The niggling lower back twinge or pain is often difficult for many health professionals to not only diagnose, but to also recommend an exercise regime that will help alleviate the pain and get to the root cause of the issue.
The phrase, ‘you are what you eat,’ is often repeated, usually in a negative way, to explain why someone is carrying extra weight. But, just as we can have a negative impact on our health with what we eat, we can also help by eating the right things; even with chronic conditions like osteoarthritis.
Introduction Fundamental Fitness Training’s aim is to develop your overall fitness, it can be described as; “The general preparatory phase is usually placed in the earlier part of the preparatory phase and is structured to emphasise the development of a general physical training base”. It’s the training I use with beginners after they have completed the movement training phase. Much of training today is performed with intensity and this is where posture begins to fail, injury risk is increased and fitness is diminished. However during Fundamental…
Introduction Movement Training is the first stage of the Christopher Hole Training Method, it’s the foundation to exercise for the person involved. It’s primary aim is re-educate movement, using the fundamental movement patterns and core skills. “Are you the guy that helps people move better and feel better or are you the guy that just adds strength to dysfunction” Mike Boyle Tudor Bompa describes a similar principle “ During the general-multilateral phase, strength training is performed in such a way…
Introduction The Christopher Hole Training Method is conceptual framework of coaching movement and exercise. It’s a body of research that has been organised into a curriculum to give me greater clarity and application as coach. Like the national curriculum we use in schools it “provides pupils with an introduction to the essential knowledge” of movement and then exercise. It also “provides an outline of core knowledge” necessary to understand injury, movement & fitness. It’s broken into 3 stages Movement Training; where the…