The athlete off-season: Why is it so important?
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Overcoming anxiety and exercising
Overcoming anxiety that happens before you exercise: Our mission is “to transform self-belief and physical capacity with unrivalled care” and part of this is helping people start and keep going!! These are some tips if you experience anxiety before doing exercise: **Baby Steps**: Instead of diving headfirst into intense workouts, start small. A 10-minute walk
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Embrace the Power of Exercise!
I know many of you who follow our page might be aware of these facts but I encourage you to all share this to one person who you think needs to hear these important facts! Something that should be an essential part of our daily routines – EXERCISE! Did you know that regular physical activity
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Back Pain when squatting or bending?
If you had to pick a motion that many people will say relation to back pain it is squatting or bending. When we stand up in good posture, we find a position that can be said to be “neutral spine” and that is the posture that we try to have people maintain in most patterns
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Back Pain Explained
Can your low back pain be explained? Pain is a signal in the body. The video that I have included below is a great explanation of what pain is and how it works. So, to a person in pain, who has no idea of anatomy, physiology, or biomechanics it seems really complicated, right? Well, even
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How do I grow muscle? Hypertrophy with some “rules” applied.
So, you want to grow muscle, get bigger, stronger, or get jacked, whatever you want to call it! Here, at Vector Health & Performance in Rockhampton and Yeppoon, we wanted to break down a few myths! In terms of sharing some context: Here are two athletes that I coach. There is a significant age difference
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Caribeae Portal
Caribeae Portal How do we work into your child’s athlete development Daily Stretches Lock Clam – 2x 25 each side This exercise will help swimmers to get better hip extension, required for kicking (especially in strokes like Breaststroke and Butterfly). Lay on your side and roll forward until you are almost facing the floor. Straighten
Love your Body
Love your Body is a project started by Krishelle Greentree and 4 of her university friends studying Digital Marketing at CQUniversity. It was started as a university project, however from the chat we have had yesterday hopefully will work into a lot more than a 2 week brainstorming exercise. I think what is being created
Neurological Conditions – What can exercise do?
Vector Health Did you know that 43% of Australians, around 10million people are currently living with a neurological condition or injury? This could be spinal cord, brain injury, Parkinsons’, Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Pain or a number of other conditions or injuries that affect the neurological system. A number of us at Vector Health have a
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Is there a best time to exercise?
Time would be one of the biggest universal barriers to consistent and regular participation in exercise based on my experience and reading a lot of studies that talk about barriers to exercise adherence, which is a fancy term for doing exercise regularly! Firstly, is there a best time to exercise? Well, it depends. Here is
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What are the best 3 exercises if I am over 50?
50, fit and fabulous. Does this exist? Well, like my mentor in Psychology used to say, “it depends.” It depends on what your view on fit and fabulous is of course! Fitness for an over 50’s age group is about more than how much can you bench press or how fast can you run 5km.
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New Graduate Physiotherapy Opportunities 2022
Go to Seek Job Ad Site to find out how to apply for new graduate physiotherapy opportunities in 2022 with Vector Health & Performance! IF YOU ARE FINISHING PHYSIOTHERAPY IN 2021, WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN 2022? So, choosing your first job, what are some important factors to ask? The first 5 years of your
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