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Deep Tissue Massage
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 […]
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Small Group Training
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 […]
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Sports massage, why?
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 […]
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Period Pain
Love your Guts, Marty Ryan’s way of teaching Visceral 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 […]
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Hamstring Injuries
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 […]
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Three Big "Poor Postural Reasons"
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 […]
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Heel or Toe?
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 […]
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Don’t be a product of sitting all day
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 […]
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Recording Your Workouts
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 […]
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Smarter Goals
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 […]
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Are you training or exercising?
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 […]
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Lunges
“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 […]
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