We have published so many articles and videos over the past 5 years I even find it hard to keep up with what we have. Many times these articles have become great resources for ourselves to refer to when coming across difficult situations or simply to find ideas on better ways to train. But due to the amount of articles I find I get lost in what we are looking for. So we decided to create an index page that is broken up into sections from head to toe of the human body so you can easily navigate your way to the article you are looking for. We have provided links to each of the articles so you can instantly go the page you want. If you have any suggestions for articles you would like us to cover please get in touch with us by sending an email to us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
The Brain & The Nervous System
It makes perfect sense to start here for the brain is the BOSS! This is who dictates pretty much everything we do. I have included articles from exercise and the brain but also things like stress and other mind related articles here.
- Functional Movement Is Everything And This Is Why
- How To Become Stronger When You Challenge Your Brain
- Why Movement Is More Important Than Muscle
- How To Use Functional Movement Training To Improve Your Life
- Strength Training For Multiple Sclerosis
- 6 Ways To Improve Your Ability To Walk
- How To Overcome Stress & Increase Your Health & Fitness Results
- How To Get Rid Of A Skin Disorder Without Medication
- Goal Setting, Motivation & Willpower
- Adrenal Fatigue
- How To Improve Your Sleep
- Why Good Pain Is Needed To Eliminate Bad Pain
- How To Stay On Track With Your Health When Life Throws A Curveball
- Rating the 20 Best Exercises of All Time
- Do we rely on Surgery too much for treatment of chronic pain?
- The Best Body-weight exercises for strength and fitness
- How long does it take to achieve great fitness results?
- Why You Can NEVER Sacrifice Exercise Technique
- Why it is better to focus on the PROCESS instead of the goal
- Beginners Guide To Mastering Meditation
- The Importance Of Strength Training For Women Info-graphic
- Do you need an exercise for every muscle to get stronger?
- Our Best Tips To Stay Healthy When You Work From Home
- 5 Steps To Restoring Your Strength After COVID-19 Lock-down
- Why you cannot blame a single muscle for a movement problem
- 7 Ways to avoid Burnout when Working from Home
- Why Gyms & Personal Trainers Are More Important Than Ever
- Aim For Consistency and Not Perfection With Health & Fitness Goals
- Why I Prefer Books Over Videos For Help With Injury & Rehabilitation
- 7 Health & Fitness Facts Every WOMAN Should Know
- Top 10 Health & Fitness Myths Debunked
- 6 tips for staying in shape in your twenties
- Can you build muscle size using Functional Training methods?
- Important facts about health and fitness you should know
- How to use Reactive Neuromuscular Training to improve joint stability
- The critical change you need to make to your program when things go wrong
- What makes these 12 strength training exercises great?
- 4 Reasons to use Supersets in your training
- How long should a strength workout last?
- Do you need to train your muscles to failure to make them stronger?
- How to use isometric and eccentric strength training methods to improve joint stability
- Joint inflammation and chronic pain - what you should focus on instead of pain relief
- 6 signs of a good strength training workout
- How often should you change your strength workout?
- Secrets to staying in great shape when you are over 40
- How to improve strength and function of your hand and fingers if you have arthritis
- How I use the joint by joint approach to find the source of injury and pain
- Amazing multi-joint exercises to improve movement efficiency
- How to design an effective strength training program using advanced multi-joint exercises
- Ranking my top 10 gym equipment tools
The Neck & Shoulder
I show pictures above of neck and shoulder pain as this would be by far the most common things I see people for relating to this part of the body. Injury and pain here can easily become chronic and take a long time to get rid of.
- How To Get Rid Of A Stiff and Sore Neck
- Releasing Upper Trapezius Stiffness is Found In Strengthening not Stretching
- 3 Key Factors Needed To Heal An Injured Shoulder
- Top 5 Stability Exercises For Correcting A Winged Scapula
- Best Exercises For Strengthening The Rotator Cuff
- Why Lack Of Thoracic Mobility Is The Hidden Cause Of Pain
- Why Serratus Anterior Is So Important To The Shoulder
- 10 Ways To Strengthen Serratus Anterior
- How To Correctly Execute Pulling Exercises
- Why Push Ups Are The Best Exercise
- Are Chin Ups Are Great For Your Core
- Top 7 Pushing Exercises For Upper Body Strength & Power
- Top 7 Pulling Exercises For A Strong Back
- Case Study For Shoulder and Neck Pain
- Why I Love The Serratus Anterior Wall Slides Drill
- Improve your Posture with these Strength Workouts
- Mental Health and Exercise
- Strength Training changes more than just your Muscles
- What causes Kyphosis and the dreaded dowagers hump?
