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Plantar Fasciitis: What is it, and how can it be treated?
By Angela Hills, Sports and Remedial Massage Therapist What is Plantar Fasciitis? As a massage therapist, I am commonly presented with people who complain of sore feet. This complaint can sometimes develop into a chronic condition called plantar fasciitis. Plantar Fasciitis is very common and is defined as an inflammation of the plantar fascia – the…
Move Train Perform’s First Sponsored Athlete!
The team at Move Train Perform are excited to announce that we have just signed our first sponsored athlete, Luke Starr. Luke has been one of the most consistent performers on the Australian CrossFit scene over a number of years, qualifying and competing in every CrossFit Regionals since 2009! He is one of Australian CrossFit’s…
Want a more efficient thruster? Try this.
Expecting thrusters in 14.5? Well being able to maintain a more upright torso position during the movement will allow a more efficient transfer of force to the bar and save your low back from fatiguing prematurely. A simple way to improve your position is to add some ankle range of motion. Try this simple ankle…
What is Pain?
By Nick Burrows, MTP Exercise Physiologist Pain is a long studied and misunderstood concept, however recent insights have led to greater understanding of what pain is and how it comes about. The first thing we need to realise is that pain is an output of the brain, not an input from the tissues of the…
Know your supplement: Creatine
In the first of a series of blog posts, MTP’s resident Sports Dietitian Juliana Lisboa takes a look at common supplements taken by athletes. What is Creatine, and how can you benefit from it? Check it out. What is it? Creatine Phosphate (CrP) is an important fuel source in maximal sprints of 5-10 seconds, which are seen…
The Heat is ON.. Tips to achieve a Positive Energy Balance
By Rebecca Chin, Accredited Practising Dietitian and Nutritionist With summer just around the corner, we all want to look and feel our best. For some (including myself!) this means shedding some extra cheeky kilos that crept on throughout the hibernation period i.e. winter. I see and hear a lot about people resorting to extreme fad…
A Dietitians Fuel
By Rebecca Chin, Accredited Practising Dietitian and Nutritionist As I Dietitian, I naturally get asked/told all things diet related. Things along the lines of should I avoid gluten? Is sugar really bad? Have you heard about [insert latest diet fad]? In addition to this people are always interested in what Dietitians actually eat themselves. Do…
Got shoulder pain going overhead? Watch this.
Part 1 of a series of video blogs on managing and preventing shoulder impingement. The focus is on understanding the basic structures involved and how to target some of the less commonly addressed tissues that can impact on the mechanics of the glenohumeral joint and contribute to shoulder impingement.
The static stretching debate: what does it mean for CrossFit participants.
by Luke Kane Exercise Physiologist – Movement Specialist “Is it safe to stretch before I train?” I get this question all the time in the clinic. For as long as I can remember there has been some level of debate over whether it is safe, unsafe, good or bad for performance to hold static stretches…
Osteoarthritis and Exercise: Should you train through the pain? What can you do about it?
By Nick Burrows – Exercise Physiologist Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease characterised primarily by pain, but also stiffness, crepitus (joint cracking) and reductions in strength. The most common form of OA is knee OA but nearly any joint in the body can be affected. The exact cause of OA is unknown but there are…
Super Crab: A quick shoulder and glut activation drill to use before 14.4
The combination of movements involved in 14.4 will mean a release of some epic pre-wod mobility routines.. To speed things up a bit here is a combined hip and shoulder activation exercise that will get you some good pre-wod stability and heat into your hips and shoulders prior to jumping into 14.4 Complete a total…
Glute activation – ‘The Crab Walk’ ideal position and common faults
Band resisted side stepping or crab walking as it’s more commonly known, is an excellent and regularly used activation exercise for the gluteals. It is a very simple and very effective way of firing up your hip stabilisers pre-training. However, just like any other exercise if incorrect position or technique is used it can be…
The importance of glute max activation in lower limb rehabilitation.
In 1994 Bullock-Saxton wrote a groundbreaking article about glute max inhibition after ankle sprains. When I first read the article in 2010 I couldn’t believe it. Was this paper really released in 1994? It was like the first time I realised that the Beastie Boys released ‘fight for your right to party’ in ’84. How…
Not making change with your mobility? You may have mobility ADD
by Luke Kane – MTP Founder, Accredited Exercise Physiologist and Movement Specialist. There is an enormous amount of free health information available on the internet these days. Some great, some good, some average, and some rubbish. Well, a lot of rubbish. And in all categories there are many different experts/pseudo experts giving new, different and…
Improve your squat, attack the adductors
When you are planning your pre/post training regime, what are the big targets on your check list? The must do areas that you would be negligent to leave out? Hip mobility; quads, hamstrings, glutes? Some thoracic and shoulder mobility maybe? Often the forgotten cousin of the lower limb (with the quads and hamstrings getting all…
What is ‘Mostability’? What do I NEED to know about it?
By Glenn Stevens, Chiropractor When we look at the joints in the body and the way in which they are supposed to function, we begin to see a pattern. Mike Boyle and Gray Cook (if you aren’t familiar with them I suggest you check our their books) hit the hammer on the head when they…
Single Leg Jumping and its Relation to Training
By Nick Burrows, Exercise Physiologist You may have noticed that we have recently added a new set of tests to our movement assessment where we have been getting our athletes to perform single leg jumps. While some impressive distances have been seen, what we are actually looking at is any disparity between the two legs.…
Thank you for 2014
Move Train Perform would like to thank everyone that has visited us, followed us on Facebook, Instagram, read/watched our blogs and attended our seminars during 2014. It has been a roller coaster year for MTP, with some amazing highs and some disappointing lows. We have added new team members and new services, we closed a clinic then…