Instructor Training Guide
Welcome to EQI-Flo instructor training.
This training program will provide yoga and Pilates teachers, group exercise instructors, and personal trainers with the background, materials, and knowledge to supplement your previous training and bring EQI-Flo classes and instruction to your membership.
EQI-Flo Programming Philosophy
This chapter will cover the class programming philosophy of the EQI-Flo practice.
Using these terms consistently will help both instructors and members better learn and understand the EQI-Flo practice.
The materials and training can also be used personally by fitness enthusiasts who seek a novel fitness modality to improve their health and overall wellbeing.
Contents
Overview & Terminology
Standard static holds require maintaining a fixed position without any change in muscle length.
A flow is a sequenced combination of movements.
EQI-Flo Flow Library
We share a collection of 20 unique flows that are the building blocks for the current preprogrammed classes, and for future classes you may want to design and build on your own.
EQI-Flo Progression Options
There are both modification suggestions, identified with ‘M’, and progression suggestions, identified with ‘P’, for many of these movements.
EQI-Flo Total Body Philosophy
“Total Body” is also one of EQI-Flo’s guiding philosophies.
There are a multitude of advantages for performing total body or compound movements whenever possible.
For starters, our bodies evolved with our limbs designed to move together, not in isolation.