- Best exercises to correct Kyphosis
- Getting Rid of Elbow Pain is all about Scapula Stability
- What causes TMJ Disorder and Jaw Pain?
- Why you should stop stretching your neck
- 13 Exercises to Strengthen Your Neck & Eliminate Tension
- 10 Best Exercises To Improve Thoracic Mobility
- 10 ways to use the push-up to challenge core stability and strength
- Why you should avoid cortisone injections for shoulder injuries
- How to fix a forward head posture with a combination of strength and mobility exercises
- How to get rid of your man boobs and get your physique back
- Why it is important to strengthen Lower Trapezius
- How effective is the dead-hang exercise for spinal decompression and shoulder stability?
- Is the bench press an over-rated strength training exercise?
- How good are external rotation exercises for the rotator cuff?
Heart & Lungs
These articles take a close look at our internal organs and how we can look after them with the right approach and choice of exercise. There is a lot of confusion surrounding what exercise is good for your health and many make big mistakes by overusing cardio exercise. These articles explain how the body is a complex systems of systems and that you must look at the whole picture and use strategies to build and repair instead of going to battle with your body.
- Do You Know How To Breathe Correctly When You Exercise?
- How To Get Your Life Back After Suffering A Stroke
- Type 2 Diabetes - Prevention Is Much Better Than A Cure
- Why Interval Training Is The Secret To Great Fitness
- How To Choose The Right Exercise For Heart Health
- Understanding Cholesterol & Why We Need It To Be Healthy
- Is Endurance Training Ruining Your Health?
- Cardio Or Weights. Which Is Better For Your Health?
- How fast we lose muscle from inactivity and the serious consequence it has to our health
- How to BOOST your IMMUNE System to fight off virus and infection
- 8 Ways to boost your immune system info-graphic
- 5 Ways to improve your lung capacity info-graphic
- How to improve your lung capacity with exercise and high fibre food
- Vitamin D Is Critical To The Health Of Your Immune System & This Is Why
- How Covid-19 Lock-downs Have Ruined Our Immune System & Overall Health
- 6 Steps to Improving Your Heart Health Infographic
- Why Cancer Prevention Using Exercise Is More Important Than Ever
- Best Fitness Tests to Measure VO2 Max & Heart Health
- What Causes Metabolic Syndrome?
- Stop measuring your health by what the scales say
- Can you improve cardiovascular fitness lifting weights?
- To build a strong and healthy body you need a solid foundation
- Will We See A Rapid Rise In Auto-immune Problems As A Result Of Lockdowns?
- Is Obesity The Real Pandemic We Should Be Afraid Of?
- A healthy gut equals a healthy body
- What point should you focus on cardio exercise to get fit?
The Lower Back & The Core
This area has been a massive focus of many of our articles simply due to the amount of injuries we see for lower back pain. In recent years the evolution of core strength training and core stability has been increasing rapidly yet the understanding of what this really means, and how to do it correctly is not understood by many people.
- Are Core Workouts Over Rated For Preventing Injury?
- To Strengthen the Obliques you Must Understand Their Purpose
- Core Strength Using The Myofascial Slings
- The Best Core Strength Tip You Will Ever Get
- Stability Training What Is It Really & How To Do It Right
- Bulging Disc Exercises For Effective Long Term Treatment
- Bulging Disc Treatment All Starts With How You Move
- How To Know If You Have Sciatica Or Piriformis Syndrome
- Lower Back Pain Exercises & Why It Is Important To Loosen Tight Muscles First
- What Type Of Back Pain Do You Have?
- How To Identify The Cause Of Back Pain
- Nutrition Links To Back Pain
- Infant Development Exercises To Train Your Core
- Why Having A Strong Core Is Not Enough To Prevent Back Pain
- Is Twisting & Rotational Training Bad For Your Back?
- Why The Turkish Get Up Is The Ultimate Core Exercise
- Deadlift Tips To Prevent Lower Back Pain
- Big Lessons About Back Pain I Learned From Dr Stuart McGill
- How To Find The Best Deadlift Version For Your Body
- How Much Compression On Your Spine Does Sitting Cause?
- How Kneeling exercises improve Hip and Core Strength
- Back Pain Myths Busted
- My Favourite Workout to Improve Functional Strength & Stability
- Use these Advanced Resistance Band Exercises in your Home Workout
- Why the body chooses stiffness over stability
- Why walking is so good for back pain
- Balance & Unstable Surface Training - Useful Tool or Dangerous Gimmick?
