The Blaque Movement, 100 Maroochydore Road, Maroochydore (2026)

27/02/2021

Resourcefulness. Simple tools, repeated practice, the attainment of useful skills and capabilities.

There is something deeply valuable about doing the basics well. The amount of reps and sets is left up to feeling. There is a certain understanding you need to intuitively navigate your way through a training session. I dont care about filling cups or retaining too much data about the days exercise.

My ability to execute each day is all I look for. When I feel sore I dont repeat the activities that I am fatigued from. Some days its just feldenkrais, floor work, breath and meditation. There's no race. Just a future to prepare for.

Small steps. Lay bricks. What I do today will help me tomorrow.

Today's training:
-3 ball juggling whilst working on southpaw boxing footwork
-kettlebell windmills, holding the sand bag in the other hand
-assorted sledge hammer swings
-heavy pike work - i prefer the load in the heavy bar, lots of coiling and rotary work.
-rounds of wim hof as my cool down.

The grass is my friend. The green ants not so much. Barefoot, awake, compassionate, courageous and giving no f***s.
Soundtrack today: Eminem, Hilltop Hoods and Scribe. Old as s**t. Memories from the early 2000s.

Happy Saturday. Find out how you thrive.

17/04/2020

It's the little things that matter. Time lapse session of some basic maintenance work we do. There's a mish mash of star players in there; Feldenkrais, yoga, Pilates, different breathing techniques some ELDOA, and a little PRI breathing too. Prep work for greater global movements.

For most people, this is where we address almost all joint pain and discomfort from. Using these principles and the floor.

The floor is the most universally beneficial rehab tool. You have to relearn how you interact with it.

More know how, less toys and tricks. You got a wall and a floor? You got a gym!

It's not everything, but it's what every human I know needs to maintain healthy strong joints. Remember when we trained at gyms? They covered their floors in cumbersome equipment because they are focused on fitness (the industry of growing muscle and losing bodyfat) - this isn't health. The floor is what you need for health. Biceps are what you think you need for your ego. Tell yourself a better story.

If you want health start with these three things:

1. Learn how to breathe...This is much more than just breath work..you're already on the internet get to searching for info. Pranayama, ELDOA, PRI, the vagal nerve, start there.

2. Learn how to move your spine - ideally all your joints, but start with the spine. It looks like a snake in an x-ray, but keep it stiff and riigid while we lift and run right? Not really. That's fu**ed. If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... you bet that thing is meant to move, if it wasn't it would look more like your femur. Start with finding where neutral spine is, learn how to do cat/camels, do some spinal waves, learn how to move each vertibrae. Any areas that don't move are on their way to dysfunction. Dive in and work it out.

3. Train all the muscle groups that create and control IAP (intrabdominal pressure). You must learn how to use this brace as your preference to create bigger movements especially loaded ones. Kolar deadbugs or quadruped rockbacks are two of my favourites. Learn the hollow body position.

You need this stuff before moving and to execute movements at a high standard with low compensation. Enjoy 🥳

07/04/2020

Urgh. Reporting this because I just deleted it.

*insert inspiring diatribe about training at home

Did this challenge, going to try a whole outfit. And then do it with no wall.

Stay happy s*xy people! Enjoy this time to find ways around the new speed bumps the world has thrown at us.

where your handstand challenges at?

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27/03/2020

Time to make the pivot. Times have changed. It's time to move forward and adopt a new way. I'm not going to do face to face anymore.

Only online. Gotta uphold good practice in these times. Take the restrictions as ways of limiting you, or find ways to adapt to the shift. Much like everything, adapt or get left behind.

I did my first official session today, off my phone in the garage. Worked perfect, currently awaiting some IT upgrades, which will make this smoother.

Costs me less so I charged less. We spent more time together, and the client got to do it from their own space. Felt better than the social charade of the gym. I enjoyed it and the client gave me great feedback. Much success.

Classes are coming soon. Each day I will run a small segment of training to focus on what I think is important. I will use the floor, dowels, walls, and basic household items to show people how to keep their body feeling happy whilst they are confined.

I will show people how to self manage their bodies and learn more about how they can use physical training to increase their skills, capabilities and their understanding of their flesh vehicle. Teach them how to manage pain, improve mobility, address joint issues, get actually strong, to move well again, and to reconnect with some pretty important parts of life. Valuable tools for a long arduous journey. Who do you turn to when your body breaks? They aren't accessible for a while, what now? Why don't you know how to help yourself?

