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Movement+Nutrition=Results


If your clients are looking to improve their nutrition, lose weight, or build muscle this is your solution! Get them started on the IFS program today and watch them achieve amazing results.

1 Day MTS/NSCA/NASM Seminar Dec. 5th


Reserve the date everyone! Saturday Dec. 5th 9am-5pm MTS (Movement Training Specialist) is offering a DO NOT MISS One day seminar. We will be offering NSCA and NASM CEU’S for all attendees. Fun interactive sessions and a top notch guest speaker Mr. Robert Devito coming all the way from New Jersey to share his nutrition [...]

Low Back


Is your client having low back pain? Here are a few facts that you should be aware of and what you can suggest. 1) The spinal discs rehydrate during a night’s sleep. In other words, fluid is passed back into the intervertebral discs filling them up like a tire. When this happens the connective tissue [...]

NSCA Presentation, Chris Poljacik


NSCA Conference at UVM June 6th 2009 Presentation on Mobil-Stability

Level 1 MTS Certification June 20th & 21st


MTS will be offering a level 1 certification Sat. & Sun. June 20th & 21st at the: Manchester Athletic Club 8 Atwater Avenue Manchester, Ma 01944 (978) 526-8900 Ext. 233 (978) 525-6140 Fax www.manchesterathleticclub.com Registration for this certification will be available May 3rd. 3 easy steps to register Just click on the apply now page [...]

Functional Flexibility & warm-up for basketball Players


Functional flexibility & warm up for basketball players Scott Caulfield, CSCS*D The term “functional” is used way too often these days in my mind. Coaches and trainers use the term functional to describe training style, movements, and equipment, heck people have even written books about it. Unfortunately the terms have become so used and misused [...]

Low Back Pain and Hip Extension


Often times mild chronic lower back pain can be traced to the lack of hip extension one may have. This could be a muscular and/or joint limitation. Both of these can be addressed at the same time and three dimensionally. The lower back pain is likely to be caused by compensatory hyper-extension of the lumbar [...]

The Rythm of the Knee Joint


The Rhythm of the Knee Joint By Dave Gottfeld B.S. FAFS. MAT. I have always been an inquisitive person that likes to ask questions. As a boy itwas endearing, as an adult it has caused many physicians to scratch their head. Allow me to explain. My father recently had a knee replacement. My question to [...]

Functionally Fit Abs


Functionally Fit Abs Steve Politis, PT, DPT, FAFS, CSCS So you want to get nice abs, strong abs, the six-pack abs? Most often when talking about abdominal exercises, crunches, sit-ups, stability ball exercises, planks, and a variety of exercises on the floor are what come to mind. All of these have been used successfully for [...]

Low Back Pain


Chris Poljacik has been my personal trainer for the past 18 months. When we first started working together, I was in terrible shape. Having suffered a broken back in an automobile accident two months earlier, I was physically weak and had lost a lot of flexibility. To top things off, the accident aggravated an old [...]

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