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I got my systems 1 equipment cert a couple years ago, however i've not been able to get clients. With my day job it does not allow me a lot of extra time and I cant afford to have equipment at home. I cant rent some space but the gas money, paying for parking and then paying rent, it doesn't really make it worth it. With only 3-4 days a year to get continuing ed, it makes it difficult to do sometimes and they always seem to be the same classes (i'm guessing everyone has that problem though) I still keep up my group fitness cert and i had my pilates mat certs before this and would keep that up. i WISH I could get some privates clients becuase it's what i love but no one wants to pay extra these days. Should i hold out a little longer?

What would YOU do? Any suggestions?

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Just started with a client who has a torn rotator cuff. She did not do surgery and shoulder healed with scar tissue. Her rom is fairly limited. Extension seems to help. She is a very active person, climbs mountains, surfs, hikes, scuba dives etc. She recently climbed Mt. Washington and she said carrying a 30lb. backpack actually helped her shoulder. Guess the weight of the backback kept her aligned.

Any suggestions on safe and effective exercises would be a great help.
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Hello
I'm doing my full certification with STOTT, I find it's a great program, but two (rather related) questions keep coming up in my mind, and I'm curious how these are viewed in the original work, or in other methods?

In STOTT the Matwork and Reformer repertoire are a set sequence, which obviously you can and should modify to suite your clients specific issues and body type, but non the less there is a general sequence to modify! (For example mat goes; (warm-up) 100, half roll back, roll up, leg circles, spine twist, rolling like a ball, fab ab series... etc. etc. I know it's not the same as the original order, but it's also not that different. Same thing for reformer) Once you get to Cadillac, chairs and barrels, there is no sequence any more, it's presented as a "menu" that you pick and choose from based on what you think your client will benefit from most, you as an instructor you are not presented with any sort of order to follow.

I'm curious if it's the same in the original method? or if work on say the chair or cadillac has an official sequence in the original work? If yes I'm obviously also curious to find out what a cadillac or chair only workout would be?!

My second and related question is this; if you have all the major apparatus available, (Which I'm lucky enough to in 2 studios where I work) how do you choose which exercises to do on which apparatus??? - realize this starts to be really client (posture) specific - one client may benefit more from swan on the ladder barrel, while another may "get it" more with the cady pressing on the roll down bar, while a third may be best off on the chair... So I realize there is no one good answer for this, but any suggestions would be a big help, and really appreciated! (i.e. anything like "I always like tree more on the ladder barrel then on the short box (reformer) because the barrel supports your lumbar spine during the extension" or "I like X on Y apparatus better for lordotic clients, but on Z better for flat back clients" or "I always start teaching X exercise on Y apparatus first, and then progress to Z apparatus later on"...) basically I would be interested in anything that springs to mind that would help get me on the right path, and start thinking about things in the right way...

Thanks in advance!

Which ones do you prefer? I'm in US.