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Ocean Performance Centre, 14 Trinder Avenue, Maroochydore (2025)

25/10/2025

is a coaches dream!! This little legend is so curious, dedicated and enthusiastic about what she does and will only grow into an intelligent critically thinking amazing woman!

For now she is just a bright young girl kicking goals at everything she does!!

Congrats Aster!! You deserve every success in this life. You never make excuses, you turn up when others don’t!! and you do it all with a smile.

Remember the name, big things ahead for this super grom!!

23/10/2025

Congrats to smashing the pro junior circuit and earning the green and gold 🔥

Stella will head off to represent Australia at the upcoming World Junior Titles!!

Another amazing Sunny Coast female surfer heading towards the Championship Tour 🙏

23/10/2025

Another young Sunshine Coast athlete that is killing it is

This young man is overflowing with potential, kicking goals across kayaking and surf sports 🔥

Jack was recently announced as paddle queenslands junior paddler of the year! 🫡

Again a great young man who in my opinion hasn’t even touched his full potential, look out world when he does!!

23/10/2025

What a cracking season young is having 🔥

Representing Australia for kayaking, winning titles, making the Shaw and Partner iron series and was just announced as paddle Queensland open paddler of the year 🫡

Epic human, amazing athlete with a very bright future ahead of him!!

13/10/2025

A great deal of knee instability and therefore susceptibility to injury can come from hip instability.

Sometimes the best interventions may seem counterintuitive. If you find your knee is going into valgus (folding inwards) when you squat or lunge try some Banded Anti-Vagus Reverse Siders.

The glute mead and min go into overdrive to prevent valgus, strengthening them throughout the entire range of the movement, not just in isolation!

10/10/2025

Growth Spurts … don’t fear them prepare for them!!

Most growth spurt issues come from the fact that bones grow quicker than muscles. This increased tension can pull muscle insertions out of place, and create some crazy postural and coordination changes!

Don’t Panic 😱

This won’t last forever! Consider a race car driver winning trophies in his trusted Toyota Corolla 💪 one night a mechanic goes into the workshop and changes the suspension, the height of the car, it’s brakes and it’s tyre set up.

Next day that same trophy winning car driver is swaying all over the road, running up curbs and crashing! This driver is doing their best to learn how to drive this new car!

That is exactly what is going on with your teen athlete, neurologically they have been rewired overnight, longer bones, shorter muscles, changed heights and posture.

It will take them a while to learn how to drive their new body!!

What you need to do is take the focus off volume and intensity of their training sessions. Focus on technique and quality of movement. Employ posture awareness and corrective exercises if needed. Double down on coordination and balance drills. Strengthen those vulnerable muscles that need the help the most.

Lastly it’s also a great time to focus on nutrition and recovery whilst employing active range and mobility drills coupled with stretching and flexibility exercises.

We prepare young athletes to thrive during a period of the greatest changes they will even experiance!

08/10/2025

The old “Sports Specific Training” query!

Social media has a lot to answer for here, coaches posting click bait crazy sports specific
content that is in all honesty complete 💩…. It gets the likes 👍 so can’t blame them, but the general public, athletes and other coaches need to do better, need to know better, that following their lead does more harm than good!!

Sports Specific Training is …

Training the individual first. Finding out what their strengths, weaknesses, limitations and imbalances are using an evidence based onboarding process
Design a program around those results and always put the individual first!
Layer on top of that the demands of the sport and its most common injuries
Then address the performance demands on that sport!

Sport Specific Training is not!!

A particular method or group class that assumes one size fits all.
Trying to replicate the sport perfectly in a gym setting!

In summary yes there is such a thing as sport specific training but it’s not the group class, it’s not trying to replicate the sport in a gym and it’s not a secret method or movement!

Sports specific training is treating the individual first, making their weaknesses and limitations their strengths and making their strengths even stronger.

Sport specific training is then bulletproofing an athlete against the demands of the sport and helping mitigate injuries.

Sport specific training is then enhancing the performance elements need for that sport.

Sports specific training is then periodising the training programs around major events/competitions!

Sports specific training is then monitoring load and fatigue, retesting and assessing key performance indicators.

Rinse and repeat!

End of story!!

05/10/2025

As the season wraps up for a lot of our footy codes, all eyes start to look towards the next season!

The Offseason should be called the S&C season!!

Don’t just have another average offseason using cookie cutter bro programs hoping they will work!!

Get assessed using the latest VALD Performance equipment. Get the facts and pinpoint the areas that have been holding you back!!

Get programs designed the most highly educated, award winning and accredited coaches coaches on the coast!

Choice is yours, have a cookie cutter average off-season, then have yet again another season that just doesn’t live up to expectations

OR

Have an epic offseason, use the gold standard testing equipment, award winning coaches and state of the art facilities, then go on to have rise up beyond all expectations!!

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03/10/2025

Overhead athletes, that is any athlete that puts their hands above their heads, such as, swimmers, tennis players, AFL, basketballer … etc.