- Exercises to correct Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction & Lower Back Pain
- Is Horsestance the best exercise for back pain?
- Why 90% of People Fail The Lower Abdominal Test
- 5 Ways to improve Core Strength & Rotational Power with the Woodchop
- 7 Anterior Core Exercises That Are Better Than The Plank
- Core Strengthening Exercises EMG Analysis - What's Better Integrated or Isolated?
- Can You Have Too Much Abdominal Strength?
- 6 Vital Exercises you need to be pain free from a bulging disc injury
- 5 Daily habits that could be ruining your Spinal health
- Do you know how to brace your core?
- What version of the side plank is best for improving core stability?
- Why it is important to learn the deadlift before the squat
- Valuable lessons the Gokhale Method taught me about back pain
- Are workplace manual handling instructions creating back pain instead of preventing them?
- How to use the Pallof press to strengthen your core
- Stop training your spine to be more flexible
- Why QL back pain is caused by weak glutes
- How to use the weight shifting method to improve core strength and functional movement
Hips & Glutes
Without a doubt stiff hips in combination with weak glutes are a huge problem in today's modern society of sitting and sedentary work. The amount of injuries caused by these two factors is incredible so having a good understanding of how to prevent this is essential.
- Are Tight Hips The Cause Of Your Back or Knee Pain?
- Why the Toe Touch Drill is my favourite stability exercise
- Best Exercises For Improving Hip & Pelvic Stability
- Move More & Sit Less
- Lunges Are Essential To Your Fitness Success & This Is Why
- How To Strengthen Your Glutes
- Piriformis Syndrome & How To Get Rid Of This Pain In The Butt
- 4 Best Exercises For Piriformis Syndrome
- Case Study For Hip Pain
- How Constant Ab and Butt Gripping Ruins Stability
- Understanding Anterior Pelvic Tilt & the Value to Hip Stability
- Top 10 Hip Mobility Exercises to Improve Functional Movement
- How to Correct Lateral Pelvic Tilt & Leg-Length Discrepancy
- What Causes Piriformis Syndrome?
- Why the ROMANIAN DEADLIFT is the key for treating hip and back injury
- How Useful Is The Clamshell Exercise For The Glutes?
- Analysing the pros and cons of 15 best glute strengthening exercises
- Why you should use the hip thrust to strengthen your glutes
- 10 ways to use the walking lunge to accelerate leg strength gains & fitness
- Why I love using the uneven deadlift and band distraction deadlift for lateral pelvic tilt
- Stop blaming PSOAS major for hip and back pain
- Why quadratus lumborum back pain is caused by weak glutes
The Knee, VMO, ACL & Hamstrings
Once again stacks of information relating to this area of the body as we have seen so many people suffer with all types of knee injuries.
- Weak VMO & Knee Pain: How To Improve Strength In 5 Simple Steps
- Why The Knee Is Not The Problem With Knee Pain
- Exercise Solutions for ITB Friction Syndrome
- Squats Versus Leg Press Which Is Better?
- Top 5 VMO Exercises For Improving Patella Stability
- Why The Single Leg Squat Is The Best Exercise For Knee Pain
- How To Use The Single Leg Squat To Pinpoint Weakness
- 7 Best Squats For Bulletproof Knees
- Should Your Knees Go Over Your Toes When You Squat?
- How To Use The Decline Squat For Knee Pain
- Do Knee Sleeves Prevent Further Injury?
- What To Do If You Tear Your ACL
- 5 Critical Things You Need Before Returning To Sport Following ACL Surgery
- ACL Injuries In Females & Why They Are Higher In Risk
- Why Kids Must Learn Change Of Direction Skills If They Play Sports
- Why Hamstrings Are Mistakenly Blamed For Injury & Pain
- What you need to know about Osteoarthritis Hip Impingement and Surgery
- Best exercises for severe knee pain
- Knee Pain Assessment
- Why Tight Quadriceps Exacerbate Knee Pain & the Solution is Not Stretching
- How to Isolate the VMO within an Integrated Movement
- Improve Knee Stability & Patella Tracking With These 2 Band Exercises
- How good is walking backwards for knee pain?
Ankle & Feet
Lastly we take a look at the role of the feet and ankles with how the provide movement. This is something that is often neglected when assessing movement and injury in joints above. But make no mistake this is definitely a big factor, and in many cases where the original problems began!
