So for this weeks blog I thought I would share my personal story in overcoming an injury that set me back a long, long way and taught me some rather valuable lessons. The Injury The injury occurred in June 2014 where after spending a Friday afternoon training at Langley Park I suffered a nerve impingement injury…Continue Reading
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,…Continue Reading
What is Calisthenics? When I tell people that I teach Calisthenics for a living I usually come across two differing reactions. The first reaction is usually accompanied by a raised eyebrow coupled with a confused or concerned look upon where the person in question will ask if I mean the Calisthenics that involves ‘twirling ribbons,…Continue Reading
We live in the information age, anything you want to know is literally at your fingertips at any time be it day or night. You want to know how to do an exercise you can look up a tutorial on YouTube. Looking for a recipe, simple just look at Google and you’ll have a variety…Continue Reading
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…Continue Reading
Getting in touch with your muscles No (despite what is suggested in the picture above) I am not going to suggest that you start caressing your body in a loving fashion, well at least not in public anyway. What I am going to talk about here relates to mindfulness and creating the mind body connection….Continue Reading
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…Continue Reading
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…Continue Reading
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…Continue Reading
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…Continue Reading