepted as the nature of the sport (mountain running/cross country skiing) I was participating in. When Jo undertook the screens she was spot on with the cause of the injury and the Normalise process enabled her to identify my problems. It only took six weeks before I was able to feel progress, but several months to follow the stabilise and functionalise process, which enabled me to start the following competitive season pain free. Since then I have had a number of top ten finishes making the top three in the over 40’s in major fell running races in Wales.

I was so impressed with the outcome, I enrolled for the Diploma course the following year. The course was hard work but the case studies and the assignment have helped me to understand the research and the science behind how the screens and the exercises work. The case studies have given me the competence and the confidence to carry out the screens now I’m qualified.

D. W, Biomechanics Coach

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