take a Walk on the Wild Side
Thinking back to my teens, I distinctly remember hearing my mum talking about going for a walk and thinking to myself “what a lazy form of exercise”. I thought, “my parents just got slack, that’ll never happen to me”, and “why walk when you can run??”.
How immature and completely wrong I was!
Technique is King - or is it ??
If you’ve ever done any of the exercise, it’s likely that you’ve heard the phrase “technique is King” (or similar).
I’d like to play the devil’s advocate here, just to question whether our fetish with form has missed the point. Maybe it hasn’t - I’m happy to be wrong on this one.
I feel like culture around technique has drifted so far out of context that it’s more like the Emperor’s new clothes. It seems to have devolved into a lot of mansplaining dweebs stipulating narrower and narrower terms and conditions on any movement and trolling any differing perspective until everyone’s too tired of the criticism to step out and say “Oi! Maybe there’s a bit more to it than that.”
7 Ways to Improve your Ankle Movement for CrossFit
For coaches and physical therapists, range of motion through the ankle is often the last area of the body looked at, when trying to improve a clients movement or to why they have developed hip and knee pain on the same or opposite side. We'll show you why it should be one of this first.
Which Evolutio Team Member are you?
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Snow Addict
I just got back from a week up at the snow with my dad. My dad is 67 years old, a self confessed snow addict, and has been eagerly awaiting old age for one reason alone. His favourite mountain (Mt Hotham, Australia), offers free season ski passes to over 70s.
So once he hits the ripe old age of 70, it will be free skiing all day, every day for the entire winter season.
But there’s just one problem. His knees are getting sore and as we all know…skiing is bad for your knees. But is it?
Honest Conversations, Motorcycles and Weight Loss
I’ve been out of the private training scene for a month or two now and I while I don’t feel like that’s enough time to properly collect my thoughts on this subject, I’ve started. And it’s a deep, fraught, emotional rabbit hole.
When you’re in the fitness industry there is a question that comes up more often than any other.
"How do I lose weight?"
Whenever I felt it coming I freeze.
Then I back away mumbling something about not being the person to ask because I’m only qualified in training, not nutrition.
5 Exercises to Improve your Cleans and Snatches
You train hard, you press most days and squat like a Bulgarian but you’re still not seeing the improvements you would expect? Or do you have issues with certain lifts that you just can’t iron out?
It’s likely that there is a weakness within the kinetic chain that just isn’t up to par. Remember a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
Sun Tzu’s The Art of Giving
It was many centuries ago, that I was first introduced to Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. Young, wide-eyed and inquisitive it opened my mind to the sophistication, yet simplicity of conflict.
Fast forward on the tape and you’ll find yourself, feet floating, in a world that is as stable as ever.
Recently two of our newest team members at Evolutio who have made me realise an important point in how we got to where we are today. A position where we’re lucky enough to have treated over two thousand clients here in Melbourne over the past four years.
That point, is the art of giving.