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DURABLE LIFTERS ONLINE SEMINAR πŸ‹πŸΌ‍♀️ 🌎 Weightlifting athletes have a lot to manage. An incredibly challenging sport with high mobility, athleticism & strength requirements Huge training hours, massive amounts of mental strength & th
Neutral is a range, not an action. Accessing neutral enables us to begin a movement & travel through an entire spectrum. Extension isn’t bad. Flexion isn’t bad. They’re just options. But you cannot access those options if
WEIGHTLIFTING ATHLETES ALWAYS WANT TO GET BETTER OVERNIGHT πŸ™ƒ And I totally get it! We all chase perfection in our movements when weightlifting to enable us to have consistency, so that when the big weights come we can execute. Technical changes
GRATEFUL 🀍 Exhausted from a huge day coaching, cheering & watching weightlifting πŸ‹πŸΌ‍♀️ It is such a privilege to do what I do. It’s honestly incredible to take a sport I love and be able to help athletes achieve their goals. I
WHY LAYER ON MORE COMPRESSION IN AN ALREADY COMPRESSIVE SPORT 🀷🏼‍β™€οΈπŸ‹πŸΌ‍♀️ Backsquats take a relatively high level of skill to execute correctly. I’m sure we can all agree on that πŸ˜… The bar placement requires relative extension at
ALL IN 24 HOURS πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ”₯ My crazy fiancé has decided to undertake this challenge to raise funds & awareness for @whiteribbonaust @whiteribbonaust is a hardworking charity working to end violence against women Did you know on average, one woman
TAKE A LONG SLOW EXHALE...🫁 Most people think hyperventilation means panic attack... yet that is not actually correct. When we breathe too often & don’t exhale “enough” we are said to be “hyperventilating” Hyper
TIMING is EVERYTHING, especially in the JERK ⏰ The jerk can be a problematic movement for a lot of lifters. Not only does it have high mobility & skill requirements, there is also that sweet spot of timing required to be able to land the jerk
SORRY TO BREAK IT TO YOU 🀷🏼‍♀️ Manual therapy doesn’t put bones back in, stop them for slipping out, keep you aligned, help with muscle “activation” or stop you from injuring yourself 🀯 If you want to minimise injury risk:
ITS ALL IN THE BREATH πŸ«πŸ‹πŸΌ‍♀️ Yesterday I had the honour of working closely with a group of weightlifting athletes & coaches to teach them all things breathing. Thank you @better_with_sarah for hosting in your awesome studio. We talked a
There is a reason I do breathing work with every patient 🫁 πŸ‘ƒ Sometimes we focus on expansion and compression Sometimes we focus on regulating our nervous system with the breath Sometimes we practice reintroducing breathing through the nose aft
“HEEEEEEEEELS!!!” At any weightlifting competition you will be sure to hear some coach yelling heels to their lifter before they attempt their jerk πŸ—£ This cue is often used to reorientate the lifters centre of mass backwards, so a stra
fUnCtiOnAl TrAiNiNg πŸ™ƒ If we zoom out and really define what functional training looks like, its clear that traditional weightlifting isn’t really very “functional” We are in one plane of motion - sagitall We are heavily biased