TRAINING METHODS

 

Gymnastics/Bodyweight Strength Training

Both these styles of training draw on building strength and mobility utilising your own bodyweight as the resistance. I primarily utilise these training methods to build upper body strength and conditioning, using the gymnastic rings, bars, ropes and parallettes.

·       Gymnastic Bodies Qualified

Weight Training

Weight training and weightlifting have been around for decades and have renowned benefits for building strength, lean muscle and raw power. It provides a strong base for your body’s foundations (absolutely necessary as we age - creating body awareness and joint stability), and aids in increasing strength and performance. I include a component of lifting in all my clients programming.

Mobility Training

Inflexibility is a common precursor to pain and injury. However, simply improving flexibility isn’t necessarily the answer. Three factors to consider:

  • how mobile are your joints;

  • how strong are the surrounding soft tissues around them;

  • and how flexible are these tissues.

This is when mobility training is advantageous for achieving all three. Mobility is your ability to use your active strength in your entire range of motion (ROM). If you think of a ballet dancer or martial artist who can kick at an impressive height (ROM), their ability to hold that top range position and control the movement throughout indicates their mobility.

I opt for a combination of joint prep and articulation, flexibility training and methods to increase strength and control.

Movement/ Train you brain

To grow, we must learn.

We’ve lost the art of critical thinking, with being spoon fed directions as part of our day-to-day. The freedom to move, express and explore through experimentation is valuable in my training and feeding our human instincts. I encourage movements in and out of alignment and letting one learn from observation and other sensory skills. Inspired by different creative disciplines, the objective is to play and explore and see where your body and mind will take you.

·       Ido Portal Method - Corset and Movement X Intensives