To answer a few of the recurring CK-FMS questions...

[Dr. Mark Cheng]

OK... I know how a lot of the information given to you from the CK-FMS is, well, mindblowing. I know that every time I meet up, talk on the phone, or exchange more than a couple of minutes with Gray Cook (and/or Brett Jones, MRKC), it rocks my world.

As I've said publicly before, I've never felt more lost and more hopeful at the same time than when I deal with those 2 guys. But they're really good at giving the rest of us a trail of breadcrumbs to follow through the forest.

In fact, they've given us several, and they're all outlined here:

Kettlebells Los Angeles: What do I get if...?

This series is NOT something a corrective exercise specialist should be without. Having said that, once you own it, WATCH IT and RE-WATCH IT. There's far more information in each of those DVD packs than you could possibly imagine.

Many of the questions that are coming to me about the FMS or CK-FMS correctives can be CLEARLY answered by watching and studying those materials. It's like having Brett & Gray remind you on your monitor or TV of what you just learned!

I'd like to repeat a few points from the last CK-FMS workshop:
1. Trust the screen and let it mentor you. Read the bullet points. If the testee didn't meet those bullet points convincingly, then score low.
2. Bottom 4 (almost always) fix top 3.
3. Use the tests we gave you to narrow down your corrective strategy even more; e.g., the standing toe touch with 1 foot on a step or box
4. Mobility FIRST
5. Don't add good Hard Style in the presence of dysfunction. Clean up the movement pattern first, and then refer back to your red-yellow-green sheet for exercises that will give you or your client the greatest benefit.

[0311bravo]

Over the past couple months I've been immersing myself in the FMS information. I bought Gray's book, the FMS Test Kit, and have been fortunate enough to review a friend's copies of the CK-FMS DVD's and will be buying my own soon.
I can't sit still for five minutes. I can't make it through my breakfast without getting up and counting the tiles on the kitchen floor. I made it through five DVD's of the CK-FMS in one shot. That really says something. If you are a trainer and you choose not to use this information I am going to go ahead and say you are negligent. That's a heavy thing to toss out, but it's true. The answer to most of the problems I see confounding trainers are contained in these DVD's and this system. Screening my clients I have found things I missed with my old assessment, and confirmed some things I already knew. More importantly I am fully confident in my ability to correct these dyfunctions and build stronger more powerful mutants.
Starting with myself.

[Erik Blekeberg]

Do we know if in the future their will be an integration of Z Health and the FMS? It seems many programs, while taking slightly different stances, are all focusing on the same end. Building a body free of dysfunction. I know that I use principles from Egoscue and integrate them with some aspects from the FMS (Overhead Squat and TGU). I have found they work well together and I am currently looking into getting a few Zhealth books to see what else I can mix into the pot to build efficiency.

[Dr. Mark Cheng]

Com. Eric ---

While I don't believe there's anyone out there who is authorized to present an official Z + FMS integrated workshop, there are plenty of people out there, such as Brett Jones, MRKC, who apply both.

While I'm sure that there are plenty of Z folks on this forum who'll hopefully correct my following statements, I believe that Z's fundamental concept is to establish mobility in all of the joint spaces. So the Z training methods from R-phase begin with exercises geared towards achieving that unfettered mobility.

Doesn't that sound a lot like one of the fundamental concepts of the FMS as well?

The beauty of many of these bodies of knowledge lies in how they complement or reinforce one another!