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Are you an office worker suffering from neck and shoulder pain?

The solution to neck and shoulder pain could lie within a better understanding of functional training

The damage you do to your body from a sedentary life – tight hip flexors, tight calves, weak glutes and lower abs, rounded shoulders, poor neck posture and a myriad of neck and shoulder pain issues can potentially all be corrected with functional training.

All over your body there are tiny little muscles that are a millimetre or less in diameter and only a centimetre or less  long and these are important stabilising muscles that often don’t get a look in when doing more conventional, (non functional training), forms of exercise.

Think of the body as like a tent- all the guy ropes have to be taut and exerting equal force in order for the structure to remain stable. This means your opposing, (agonist and antagonist), muscles all need to be in balance. By doing exercise that demands this, your body will develop in a way most appropriate to meet the demands.

Functional training will help correct imbalances in the skeletal muscle system thereby improving posture, balance and flexibility. It could also of course provide the answer to your neck and shoulder pain.

New Fit - Putting the Fun in Functional training workouts

Because nobody should be bored when training.....

Coming soon to Newtown Gym:  functional training workouts in a new dedicated functional training zone!

Building on our years of experience bringing energetic and exciting group fitness classes to you, New Fit takes group personal training to a whole new level.

What are functional training workouts we hear you ask?
Functional training is directly linked to functional movement: It’s really very straight forward and very sensible. Each of us employs different functional movement depending on our work lives or living circumstances. You would not train a bricklayer the same way you would train a mother of three small children. Each has functional movement that are specific to their day to day lives and their strength and conditioning must be tailored accordingly.

Why do  functional training workouts? Because they are FUN. Essentially you increase strength, aerobic conditioning, flexibility and develop balance skills all in a way that is fun, individually challenging and motivating. In short- you get to play when you do functional fitness workouts and the functional movement you use at work will improve at the same time!

New Fit is a form of personal training in small to mid-size groups – so as such it will be an extra cost to the standard memberships. Not entirely convinced? We will be offering FREE TRIALS soon. Stay tuned to facebook and email for updates.

New Fit launches within the next few weeks...Keep watching our blog for updates on the functional training workouts 

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When YOU  become the bad influence..

We hear it often when we are trying to make a change in our lives. That change could be lose weight, eat healthier, consume less alcohol or stress less. What we are often told is ‘change your circle of influence’.  Not everyone’s will is put to the test by their surroundings, but when we feel vulnerable it is those around us who can be a bad influence and in times of vulnerability we can crack too easily.... A house full of drinkers can sway the sober room mate, or a dieter can fall prey to the temptation of junk food if it is thoughtlessly left there in the fridge by the not-so-dieting siblings.

Let’s just assume for a moment though that you have been able to change your surroundings and/or the circle of influence.  They have either understood and have amended their ways, or you just simply moved out! Nothing can go wrong now can it, you can still lose weight surely?

Maybe not .... There is the still the biggest influence in your life left to deal with : YOU!  We assume it’s the temptations around us that are our downfall, but how many times have we ‘given in’ to that little voice in our head that simply said ‘go on, just do it – don’t think through the consequences, just DO IT!’  And the switch happens – before you can say ‘but....’ your finger is on the wine glass, hand in the crisp packet or spoon deep in the ice cream tub. The feeling of instant gratification will give way to guilt sooner rather than later, and although you know this you still do it.... There goes the attempt to lose weight ...

When the last worse influence in your life is you,  it’s not easy.  Professional help is always the best way forward.  But from my own limited experience of challenging myself I would offer the following advice : Firstly admit that you do have a problem, over which you are powerless. Now tell yourself “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.  So if you know that a glass of wine on a Friday night  leads to a full bottle every time, why have a glass in the first place?   

Self analysis can and does lead to change.  Understand yourself and the reasons why you do what you do.  Once you can identify your ‘bad self’ and the patterns of behaviour that leads  it to taking over, it becomes easier to control.

So change your external influences for sure, but take some time to understand the real bad influence in the room : You!

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Newtown Gym welcomes our newest Personal Trainer - Mark Avraham.

Mark has been exercising for the last 15 years and has a particular passion for strength & conditioning with a focus on good form and technique. Mark believes that less weight performed well can mean more results. It's better sometimes to lift with technique rather than ego!

His other philosophy in training is 'Less talky, More Lifty!

Contact him directly to discuss his services in full : 0406 496 460

Why you should care about Functional Training....

If you’re anything like me- when people have talked about functional training you will have smiled sagely and tried to look intelligent whilst secretly wondering what the hell they were talking about.

Functional training is directly linked to functional movement : It’s really very straight forward and very sensible. Functional training has its roots in rehabilitation. It was designed to enable people to return to their everyday tasks and lives, so this would vary from person to person. You would not train a bricklayer the same way you would train a mother of three small children. Each has functional movements that are specific to their day to day lives and their strength and conditioning must be tailored accordingly.

Functional training in the gym environment is designed to give people the capacity to walk distances without puffing, run for a bus, lift their shopping and develop balance skills

Many injuries and instabilities come from an unbalanced body and poor balance skills. In other words, you get clumsy and trip over. I can personally attest to this one- I fell over in a pair of high heels last year and broke my foot, (admittedly, I was admiring my reflection at the time). As it’s turned out one of my calf muscles is weaker than the other and this is what caused me to lose my balance. If I’d been doing some functional training this would have been apparent before I did the break and I could have addressed the issue.

Most importantly, functional fitness workouts are FUN. Essentially you increase strength, aerobic conditioning, flexibility and develop balance skills all in a way that is fun, individually challenging and motivating. In short- you get to play when you do functional fitness workouts.

Author: Felicity Neale

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