Injury Rehab & Movement Specialists
Getting Back To Training After Long-Term Injury We’ve all been there – a movement that’s persistently painful, a niggle that won’t get better or an injury that doesn’t seem to want to go away… Being injured definitely isn’t fun and not being able to move, train or compete at the level we want to is …
How To Train The Glutes Glute Max is the largest of the 3 glutes and there are two main ways we see them trained – concentrically and eccentrically. Movements like glute bridges and hip thrusts are focused on a CONCENTRIC contraction of the glutes ie. long-to-short. Movements like squats and lunges are focused on an …
Hitting More Hamstrings In The Deadlift
Want to hit your abs more when you workout? Look at your thoracic spine movement… How your thoracic spine moves in relation to you pelvis dictates how much your abdominal muscles can potentially contribute to a movement. REMEMBER – Once a muscle has been lengthened in a movement it is then in a great position …
A lot of people spend time trying to ‘activate’ muscles prior to training… …but in reality the biggest indication of muscle contribution to a movement is how much that muscle is lengthened in a movement prior to the following concentric movement. The glutes in squatting are no exception. The glutes (max and med) are at …
Kayleigh came to us unable to squat. She’d been experiencing difficulty with her squats and lunges for years and had never really got to grips with these movements, despite having numerous Personal Trainers at the gym. Often squats and lunges would become uncomfortable and sometimes painful to perform. After receiving physio to help with some …
