HNL Movement Podcast

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

Andrew provides a great overview of what biomechanics is. Biomechanics is a subdiscipline of kinesiology and one of the key tools to analyze human movement. It entails studying how the body moves using physics and mechanical engineering strategies. Biomechanics answers questions that help to prevent injuries, rehab injuries, train better, and improve performance. In this episode, Andrew explains key terms in biomechanics such as kinematics and kinetics to analyze human movement. He also goes over the differences between qualitative and quantitative analyses. Both methods synthesize information and apply it to solve problems dealing with human movement. Biomechanics involves critical thinking and an understanding of anatomy to apply concepts to real life. Many kinesiology and sports medicine professionals utilize biomechanics. Everyone from PE teachers, coaches, strength coaches, athletic trainers, physical therapists, physicians, and even athletes. Although technology has come a long way, it is still unable to research and measure all the intricacies and details of human movement. Despite that, the take home message is that biomechanics is all around us. From learning techniques in sport and exercise, ergonomic advancements, to exercise tracking devices. It helps clinicians to improve patient care, rehabilitation, strength and conditioning, sports equipment, etc. Biomechanics helps us to understand and explain why and how we move in life and sports. Enjoy the episode!Did you enjoy this episode?Please subscribe and leave a review on:AppleSpotifyGooglePandoraiHeartRadio

Recovery is a big topic, but how do you effectively apply recovery strategies to match your training demands? Everyone doesn’t respond the same to training stimuli because of individual differences, and therefore we don’t recover the same following physical activities. The basic aspects of effective recovery are adequate sleep, stress management, nutrition, hydration, and getting rid of inflammation and waste products following exercise. However, more importantly, Andrew discusses how to be more aware of how to appropriately fit in recovery strategies based on how you are responding to your training regimen.Andrew discusses paying attention to factors that influence how we recover from workouts. This includes our level of strength & conditioning, movement patterns, mobility issues, nutrition/hydration status, skill/experience level, weather acclimation, or just how worn down our body is from previous training sessions. Assess and evaluate those aspects to better gauge what you need to effectively recover as the weeks go on. The take home message from this episode is to make your recovery practices match your training and lifestyle. If they don’t match, then make the necessary adjustments to help make the progress you desire. Happy recovery and enjoy the episode! Did you enjoy this episode?Please subscribe and leave a review on:AppleSpotifyGooglePandoraiHeartRadio

Welcome Harrison Kuroda to the HNL Movement Podcast! There’s many great insights he shares from his experiences as an athlete and a coach. He talks about how baseball grew into his primary sport that led him to play at the University of Hawaii. His road wasn’t without obstacles and adversity as he persevered to return after shoulder surgery during his collegiate career. He talks about suffering multiple shoulder dislocations on his throwing shoulder. The first incident happened while playing soccer in high school and eventually led to a Bankart and labral repair. He shares many great firsthand insights through his recovery process to get back to pitching in college. He greatly credits Tommy Heffernan (Episode 100) with restoring his strength to play Division-I baseball again.All of Harrison’s experiences have led him toward helping pitchers with strength & conditioning, throwing mechanics, and progressing on and off the field. In 2016, Harrison opened his facility Pitching Performance Hawaii, which is now in a 10,000 sq. ft. training space that includes a strength & conditioning, pitching, and hitting space. He encourages his athletes to be curious about learning and improving and prides himself on being a fresh set of eyes when coaching players of all ages. There are many great gems in this episode that will help athletes throughout their journey. Check out what he is doing on social media and his website below. Listen in and enjoy the episode!Website: https://pitchingperformancehawaii.com/FB: https://www.facebook.com/PitchingPerformanceHawaii/IG: https://www.instagram.com/pitching_performance_hawaiiEmail: pitchingperformancehawaii@gmail.com Phone: (808) 352-0478Did you enjoy this episode?Please subscribe and leave a review on:AppleSpotifyGooglePandoraiHeartRadio