FAD Metodo Mezieres: ambito sportivo/preventivo

📌 All video lessons are in Italian

🧠 A new way to observe the body — and truly enhance performance.

🎯 Have you ever felt like the body isn’t responding the way it should?
You train an athlete, set up the exercises, correct the form… but something’s off.
The movement looks “right,” but balance doesn’t improve and precision doesn’t stick over time.

That’s normal. The body always adapts — but not always in a functional way.

👉 This course gives you a different perspective:
A biomechanical model that helps you see more clearly, plan more effectively, and act with greater precision.

🧠 Don’t expect “the usual posture work.”
The Mézières Method you’ll explore here is very different from what you might have heard about.
It’s not a passive technique, nor a set of exercises to mimic.
It’s a systemic and scientific approach based on muscular biomechanics, force vectors, and physical laws.
It teaches you to read the body as a system — where every adaptation has meaning, and every well-structured exercise can restore function and precision.

✅ If you train, correct, strengthen, or guide people in movement every day, this course can be the edge you’ve been looking for.

Observing movement on the surface isn’t enough:
You need a framework that connects what you see to what’s really happening beneath the skin.

🎯 Do any of these situations sound familiar?

🔸 You train athletes or highly motivated clients, but sometimes it feels like their bodies are compensating rather than truly improving.
🔸 You notice movements that look correct on the outside, but you’re unsure how to make a deeper change.
🔸 You’d like to offer more coherent, progressive exercises — but you lack truly effective tools for reading the body.
🔸 You have a solid understanding of movement, but feel the need for a systemic model that ties everything together with logic.

👉 If you’ve ever felt this way, this course can give you the tools you’ve been looking for.

The Mézières Method taught in this course is not a passive technique, nor a set of exercises to imitate.
It’s a systemic biomechanical model based on:

• vector analysis of muscular forces

• the body’s adaptive dynamics in motion

• the physical principles that regulate joint balance

A scientific and practical approach that enables you to:

✔️ detect early dysfunctions that hinder performance
✔️ identify the shortened muscular vectors that disrupt balance
✔️ design progressive and coherent strategies for muscular reorganization

Throughout the course, you’ll see how these concepts apply in real practice:
Through case observations, real demonstrations, and detailed explanations, you’ll develop a new ability to observe and plan biomechanically.

As Françoise Mézières once said:

“In a healthy body, function governs structure. In a sick body, structure governs function.”

When an athletic movement is performed by muscles in physiological balance — where work force prevails over resistant force —
the body moves more efficiently, joints are protected, and performance improves.

Conversely, when acting forces are imbalanced and resistant force dominates, the movement loses efficiency:
➡️ repetition doesn’t improve quality
➡️ function doesn’t unlock
➡️ and joint loads increase, potentially leading to injury

Two opposing muscular forces are always at play in the body:

🔹 Work Force
This is the muscular energy that generates movement.
Active, functional, and action-oriented.

🔸 Resistant Force
This is the force that opposes movement.
It stems from shortening, stiffness, or dysfunctional motor patterns.
It slows down, deviates, or blocks execution.

👉 When work force prevails, movement is precise, coherent, and efficient.
👉 When resistant force dominates, movement is compensated, performance becomes unstable, and joint load increases.

In this course, you’ll learn how to identify these forces through real cases, video analyses, and practical examples:
✅ to improve your observational skills
✅ intervene with greater logic
✅ and design exercises that are truly effective

Even in an online format, you’ll sharpen your observational skills by watching real participants during recorded one-on-one sessions.

This part of the course is designed to help you:

• distinguish what’s visible from what’s truly meaningful

• detect early signs of dysfunction

• design targeted, personalized exercises

You’ll learn to observe both static posture and dynamic movement, focusing on the details that truly matter:
alignment, symmetry, compensations, and dominant vectors.

The course includes 10 standard sessions, demonstrated on a single subject, analyzed and commented by the instructor, and structured in a taxonomic progression — from the simplest to the most complex exercises.

Each session focuses on rebalancing muscular forces across different body regions, using active postures, isometric contractions, and verbal cues that enhance perception, precision, and movement coherence.

You can watch them as many times as you like — to absorb their logic and apply it to your own training programs with greater clarity and accuracy.

👉 The sessions can be reproduced exactly as shown, but they also serve as a solid and structured foundation to be adapted — creatively and biomechanically — to the needs of individuals or groups.

The Mézières Method doesn’t offer a set of exercises to repeat — it offers a new logic for understanding human movement and rebalancing the forces that generate it.

In the online course, you won’t just study these principles in theory:
you’ll see them applied to real cases, through full-length videos, guided examples, and detailed explanations.
You can follow them at your own pace, revisit each step, and progressively train your biomechanical eye with expert guidance.

The model is built on three core pillars:

🔹 Vector-Based Analysis of Muscles
Muscles aren’t isolated units — they act as interdependent force vectors.
Every shortening alters the body’s global balance, producing both local and distant effects.
Through guided observations, you’ll learn to recognize these patterns and understand their functional implications.

🔹 Biomechanical Interpretation of Dysfunctions
You’ll learn to observe the body both statically and dynamically, identifying:
– axial deviations
– compensatory patterns
– early signs of muscular disorganization
Each step is explained through concrete examples, dedicated camera angles, and step-by-step technical commentary.

