PFT Practicum

What is the Best kind of feedback to give to a client?

• Demonstrating how you want the exercise performed

• Explaining the exercise using different cues

• All of the above

You are doing a group class and see a common mistake on an exercise. What do you do?

• Tell everyone they are doing it wrong.

• Demonstrate and explain the exercise again to the group

• Wait for each person to perform it then correct them individually

• Do nothing

You are doing back squats with a client and their toes continuously turn in. You continue to remind them but they keep doing it. What do you do?

• Stop reminding them

• Think of a new cue to use that will remind them

• Get mad at them for not listening to your feedback

A client scores "poor" on the push up test. How do you tell them?

• "You are bad at pushups so we will work on it"

• "Amazing work, you scored so good!"

• "If you see on this chart, your number of pushups places you in the poor category. We are going to work on improving it"

You try a new exercise with a client and notice a couple of technique mistakes. What do you do?

• List out all the mistakes the client made

• First fix the biggest technique flaw / give the client one thing to fix at a time

• Stop doing the exercise and never try it again