Aug 13, 2026 · 11 min · 6 segments
The Overhead Squat Assessment (OHSA) is one of the most important movement assessments on the NASM Certified Personal Trainer (CPT) exam. Understanding what to look for—and why these movement…
Here you're gonna see that they highlight all of the checkpoints.
So when they're saying the kinetic chain, they're just saying, like, the movement of the body, right? Like, kinetic movement, like the things that, um, are the full chain.
So we have all of these checkpoints starting from the ground up.
Feet and ankles, up to the knees, up to the low back, which from this point forward we're going to refer to as the lumbo-pelvic-hip complex.
Lumbo meaning low back, pelvic meaning pelvis, hip, hip.
Shoulders, head, and neck.
All right? So you want to memorize all five of the kinetic chain checkpoints.
So what we're really gonna be focused on, though, with our clients...
Like, there's not really much I would expect to come out of this as a test question, but still read those two pages.
But most of it is gonna be the dynamic assessments.
So when something is dynamic, it's moving, it's changing, right? It's not static.
It's the opposite of static.
So everything else is gonna be a dynamic assessment.
Here you're gonna see that they highlight all of the checkpoints.
So when they're saying the kinetic chain, they're just saying, like, the movement of the body, right? Like, kinetic movement, like the things that, um, are the full chain.
So we have all of these checkpoints starting from the ground up.
Feet and ankles, up to the knees, up to the low back, which from this point forward we're going to refer to as the lumbo-pelvic-hip complex.
Lumbo meaning low back, pelvic meaning pelvis, hip, hip.
Shoulders, head, and neck.
All right? So you want to memorize all five of the kinetic chain checkpoints.
So what we're really gonna be focused on, though, with our clients...
Like, there's not really much I would expect to come out of this as a test question, but still read those two pages.
But most of it is gonna be the dynamic assessments.
So when something is dynamic, it's moving, it's changing, right? It's not static.
It's the opposite of static.
So everything else is gonna be a dynamic assessment.
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