Festive Season Survival Guide
Festive Season Survival Guide 101 The festive season, so often the time when people fall off the exercise and health bandwagon and succumb to the endless festivities and overindulgence. Its happened to us all and yet every year that we go into this period with good intentions we somehow fall into the same traps. It […]
The journey to a handstand
The 5 exercises you need to start your handstand journey Learning to handstand can seem like a scary goal. But it doesn’t need to be. A freestanding handstand is achievable for anyone at any level provided that these exercises are followed with patience and consistency. It is a gradual process and the big […]
Fitness and Dealing with Anxiety
Todays blog comes from one of our awesome Members Emma otherwise known as “Relatable Miss Renton – A Perth lifestyle blog written by the anxious everyday girl who walks her talk” Here Emma is going to talk about one of the tools that she uses to help deal with Anxiety. So without any further ado, […]
Bodyweight Fundamentals
Bodyweight training has recently become en vogue. In the fitness world it’s everywhere, it’s plastered all over social media, Functional Fitness areas are appearing in gyms, CrossFit boxes are employing Gymnastic Coaches, UFC fighters are employing Movement Coaches and doing Bodyweight training. Here at Movement Co. it’s particularly relevant. We have three Full-time Bodyweight Coaches, […]
A simple guide to making a Program
Stuck in a fitness rut? Not hitting the goals that you want to achieve? Feeling like you have slipped back after that initial burst of progress that happened when you first started training? Never fear, you are not alone. It’s actually a pretty common theme for most people, once they get through that initial 3-6 […]
Consistency, Patience and more Consistency
The last few months my training took a few steps back due to frustration from lack of progression, I was handstanding less and caring less about it. As handstands are my job and somehow have evolved into a passion of mine I needed to change this. I had to relive what I try to explain […]
Where Your Hands Go
Hand Position Matters One of these pictures is a good hand position, the other, bad… I’ll let you work it out After a few weeks break on the “how to” front, we are back! This week I’m going to repeat what I say a million times a day and some people will be sick to […]
Finding Your Peace of Yoga
HAAAAAAAA, leading with pun’s in titles is always a good start. If you didn’t scope last week’s post I ended with the cliffhanger that is, ‘What do I think while I handstand?’ This I will answer before the post is out, I promise but first I would like to talk a bit about Yoga and […]
Why Should I Learn to Handstand?
This week I was going to start writing up about another part of your handstands but I thought I would take it back for a bit after one of my students looked at me confused when I told them that only trying handstands for one hour a week isn’t going to be sufficient enough to achieve […]
Happy Wrists, Happy Handstand
http://movementco.wistia.com/medias/rjvi67rdre?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=320 Wrists When we first start with handstands (or any arm balance for that matter) we are hyper loading our wrists in a position that they truly aren’t ready for. It’s true that in our handstand we should be in one long straight line but what if you are to go out of that […]