Testimonials
Coaches of the athletes who are part of my ‘On Camp with Kelly’ mentoring initiative have taken part in Intelligent Training Systems courses at a number of ‘On Camp with Kelly’ events. They have found the courses to be extremely useful in helping them to understand their athlete’s performance and to prevent injuries and we have received some very positive feedback.
As one of the coaches said: “I think it was clear that almost without exception the Intelligent Training Systems course was regarded as of great value as well as being enjoyable.” “The Intelligent Training Systems courses are very practical which is ideal for coaches. We will definitely continue to offer the courses to our coaches in the future.”
Dame Kelly Holmes.
Having completed all three biomechanics workshops with Martin himself, I found the information to be extraordinary. I have been a Personal Trainer for 12 years and in that time many things come and go and so often do not stand the test of time, but I can tell you that the information you receive on these courses is not only first class but makes perfect sense. In a way it makes it a very simple tool for you to use. This is the only simplicity as the research and knowledge behind it is quite profound. The information is fantastic and will help you gain and keep clients for years to come. (I am speaking from firsthand experience on this). I recommend you book the courses soon, as if you do not today, you will have to eventually if you want to stay in the industry. When it comes to the numbers I have made my money back with ease 10 times over for the courses, with increased retention and referrals from current clients, to give a few examples. I have increased the frequency of one of my clients sessions from once a week to four times per week due to the fact he would not do the exercises without me. I have saved a lot of money with marketing, as I don't need to with this kind of tool, it speaks for itself.
Chris Heron
Former Gym Manager Esporta Swiss Cottage
Chris Heron Personal Training
Personal trainer & Biomechanics Coach
www.chrisheron.com
"So many potential Elite athletes are lost in the world of endurance running and never reach the top due to injuries, injuries and more injuries. Martin Haines and the theories used within the Intelligent training courses have quite simply been life changing to a very dedicated endurance runner i work with. From being yet another injury prone athlete who is unable to reach her potential to an athlete who is now able to train consistently and is well on her way to coping with the training loads and demands required to make it to the Elite level. This athlete is now very close to not only her goals, but her dreams beyond those goals to."
Paul Jones – Head Coach of RunEvolve
The Sports Therapy Club
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“Having had 13 operations during my career, I Know the importance of injury prevention programmes! I believe every coach should attend these courses, I have no doubt that they will help coaches produce excellent injury prevention and high performance programmes
for their athletes”.
Derek Redmond, former Commonwealth British,
European and World Champion. Now Senior
Coordinator for Sprints and Hurdles for UKA
“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
“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
“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
“I have found the tests and the exercise prescription taught on the courses very helpful towards my back treatment and rehabilitation outcomes for my personal training clients and my patients”.
Mark Nile MCSP, Army Primary Care Physiotherapist
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)
"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)
"F.I.T is a personal training health club chain in South London. We have been established for 6 years and operate a full capacity membership. Our attrition rate is less than 10% per annum, versus about a 30% average in the industry. One major factor in this is the work we’ve been doing Martin and his team. Our Trainers are now fully trained in the Biomechanics programming that martin and his Tutors teach on the I.T.S. courses and that has had a major impact on our business. Our members now get even more attention and are regularly screened using the I.T.S. biomechanical screening methods. Our members rarely get injured, their compliance with their exercise programming is excellent and their results are even better than before. Our members do not leave F.I.T. unless they move house!"
Simon Cook
Managing Director
F.I.T
Hi Martin,
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
Hi Rachel and Jo,
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
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
