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Today's Two Posts Both Turn One Method Into Many Answers, And PT Manager Remembers Which One A Client Got
From the FASTER syllabus: this article is taught in full in PT Manager, free with any FASTER course →
In short: Today's first post ran the same four-step method that has already named the exact muscles in eighteen different exercises, this time on a lateral shuffle. Today's second named the fourteen specific dials a trainer can turn to progress one exercise without ever swapping it for a new one. Both replace a vague general answer — 'it works the legs', 'make it harder' — with a specific one. PT Manager's client Training Floor keeps that specific answer against the client's own record, white-labelled under the trainer's own brand, so which muscle was named and which dial got pulled is never left to memory before the next session.
Two posts, one habit
A lateral shuffle "works the legs and core." An exercise "gets harder" from one week to the next. Both are true, and both are the kind of answer that sounds finished and isn't. Today's first post ran a method to get past the first one. It names the adductors, the glute medius, the trailing leg's glutes and quads, one at a time. Today's second ran a different method to get past the second, naming which one of fourteen specific dials moved. Same habit underneath both: trading a general answer for a specific one.
Where PT Manager puts the habit into the product
A specific answer is only worth having if it's still there next session. PT Manager's client Training Floor is a white-labelled screen, under the trainer's own name rather than a generic login, that tells a client exactly what today's session is and shows a Progress Wall of what they hit last time. The same record is where a trainer keeps which dial was already pulled on an exercise, so the next session's progression is a decision made once and kept, not re-argued from memory in the five minutes before a client arrives.
Why the precision matters here too
A trainer who can say "adductors and glute medius, that's why your hips dropped" has something to coach. A trainer who can say "we added a pause at the bottom last time, today we go one-legged" has something to build on. Both depend on the specific answer surviving until the next time it's needed, which is a record's job, not a memory's.
What to do next
PT Manager opens the moment a trainer signs up with any FASTER course, free for life, white-labelled under their own brand from day one. Today's second post, Movement Trainer (AFT), is where the full fourteen-dial progression list is taught alongside the programme blocks it feeds into.
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Also worth a look: Movement Trainer (AFT), today's second post in full.
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Does PT Manager pick the muscle or the progression for a trainer?
No. Both are still the trainer's own judgement, run through the methods today's two posts describe. PT Manager is where the result of that judgement gets saved against the client, not where the judgement happens.
Why does the client see the Training Floor too, not just the trainer?
Because the client asked what today's session is, not what the whole programme is, and a specific answer — 'legs, week three of six' — reassures in a way a vague one doesn't. It's the same specificity the two posts argue for, aimed at the client instead of the muscle or the exercise.
How does this connect to today's earlier two posts?
The first post named the exact muscles a lateral shuffle asks for instead of guessing. The second named the exact dial that makes an exercise harder instead of reaching for a new one. PT Manager's Training Floor is where either kind of specific answer gets kept, under the trainer's own name, for the client it was actually worked out for.
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