HNL Movement Podcast

Let’s welcome Guysen Terai to the HNL Movement Podcast! Guysen recently moved back to Hawaii after being a strength & conditioning coach at Oregon. This episode discusses many topics related to strength & conditioning, coaching strategies, navigating through your career, and finding your purpose to make a positive impact on those around you.Guysen talks about growing up in Hilo and playing sports year-round from a young age. He has learned valuable lessons through sports that has helped him as a coach to this day. Like many of us, competitive sports come to an end, and we transition to search for the career we would like to pursue. Naturally, being active all his life, he fell into Kinesiology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UH). As a requirement for a class to gain observational hours, he walked into the athletic facility at UH and asked Head Strength & Conditioning Coach Tommy Heffernan if he would be able to volunteer. That began his unique road in pursuit of becoming a strength & conditioning coach. Guysen shares his journey of sacrifices and perseverance that led him to becoming an Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach at the University of Oregon. This episode is more than just valuable strength & conditioning insights. Listen in to gain inspiration of how to pursue your passion and find your purpose to make a positive impact on others. It was a pleasure to have Guysen share all his experiences and the ways it allowed him to elevate athlete’s performance. For those of you that are at a crossroad in life or your career, keep taking the necessary steps to move forward and work towards your goals. Listen in to this episode and check out Guysen on social media for more helpful training resources. Enjoy the episode!IG: @guysenteraiYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOCBqcUAaBUB0F81Mivk4Sg Did you enjoy this episode?Please subscribe and leave a review on:AppleSpotifyGooglePandoraiHeartRadio

Do you suffer from nagging and annoying knee pain that is preventing you from doing activities? Even if you are pushing through the pain, your performance will slowly declining with any type of knee pain. This episode is all about understanding the wide range of potential causes of knee pain, how to eliminate your pain, and most importantly train to improve your knee health and performance.Andrew shares this comprehensive perspective to break down the possible causes of knee pain. Be sure to listen to the entirety of this episode so that you can address your knee pain with a multidimensional approach. He discusses aspects such as getting assessed and diagnosed by sports medicine professional, how dysfunction in the kinetic chain contributes to excessive stress in your knee, proper training strategies, nutrition and recovery, as well as the mental aspects of eliminating knee pain. After this you will see that correcting knee pain is more complex than just doing a few exercises and stretches. Be sure to check out and subscribe to the HNL Movement YouTube channel for more related content! Take care of your knees, train smart, and enjoy the episode! Did you enjoy this episode?Please subscribe and leave a review on:AppleSpotifyGooglePandoraiHeartRadio

Summer is over and Andrew is starting his 2nd year in his PhD program! This episode is a brief update on his PhD journey as well as the upcoming HNL Movement content. Like with any endeavor, it’s about utilizing your experiences and growing along the way. With a year under his belt, he is excited to get started with his 2nd year.Andrew shares valuable insights for everyone to apply to their journey. Focus on maintaining balance in life and trust the growth process. This is something that can be very challenging in the moment. However, that perspective can help us to better take care of our well-being and allow us to make greater progress moving forward. Listen in on his journey ahead, as he discusses the classes he will be taking and the ways it will benefit the HNL Movement podcast. Be sure to check out the HNL Movement YouTube channel for video clips of the podcast episodes and helpful resources to optimize your performance. Stay tuned for future episodes on what’s going on in Andrew’s journey, as well as exciting future guest interviews! Aloha!Did you enjoy this episode?Please subscribe and leave a review on:AppleSpotifyGooglePandoraiHeartRadio

Welcome Ed Gibbins, the Co-Owner and Chief Product Officer at Rewire Fitness, to the HNL Movement Podcast! For everyone out there, especially athletes, how do you train and recover mentally and cognitively? There is evidence and proven strategies that help to enhance physical readiness and performance, however, many of us don’t have the tools or experience to apply these mental and cognitive strategies to our training regimen.Ed shares his experiences growing up playing rugby, overcoming obstacles of Type 1 diabetes, and his growing fascination with the mind body connection as it relates to optimal performance. The mind has such a powerful influence over how we perceive exertion and our overall physical performance. Our mind can be a limiting factor that needs to be trained just like how we train physically with strength & conditioning. This is where Rewire Fitness comes in and provides solutions to improve our mental and cognitive readiness.Listen in to all the insights and the importance of mental and cognitive wellness. Rewire Fitness is providing a way to assess, train, and improve your mental and cognitive health that will help you to perform better in activities, sports, and life. Listen in to this episode and check out more information about Rewire Fitness at the links below! Enjoy the episode!Website: https://rewirefitness.app/IG: https://www.instagram.com/rewirefitness/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/rewirefitnessapp Twitter: https://twitter.com/rewire_appYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHleaoz9k4ceXEFVcUNdNqg Did you enjoy this episode?Please subscribe and leave a review on:AppleSpotifyGooglePandoraiHeartRadio

This episode is all about how to implement an effective warmup strategies to help you better prepare for your training sessions and activities that you are jumping into. This is a great general overview of key components that are included in effective components. The components Andrew mentions are (1) increasing circulation/metabolism, (2) progressing mechanics and movements, (3) warming up the nervous system, and (4) prepping your mental state as well. Collectively, all these areas will help you to better transition from a rested state into your sports or activities.Andrew also discusses how the focus of warmups can be very different from person to person. Understand what you need to prepare your body and implement the appropriate intensity, components, and practices that will do so. These warmup practices will make a difference to maximize how you perform and make progress over time. Also, keep in mind that you want your warmups to be efficient too. This is meant to complement your sports and activities well, not to replace your sports and activities. As a rule of thumb, if you are doing more intense physical activities or more precision types of skills, you will probably spend a little more time warming up. If you are recovering from injuries or working on movement dysfunctions, that may also require more lengthy warmups. Basically, listen to your body and practice what works best for you to perform at your best. Apply these concepts to your warmups and enjoy the episode! Did you enjoy this episode?Please subscribe and leave a review on:AppleSpotifyGooglePandoraiHeartRadio

