Please Note: In order to particiapte in this class it is recommended that you bring one or more of the following.

1. Foam Roller

2. Lacrosse Ball / Spiky Ball or Tennis Ball

3. Theracane / Bak Balls

Fascia is the fibrous tissue surrounding each of our muscle fibres, organs, nerves and bones. Fascia attaches to tendons and bones to help us move. Poor movement patterns, injury and being sedentary can cause ‘knots’, or ‘trigger points’ in our fascia, restricting our movement and causing pain or stiffness. Self myofascial release with objects such as a foam roller or massage ball facilitate the ‘breaking up’ these knots in the fascia, allowing the muscles to relax and become more mobile. This technique also improves blood flow to the area, improving the hydration of the fascia and allowing it to become more malleable. If done alongside corrective exercise, this will allow for re-tensioning of the muscles in the body in order to create more functional movement patterns.

Benefits of myofascial release include:

• Increases joint range of motion, without effecting muscle performance in the way that stretching can
• Helps prevents injury
• Reduces stiffness
• Helps muscle recovery and prevent DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) after exercise
• Helps us to move better
• Reduces stress

Research article on benefits of MFR:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4637917/

Never underestimate the power of a strong core and good posture. Our Core and Posture Classes are designed to strengthen the muscles that help keep you in a strong upright position, and to help you function better during everyday activities through more efficient movement.

Join our class today and reap the following benefits:

• Improved bone and joint alignment, allowing muscles to be used more efficiently
• Decrease stress on the joints, including the spine
• Prevention of back and muscular pain
• Improved balance
• Prevention of injuries
• Improved athletic performance

Our Functional Circuit class incorporates exercises that you can do anywhere in your own home. We begin with activation and warm-up exercises to get your blood flowing and your body used to moving. We then incorporate a series of functional exercises to strengthen your core, upper and lower body. We don’t work muscles in isolation, but rather exercise your whole body as a kinetic chain. This ensures your body moves in the way it was designed to, and that we strengthen you up in movements that you will mimic during daily activities.

This circuit is designed to help you function and move better in everyday life.

Our Resisted Functional Circuit classes incorporate exercises that you can do anywhere in your own home with as little as one or two kettlebells or dumbbells.

We begin with activation and warm-up exercises to get your blood flowing and your body used to moving.

We then incorporate a series of functional exercises that really start to connect and build upon some of the foundational exercises that you would have been doing while in some of our lead in classes like the core and posture or body weight circuit sessions.

The session is designed to really strengthen your core, upper and lower body. We don’t work muscles in isolation, but rather exercise your whole body as a kinetic chain. This ensures your body moves in the way it was designed to, and that we strengthen you up in movements that you will mimic during daily activities.

This session is designed to help you function and move better in everyday life. So if you feel that you have the current body weight workouts beat and need a bigger challenge then this is for you. However please note that you woulf have to be able to complete a regular functional circuit quite easily in order to be able to progress up to this session.