Tired to your bones? Knees creaking like attic stairs, neck aching every time you move? This course aims to reimagine the movements, techniques, and physical expectations surrounding manual labor, empowering students to take confident control of their own body in the workplace.
All too often, physically taxing jobs expect constant athletic prowess and repetitive motion, often in inclement situations, with very little recovery time. Simply stretching for a few minutes every day is just not enough, and a 'can-do' mentality with a side of Gatorade only gets you so far.
In Labor In Motion, students will learn basic physiology, study a wide and global range of movement and strength-building techniques, reexamine what it means to protect one's body in the labor field, and create and learn to uphold their own individual safety plan. We'll learn new ways to balance weight, new ways to lift and move, and study everything from which boots to wear for what feet, to how we can wear head protection without annoyance and pain.
This class is best for: construction workers / nurses and CNAs / plumbers / massage therapists / traffic flaggers / electricians / and more
