How you can get maximum benefit from your CHEK Exercise Coach Course.

You have already completed the pre-requisite correspondence courses:-

    Scientific Core Conditioning
    Scientific Back Training Correspondence Course
    Program Design Correspondence Course

and read Paul Chek's two books:-

    How To Eat, Move and Be Healthy and

    Movement That Matters.

For you to get a head start and to gain the maximum beneft from your course, we also recommend that you have done the following:-

1. Please be sure to perform each assessment in Scientific Core Conditioning and Scientific Back Training on at least two clients/friends.

2. Master each exercise in Scientific Core Conditioning and Scientific Back Training. If you cannot master an exercise make notes on why you are having difficulty.

3. Study up on anatomy using the anatomy-colouring book (this book can be found in any book store).

You should also read or get access to these reference materials:-

Acland, R.,The Video Atlas of Human Anatomy, Williams and Wilkins, 1998

Bogduk, N., Clinical Anatomy of the Lumbar, Spine and Sacrum, Churchill Livingstone, 3rd Ed,1997, ISBN 0-443-06014-2

Brecher, P., Secrets of Energy Work, Dorling Kindersley, New York, 2000, ISBN 0-7894-6775-5

Clifton-Smith, T., Breathe to Succeed in all Areas of Your Life, Penguin Books, NZ, 1999, ISBN 0-14-028074-X

Magee, D. J., Orthopedic Physical Assessment, W.B.Saunders, Philedalphia, 1992

Richardson, C., Jull, G. et al, Therapeutic Exercise for Spinal Segmental Stabilisation in Low Back Pain, Churchill Livingstone, 1999

Wolcott, B., The Metabolic Typing Diet, Broadway, Jan , 2002, ISBN 767905644