Trust(ing) the Process: Check yourself before you wreck yourself
Fitness Training, Evolutio Team, Leadership, Physiotherapy, Physio Prof Development, Strength and Conditioning Peta Glaister Fitness Training, Evolutio Team, Leadership, Physiotherapy, Physio Prof Development, Strength and Conditioning Peta Glaister

Trust(ing) the Process: Check yourself before you wreck yourself

Okay, so, now it's my turn to blog and I'm going to be a bad cop to Phill's good cop.

If you've been into the clinic or met us you'll you know that these are pretty obvious roles for us – his hair is higher, he smiles a lot and he has less of a tendency to go off on elaborate angry rants for unclear reasons.

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Just Move
CrossFit, Fitness Training, Strength and Conditioning Sarah Florence CrossFit, Fitness Training, Strength and Conditioning Sarah Florence

Just Move

So as it’s my first blog for the legends at Evolutio, I thought I’d start by introducing myself. I’m Sarah, 31, former chef in both career and lifestyle. I now coach at Wards Gym and I also work for the YMCA. I promote both CrossFit and Les Mills respectively which, I’ll admit, is a confusing and contradictory combination. I generally try my hardest to not put the training style that I personally love more than anything in the world (CrossFit) on a pedestal and mindlessly criticize all others. If I wasn’t trying though, I would say something like this:

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Fascia, Tensegrity & The Continuous Ambush of Tension
Fitness Training Peta Glaister Fitness Training Peta Glaister

Fascia, Tensegrity & The Continuous Ambush of Tension

Now I’m not casting aspersions on any childhood songs in particular, but we have a tendency to imagine the body in movement as a rigid frame being pulled on by distinct muscles to produce specific joint actions. eg: the hamstrings pull on the shin bones to produce knee flexion. While this is not technically incorrect, are we sure this is the best way to view and address human movement?

If we were talking about robots, then I think it would be a fine. In that case, treating any pain or dysfunction would be more a case of finding the part that wasn’t working and fixing the hydraulics at that joint.

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