Do you have rotator cuff problems? Are you looking to prevent shoulder injuries in overhead sports? Listen in to this episode where Andrew breaks down key concepts for optimal shoulder health. This episode is all about the rotator cuff: anatomy, function, and key training considerations to elevate your shoulder performance. This episode is a must to understand the importance of the rotator cuff. The rotator cuff is made up of 4 muscles, the supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, and subscapularis. Collectively the muscles provide dynamic stability by creating a compressive force of the glenohumeral joint. It also controls the subtle, but crucial movements between the bones of the shoulder joint (i.e. arthrokinematics between the humerus and glenoid fossa). Strengthening your rotator cuff goes well beyond low intensity, isolated rotator cuff exercises. Your rotator cuff needs to adequately stabilize your shoulders during high force, high velocity, and sports specific movements. Andrew also discusses the importance that posture and scapular stability plays in rotator cuff function. Bottom line is to make sure that you are properly training and maintaining your shoulder health for your activities. Check out my YouTube channel for more performance training content! https://www.youtube.com/c/hnlmovementDid you enjoy this episode?Please subscribe and leave a review on:AppleSpotifyGooglePandoraiHeartRadio

Welcome Takahiro (Taka) Uchida to the podcast this week! Taka is an assistant athletic trainer with the Atlanta Hawks. He shares his journey of moving from Japan to the United States, working to become a Certified Athletic Trainer, and making the most of the opportunities in front of him. From the time he moved from Japan, he had dreams and aspirations of working in the NBA one day. He is now living his dream working the past 3 seasons with the Atlanta Hawks.Taka talks about playing basketball while growing up in Japan and getting introduced to strength & conditioning in high school. This planted the seed and began his interest in the performance aspects of training for athletics. Following high school, he decided to move to the US in hopes of becoming an athletic trainer and fulfilling his dream of working in the NBA one day. This episode is inspiring with many great gems of how to work towards your dreams. Taka emphasizes how he always took opportunities with the mindset of learning as much as he could at each step along his journey. His athletic training career began in Missouri as a student who did not know any English to being an assistant athletic trainer for the Atlanta Hawks. He is truly grateful for all his stops along the way, internships with the St. Louis Rams and Stanford, being a graduate assistant at Hawaii, before living his dream of working in the NBA. Listen to his spectacular journey and enjoy the episode! Did you enjoy this episode?Please subscribe and leave a review on:AppleSpotifyGooglePandoraiHeartRadio

Listen in to this informative and educational episode on all things pertaining to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries.  Andrew has a wealth of experience in clinical practice and research when it comes to ACL injuries. This episode covers many key points including: ·  ACL anatomy·  Function of the ACL·  Mechanism of ACL injuries·  How do you know if you injured your ACL·  ACL injury statistics·  Treatment options·  Rehab/strength & conditioning process·  Long-term concerns following ACL injuriesThis episode is a comprehensive overview to understand ACL injuries. ACL injuries have a major impact on a person’s life, both in the short term and long term. It is extremely important to continue to work on neuromuscular dysfunction through long term strength & conditioning practices. Also, be sure to check out the full video of this episode on the HNL Movement YouTube channel to see the animations and graphics. Listen in, share this episode, and enjoy!Did you enjoy this episode?Please subscribe and leave a review on:AppleSpotifyGooglePandoraiHeartRadio

Andrew shares 5 key areas to focus on that will greatly improve the quality of how you move. These fundamental concepts will apply to all different types of training and movements. The 5 areas to improve your movement quality that Andrew dives into are: 1. Mobility2. Stability3. Posture/alignment4. Muscle activation5. Tempo/speed of movementAndrew shares great information and examples of how these basic concepts will help to tune up your movement. There will always be ways to improve in these areas as none of us move perfectly. That’s part of your journey to optimize your performance. Every rep, set, and training session is practice for you to improve and grow along your journey. The more that you clean up the quality of movement, the more benefit you will gain from exercise as well as lower your risk for injury. Listen in and apply these concepts to your training. Enjoy the episode!Did you enjoy this episode?Please subscribe and leave a review on:AppleSpotifyGooglePandoraiHeartRadio

Let’s welcome Sheera Goren to the HNL Movement Podcast! She is the Co-Founder of Zygo, an innovative and revolutionary product that streams audio underwater. Growing up playing soccer as well as other sports, Sheera discovered ways to continue living an active style after playing collegiate soccer. This led to discovering boutique fitness classes, fun outlets of being active, and eventually wondering how some of these experiences can be applied to swimming.Sheera and her high school classmate, Charlie, reconnected at a friend’s wedding where they began to wonder if this boutique fitness experience could be offered to swimmers. This led them on a journey to not only create this experience for swimmers, but also developing revolutionizing audio hardware that can transmit high quality audio underwater. This led to the creation of Zygo, the innovative headset and app that offers a unique swimming experience.Listen in to all the details of how the hardware works, the technology, specifications, and user experience. Zygo is the best option on the market today delivering high quality audio, a comfortable and functional fit, as well as a walkie talkie feature to communicate through the water. In addition, they are growing the platform of guided workouts and enhancing the swimming experience for their consumers. Sheera even shares insights for use with ocean sports and team water sport athletes. This was truly a fascinating and informative episode. Check out Zygo for more information and enjoy this episode!Website: https://shopzygo.com/IG: @zygogramEmail Sheera: sheera@zygoco.com Did you enjoy this episode?Please subscribe and leave a review on:AppleSpotifyGooglePandoraiHeartRadio