Posted By Brad Don't know if any of the following is of any use Ask the group to fold their arms, then ask them to fold them the opposite way. Some people may manage this straight away others will have to think for a second. The message to this is that all we are doing is changing the way you currently do something at first it feels weird but if you continue to do this it then becomes the norm. You only need to learn it once, it then takes practice Another couple of ideas based on the priciple that the whole idea of effective manual hanlding is to be relaxed in order to avoid straining muscles groups. Ask the group to clench one fist as tight as possible while wiggiling the fingers of the other hand. This shows one muscle group tensed and the other flexing, but both groups working. After about thirty seconds ask them to release the clenched fist this causes a tingling sensation in the fingers, while the other hand feels fine. The message being that this is what we are trying to adopt when lifting by ensuring that the back is not tense. Final idea based on the tense muscles, is to have everyone stand with their hands behind their back and feet close together. Keeping their heels on the ground and legs straight ask them to lean forward this will cause strain up the back of the legs and the toes will start curling over and try to grip. Now change posture to feet shoulder width apart one foot slightly infront of the other and knees slightly bent. Whan asked to move know they can move further plus their is no strain on any muscle. hope this is of some help

Posted By Kieran J Duignan Steve The critical feature of effective 'interactive' group exercises is your choice of criteria to suit a particular group, within constraints of the time available.'Accelerated Laerning' provides a super methodology for doing this; 'The Accelerated Learning Handbook', by Dave Meier, McGraw-Hill, 2000, offers wonderful guidance on how to become skilful on the simple principle that 'learning is a creation, not a consumption'. To the extent that you apply The AL Method, you will think of an enormous variety of relevant visual aids, especially the mobile ones called 'human bodies of workshop participants', which have already been paid for. 'The Concise Book of Muscles', C Jarmey, Lotus Publishing, 2003 offers a hundreds of colour drwwings which offer tremendous material for visual aids. It also has a lot of material for group exercises, interactive and otherwise.

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