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Liam’s Workshop – The first of many
Congratulations to Liam Haberfield on performing his first workshop under the PURE Movement brand! This took place on Saturday 23rd of September at the PURE Movement studio in Lower Hutt and drew the attention of around 20 Ultimate Frisbee athletes looking to move a bit better to resolve aches, niggles and pains during their sport […]
Shannyn Boyd – To war and back
Congratulations to long time Pure Movement client Shannyn Boyd for completing her first novice kickboxing fight at Capital Punishment 38 on the 20th May 2017! Shannyn Boyd, fighting out of Octagon Combat Center under the tutelage of Gavin Johnston, fought courageously against Shaun Jones from MTI Wellington. Being a novice bout, the contestants both wore […]
5 Gym pet peeves
I am sure everyone has their pet peeves in the gym. Stuff like not re-racking weights or Bicep Curls in the squat rack. My top 5 pet peeves are below 🙂 No Pain, No Gain. Pain is bad Pain is lagging (Damage already done) If an exercise is causing pain, it is your body’s natural […]
How stretching actually works
As coaches, we are always thinking about the health of our clients. Part of any fitness journey is to move and move well, otherwise injuries can occur. If a client doesn’t have the range of motion to do the big exercises, like squats and deadlifts, it’s going to be a big obstacle in reaching their […]
A new frontier
Let’s change the way we think It is ridiculous how many of our younger generation are already experiencing back pain or knee injuries that can all be prevented. The frontier is no longer in the discovery of ‘why’. We know that a sedentary lifestyle is the main contributor of so many problems resulting in back pain and other […]
The Valgus Knee
The valgus knee (Knee falling inward of the centre line) creates a myriad of issues for the knee in sport and exercise yet if injured through non contact, it is very rare that the knee is actually at fault, usually the hips or ankles are to blame. Let’s look at running: We’ve spent so much […]
It all starts in early childhood
We know that tension comes from areas of our body that are ‘over-active’, but where do we develop the patterns that dictate which areas get over-used? The most common dysfunctions of pain, injury, or tension can all be traced to the bad movement behaviors we develop during infancy and as children like excessive sitting and forward head […]
Practice makes permanent
Aside from the obvious point that poor posture causes tension and can lead to injury, we also need to talk about how patterns and positions need to be universal in our lives, on and off the field. When we are sitting all day in bad shapes (postures) we are practicing a pattern. A pattern that will transfer into every other […]
The Tunnel
Every movement enters a ‘tunnel’. It has a start position and a finish position. If we do not have the mobility to hit these positions then the movement itself is going to be poor. This is a concept that Dr. Kelly Starrett talks often about because it is such a simple and easy way to […]