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Kinetic Link Training or KLT as its also commonly known as is a full body integrated approach that looks to train movements rather than muscles. At Principle Four Osteopathy we integrate the KLT way of thinking into many of our own exercises as well as those of our...

SPINAL MOBILITY 🤸——————Sitting down helps fix the pelvis, and biases movement towards the upper back (thoracic spine)——————Video one - Flexing and extending. Look up, keeping the chest tall, and slumping down——————Video two - Rotating side to side——————Video three -...

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8BRUadgJtu/ On Saturday the 6/2/2020, Principle Four Osteopaths Jarrod Testa and Heath Williams attended Stuart McGill's Backfit Pro Level 2 course - Converging on a precise diagnosis. Two years prior, we were both lucky enough to...

When it comes to the trunk we need to look at the various functions that it can perform with regards to movement and exercises and then look at how we can look to bias an exercise towards this particular quality within a specific exercise. We all know that in every...

For those unaware, Kinetic Link Training (KLT) is a style of strength training that integrates full body movement patterns that can be considered a highly effective approach to strengthening natural human movement in three dimensions. In this blog we are going to...

Principle Four Osteopathy osteopaths Heath Williams, Shaun Coghlan and Jarrod Testa are all actively putting up regular content for the general population, training population and practitioner. If you are interested in exercise, rehab, strength and conditioning and...

Over the recent long weekend the family and I spent the weekend with our friends Luke, V and family down on the coast and luckily enough Luke aka christopherblank is always up for working out. Now before I move onto blogging out about our workouts, for those of you...

This weeks blog post is about P4O osteopath Shaun Coghlan. Shaun works at Principle Four Osteopathy on Monday and Wednesdays and has been working at the clinic for 3 years now. Shaun graduated from Victoria University with a Masters in Osteopathy and since graduating...

Don't get sucked into those generic mens health exercise programs that promise to create abs in 5 minutes, get you moving like an athlete and bulletproof from injury. Most of these big promises are like unicorns, fanciful and a load of crap. Instead I would suggest...

There is still time to purchase your ticket to the workshop "exercise prescription strategies for the myotherapist". This is a 4 hour professional development workshop that will be hosted by Myotherapy Australia and will be taught by osteopath Heath Williams and...

Corporate Work Health Australia osteopath Heath Williams and physiotherapist Wade Brennan have recently published the eBook "5 simple strategies to improve worker comfort, productivity and prevent injury". The eBok was written to assist individuals working in...

Osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy demonstrates in the video below a nice and simple dumbbell exercise that can be performed as part of your upper body movement preparation routine to prepare your shoulders for training. In this video you will see...