Seek teachers and coaches who can teach you how to train yourself. The future is looking like no gym for at least 6 months.

The only limit is, has, and will always be your ability to choose how you want to see each segment life throws at you. You were made to find ways to thrive in uncertainty, overcome that bulls**t. Now is no different.

05/03/2020

She's back babaay!!! Finally.

Long term client, new beginnings. Sometimes you have to cut the cord and start over. Nothing wrong with a reset. We all go through life's trials and tribulations, we get growth when we find peace and happiness in the now, and when we learn from our choices.

Training the body is meant to be connected. You're meant to feel the experience of everything, that's why your nervous system has so many different ways of absorbing your reality - touch, sight, smell, taste, hearing and a few more. You were made to sense. Your physiology is based on necessity. You wouldn't have eyes if you weren't meant to perceive light 🤔

Kinda makes me wonder how people forgot to stop and pay attention to the way they execute things. Unconscious living is the destroyer of dreams. Unconscious lifting is the destroyer of your joints, so stop doing HIIT classes and looking like s**t through each movement. Take pride in learning how to perform. Why don't you know how to lift well? Because all you did was chase quantity not quality. Leave the mindless activity for the mindless.

Great picture of an amazing woman, doing great things for her mind and body. We used to chase kilos on the bar, now we chase ROI on our efforts. And let me tell you, it's raining gains where we are from. Stagnant results don't live here, we find smart adaptions every day.

Stay woke, don't drink the cool aid.

11/02/2020

Throw back to a few years ago, going into the last few weeks of prep for a powerlifting comp. 250kg for some doubles.

I haven't lifted this heavy for a while now, I just took the time to learn and grow in other areas. I wish I had done it sooner.

My whole concept of training the body changed and evolved into a much more rounded understanding of how to create adaptions in the body.

I spend my days now working on smaller details, relearning patterns, acquiring new capacity and capability. The strong stuff can wait, I've always been stronger than most people, so why keep refining that skill set?

I love the struggle, the challenge and taking the time to attempt new skills over and over again.

You need what you do the least.

Which means I need to lift.

Happy hump day.
🥳

# sunshine Coast # heavy

04/02/2020

The point of play and learning is to expand your capacity to create movement and to offer new stimulus to the nervous system. And it feels good!

Here is some simple kettlebell flow that links basic movements together, this isn't going to make me strong like bull, but the effort required to coordinate and execute each part of the movement with fluidity and control makes it a worthy game.

Of all the things I've learned through training, the biggest teacher is variety and open mindedness. There is no one way, but a multitude of ways. The human body does not respond as effectively to the same stimulus, over time the law of diminishing returns applies. The foolish get trapped down rabbit holes and get caught in their beliefs. Do not fall victim to this mistake, no one practice or ideal is superior. You must utilise all modalities.

If you want to be a better mover you can't just practice movement. At some point you have to put the car on the race track to test it's capacity.

Your limitations start and stop with your opinion. If you tell me you can't, then that's probably true. What we tell ourselves is paramount. People who tell me they can't execute something because of some self perceived limitation are exactly right. You told yourself you couldn't so therefore you couldn't. I told you you could. Therein lies the difference.

I tell myself "I do what I want". Anyone's limiting beliefs of me don't even scratch the surface. I'm always a head of the pack because I find ways to improve, most people find ways to be limited.

The proof will always be in the pudding. Are you getting better or clinging to dead ideas? If you want to make it rain in gains, start by removing limitations - mindset and understanding being two big ones!

Happy hump day 🍑

20/11/2019

for sissies make knees for .

Your age has less to do with your joint problems than you believe. Stop telling yourself bulls**t narratives to help empower your issues.

According to a study from 1991, at least to age 74 years, any substantial loss of joint should be viewed as abnormal and not attributable to aging. It's a great sound bite to hang onto. There's much more to that understanding and it can be argued against, but keep the sentiment and work with the notion that all the things wrong with your body are from you or your lack of action to address those issues. That's the bitter truth. Prove me wrong.

Anything that isn't working, is only not working properly because you haven't provided the correct stimulus to create the change you want.

Working on control and ROM with these bad boys, what a difference it makes to my toe and foot strength as well as my ankle mobility. Funny how feet give you more access to your hip musculature, the same way your grip greatly improves your performance in upper body movements. Hence the acromnym GLAG - grip, lats, abs, and . The order of priority that will lead to a body. I think it's missing awareness and , but that's a whole other topic.

