Movefit Labs

09/08/2024

Shape diamonds, don’t dig for them.

07/08/2024

“Process lies not in enhancing what is, but advancing toward what will be” best of luck to all Canadian prospects.

01/28/2024

If you ever wonder what exactly it is that I do and what Movefit Lab is about. Wonder no longer ☝🏼

01/28/2024

M + Pulse + Signature = Movefit

08/14/2022

01/11/2022

ACL injuries are quite unpredictable, joint angles of the lower extremities as well as trunk stability has long been solidified as important key points to biomechanical control needs. However, just because A=B=C doesn’t mean A=C, meaning that although lower knee flexion angles and dynamic valgus collapse is seen in most ACL injury cases, that doesn’t mean that every time an athlete enters that position is a terrible thing. If there is anything we can learn from research, it’s that cognitive function and fatigue has a lot to do with ACL injury potential.

Video analysis done by Walden et al., 2015 showed an interesting result where by 30 of 39 ACL injuries all occurred during defensive positions in football. This shows that when an athlete is placed in a position that requires higher neurological function, aka decision making necessities, the chances of injuring the ACL increases.

Practically speaking, there may be a necessity of stimulating increased awareness during fatigued and neurally loaded state, and that a controlled setting such as that during training may be a good way to help with that.

This video is an example of how to neurally load the brain with various cues (visual and audio) while getting an athlete to focus on landing technique.

08/28/2021

I don’t usually share conversations, but I’m hoping this post can shed some light for those who have come across similar questions. Like every coach and practitioner, I don’t have answers to everything, and some answers are certainly just my opinion on a very complex topic. That being said, one of the most important thing I’d like to unpack in this post is the following:
One of the biggest responsibility of a coach/practitioner is to educate proper mindset and attitude towards life. Health and fitness education goes hand in hand with how an athlete/client faces adversities. The only person who will always be there is the athlete/client himself/herself when things go south, they have no one else to rely on other than their own mind. Having leadership qualities is taking ownership of failures no matter what the cause is, in doing so, athletes/clients will be able to make necessary changes and move forward. Instill resilience, not vulnerability.

08/20/2021

There’s no question that investing in yourself can lead to growth in knowledge and skillset. The only thing you need to ask yourself is, what aspects of yourself should you be investing in?

08/15/2021

The purpose of strength training is to help provide athletes and clients with the tools to enhance his/her training intensity, type, and/or goals to help mitigate potential injuries under a functional setting. The word “Functional” is relative and has to be individualized to the persons’ sport AND life style.
Eccentric contraction methods has particularly gained a lot more attention over the past decade in the strength and conditioning research world, and has shown to be a novel stimuli for neuromuscular adaptation. It has been shown to provide neurological as well as morphological adaptation. These peripheral and central advantages help mitigate injuries and enhance performance.
Ensuring athletes get them in is a crucial step, but exercise inclusion has to be planned out well as poor implementation of intensity or volume of eccentric loads can easily discourage clients, or worse, cause exercise induced muscle damage.
Point is: program eccentric exercises in a safe way to maximize adherence.
The eccentric exercise shown in the video is an example of an overload stimulus to the proximal hamstring, and should only be done under supervision.

08/10/2021

Behind the exercises, the programming, and the evidence informed information comes the art of communicating and connecting with an individual.
For coaches:
Focus more on motivating clients/athletes to show up, and coaching the movement. Focus less on creating the perfect program and finding the perfect exercise.
For athletes:
Putting in work on a consistent basis is by far the most important thing you can do. Putting in work means getting your training done, sleeping well, eating at the right time, and getting your mind healthy.
Focus on the small gains, the daily increases, and the daily decreases.
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