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    Progressing from Stable to Unstable: A Key Strategy for Fitness Success

    11/02/2023

    The journey to achieving fitness goals is an ongoing process of growth and improvement. One crucial strategy for making progress and attaining long-term success in fitness is through the concept of progression. In particular, transitioning from stable to unstable exercises can provide numerous benefits and challenge your body in new and exciting ways. By understanding […]

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    WEDNESDAY WISDOM: Reasons for Rotation

    11/01/2023

    In our last post we talked Programming 101 – incorporating the 7 primal movement patterns and all 3 planes of motion into your sessions (if you missed it scroll down and check it out). When facilitating an FTI course I always ask the team to list the 7 movement patterns as established by Paul Chek, […]

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    WEDNESDAY WISDOM: Programming 101

    10/25/2023

    We are all PT’s who promote and practice, or are at least educated in some form of ‘Functional Fitness’, but when it comes to program design and coaching our clients what does it take to ensure we are living by the philosophies of “Functional Training”? To me, the concept of functional training means we’re training […]

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    WEDNESDAY WISDOM: Gold-Standard Demonstrations

    10/18/2023

    Demonstrating movement – something we do every day! But everyone listens, understands and learns differently, so how do we ensure we can be efficient and effective in teaching or tweaking a movement? As coaches, it’s safe to say we usually have an in-depth understanding of the exercises we demonstrate and coach our clients in… As […]

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    WEDNESDAY WISDOM: How do you cue?

    10/11/2023

    Last week we explored what key elements make an effective cue when coaching, and this week we will dive further into the types of cues and which will help us achieve understanding, congruency and retention with clients. I’ll kick this off with a somewhat left-field story.. My first ever course day as a participate with […]

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    WEDNESDAY WISDOM: Elements of Effective Cueing

    10/06/2023

    Last week’s wisdom was NOT to be missed, so if you didn’t catch the post on how to communicate with clients scroll down and check it out now, because it’s VITAL to consider the language we use if we want to be great coaches! Sticking with the theme of communication, in this week’s post we […]

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