PT in training

So you're learning to do this for a living. Good. The names are the bit that trips most people up, so that's where we start. One lesson a day, said out loud, typed from memory. By the time someone asks you what gluteus maximus does, you'll have said it more times than your own postcode.

Your first step

Your first few weeks

1. Week 1: one lesson a daySay every name out loud. Don't skip a review day, because the gaps are what move names into long-term memory.
2. Week 2: find your gapsTake the revision quiz once. Anything you miss tells you which guide to read next.
3. When a name keeps slippingWrite your own hook for it in the app. A hook you make yourself beats one you're given.
4. Before an assessmentGo through the printable revision cards, and read the agonist page for the lowering-a-curl trap. It catches a lot of people.

The best pages, in order

1. The daily lessons: eleven lessons, with names coming back on Day 1, 2, 5 and 13.
2. The revision quiz: twenty questions, typed from memory.
3. Agonist and antagonist: including synergists, fixators and the curl trap.
4. Movement words: the language every muscle job is described in.
5. Joints and bone shapes: six moving joints, five bone shapes.
6. The spine: regions, numbers and curves.
7. The heart: then the lungs and energy systems.
8. The glossary: every hard word, with how to say it.

Not sure this is you? Take the two-minute questionnaire, or see every starting point.