7 Training moves to Complement your Football Pre-season
It’s that time of the year again. Football pre-season is upon us, so what can we do to complement our training to optimise power and speed on the field? Undoubtedly your pre-season training will consist primarily of aerobic training and ball work, however, power development is often overlooked at the local level.
Building power in the athlete is beneficial on many levels. Increasing power will allow you to jump higher, kick further, break tackles and burst through packs.
Power is defined as strength multiplied by speed. Heavy compound exercises followed by explosive movements have been demonstrated to improve power and performance in athletes of various sports.
Exercises need to be transferable to the game and requirements of AFL. Developing power within relevant movement patterns is essential for game day performance.
At this stage of training, it is desirable to build a solid strength base for future training. The focus will be on strength and speed in order to develop power.
Coming out of Hibernation - Programming Essentials for your Training
Preventing Tendinopathies
Its that time of the year again where we all emerge from hibernation and hit the track ready for summer. But far too often this sudden increase in activity can be more damaging than good, so clever programming and exercise timing can keep you going strong all summer long.
The focus of this article will be on programming essentials to help prevent tendinopathies in the athlete that’s considering adding a little extra to their training.
A recent blog by Jacinda outlined the pathogenesis of tendinopathies and a number of tips on what we can do to combat this issue. You can view the blog here.
This article will be a continuum of Jacida’s 4 Ways to Create Invincible Tendons for Improving your Athletic Performance, with the focus being on programming essentials to help prevent tendinopathies in the athlete that’s considering adding a little extra to their training.
5 Marvellous Ways to Renovate your Snatch Lifts with Lester Ho
There isn’t a one size fits all approach when it comes to how we, at Evolutio do Physiotherapy. The same can be said about how you train.
What’s best for you could be completely ineffective for the person who trains right along side you.
Jac our resident geek sat down with weightlifting coach and biomechanical extraordinaire, Lester Ho, AKA “The Training Geek” to chat about everything from coaching, training, rehabbing (…even their matching Asian flat feet!) and how, many factors can change the way you approach the barbell.
Over the next few months, we will release a series of blog posts to help you understand what types of drills and exercises are best suited to the type of athlete you are!
Olympic Lifting into the CrossFit Record Books
We had the pleasure of being part of the Western Warriors Weightlifting Competition on Saturday 11th July.
Born from the idea that CrossFitters love to Oly, CrossFit Rise Up owners Ben and Logan Poon along with Damien Hennigan of CrossFit Westgate, came up with the idea to run a unique Weightlifting Competition for CrossFitters.
Only in their second year running, this comp sold out within hours of being released and there’s no doubt it’s here to stay!
Stretching our Way to Success in the Gym
For as long as I can remember, my warm ups for football, running or sport in general had always incorporated a component of static stretching. We were led to believe that by stretching before activity would prepare our muscles and help prevent injury.
2015 Annual Australian Coach of the Year
It's with Great Pleasure that we Announce the Winners of our 2015 Annual Australian Coach of the Year. This has been our biggest year with 180 nominations for 26 Coaches from all over Australia. The majority of our nominated coaches currently work as CrossFit Coaches and it's great to see a combination of owner coaches and coaches be nominated by their members.
We'd like to thank every single athlete who took time out to nominate their coach and put forward compelling cases. We had an amazing but diffiuclt time assessing all the entries and finding our winners. Special thanks to Siobhan from CrossFit U in the Anything else we shold know category who gave us some movie advice "The new mad Max movie is really cool. Maybe you should check it out :)" Thanks Siobhan we might just do that.
So without any further adieu here are the winners and complete list of nominated coaches. We've also added in some of the entries under each of the coaches, so you can see that there are some amazing people out there going above and beyond their duty.
To these coaches, we salute you.
6 Great Ways to Beat the Chill with your Warm Up
Actually, it feels like its already here!
You rock up to the box, rugged up from head to toe and your coach announces that its time to WARM UP! What does that even really mean? You’re already warm right? Beanie, scarf, hoodie, track pants….
Here’s a break down on why we really warm up and how to do it correctly!
Three Mobility Exercises to Improve Overhead Position
So often we see people come into the clinic with issues performing overhead moves, none more so than the Snatch or Overhead Squat.
For the most of us, we are chained to a desk the good majority of the day, most days a week. This sustained stooped forward position leads to your thoracic spine being stuck in flexion, which doesn’t allow proper scapula mechanics, in turn limit end overhead position or if left unattended can lead to painful shoulder impingement syndrome.