Having great range in that overhead position is essential!! Often you will hear of athletes undergoing a combined elevation test to assess their overhead range.

Here are just a few exercises we use to help improve that combined elevation test result.

First exercise is a mix of passive and active range. The passive side of it to help release pecs and lats and then the active side of things to immediately take advantage of that new found range.

Second exercise the trap 3 is to strengthen the muscles involved in that movement. As active range is paramount. Disclaimer here don’t really do them as in the video, we find doing them slower and pausing for a second at the top brings about the best results.

Lastly being in a prone position and using both arms at once is very challenging. Start with just a stick for weight but can progress to lighter bars or even light plates held in each hand.

Give them a go in this sequence and let us know if you see improvements in your overhead range!!

22/09/2025

Don’t get an online coach when you can actually get a real one.

The real life coach will put you through a barrage of assessments to design an appropriate program tailored to your needs and wants.

Online coaching you will get a copy and paste

The real coaches program will be highly individualised taking into consideration age, maturation, range of movement, past injuries, strength levels, imbalances ect etc

Online coaching you will get a copy and paste

Real coaches coach in real time, providing instant feedback, teaching you how to do the experience, cueing you to move a certain way.

Online coaches cant do this

The beauty and the magic of connection. A real coach is right by your side, through thick or thin, ups and downs. That commitment, that loyalty breeds true connection

You can’t connect to a coach through a laptop, at worst via email.

Real coaches change their programs depending upon how that athlete presents on that day. Tired, niggles, fatigued, lack of sleep, last minute event pops up … all of the above cause programs to change, right there and then.

Online coaches are not present right there and then so nothing gets changed.

Don’t get me wrong sometimes you’re forced to use an online program. If you are however choosing an online coach/program over a real one, you’re either plain silly or just like wasting money!

20/09/2025

Does sport prepare you for sport?

Not really?

Why??

Firstly specialising in just one form of training doesn’t build all round athleticism. Even at the Olympic level experts are realising those high achieving athletes show great athleticism. That is their physical prowess isn’t restricted to just one movement or skill. An Olympic swimmer climbs mountains really well, an Olympic runner can kick a footy quite well etc.

Why build athleticism at any early age?

It’s the foundation of everything. If you can’t squat, hinge, rotate, land and jump, move laterally, bound etc etc with good biomechanics your future performance will be restricted/limited in some way shape or form!!

Want to put a ceiling on your athletic potential? Don’t build athleticism

Every athlete tends to be active, they have fun going surfing, riding a bike, swimming, playing tennis, kicking a footy, climbing mountains on weekends in their spare time. If they don’t have an adequate base of all round athleticism, well their chances of injuring themselves skyrocket. These injuries keep them out of their sport.

Athleticism develops amazing spatial proprioception, balance and a vast network of neuron’s - this network of neurons helps the brain send messages around the body more efficiently and therefore helps with skill acquisition!

In summary, early specialisation doesn’t work. Spend heaps of money on your sport without spending money on your physical preparation eg investing in an S&C coach to help build athleticism, you are putting a ceiling on your potential, and increasing your chance of injury in some cases by up to 50%. Physiotherapist’s don’t mind you will be lining their pockets for years to come.

Invest in a qualified S&C coach, build athleticism, take away performance ceilings, improve your quality of life outside sport. Decrease your chances of injuries up to 50%, this will in the long game also save you money on doctors and physio bills.

Want to know more contact us today!

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20/09/2025

Does sport prepare you for sport?

Not really?

Why??

Firstly specialising in just one form of training doesn’t build all round athleticism. Even at the Olympic level experts are realising those high achieving athletes show great athleticism. That is their physical prowess isn’t restricted to just one movement or skill. An Olympic swimmer climbs mountains really well, an Olympic runner can kick a footy quite well etc.

Why build athleticism at any early age?

It’s the foundation of everything. If you can’t squat, hinge, rotate, land and jump, move laterally, bound etc etc with good biomechanics your future performance will be restricted/limited in some way shape or form!!

Want to put a ceiling on your athletic potential? Don’t build athleticism

Every athlete tends to be active, they have fun going surfing, riding a bike, swimming, playing tennis, kicking a footy, climbing mountains on weekends in their spare time. If they don’t have an adequate base of all round athleticism, well their chances of injuring themselves skyrocket. These injuries keep them out of their sport.

Athleticism develops amazing spatial proprioception, balance and a vast network of neuron’s - this network of neurons helps the brain send messages around the body more efficiently and therefore helps with skill acquisition!

In summary, early specialisation doesn’t work. Spend heaps of money on your sport without spending money on your physical preparation eg investing in an S&C coach to help build athleticism, you are putting a ceiling on your potential, and increasing your chance of injury in some cases by up to 50%. Physiotherapist’s don’t mind you will be lining their pockets for years to come.

Invest in a qualified S&C coach, build athleticism, take away performance ceilings, improve your quality of life outside sport. Decrease your chances of injuries up to 50%, this will in the long game also save you money on doctors and physio bills.

Want to know more contact us today!

🔑

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