You assess movement. Can you read work capacity?
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Get the free OPEX training and the 10-Minute Airbike Test toolkit: how to run the test so the number means something, how to read the shape, and how to turn it into an individualized program.
Most coaches can assess a client's movement. Very few can read their work capacity. And that gap is where conditioning quietly goes wrong. If you cannot say why this client is doing this aerobic work, at this intensity, this week, you are guessing at the hardest part of the plan.
The 10-minute Assault Bike test changes that. Run right and read right, one simple test tells you how a client paces, sustains, and recovers, which energy system to develop, and where to start their program.
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The full training with Carl Hardwick. How to run the OPEX Airbike assessment, how to read what it actually reveals, and how the data becomes design, and just as importantly, when it should not.
The 10-Minute Airbike Test toolkit. The three-page coach's field guide: Run It (the standardized protocol), Read It (the four client types and how to name the limiter), and Design It (eight-week program blocks by type).
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What you'll be able to do
Run the test the same way every time, so a retest actually means something
Read the shape, not just the score, and see the person behind the number
Match a client to one of four types and prescribe the right first move
Turn one assessment into an eight-week block built on a single clear lever
Who is this For
For coaches who already have clients and want their programming grounded in assessment, not guesswork.
This is one test, and it tells you about Work. The complete OPEX assessment system, Body, Move, and Work, across the whole person, is the OPEX Method. Start with the test.
Who’s Leading This
Carl Hardwick is the CEO of OPEX Fitness and the lead instructor of the OPEX Method Mentorship. He's been coaching for over 20 years and still actively coaches clients today.
Over the past 25+ years, OPEX has educated more than 10,000 fitness coaches worldwide. Carl has personally mentored thousands of them.
The reason he recorded this session is simple: he's watched too many great coaches, coaches with real talent and deep care for their clients, burn out or leave the industry because of a business model problem, not a coaching problem.
This training is Carl's attempt to fix that with math instead of motivation.
The OPEX assessment model has trained thousands of coaches since 1999, and the scoring context in the toolkit is drawn from roughly 12,000 clients on CoachRx.
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