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Taking Small Steps Towards Huge Weight Loss

How many times have you said, "I want to lose X kilos by the end of the year" and have failed to achieve this goal? An outcome goal is a big goal you want to achieve. The bigger picture. "I want to lose 12 kilos this year". But it can be extremely demotivating when you don't achieve this goal, and you might never try again. "Shoot for the stars, but land on the moon". Progress goals are the small steps that you take to achieve a larger goal. They are based around the actions and tasks that you can control focus more around achieving smaller milestones. You focus on taking one step at a time. Let's say you want to lose 12kg in 12 months, a goal that is achievable with some hard work and ....
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Test, Measure and Progress

Last weekend, we conducted our 2nd Combine (fitness testing) which identifies the athlete's strength and areas of improvement. You can do some form of assessment on yourself to identify the progress/strengths and the weaknesses/areas to improve on in your life. This enables you to continue to make progress in the right direction to ultimately achieve your goals...as long as you take the right form of consistent action! Tracking body weight, food and your training is an easy way to keep track and measure if you are actually making progress. This goes the same for your work. There are certain tasks that need to be tracked/ completed to reach an objective. Many people attend gyms with the ....
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The Major Benefits of Strength Training for Young Athletes

The benefits of strength/weight/resistance training for youth athletes are major for performance, longevity and injury prevention. 🏌🏻 ‍ 🏄🏻 ‍ 🏋🏻 ‍ 🚴🏻 ‍️ From a performance perspective, the younger youth athletes undertake a structured strength training program, we see improvements in their sporting performance. Why is that? Part of the reason is most movements require a minimal level of strength to executive skills. Being stronger, allows you to practice the skill more often as the athlete won't become as fatigued compared to someone of similar skill. This means they practice higher quality movements/reps more often, further executing and ....
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Mastering the Basics of Strength Training for Youth Athletes

Firstly, what do we mean by 'master the basics'? The basics really means core or movements that everyone should learn before doing more complex exercises. These movements are the 1st level of establishing sound movement technique, teach body awareness to the athletes, utilise large muscles, and are multi-joint. The basics provide the starting platform/foundation in someone's training journey to make continual progress in the gym, that will positively transfer across to their sport. As they make progress, as coaches we can challenge the athlete by progressing their training program with a more advanced exercise (still targeting that movement pattern). E.g. 1DB Goblet squat ....
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Too Much Sport for Teens and Not Enough Physical Development

We've been hearing from parents about the number of excessive hours teens are training and playing for their sport. Whilst we support them being active, there is a fine line that can be crossed where the sport itself becomes demotivating, monotonous, increase the likelihood of injury and decrease performance. The maximum hours teens should train and play varies on the individual but there are warning signs which include: Not eating as much as they normally do The enjoyment of training and playing is no longer the same They're getting injured frequently They become sick after a long period (months) of high volume training and competition Their sleep is inconsistent/of poor ....
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Improve your Teens Sporting Performance Through Strength Training Not More Training!

Playing only one sport can have its issues. It can become worse in the future when kids are solely committed to one sport. Lately, we've had discussions with parents and their sporty kids talking about what they need to improve on to help them make them become better athletes. Usually, it's the following: Faster Stronger Quicker Put on size When we ask the parents and kids, "Where in their weekly training schedule are you addressing (the area they want to improve)?" And the answer is, they're not! It's filled up with team-based, school-sport, or private coaching to develop the skills and tactics for ....
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Moving Beyond Basic Rehab

We've seen an increase in the number of new members that are 'broken' with lower back and hip issues from the repetitive nature of their work. They've told us the number of times (weeks to months) they've seen their regular physiotherapist with little to no positive change. At Inner Athlete we've worked in conjunction with some fabulous physios and seen great outcomes, however it begs the question for many others, is their Physio doing what is best practice for their patient? Are we treating them as a human to return back to normal function? We need to move beyond the generic Bosu ball and clamshells to begin the process of re-wiring the way they move and do it often! This is best done ....
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Treat Your Body As A Business

What you put in and expose your body will dictate what you get in return. At Inner Athlete we teach our members to understand this idea of 'treat your body as a business' for longevity to continue to work in their chosen field. Your body and health allows you to make money (and add value to society). If you eat crap, have poor sleep, abuse your body, and don't look after yourself on a daily basis, your business (your body) will begin to show weaknesses. And, eventually breakdown later down the track. This means you'll have to spend heaps more money to ‘get fixed’ ie doctors, medication, therapy. Get stuck on the sidelines (unable to perform work tasks), and you'll be ....
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Stay on Course

The Social Dilemma is one of the most spoken about doco's to hit Netflix. If you're currently on social media, you should definitely watch it. Some interesting insights that came out of it: This technology can be used as a tool for growth and connection or a weapon of misinformation and radicalization. The documentary goes deep into how the tool/weapon has been used and how we have become the commodity for companies. Social Media is designed to keep us on there for as long as possible. Have you ever felt you were on a link for 5 minutes and realized it was 30 minutes? That's the power of it. Social Media can understand how we consume content and make suggestions. It's all been ....
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Is Running the Best Way to ‘Get Fit’?

Unfortunately, society has wrongly advised the population trying to lose weight to just run, or individuals trying to get fitter for their sports to just run every day. However, Running is not the best way to get fit, but it can be effective when you know how to run well. Alternatively an easy way to improve fitness without the ongoing strain that running can produce is to adopt Strength training into your exercise regime. Regular and frequent strength training develops and improves your body’s ability to control and perform movements more effectively and efficiently. And you get all the health and fitness related benefits as a result of Strength Training. Strength training can ....
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Taking Small Steps Towards Huge Weight Loss

Test, Measure and Progress

The Major Benefits of Strength Training for Young Athletes

Mastering the Basics of Strength Training for Youth Athletes

Too Much Sport for Teens and Not Enough Physical Development

Improve your Teens Sporting Performance Through Strength Training Not More Training!

Moving Beyond Basic Rehab

Treat Your Body As A Business

Stay on Course

Is Running the Best Way to ‘Get Fit’?

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