When it comes to injury prevention, there is no silver bullet or majical approach that guarantees complete safety. Like all things in life, there are risks. However, there are certain foundation exercise we alsways prescribe to reduce potential for risk.

Shoulder pain can be debilitating and if not managed early, put the brakes on your fitness journey. Working around shoulder pain can be very tricky and costly if approached the wrong way or ignored.

As a member of the Core Principles team, I advance the health outcomes and exercise performance of every individual client I train. I assist each and every client improve their quality of life while achieving their clearly defined health and fitness goals. I create strong personal relationships to enable me to best identify and prescribe exercises that best motivate and inspire my clients to achieve their fitness outcomes.

The benefits of exercising are well documented and firmly based in evidence. It can change your quality and outlook on life. However, rest days are just as important as exercise days. Some people believe having a rest day is going to ruin your gains and the more sessions you do, the better it’ll be. This is an outdated thinking pattern.

Core Principles has a high success rate when it comes to members achieving their agreed health and fitness objectives. Ocassionally, we work with individuals who exceed all expectations and go on to achieve extraordinary results. Meet Callum.

Achieving self-acceptance takes great skill, care, an open mind and an ability to forgive and manage expectations. It can be fleeting and hard won but as you get better at achieving self- acceptance, you achieve real power.

We’ve been here before and we’ve navigated our way through. We’re not giving up until this thing's wracked off!

So, what’s the plan?

Our trainers always get asked the following question from both avid runners and cyclist, as well as weekend warriors! “Will strength training assist my running and/or cycling performance?”

The simple answer is...YES!

I hope you’ve had a restful break and have come into the new year feeling refreshed and reenergised.  Given the extraordinary challenges of 2020, it would seem the whole world needed time to recenter, regroup and relax. Hopefully you had the opportunity to do this over the December/January break and are now ready with a fresh outlook for 2021.