What Are Your top 5 Favorite functional Exercises or Tests?

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Hi All!

I am a long, long, longtime reader and first time poster. I was sitting around

with some friends who are also in performance (PTs, LMTs etc) when a discussion

came up about what were everyone's favorite diagnostic or functional

tests/exercises.

I know the group has been blowing up lately about " Best Exercise " which in my

mind is a lot like asking what's the best pair of shoes you have? Depends, if

I'm going to the beach it's usually flip-flops or barefoot, if it's to go play

in the snow...well you get the picture.

With that said I started to wonder what everyone else was using to assess their

athletes or clients for movement/postural inefficiency, or imbalance/weakness.

I'll just throw out a couple old standards and then I'd love some feedback from

the group.

Overhead Squat

Quadruped Contralateral Elbow to Knee Reach (Unilateral Bird Dog)

Quadruped Ipsilateral Elbow to Knee Reach (Bilateral Bird Dog)

So, what are some of your favorites?

Coffey

Naples, FL