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Deep Tissue Massage, as its name says, focuses on the deeper layers of muscle tissue. It is designed to reach the deep sections of thick muscles, specifically to individual muscle fibres that have tightened due to postural torsion or injury. Using deep muscle compression and friction along the grain of the muscle. Deep transverse friction is an excellent tool for a local area of tension or trauma. When muscles are stressed, they block oxygen and nutrients, leading to inflamm

Small group training gets better results Not all group training is created equal. Almost all gyms offer your standard group exercise classes. If you’ve been following our Facebook page, you’ll know our thoughts about that. (Spoiler alert: it’s not going to get you results.) However, our previous post was all about our need to incorporate a social element into workouts. That’s why we offer personalised small group training. Personalised small group training gets results up t

Sports massage when delivered by experienced hands will give you an edge. Yes an edge over your fellow competitors, benefits include: less injuries, greater range of motion, more power available as well education about your body. Your body becomes your instrument within sport, the better the tune, the better the possible outcome. Do you need Sports Massage Therapy? Do you train more than four times a week? Do you want to train pain free? Do you want to train with less injurie

Love your Guts, Marty Ryan's way of teaching Visce ral Manipulation (Great for period pain). I was able to study with him in Melbourne some years back (1996) and have been applying his techniques to help people where I can. There are three people trained for visceral manipulation at the clinic. They are Manuella Madosa, Gavin Clark and Malcolm Calcutt. Great for period pain, once a month for 8 months can have an impact between 40-60%, in pain reduction. So ladies if you have

Hamstring injuries, why? If you are on the hamstring merry go round, you need to slow down and work out where it is coming from. Posture would say you tend to stand on one leg, subsequently you turn one of your glutes off pre-disposing one of your hamstrings to be hamstrung. One side the glute does not work, as the primary hip extensor this means the secondary has to do the work of both. Good luck with that. On the other side it will be working more, predisposing it to tigh

Three big poor postural reasons are: The TV Games stations The tablet/laptop. With all of the above we delude ourselves that we are relaxing, taking well earned time out. We generally slouch and compromise our posture. It does not have to be this way as we can "Veg" out and maintain better posture. Which one is your primary postural vice for relaxation?

Growing up I'd always been told to run on my toes (or mid-foot). One, it would be faster and two, heel striking was a guaranteed way to get injured. When I got to University, again, I learnt exactly that (this time with biomechanical back-up). Then, one day while doing hill-sprints with my personal trainer at the time (an ex Olympian), he kept telling me to run on my heels. I looked at him totally confused and said "but I always thought you were supposed to run on your toes"

The most common areas of weakness I notice when I start with new clients are their hips, glutes, hamstrings and backs. This is usually a result of their desk-sentenced lives as an office worker. Sitting, whether at a desk, on the couch, or in the car is extremely damaging to our health. From a purely musculoskeletal perspective it weakens the hamstrings, glutes and the core muscles of the back and abdomen, tightens the hip flexors and pectoral muscles. All of this resul

How can you know how far you’ve come when you don’t know where you started? It’s pretty hard to measure your progress if you don’t record it. If you want to be successful in your training and not get stuck going nowhere then you need to write thing down. Firstly, recording your workouts helps you develop a plan. When you workout, do you know exactly what you are going to do and how long it will take you? Or do you just aimlessly move from one exercise to the next, doing

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the outcome to change! How often have you set the same or similar goals, approached them in the same way only to end up with the same result each time, you give up or you get nowhere? Being able to set and achieve your goals is an important skill to have, whether those goals are for your athletic abilities, health or any other aspect of your life. Here are some simple rules you can follo

Are you training or are you exercising? To quote Mark Rippetoe - "Exercise is physical activity for its own sake, a workout done for the effect it produces today, during the workout or right after you're through. Training is physical activity done with a longer-term goal in mind, the constituent workouts of which are specifically designed to produce that goal". For most people exercise is perfectly adequate, and there is no arguing that there are many health benefits as

"You love your lunges!" is an expletive I hear from almost all my clients (secretly I think they are beginning to love them too). Here’s why I love them. Lunges are a basic, primitive movement pattern and I believe they have a valuable place in any functional fitness program. The squat and the deadlift often overshadow the lunge, but performed correctly the lunge can be one of the most effective exercises you can use in you training. Regardless of your fitness goals - i

When I see a lady wearing high heeled shoes my first impression is pain and discomfort. However fashion tends to override pain, no matter how drastic the consequences are. Research has shown that there are health hazards and injuries related to extensive periods of time in high heeled shoes but how serious? How do our biomechanics change when we slip on the stilettos for a night out? And could there ever be comfortable high heeled shoe? We all know why women wear high heeled

Common sporting shoulder injuries include dislocations, Acromioclavicular joint injuries, rotator cuff injuries, labral tears, thrower's shoulder, biceps injuries, bursitis and fractures. Contact sports such as Rugby, AFL, Wrestling, Ice Hockey, Hockey and boxing to name a few, have a higher rate of dislocations and ACJ injuries. Rotator cuff tears and bicep lesions are more common in sports involving explosive heavy weight lifting or lifting weights above the head, laying sp

Knee injuries have always been a problem for skiers, accounting for roughly 30-40% of ski injuries. The vast majority of knee injuries consist of damage to the ligaments, whether it is an ACL, meniscus or Medial collateral ligament tear. Soft tissue injuries can also occur. Serious injury symptoms Obvious deformity to the knee Total inability to weight bear on the affected leg for 4 steps (i.e. 2 transfers of weight) Large degree of swelling in the knee within a couple of ho