How To Cure Your Knee Pain

Knee pain is the lower body crippler.

It is not usually the knee itself either but rather referred dysfunction from your hips and ankles.

At Full Circle Fitness we can assess these two joints during static and dynamic posture to pin point the exact problem area that is causing your pain, rather then simply treating the knee itself as so many others do, leaving the actual problem untreated.

Knee pain is a product of a faulty movement movement pattern, in this case, an anterior or quadricep dominant movement pattern, which in turn shifts your center of gravity forward of your base of support and thus, increases the stress at the knee joint.

After mobilising certain joints and then activating a new set of muscles you never knew you had, we can get your body into greater postural positioning to use a more hip dominant movement pattern, decreasing the stress on the knees and shifting some of the stress to the body's strongest area, the glutes and hips.

Lower Back Pain

An astonishing fact is that within their life, 80% of the population will suffer from some sort of lower back pain or dysfunction and unfortunately that probably includes you.

At Full Circle Fitness we not only understand your limitations and apprehension in regards to exercise, but we want to help you and break down these barriers.

We want to find the problem and treat the problem, not the symptoms.

Go to any health care professional and they will send you off to Pilate's, but core strength and endurance is only part of the problem.

Here's a list of things that can contribute to lower back:

• limited ankle mobility
• limited hip mobility
• quad dominant movement pattern
• poor core strength/endurance
• limited thoracic spine mobility
• your chosen sport
• your chosen field of work
• and your compensation patterns that come from the faulty movement patterns above

I don't know of any Pilate's studio's that cater to all these things, let alone personal trainers!

By using a joint by joint approach to assessing our clients, we can determine where your actual problem is coming from.

Even the Celebs Have to Work Hard

Here is an article I came across today on Gwyneth Paltrow.

She goes into some detail on how hard, or to be more specific how long, she trains to get in shape and maintain it.

Although the sub standard training methods used by her personal trainer Tracy Anderson are terrible at best, it still underlines the 3 attributes that you need to succeed in getting the body you crave.

Discipline.

Consistency.

Hard Work.

Without these, no training program or diet plan will do what you want it to, You'll struggle even more developing into a lifestyle too.

So if you're wondering why you aren't getting the results you deserve, then look at 3 factors and be really honest in your self assessment as to if you are really following them.

Anything short of 100% just will not do.

Gwyneth doesn't just go along for the ride and hope she doesn't lose her shape, she identifies it and then has a plan of action to get her back on track.

Do you?

Should Girls Train Like Men?

Which is the best way to train?

Option 1: Man Training - lots and lots of weights, some grunting, lots of sweating and probably some more grunting.

Option 2: Girl Training - lots of cross trainer, pilates, yoga and colorful outfits.

The answer is none of the above. Training modalities are not determined by gender.

Over at the FCF Facebook Page I posted a link that I came across on the internet on the weekend on Cameron Diaz's buffed body.

Is this the ideal body type for you? Maybe, maybe not but I think the most important thing is that she has actually dedicated herself to get in the type of shape that she wanted.

Those "guns" definitely were't built in a day and I have also read that she is very diligent with her high protein diet.

As dedicated as she is, and has been, I think that you'd have to agree with me that she doesn't look 'bulky", which is a female's number 1 fear of training with relatively heavy weights.

To simplify:

1 - The more muscle you have, the higher your metabolic rate.

2 - The higher your metabolic rate, the more calories you burn at rest.

3 - The more calories you burn overall the better you'll be at maintaining, or reaching your ideal body composition.

This would make the lots of weights portion of "man" training a good thing and is exactly what we preach at FCF.

With a focus on actually increasing strength through resistance training, you will build more muscle but be rest assured, you will not get bulky.

Females just don't have the hormones to do so.

A testament to our training is an ex-client one of ours who looked a lot better on her wedding day then she did in "the red dress", where she trained with us in between those 2 images..

Then:

Now (minus her now too many kids!):

Welcome!!

I think it's time we started with this so firstly we would like to welcome everybody to the Full Circle Fitness blog.

We are a personal training studio in South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia that provides 1 on 1 and semi private personal training as well as Corporate Group and On Line Personal Training.

Through this blog we hope to be able to connect with people from outside our bubble in the south east, inner city suburbs of Melbourne, and also to provide an abundance of useful information in regards to all things health and fitness.

With the quality of personal training in Australia decreasing with every 6 week course attendee been giving a pass mark and being let loose on an uninformed public, we hope to provide real answers and insight to helping you achieve your health and fitness goals.

If you have any questions then you can send them to us and we'll answer them right here on the blog!

We hope you find this site , become a follower and more importantly, an active contributor to this blog and yes, that is our 10 week old son Archie at the top of the page, deep in thought.

Be Strong. Be Active.

FCF Team