Before the First Rep
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How much information does an experienced movement professional actually gather before prescribing the very first rep?
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HODA-A™ Clinical Insight Series · Publication 007
Before the First Rep
Why better assessment matters more than better programming
Dr Jo Abbott, PhD — Clinical Biomechanist · Anatomist · Clinical Nutritionist · Independent Musculoskeletal Researcher
How much information does an experienced movement professional actually gather before prescribing the very first rep? Not just through screens and testing batteries, but through the trained eyes and hands that develop over years of practice — and that almost nobody has ever been taught to examine, train or refine.
In sport and rehabilitation, the risk is rarely dramatic. It is cumulative: the compensation that gets loaded because nobody saw it, the “corrective” exercise prescribed on top of an unassessed pattern, the pain that was programmed around when it should have been referred on. In this seventh publication of the HODA-A™ Clinical Insight Series, Dr Jo Abbott — a clinical biomechanist with a background spanning rehabilitation and movement science — draws on eight years of doctoral research into how skilled practitioners become measurement instruments.
Written for sports therapists, sports rehabilitators, strength and conditioning coaches and movement professionals, Before the First Rep examines the practitioner as instrument — how attention, expectation and context shape what we see and feel; why experience alone is not calibration; and why outcomes are rarely just a question of programming. Its central argument: before we test reliability, we must stabilise the instrument.
Includes written feedback from HODA-A™ Level 1 participants, selected further reading, and an introduction to the Level 1 Perceptual Calibration Certification — including private team cohorts for groups of eight or more, well suited to clinic teams and performance departments.
Format: Free PDF download · 10 pages · may be shared in full and unaltered
Series: HODA-A™ Clinical Insight Series, Publication 007
Published: July 2026 · © 2026 Dr Jo Abbott
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