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Improving Trunk Position In The Squat In the video below you will see osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy performing an overhead weight plate squat (slightly anterior of the head as this is where his current shoulder mobility allows suitable...

Adhesive Capsulitis Exercise Approaches In the video below you will see some examples of how we have added in some mobility and gentle loading exercises into the program of one of our clients who is now out of the acute phases of adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder)...

Anti Rotation Lunge Exercise Variations In the video below you will see osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy demonstrating a number of palof press (anti rotation) exercises with various lunge pattern exercise variations.  The palof press is typically...

Spinal Control + Progressions To Deadlifts In the videos below you will see one of Principle Four Osteopathy clients (osteopath Abbas Din) performing some spinal control exercises (birddog variations and high plank variations) and then a rack pull (elevated deadlift)...

Overhead Squat With A Focus On Opening Up The Hips In the video below you will see one of Principle Four Osteopathy clients performing a dowel stick overhead squat (unloaded) with a focus on opening up through the hips once they hit their first sticking point at the...

Trunk Stability Exercises - Inspired By Stu McGill In the video below you will see one of Principle Four Osteopathy clients performing 3 different trunk stability exercises - high plank variation, side plank and birddog.  These have been prescribed as part of the...

Isometric T Hold For Shoulder And Back Strength Endurance In the image below you will see one of Principle Four Osteopathy clients performing an Isometric T Hold with a program of performing 5*5 second holds (total time 25 seconds).  This has been prescribed to start...

Split Kneeling Cable Machine Lat Pull Down In the video below you will see osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy performing a split kneeling stance cable machine lat pull down.  This is a great variation on the traditional lat pull down because it...

Kettlebell Deadlift Exercise Variations In the videos below you will see osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy performing a number of his favourite kettlebell deadift variations at Elite Sports Performance in Spotswood.  The deadlift (lifting an item...

Toes To Bar With A Straight Arm Hanging Lever Hold In the video below you will see osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy performing toes to bar (abdominal focused exercise) whilst hold the bar with a focus on maintaining a straight arm lever hold...

Trap Training In the video below you will see osteopath Heath Williams of Principle Four Osteopathy performing a prone incline shoulder shrug that looks to focus loading through the upper and mid trap region of the shoulder girdle.  He combines this with traditional...

Spinal Stability Exercises / McGill Backfit Pro Inspired In the videos below you will see one of Principle Four Osteopathy clients performing a number of exercises that look to address spinal control with a focus on anti rotation, lateral stability and spinal control...