FUNCTIONAL TRAINING WOMENS BLOG
Women's Fitness Training and Gym in Brookvale, Northern Beaches.
PART 2: FOUR COMMON SQUAT MISTAKES 🏋️♀️🏋️♀️🏋️♀️
Squatting is a complex, compound movement and is really essential to any strength and fitness program...
Although we highly recommend getting a professional to help you develop your squat, here are 4 common squat mistakes we see and how to fix them!
The squat is an essential movement to not only any strength and fitness program but also for everyday functional movement....
If you watch any toddler, you'll see them perform a perfect squat technique to pick object off the ground and stand back up. Our bodies are made to be able to perform this movement...
Last week our amazing member Jully Andrade came up to me and said what's the point of weight training?
There are so many scientific benefits, but it led us to the following discussion...
Jully said :
Are you getting told you have overactive or tight upper traps in training?
Do you find you get tension headaches or that your upper traps are super tight during the day?
In this video, we teach you to:
Gymnastics movements can be hard!
Kipping is a really important moment used commonly in toe to bar and kipping pull-ups. But it's important to get the fundamentals right first!
🍑🍑🍑 It's time to create buns of steel! 🍑🍑🍑
Coach Elle and Coach Gee take you through a bunch of easy exercises you can do to activate your glutes!
Why? To make sure your glutes are working optimally in big compound movements like squats and deadlifts!
Do you get niggles and twinges in your knees when you train?
Are you super cautious in training because you're worried about your knees?
While it's always prudent to get a full diagnosis on why you have knee pain, we've put together a few exercises which will help strengthen the muscles that hold your knee in place and loosen the ones that might be pulling on the knee causing pain!
There aren't too many things in life which bug me, but the perpetual fear of women ‘getting too bulky’ if they lift weights is one them.
There are a few reasons for this; shall we have an in-depth look?
Gymnastics movements can be hard!
Especially as women, we rarely get the chance to build up our upper body strength...
But the good news is if you use your muscles they will get stronger even if you have very little upper body strength now! 💪💪💪
Ever feel like you're on the rowing machine and you can never quite get those meters to tick over faster? 🚣♀️🚣♀️🚣♀️
You see the person next to you gliding easily keeping a split of 2.00 or below and you're stuck up at 2.30???
