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Now let's look at your body

This is a movement check. It looks at strength, balance, and how you handle impact โ€” the building blocks of running.

It watches two things, and they count the same: how each move feels (your symptoms) and how it holds together (your form). A rep can feel fine but fall apart, or look clean but feel wrong. Both are information.

So if your form breaks โ€” wobbling, hips dropping, holding your breath, losing control โ€” that's a Partial or No pass, even if you have no symptoms like leakage, pressure, or pain. Quality matters along with symptoms here.

It has one job: to show where your first workouts should start. Move through each one and mark what you see honestly. Don't judge yourself โ€” this is information, not a report card.

What your marks mean

Full passClean movement and symptom-free. It stays out of your workouts โ€” you're already there.
PartialNot quite. Your form slips, or a mild symptom shows up. This one joins your workouts so you can build it.
No passNot yet. Your form breaks down, or symptoms climb. This one joins your workouts too, starting gentler.
See a provider before you progress if
Contact your providerWhat you’ve ticked is worth a call today — not a wait-and-see. Keep doing your baseline work if it feels okay, but get this looked at before you progress.
Track as you go. If you feel leakage, pressure, or pain during a move, jot down when โ€” the time or the rep โ€” on that move's notes line. You can use it to see your progress next time you screen.

The screen

Mark each one Full pass, Partial, or No pass โ€” judging both how it feels and how your form holds. For the two-sided moves, mark each side. Tap Watch demo to see the movement.

While you move Watch two things, side by side. How it feels โ€” pressure, heaviness, leaking at the start or after, pain in your back, hip, pubic bone, or knee (that's your guardrail from Foundations, Topic 6). And how it holds together โ€” steady, level, controlled, breathing easy, or wobbling, dropping, gripping, breath held. Either one going wrong is a Partial or No pass. You don't have to hurt to not pass.

Your starting workout

That's your whole picture

Every mark just tells your workouts where to start โ€” that's all it's for. Wherever you're starting from is the right place to start.

Next: your baseline →
Sources
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These screening tools are not formally validated in this population. They guide where to begin โ€” not a pass-or-fail verdict.

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