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PT Manager's Live Analyser Reads The Angle, Once You've Got The Word For It
From the FASTER syllabus: this article is taught in full in PT Manager, free with any FASTER course →
In short: Today's first post found the exact muscles behind a vertical jump's dip and drive. Today's second post gave the precise word for a joint doing anything, flexion, extension, abduction, and the three endings that go with each. PT Manager's Live Analyser is where that word gets a live number attached to it: a camera reads a client's joints in real time and shows the angle as it happens, 96 degrees of knee flexion on the screenshot here, readable from three metres, side-on for a squat, a hinge or the landing of a jump.
Two posts, one number
Today's first post ran the four-step method on a vertical jump and named the muscles doing the work, the glutes and quads through the dip, the calves finishing at the top. Today's second post gave the exact word for what a joint is doing while a movement happens, flexion, extension, abduction, and the three endings, -ed, -ing, -ion, that go with each one. Both are real skills. Neither one, on its own, tells a trainer the number behind the word.
Where the word gets a number
PT Manager's Live Analyser lays a live skeleton over a client on camera and reads the joint angle as the rep happens. The screenshot here shows it mid-set: knee flexion at 96 degrees, live, tagged as a good rep, with six good, one partial and one lost logged for that set already. That's the same word today's second post named, flexion, now attached to an actual number instead of an impression of how deep the knee looked.
Why the landing needed this most
A jump's landing is exactly where "that looked a bit off" earns its keep and does the least good. The knee is flexing hard, fast, and only for a fraction of a second, which is a difficult thing to read accurately by eye alone every single time. Reading the flexion angle live, side-on and from about three metres away, turns that fraction of a second into a number a trainer can actually coach against, rep by rep, rather than a memory of how the last one looked.
What to do next
PT Manager opens the moment you sign up with any FASTER course, and adding real clients and the Live Analyser unlocks the day you pass one. Movement Trainer (AFT), £375, is today's second post in full, teaching the vocabulary the Live Analyser puts a number against. Read more at PT Manager.
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Also worth a look: Movement Trainer (AFT), today's second post in full.
See what the course covers →Frequently asked
Does the Live Analyser replace learning the vocabulary from today's second post?
No. It reads the number, flexion, extension, whichever joint action is being tracked, but knowing which word applies to which movement is still the trainer's skill, built through the course.
Do I need Movement Trainer specifically to use the Live Analyser?
No. Any completed FASTER course unlocks PT Manager for real clients, the Certified PT course from scratch, or a specialist course like Movement Trainer if you're already qualified.
How far away can I actually read it during a session?
About three metres, side-on for a squat, a hinge or a jump's landing, close enough to coach from and far enough to see the whole joint action.
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