In this issue

• Big Plans and Action
• Functional Muscle Conditioning
• Volunteers required for photoshoot
• Gymstick Workouts available on YouTube!
• Exercise of the month – Drape ‘n’ Pike

DID YOU KNOW??

Lack of sleep and hunger are the two most common causes of anger and mood swings.

Gymstick Tip

The bands come off your Gymstick original and can be used on their own!

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Monash Aquatic Centre, Glen Waverly VIC is looking for aqua instructors to join their team. Please contact Carol Syer for more info
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Big Plans and Action

A very wise person once said to me “Great ideas are never great until they are a reality.”

Ever since then, I have been mindful of using those words ‘great idea’ as that little piece of advice has stuck itself firmly inside my head. Noone really knows about your ‘idea’ until it becomes a reality and then you can truly say it was a great idea. Often I hear people quickly jump in and say ‘you better do something soon otherwise someone else might do it first’ (this is in reference to your ‘great’ idea) and then that little piece of advice jumps back into my head and I can’t help but reflect how many ‘great’ ideas that I have heard in my life that have never been actioned.

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Functional Muscle Conditioning

‘Functional’ and ‘functionality’ have become popular buzzwords in the fitness industry over the past 10 years. While isolation exercises are still prevalent, compound and multi-planer movements have demonstrated effectiveness with enhancing everyday movements that would otherwise cause injury to an ill-prepared body.
Our increasingly sedentary lifestyles mean that our genetically engineered highly mobile bodies are immobile for several hours a day and thus we develop not only postural weaknesses, but also strength deficiencies for activities like gardening, household duties, and recreational pursuits such as bush walking, playing sport and family activities.

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Volunteers required for photoshoot

Gymstick International is ready to create new marketing materials and we need your help!

If you are available Thursday 13th Feb between 12pm and 3pm and can make it to Recreation Burwood East VIC, please confirm by emailing [email protected]

We need you to be ready for 12pm start on 13th Feb at Recreation Burwood East for approximately 3 hours –  this will include photos and videos for Gymstick Muscle and some PT/small group training in other spaces in the gym

The participants need to wear fitted clothing in block colours and to avoid loose T shirts and patterns

Any question please email [email protected]

Gymstick Workouts available on YouTube!

It’s now even easier to make use of your Gymstick at home, with these online workouts!

Click the links below to head to YouTube for a Gymstick Original workout!

Gymstick Original Workout 1

Gymstick Original Workout 2

Gymstick Original Workout 3

Gymstick Original Stretching

Exercise of the month – Drape ‘n’ Pike

• Position: Prone over ball, hips and torso draped over ball, hands resting gently on step, feet lifted off the floor
• Action: Extend torso and legs upwards off ball without using the hands on the step
• Modification: smaller range of extension
• Progression:
  – Level 2 : Pike ‘n’ snip –  move into pike position, hold and abduct/adduct legs
  – Level 3 : Pike ‘n’ curl – move into pike position, then add double leg curl
  – Level 4 : Pike ‘n’ pump – move into pike position, curl, spread legs and pump legs up toward ceiling
• Added benefits: shoulder / core / pelvic stabilisation, specific lower limb strengthening, trunk strengthening, balance, righting reactions, proprioception.

Testimonial of the month – Kellie Simmons

 
I just wanted to say a quick thank you for a fantastic, fun, inspirational and highly educational course last Sunday (Gymstick Muscle) at Derrimut.

I can absolutely see why so many people rave about what you do! You are a wealth of information and your passion is infectious. Having come from so much personal experience in rehab, I was absolutely rapt to meet someone else who has traveled that road and come out stronger and more determined. Your desire to re-educate the industry on safe, functional exercise is truly inspiring. It’s such a hard mindset to change in people who just want to flog themselves all the time but I have to say, you have found the perfect balance of working people’s butts off (literally) while keeping them safe. It’s not all about the tool, it’s also how you use it, deliver it and develop it. You passed invaluable insights and experience onto us and I feel really confident about getting out into the industry and passing your wisdom on.

Thanks heaps and I look forward to learning from you again real soon!

Cheers,
Kellie (mishfit Emerald)

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