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The Super Pigeon!
Try out this distraction variation to help you get some extra range out of your pigeon stretch. 2-3mins per side. Let me know how it goes. A lot of athletes with tight hip capsules have difficulty getting into position to maximise the soft tissue release from stretches like the pigeon stretch. Using distraction techniques can really…
Tight ITB? Just work around it.
One of the most painful things you can use a foam roller for is releasing your Illiotibial band (ITB). I have seen people grind it out for months – rolling back and forth down the side of their leg, everyday, to try and release off the tension in the ITB that causes the painful flicking sensation on the outside of…
Move Train Perform opening soon in CrossFit Marrickville
Move Train Perform is extremely excited to announce that we will soon be opening the doors of our second clinic! Move Train Perform Marrickville will be located upstairs at CrossFit Marrickville (CFM). We feel very lucky to have the opportunity to work with Dave Buckley and his crew at CFM and CrossFit Inner West. Our…
Train hard but warm up smart
The modern lifestyle certainly doesn’t help our battle with bad movement mechanics; sitting at a desk, hands on a keyboard, sitting on the couch, sitting in the car, sitting at the dinner table, sitting in cafe, sitting, sitting sitting! So much of our lives are spent in a seated position. Basically from the moment we…
Going to the CrossFit Games!
Things have been a bit quiet on the MTP blog for a while now, mainly due to the training commitments I have had in preparation for competing in Team CrossFit Active. Firstly with the lead up to the CrossFit Open then at the Australia/NZ regional competition and now at the CrossFit Games in Los Angeles!…
Exciting announcement
I am very excited to announce that Move Train Perform is teaming up with one of Australia’s premier CrossFit affiliates; CrossFit Active. Injury prevention, movement correction and injury rehabilitation services will be added to the services available at both CrossFit Active Waverton and the new affiliate CrossFit Active Artarmon. The primary site of operation for…
Pain is NOT ‘just a part of training’
Before I start this little rant, I want to make a clear distinction between ‘good pain’ that is, pain you experience when you push yourself to new limits (i.e. muscle soreness or ‘the burn’), and ‘bad pain’, the type of pain that is your body telling you that something is seriously not right and you…
The key stone to quality squatting
We love squats, I love squats, everyone loves squats. They are the king of all exercises right? Well, squats and deadlifts. Nothing is more functional than having the capacity to pick things up from the floor, carry stuff on your back and move up/down. But as we endeavour to load these movements and their derivatives…
Strength, power and speed…or is that movement quality?
Last weekend I was lucky enough to be able to compete at the Australian/New Zealand CrossFit Games Regionals competition in Wollongong. For those of you that don’t know about it, the regionals competition is the penultimate competition for the top 60 individual men, top 60 individual women, and top 30 team CrossFit athletes from across…
Position is power, but can you find it?
The mark of good coach or trainer is their ability to modify their coaching cues to suit the individual. What works for one person often won’t work for another. So the flexibility of the metaphorical tool box that each coach carries with them, of physical and verbal options for assisting their clients to ‘get it’,…
Consistency is the key
The importance of repeatability cannot be overstated. When you appraise someones ability to perform a particular exercise or movement it is absolutely imperative that your set up positions for testing are the same each time. If you watch someones overhead squat and the first time you check their technique you cue them to have their…
Getting it overhead with a twist
Our shoulders get an absolute beating over our lifetime, in fact studies have found that 28% of people under the age of 60 with asymptomatic shoulders (without pain) had evidence of rotator cuff damage and 54% for those over 60years (1), and these are the lucky ones…without pain. I think most people have an appreciation for the functional need…
Shoot from the Hip
One piece of the movement puzzle I see missing all the time is good hip extension. A lot of emphasis is placed on strengthening the posterior chain these days and for good reason. However the value of a strong posterior chain or powerful hip drive is lost if you dont have the range of motion…
To stabilise or to mobilise? That is the question.
Mobility is very in vogue at the moment, especially in the CrossFit community. Kelly Starrett and his mobilitywod blog has seen an explosion of mobilisation/stretch techniques being used by the masses to improve their position and movement efficiency during training and competing. I absolutely love the mobilitywod resource; Kelly is a very smart man who…
Tight hamstrings?? Don’t blame the victim.
The poor old hamstrings get a bad wrap. I would hazard a guess that around 80% of new patients that come to the clinic claim to have tight hamstrings. The story usually goes something like this: “I’ve always had tight hamstrings, ever since I was in high school, no matter how much I stretched them…
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