One of the misconceptions in the sports world is that to become great, all you need to do is devote endless hours of playing your chosen sport. While it is true you need to put in lots of practice and dedication to learning the skills needed to excel at your sport, just playing the sport and not working on the finer principles of movement will not make you great! All of the greatest athletes from every sport, even golf (Tiger Woods) attribute their conditioning as a key part of their success. If you just want an average level of performance, and be good at completing a few limited skills, then just playing your sport will achieve that. However, if you want to achieve your true potential as an athlete and become great, then you need to design and implement a  "specific to you" and your sport conditioning program. This requires more than strength and in some cases you may not need to be that strong! In this article I will explain the 8 key abilities you need to consider and help you understand what sports conditioning really means.  

There is no doubting back pain is a big problem in the modern world. Our sedentary lifestyle, combined with our allopathic approach of merely treating symptoms, has led this injury to reach a point where 9 out of 10 adults now experience back pain at some point in their life. Only colds and flu beat low back problems for Doctor visits. It is not limited to people who don’t exercise and can cut down even the fittest people. The good news is I believe many people recognise that exercise is invaluable for treating back pain and also preventing it. Unfortunately the understanding of what type of exercise is best is where it all goes wrong. For many years now we have been convinced to believe that strong abs means a strong core, and will prevent back pain. Even therapists and Doctors have been known to prescribe planks and abdominal exercises to treat back pain with this same type of thinking. We must realise that strength of the abdominal muscles WILL NOT change the faulty movement that leads to injury and pain. Your body will instantly sacrifice any strength if it only knows how to move with the same dysfunctional movement it has always used. You must identify and change the faulty movement patterns linked to the injury to have any chance. In this article we will explain why learning to move better is more important to you than strength of your abdominal muscles if you have back pain.

Our business is dedicated to helping women and men achieve their health and fitness goals through customized nutrition and fitness programs. We have a highly skilled and qualified team of trainers who are educated across many platforms of rehabilitation, nutrition, life coaching and sports performance and we are always looking to expand our team as we continue to grow and develop our exciting programs. We closely follow the CHEK principles of health and have earned a strong reputation in the Mitcham area as the best training facility for injury management and prevention, and more recently sports performance. Our advanced programming allows us to train everyone from professional athletes to complicated rehabilitation conditions however it is quite complex to learn as a trainer and be able to begin training our clients using these principles. We currently have 2 Exercise Physiologists, a qualified Chef, massage therapist and even a VFL Football player in our team (see our team), and we are expanding our Sports Specific Program so quickly we cannot keep up with the amount of work.