I used to have knee pain. It cost me roughly 6k, a multitude of allied health providers and a wild goose chase including platelet therapy and cortisone injections. None of them addressed the issue. No one even correctly diagnosed it. It was a great experience. Pushed me to create a better system of training that I give to my clients. Make no doubt about it, our training frequently replaces your need for physio, osteo, chiro and massage therapist, and often your pt. They use outdated tools which often are less efficient which means you need to see them more Not all of the providers but many of them.

I don't roll like that, I want you to know more about your issues so you can see me less. That way you put your money into better ventures.

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20/11/2019

Movements and exercises are only some of the tools you can use to create change in your physical existence.

Your body digests all the stimulus you give it, it loves variety and challenge. You feel it in your heart when it hits the spot. That's why you get addicted to training. People move their lives to live near the beach so they can get their surfing fix. It's another time where your body rewards you with a release of favourable hormones, the greater the release, the more you get hooked. We are addicted to it.

Food, surfing, bjj, s*x etc we are all hormone addicting seeking our next fix. Life is dull without it.

Training-wise my fix was fighting, it turned to powerlifting , and now it's physical capabilities and movement. Same game different components. They all tell part of my story.

I want my canvas to be a beautiful tale of experiences and capacities. Not of triumphs. I've filled many cups in my life. From stage plays and television, to sales coaching, university student to university educator, athlete to athlete coach, retail manager, brownie entrepreneur, personal trainer, mentor and mentee, lover and the fighter, extrovert and recently more the introvert; each element adding another layer of complexity and understanding. Pain and passion. It is the dualities of my life's experiences that give me a deeper perspective. Training is exactly the same. You need change. It's the nature of things. Learn more, grow more.

When was the last time you did something you suck at? I'm not scared of letting go and starting again. I do difficult s**t every day. Struggle is a good teacher. Forever the student.

Want to build a physical existence that is boundless? Is going to take a lot more than your half arsed efforts in spin class.

Paint that wonderfully capable and adaptive canvas and bask in the glory of your efforts.

I tagged a few of you I thought about when writing this 🥰👊

16/11/2019

Working on my tyre flips. Stop working, training and trying to be perfect and remember that play is the most valuable aspect of the learning process.

I have learned more in play than I have in practice. They both serve a purpose, but you don't carve amazing humans out of constant structured work. That's how you f**k the system up.

Less exclusion, more self confidence and more exploration. I read an article last week which spoke about learning through practice versus learning through play. 800 practiced reps were the equivalent of 40 reps in play. I have lived and experienced this many times. Play trumps practice!!

Show me your play ninjas!

Don't beat yourself down by convincing yourself you need more practice! What's all that practice for anyway? 🤔🤔🤔 you're damn right the answer is play.

15/11/2019

There should be a disclaimer to this. I'm not going to say within reason, its staying "within reason" that got us in this mess in the first place. Everyone around you leaves a trail behind them on their life's journey. If you want to go where they are going, just follow the path. That's never been me, I've always been on the fringe. I'm not good at rules and I don't care how you are doing it, if I don't like it I'll find a way that suits me. Can be a headache at times, but it's my life to live so I'm doing me. It is actually really conflicting doing what I want compared to doing what I think others think I should. I've always been concerned about letting people down. Part of the programming from my upbringing, grateful for the lessons. However, once you work through that little misunderstanding you start finding truth in your actions. Do everything which is true to you.

The beautiful thing about humans is we help find solutions for each other. We wouldn't be as far ahead in life if we all did life the same. Dont dance like no one is watching, dance because you want to, knowing that your opinion is the only one that matters, because it is only one that does.

And don't be scared to fail. I have failed so many times, but it's all a part of the adventure. For every problem there is a potential solution. Look what happened with training - society being built out of convenience, combined with the rubbish we call "shoes" has totally fu**ed up the way we move, now people pay people like me to teach them how to squat! Not even with weights, just the damn movement. Do you know how ridiculous that is?? That's like teaching a cheetah to run.

F**k the lines. Colour the whole page in, do it with a spray can and melt the crayons down so you can create a cool sculpture or get high of the fumes. Just don't keep doing what you've been told, it is mostly bulls**t and the people who tell you don't know. They just pass off half arsed information that got passed to them. Be accountable and find out for yourself.

Frank Sinatra the s**t out of life, to choose is to be human, create a new example for others to learn from.

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