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Having Committed To Change, How To Action It! Change is something that we all deal with on a daily basis.  The importance of change and whether we action it will vary greatly depending on the change focus and also the individual.  Once we have gone through the stages...

Resistance Band Kettlebell Push Up - Adding Load & Range In the video below you will see osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy performing a resistance band kettlebell pushup at Elite Sports Performance in Spotswood.  The push up is a great exercise...

Looking For Change In Our Clients As an osteopath I am regularly working with clients in both the private practice setting and also corporate health and wellbeing setting that are looking for change.  Clients focus of change is often around the health and wellbeing...

Eliciting Change Talk And Moving To Commitment Talk As an osteopath working in private practice as well as the corporate consulting world, understanding what change talk is and how to elicit it with clients can be a very for those wishing to focus on improving their...

Recognising Change Talk Communication is something that I am becoming more and more interested in and am focusing on within my everyday life and also within my work as an osteopath, lecturer and corporate consultant.  Many of the clients that I am dealing with in a...

The Change Process:  Where Are You At? The change process is something that interests me greatly as change is something that we all deal with on a day to day basis, whether it be with ourselves, our partners, our family, our friends or within a work setting.  In my...

Plyometric Push Up In the video below you will see one of Principle Four Osteopathy clients demonstrating a plyometric push up at our Melbourne City CBD clinic.  Plyometric push ups have been added into the clients program to focus more on power development.  Power...

Anterior Reach Carpet Slider Push Up In the video below you will see osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy demonstrating an anterior reach carpet slider push up at Elite Sports Performance in Spotswood.  This exercise places additional load on the non...

Medicine Ball Push Up With Knee Tuck Variations In the video below you will see osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy demonstrating  medicine ball push up (reduced base of support and stability challenged) with two knee tuck variations (sagittal and...

Single Leg Balance Reach Exercise - Building Balance and Control In the image below you will see one of Principle Four Osteopathy clients performing a wall assisted (hand touching wall to provide stability) single leg balance reach exercise (using the non weight...

Rope Pull Ups - Training Your Grip + Back As an osteopath who uses my hands regularly when applying manual therapy with clients, you would assume that my grip would be quite strong just through occupational conditioning.  Whilst my grip is no doubt probably stronger...

Back + Grip Training - WOW!!! Who would have thought that these little ball attachments that go on a bar make a chin up so much more difficult.  Having to grip and hold yourself is one thing, let alone then pull yourself up.  Typically I can smash out 10 chin ups no...