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Sep 20

Enjoy Life! PLAY
Melbourne’s premier independent owned and operated group training gym.

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Sep 19

Core blimey!! Core work at the end of class.

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Sep 19

There is no such thing as failure. Just early attempts at at success.

Supersetting legs and arms.
Turning a #gymfail into a success.

And yes we staged this. 😂

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Sep 17

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Sep 12

We are Movement!!

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Sep 12

Pull-up and muscle up progressions today.

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Sep 5

After class acro antics…. Trying to go from crow pose to a headstand.

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Sep 5

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Sep 5

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Sep 3

Your fitness era! Good days start with great routines. Decide who you want to become. PLAY

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Sep 1

Crow Pose finisher this week, as part of our preparation for handstands.

Crow Pose is an excellent preparation for handstands and other advanced arm balances. Here’s how it relates to handstands:

1. Builds Arm and Shoulder Strength: Like handstands, Crow Pose requires strong arms and shoulders to support your body weight, making it a foundational step toward achieving a stable handstand.
2. Improves Core Stability: Both Crow Pose and handstands heavily engage the core muscles. Practicing Crow Pose strengthens the core, which is essential for maintaining balance in a handstand.
3. Develops Wrist Flexibility and Strength: The pose places a significant amount of weight on the wrists, helping to build the strength and flexibility needed for the wrist alignment required in handstands.
4. Teaches Weight Distribution and Balance: Crow Pose helps you understand the concept of weight distribution over your hands, which is crucial for balancing in a handstand. It trains you to find your center of gravity and control your balance.
5. Builds Confidence for Inversions: Crow Pose is a great starting point for those new to inversions. Mastering it can help build the confidence needed to progress to handstands and other challenging arm balances.
6. Refines Hand Positioning and Engagement: Practicing Crow Pose helps refine the hand and finger engagement needed in handstands, where the hands act like the base, constantly adjusting to maintain balance.

Overall, Crow Pose serves as an important building block for developing the strength, balance, body awareness, and confidence needed to progress into more advanced inversions like handstands.

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Aug 31

Roped into it….

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Aug 25

Getting our inner Ray-Gun on this morning….

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Aug 24

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Aug 22

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Aug 22

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Aug 19

When it’s all in the name….. Single leg hamstring curl with utility roller.

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Aug 19

Big hair don’t care….

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