In this video, fitness coach Mark Ottobre performs a concise three‑minute movement screening on a new client (referred to as Eddie/Addie). He walks through six standardized assessments: a bodyweight squat (scored B+ with proper knee‑over‑toe alignment), a standing toe‑touch (demonstrating a good hip hinge), a backbend (A+ with no red‑flag issues for overhead pressing or deadlifting), an overhead squat (showing excellent range but revealing upper‑back weakness), and a single‑leg “clack” test (highlighting significant leg adduction and knee rotation that indicate weak glutes). After confirming the glute weakness on the floor, Mark explains that the client’s overall screen is strong but will benefit from added abdominal, glute, and thoracic extension work in his training program. He ends by inviting viewers to comment “screen” for a personalized online assessment.
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All right. Okay, come back up. Put your hands on your hips. Yep, nice. Okay, great. Back up, back up, back up. Okay, and just bring it— see, bring— stop, stop, stop. Oh yeah, yeah, you're really struggling, huh? Yep. And do the other leg. Yeah. These are the 6 assessments that I take every new client through to help me write their program. The first First one is the bodyweight squat. Now, Eddie, you can see here it's almost a perfect score. His knees are over his toes, his bum is almost at his ankles. I give him a B+. Next, we move on to the standing toe touch. He's got a really nice hinge there. He uses his hips, good range of motion, no red flags there. Then we are gonna be moving on to a backbend. So you can see here there are absolutely no red flags whatsoever. I give him an A+. On here, I'm looking for, do I need to flag any overhead pressing, deadlifting considerations? Absolutely not with Eddie. So we move straight on to the overhead squat test. Here, there's a little weakness through his upper back, but you can see his range of motion is quite excellent. So what I'm going to think here is I'm going to program some more upper back work for him just to really strengthen up the thoracic extension. Now we are moving on to the clack test. Interesting here, he really adducts his leg quite significantly, and on the leg that he's balancing, that knee is rotating in, which suggests that he has weak glutes. So what I do is I take him to the floor to confirm my findings, and absolutely, Addie does have weak glutes. So what am I going to do with this information? Because he's a client who you could say scores an A on his screen. Well, I'm going to take that information and the considerations that I'm going to use for his programming is I'm going to program more ab work, more glute work, and more upper back work. If you are after an online screening and assessment like I just took Aidy through, comment the word screen below and I'll send you some info.