🔹 Active Postures and Isometric Contractions in Maximal Elongation
Practical tools to reduce resistant force, restore movement, and improve joint coherence.
In the recorded sessions, you’ll see exactly how they’re structured and guided, with the verbal cues needed to enhance perception and precision of movement.

The method integrates two levels of analysis:

🔸 Linear Physics
To study muscular vectors and joint misalignments in a measurable, logical way.

🔸 Nonlinear Physics
To interpret the body as a complex, interdependent, adaptive system with emergent behaviors.

This is a scientific, practical, and accessible language — designed for movement professionals who want to enhance their observational skills and biomechanical planning, even in a remote learning environment.

This course doesn’t just provide theoretical knowledge —
it gives you practical tools to observe, guide, and design movement with greater precision, coherence, and effectiveness.

✅ Integrate the Mézières model into your professional practice
You’ll learn to apply its principles to build muscle rebalancing programs tailored to your context —
whether you work in a gym, a studio, or with small groups.

✅ Assess the body through a systemic lens
The body isn’t a sum of segments — it’s an interconnected system.
You’ll develop the ability to detect axial deviations, compensations, and early signs of functional disorganization, even in movements that appear correct.

✅ Identify dominant forces and shortened vectors
You’ll learn a method to pinpoint active dysfunctions, distinguish them from secondary ones, and focus your work on true biomechanical priorities.

✅ Guide execution with greater precision
You’ll discover how to propose exercises that don’t rely on maximal strength, but on precision of movement and neuromuscular efficiency.
You’ll develop a clear, functional language that respects each subject’s real joint physiology.

✅ Plan with logic, adapt with creativity
Thanks to the structured progression of the 10 standard sessions and the guided observation work, you’ll have a strong framework —
one you can adapt effectively for both individual and group settings.

💡 This is true professional growth:
training your eye, your mind, and your sensitivity to read the body systemically, and support it through effective, personalized strategies that respect joint balance.

🎯 By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:

• design interventions based on solid biomechanical logic

• stand out for your ability to assess and guide movement

• communicate with greater confidence and authority in your professional environment

If you work daily with movement — to train, educate, correct, or enhance — this course is for you.
It offers a deeper understanding of the body and gives you the tools to act with greater method, effectiveness, and awareness.

It is designed for:

🔹 Graduates and students in Movement Science (from the 3rd year onward)
🔹 Kinesiologists, posturologists, ISEF graduates
🔹 Athletic trainers, personal trainers, Pilates instructors
🔹 All professionals who design and lead programs in movement, prevention, and body rebalancing

📌 No healthcare degree is required.
The course is fully compliant with current Italian regulations.

✅ AIFiMM Certificate
Issued upon course completion, valid for the application of the Mézières Method in non-clinical settings focused on sports and prevention.

✅ Real Practical Skills
Postural assessment, biomechanical analysis, and planning of functional rebalancing programs.

✅ Immediate Integration into Your Practice
You’ll be able to apply what you’ve learned right away in your movement, prevention, education, and postural re-education programs.

✅ Professional Videos and Downloadable Materials
You’ll have access to over 21 hours of lessons, operational worksheets, technical images, and in-depth resources — available anytime.

✅ Access to the AIFiMM Network
Join the Mézières community: ongoing updates, professional exchange, and inclusion in the official AIFiMM practitioner registry.

Mauro Lastrico and Laura Manni
Physiotherapists and educators with over 25 years of experience, both trained directly by Françoise Mézières.
They combine clinical rigor, practical expertise, and teaching effectiveness.

🎥 9 video modules – total duration: 21.5 hours
📁 Downloadable supplementary materials – worksheets, diagrams, and in-depth resources
🔁 Unlimited access for 12 months – study anytime, anywhere
📜 Final AIFiMM certificate – for the use of the Mézières Method in sport and prevention settings
💳 Price: €350 + VAT – payable in 2 installments

🎥 A real exercise, performed in a supine position with balls placed under the back,
designed to deactivate the paravertebral muscles and improve body awareness.

Click on the video to watch.

📌 Is this a clinical course?
No. This is not a healthcare-oriented course and does not teach treatment techniques.

📌 Can I use it to lead group sessions?
Yes. The 10 protocols are specifically designed for use in group or individual settings.

📌 Does it include individual treatment?
No. It includes observational sessions to help you improve your verbal guidance and movement analysis skills.

📌 Do I need to be a physiotherapist?
No. The course is intended for Movement Science graduates and movement professionals.

📌 Is there a version for physiotherapists?
Yes. We offer a separate program specifically for healthcare professionals, with clinical content and advanced applications.

If you’re looking for an even more immersive journey, the course is also available in an in-person format, structured over 9 full training days.

➡️ You’ll directly experience the 10 model sessions, discuss them with the instructor, and practice every technique in small supervised groups.

The in-person course is ideal for those who want to:

🔹 Learn through direct body experience
🔹 Receive hands-on feedback and personalized guidance
🔹 Engage face-to-face with the instructor and fellow participants
🔹 Strengthen their skills in observation, verbal cueing, and exercise adaptation