Rebalancing Health

Rebalancing Health Giovanni is a CHEK‑trained strength coach bridging musculoskeletal rehab and S&C.

He offers bodywork and training for surfers and everyday people, taking you from broken to strong with a longevity‑focused approach. As a CHEK Professional, Giovanni specialises in Corrective exercise and holistic health and Strength and Conditioning. This approach assists the client to prevent injury, succeed in late-stage rehabilitation and effectively re-balance their health and wellness to perform optimally in life and sport. EAT -MOVE -SLEEP -FLOW

Giovanni’s times with you the client starts with a precise physiological and postural musculoskeletal assessment, this steps can be done either in person or remotley. He believes that different body types, gender, history of history lifestyle and personality impacts the strategy taken towards re-balancing the health of each individual. No matter what issues a client seeks to overcome or the goals they want to achieve, creating a comprehensive profile of the client’s situation is, for Giovanni in his approach, crucial to determine the cause and to create a tailored program to heal and prevent injury, overcome ailments, re-balance health, and improve performance when subsequently undertaking amateur or professional sport.

“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think." Albert Einstein


Online coaching available with a wide range of support materials, online pre-recorded video coaching materials.

16/09/2026

That breathing you do before paddling out — the big rapid inhales to feel “ready” — it’s actually cutting off oxygen to your brain.

Jason Rice has trained WSL pros and big‑wave surfers for decades. He knows exactly what happens when breath work goes wrong in the ocean. And what he explained here stopped me cold.

It’s called the Bohr Effect.
When you hyperventilate, CO2 drops so low that oxygen can’t release from your haemoglobin into your cells.
You feel alert.
You might even feel calm.
But your brain is being starved.

That’s not preparation — that’s impairment.

And there’s a reason has spent years teaching surfers how to avoid this. One of the biggest breathwork brands in the world is facing class‑action lawsuits over ocean‑related deaths. This isn’t fringe. It’s physiology.

If you’re paddling out at the Pass or sitting in the lineup at Brunswick waiting for a set — how you breathe in those minutes matters more than most people realise. Jason breaks down exactly what to do instead.

Free 6‑week surf strength and conditioning program in the bio — because breath, movement and load capacity all talk to each other, and most programs only address one.

Thank you Gio.





15/09/2026

Surfing asks your body to do things nothing else does — explosive pop-ups, rotational turns, holding tension through a bottom turn at The Pass or grinding out a session at Broken Head. All that load has to go somewhere.

One client described a session here as something that "helped move a lot of tension away." That's the goal every time — not just a workout, but real release from what surfing builds up in the hips, shoulders, and lower back.

Thank you Gio.

14/09/2026

That 10-second hold-down at Lennox point feels like you're drowning.

But your oxygen hasn't even moved.

Jason Rice has trained WSL pros, big‑wave surfers, military, first responders.
Thirty years teaching people how to stay composed under pressure and building real apnea survival capacity through .

And the first thing he’ll tell you about east‑coast hold‑downs is this:
You’re not running out of air.
You’re running out of composure.

The CO2 spikes fast.
Your body reads that as threat.
Then before you’ve reset, the next set lands.
Five seconds between hold‑downs.
Sometimes less.

That’s the part nobody trains for.

Fitness doesn’t fix that.
A stronger paddle won’t fix that.
The impact zone is a nervous system event — and most surfers have never trained for it that way.

Something worth sitting with.

Thank you Gio.





07/09/2026

Some musculoskeletal rehabilitation doesn’t take long when the right approach and the right tools are used.

When you address the actual driver — not just the symptom — the body responds fast.
Load, alignment, tissue quality, nervous system regulation.
Get those right and healing becomes a lot more efficient.

Thank you Gio.





06/09/2026

Your feet are your only connection to the board — yet almost no surfer trains them.

Cris Mills, founder of Surf Strength Coach , brought up the homunculus in our conversation.

The map of your body as your nervous system sees it. Your feet take up a disproportionate amount of that map. Massive representation.

Which means massive influence over how you move, react, and hold position on a wave.

Most guys training for surf are hitting the gym, doing shoulder work, maybe some hip mobility.

All good. But the feet?

Completely ignored.

Slacklining changes that.

Ten minutes a day and you're building the kind of proprioceptive feedback that keeps you surfing well past fifty.

Not rehab. Performance.

This stuff matters more as the years stack up.

