Start with your real life.
Your goals, training experience, equipment, and schedule give your coach context before your movement is reviewed. You receive clear directions for recording the views needed at home.
Share your starting pointMovement Assessment + Starter Plan
See your movement more clearly.
A guided movement screen, personally reviewed by Mel. Understand the patterns she observes and receive a practical place to begin.
A little clarity goes a long way
From understanding to a plan.
Look at standing and moving together.
Your coach reviews how you naturally stand and how your feet, knees, hips, trunk, and shoulders coordinate through a guided full-body squat. You get an explanation of the patterns observed in a private video made for you.
Meet MelTurn findings into a starting plan.
Your movement map highlights areas that may benefit from mobility, release work, strength, or support. Your coach selects a starter routine around your primary findings and organizes the exercises in Ardenti.
See how the app supports your planThe Starting Point
See your movement more clearly.
$197Movement assessment + personalized routine · one time
Follow simple instructions to record how you naturally stand and perform a guided full-body squat screen. Your coach reviews how your feet, knees, hips, trunk, and shoulders work together, then turns those observations into practical next steps.
What you receive
- Simple recording instructions and camera-angle guidance
- Personal review by Mel, NASM Master Trainer
- Your standing and moving assessments reviewed together
- A private video walkthrough in everyday language
- A movement map for mobility, release work, strength, and support
- A personal starter routine selected around your primary findings
- Your exercises organized in Ardenti so you can put the guidance into practice
Why assessment comes first
Before I ask you to lift, I watch how you move.
Too often, a first personal training session begins with a workout before anyone has really watched the person doing it. You sweat. You are pushed. You leave knowing you worked hard.
But as a set continues and fatigue builds, your body finds whatever strategy it can to finish the repetition. Your knees may move inward. One side may take over. Your back may arch or your shoulders may compensate.
When discomfort appears, the weight is lowered or the exercise is removed. That may be the right decision in the moment. But too often, no one asks what the movement was showing. The exercise changes, while the pattern follows you into the next workout.
“I love the quieter changes: hearing that movement feels easier, and watching a body that has felt compressed finally release and find an anchor in a new way of living, a new way of moving.”
Mel Cobian, NASM Master TrainerThis is the work I came back to.
There was a season when I shelved this part of my work. But the truth is that I enjoy it more than almost anything else I do. I love seeing someone understand their body differently. I love watching movement become more controlled and confident. I love having measurable evidence that strength is increasing through another repetition, greater stability, more range, or more load handled well.
Assessment is where coaching begins.
Before I create a personal exercise plan or begin virtual training with you, I need to understand how your body currently organizes movement. The Starting Point gives us that foundation, with a human review, a private explanation of what I observed, and a personalized corrective exercise routine built around the patterns that deserve attention first.
We made it a standalone service because the information should remain useful even if you never continue training with Ardenti. Take your movement blueprint to another trainer, use it to make more informed choices on your own, or let it become the foundation for the strength we build together.
What happens next
A clear way forward.
Send a short inquiry and confirm the service is a fit
Receive recording guidance and submit your assessment videos
Get your video explanation, movement map, and starter routine
A few useful answers.
Is this online quiz my movement assessment?
No. The starting-point guide helps you choose a service. Your movement assessment is personally reviewed by your coach after you receive recording guidance and submit the requested views.
What does it cost?
The Movement Assessment + Starter Plan is $197. Sending an inquiry does not charge you or commit you to purchase.
Is this a medical assessment?
No. This is a fitness movement screen used to guide exercise selection, not medical diagnosis or treatment. If a movement causes pain, stop and seek guidance from an appropriate licensed healthcare professional.
Want feedback while you train?
Live virtual sessions add real-time instruction and technique feedback. You can discuss combining them with your assessment.