- Exercise Solutions For Weak Feet
- The Importance Of Big Toe Mobility
- The Best Exercises For Plantar Fasciitis
- Improve Foot Stability Using The Sensa Mat
- Why Poor Ankle Mobility Can Cause A Chain Reaction Of Injuries
- 6 Ways To Improve Your Ability To Walk
- Farmers Walk Exercises To Improve Gait & Functional Strength
- How to prevent and treat Achilles tendon injuries
- How weak feet create weak glutes
Sports & Specialised Occupations
- Fitness Training Secrets for the Police & Fire Department
- 8 Must Have Abilities For Sporting Athletes
- How To Choose The Right Exercises For Your Sports Specific Program
- Strength Training For Sports Is All About Learning To Brake
- Strength Training For Basketball To Improve Performance
- Strength Training For AFL Football
- Strength Training For Tennis
- Strength Training For Cycling
- Strength Training For Running
- Strength Training For Golf
- Avoid Over Training & Maximize Your Program
- How Important Is The Order Of Your Exercises In A Workout
- Everything you need to know about Maximal Strength Training
- Why Everyone Should Include POWER TRAINING in their workout
- Four Unique Ways to Use Circuit Workouts For Increased Strength & Fitness
- Best Exercises and Workouts for Combat Sports
- 4 Things Football Players Should Not Neglect During The Covid-19 Pandemic
- Running Fitness Secrets For AFL Football Players
- 25 Best Agility Drills To Enhance Braking Skills and Change Of Direction
- Agility Training Is Vital To People Of All Ages and This Is Why
- Can you improve fitness without losing strength gains?
- Running Workouts To Improve Speed & Acceleration For Sports
- 7 reasons you should be using Battling Ropes workouts
Nutrition
- Before you try Intermittent Fasting make sure you read this first
- Top 10 Keto friendly foods and recipes
- How to use the Ketogenic Diet to improve your health
- 7 Simple Meal Planning Tips to improve your health during the Coronavirus
- How to eat healthy foods that taste great on a tight budget
- Everything You Need To Know About Protein
- 7 Benefits to eating avocados for your health
- Top 8 Foods to Included in your Diet if you want to Lose Weight
- Try this Amazing Slow Cooked Beef Recipe
- 5 Surprising Health Benefits of Garlic
- The Truth About the Health Benefits of Eggs
- You Cannot Use Fitness Methods To Solve Health Problems
- Why You Cannot Out-Exercise A Bad Diet
- Do You Eat Enough Green Vegetables?
- Why We Need Saturated Fat
- Sugar Is The Killer Of Your Health Plan
- How To Prevent Food Cravings
- The Truth About Counting Calories
- How To Overcome Hormonal Imbalance & Thyroid Dysfunction
- Why People Struggle To Lose Weight Even When They Exercise
- Do You Need Supplements To Be Healthy?
- Best Foods To Speed Up Recovery From Training
- Simple Nutrition Tips For Looking & Feeling Great
- Are You Ruining Your Health by Eating Too Fast?
- Healthy Soup Recipe For A Cold Winters Day
- 8 Reasons You Should be Eating Salmon
- How to Freeze fresh Vegetables
- Intermittent Fasting Info-graphic
- 7 Health Benefits of Cauliflower
- 8 Ways Salmon Improves Your Health
- Blueberries are a superfood and this is why
- Why Butter Is Good for your Health & Even Prevents Disease
- How good are nuts to your health?
- Keto Diet Infographic
- Duck Ragu Recipe
- High Fibre Foods That Are Low In Carbs
- Is Magnesium The Missing Ingredient To Great Health?
- 6 Amazing Benefits Of Bone Broth
- What is more important to your health? Exercise or nutrition?
- Is fasting before exercise good for your health?
- How much protein do you need for good health?
Older Adults Exercise & Health
- Why Strength Training Is The Best Anti Aging Exercise
- Why Balance Training Is Critical For Good Health
- What is The Best Exercise For Seniors
- How To Reduce Arthritis & Improve Bone Density In Older Adults
- Preventing Falls Using Agility & Reflex Stability
- How Our Health Priorities Change As We Age
- Best Leg Strengthening Exercises for Seniors
- Nutritional requirements for Seniors
- 2 Simple Gait Assessments To Identify Risk of Falls
- Using Exercise To Improve Brain Health and Prevent Dementia
- Everything you need to know about bone density and preventing osteoporosis
Stretching, Flexibility & Mobility
- Mobility & Flexibility - Which Comes First & Why
- Use These Mobility Warm Ups Before Your Workout
- When Is It The Best Time To Stretch?
- Stretching How To Improve Your Flexibility Fast
- Hypermobility & Why Stretching Can Be A Disaster
- How to identify mobility restrictions that affect how you move
- How a simple daily morning mobility workout can be a game changer to your health
- 8 Exercises to improve mobility and stability at the same time