The nervous system needs input to stay sharp.

Your feet are one of the richest sources of that input — and right now they're probably walking around in shoes, disconnected from everything.

If that resonates, worth a look at what we do. Link in bio.

Thank you Gio.

03/09/2026

Cris Mills has been in surf fitness for 14 years — and he's completely repulsed by what surf training social media has become.

3 exercises for a better backhand barrel." You've seen that post. Maybe you even saved it.

Cris Mills has been in surf fitness for 14 years. He's built programs for pros.

He knows what actually transfers to performance in the water — and he's completely done with what surf training content has become.

Old friend, fellow surfer, and this is exactly the kind of thing we end up arguing about over a coffee.

We got into it on the podcast. Why the "surf-specific exercise" stuff is mostly noise.

Why looking impressive in a clip has nothing to do with whether it'll help you surf better.

And the pro surfer he worked with — genuinely elite — who had the hamstring strength of someone who'd never trained a day in their life. That conversation changed how Cris thinks about foundations.

The exercises aren't the problem.

It's that nobody's asking what the body actually needs before they start stacking movement on top of dysfunction.

That's where it falls apart — for pros, and for the guy just trying to stay surfing past 50.

Full conversation on my YouTube channel — link in bio. Like and subscribe if you're in this world.

Thank you Gio.

02/09/2026

After years of running surf trips, Cris noticed something uncomfortable: how you surf is exactly how you live.

Cris Mills has run more surf trips than most people have had good swells. We're both CHEK practitioners and we've known each other a long time now — this is one of my favourite conversations we've had.

After years of watching surfers in the water — back to back days, no distractions, nowhere to hide — he started noticing something.

How someone surfs is exactly how they live.

The guy who pulls back on every wave he should take. The one who paddles out angry and wonders why nothing flows. The one who's fit, experienced, knows what to do — and still can't get out of his own way. It's not a surfing problem. It's a whole-life pattern showing up in the water.

Cris calls surfing the ultimate diagnostic tool. Not because it's poetic. Because the ocean strips the performance away. A week on a boat in the Mentawais doesn't lie. Your emotional state, your nervous system, your relationship with pressure — it all surfaces. The body keeps the score, and the surf makes you read it out loud.

Most people chase the physical fix. Shoulder. Paddle fitness. Rotation. But there's a layer underneath that nobody's talking to. And until you do — the pattern just repeats.

Free 6-week surf strength and conditioning program in the bio — because a stronger body with an unaddressed nervous system will only get you so far.

Thank you Gio.

30/08/2026

Standing up is the most demanding movement in surfing — and most surfers over 40 are failing it.

This one comes from a conversation with Cris Mills — a guy I've known since around 2014, both of us still out in the water most weeks.

Standing up is the most demanding movement in surfing.

Explosive hip flexion. Rotational stability. Full-body coordination. All in under a second, on an unstable surface, with water everywhere.

Most surfers over 40 are quietly failing it.

Not dramatically — just slower.

Less clean.

That hesitation before you commit.

The shoulder absorbing what the hips should be doing.

The lower back picking up the work your glutes checked out on years ago. You compensate so well you don't notice. Until you do.

Here's what nobody talks about — standing up doesn't create the problem. It reveals it.

The years of sitting, the old injuries, the patterns your body built to protect itself — it all shows up in that one movement.

Leave it long enough, and your nervous system starts to believe that's just who you are now.

It doesn't have to be.

Thank you Gio.

28/08/2026

Standing up is the most demanding movement in surfing — and most surfers over 40 are failing it.

This one comes from a conversation with Cris Mills — a guy I've known since around 2014, both of us still out in the water most weeks.

Standing up is the most demanding movement in surfing.

Explosive hip flexion. Rotational stability. Full-body coordination. All in under a second, on an unstable surface, with water everywhere.

Most surfers over 40 are quietly failing it.

Not dramatically — just slower.

Less clean.

That hesitation before you commit.

The shoulder absorbing what the hips should be doing.

The lower back picking up the work your glutes checked out on years ago. You compensate so well you don't notice. Until you do.

Here's what nobody talks about — standing up doesn't create the problem. It reveals it.

The years of sitting, the old injuries, the patterns your body built to protect itself — it all shows up in that one movement.

Leave it long enough, and your nervous system starts to believe that's just who you are now.

It doesn't have to be.

Thank you Gio.

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