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The Functional Movement Club Optimal health starts with how you move. Helping you build a resilient body through movement & recovery. Be mindful, be strong, be you.

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24/06/2026

She asked me if she should tape her ankle for walks.

My answer surprised her.

She'd been working hard on her rehab. But every time she went for a long walk, her shins would tighten up. Her hips would start aching.

The instinct is to protect. Tape it. Stabilise it.

But tape mutes every signal her brain is trying to learn from.

Right now, she can't feel her foot working. She only knows something's wrong after the fact. That's a lag metric.

What we're actually working on is getting her to feel her foot in the moment. The calf engaging. The arch responding. Before something goes wrong.

Take the tape off. Walk barefoot. Let your feet feel the ground.

Your nervous system is trying to learn. Give it the chance.

👇 Quiz link in the first comment — find out exactly where to start.

23/06/2026

Ouch my ITB 😬

You've probably foam rolled it. Stretched your hip flexors. Tried to activate your glutes.

The pain keeps coming back.

Here's why.

Your ITB doesn't work on its own. It's controlled by a muscle called your TFL — tensor fascia lata — right at the top of your hip.

Your TFL only overworks when your foot loses connection with the ground. When that happens, it pulls on your ITB constantly — until your knee starts screaming.

Foam rolling drops the tension. Temporarily. But if your foot isn't working, you're just buying time.

The real fix? Get your feet and glutes working together again. Release the TFL. Then train the knee with banded toe tap-outs.

Most people never find this out. But now you know.

👇 Quiz link in the first comment — find out exactly where your body is at.

22/06/2026

POV: you’ve been stretching your hip flexors for months and nothing’s changing.

If stretching was going to work, it would have worked by now.

Tight hip flexors are rarely short. They’re usually long and weak. Stretching a long, weak muscle just makes it longer and weaker.

What actually creates lasting relief? Strengthening them.

One of my favourite ways — the hip flexor march from a dead bug position. It loads the hip flexor through its full range and gives you the mobility you’ve been chasing.

Give it a go. Save this for later.

👇 Quiz link in the first comment if you want to know what else your body might be compensating for.

19/06/2026

This one surprised even me.

A client had been managing back pain for months. Could deadlift. Could power clean. But sitting to standing? Agony every time.

Tests normal. Range of motion improving. So I put my hand on his back and said: push your belly out. Let everything expand.

Pain eased within the session. Back on his bike within a week.

Not hands-on. Not manipulation. Just finding the right thing — which turned out to be his nervous system, not his spine.

18/06/2026

Here's something no one ever tells you about back pain.

If you can deadlift and squat but getting out of a chair is agony — your back probably isn't the problem. Your brain is.

Pain is your nervous system predicting danger. When you avoid a movement long enough, it keeps firing — even after the tissue has healed.

I had a client this week who could deadlift and power clean. But sitting to standing was pure agony. Tests normal. Range of motion improving. One breathing cue — push your belly out, let everything expand — and the pain eased within a session. Back on his bike within a week.

Sometimes the most powerful thing I do isn't hands-on at all.

17/06/2026

Ouch my tibialis anterior — the muscle on the front of your shin that's probably causing your knee pain.

When your ankle is stiff, your knee compensates. Your quads overwork. Your tibialis anterior pulls on the tendon just below your kneecap. What feels like a knee problem is actually ankle stiffness caused by weak feet.

Fix the ankle. Strengthen the foot. The knee sorts itself out.

16/06/2026

Ouch my pes anserine. You've probably never heard of it — but if you've had pain on the inside of your knee, this is probably why.

Pes anserine is Latin for "goose's foot." It's where three tendons meet on your shinbone. When your core isn't stabilising your pelvis, these tendons overwork to compensate. They pull. They get inflamed. And you end up treating your knee when the real problem is your core.

Most people never find this out. Now you do.

11/06/2026

The most dangerous person in the room isn’t the person who doesn’t know.

It’s the person who’s been doing the wrong thing confidently for years.

This week alone I saw three examples of it:
• Achilles pain that wasn’t actually an Achilles problem.
• Neck pain treated with the same stretches week after week while the real issue was missed.
• An athlete training harder and harder while recovery was falling apart.

More effort doesn’t always create better results.

Sometimes it just means you’re getting better at solving the wrong problem.

Our Health Continuum Quiz takes 2 minutes and helps you identify where to focus first. Take the quiz: https://www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/6936647d57ca4d1e57ca30a8

09/06/2026

If your Achilles keeps flaring up no matter what you do — try this before your next session.

Stand on one leg. Eyes open. 60 seconds. Then progress to eyes closed or a foam pad.

Notice which side feels harder.

Your foot needs to know where it is in space without looking — proprioception. When that’s missing, your Achilles and calves pick up the slack on every step. They’re not the problem. They’re just the ones paying for it.

Had a client last week with left-sided Achilles pain. Couldn’t balance on his right side at all. That was the real issue.

Don’t guess. Test. Then train what the test tells you.

The Health Continuum Quiz works the same way — assess first, train second. Takes less than 2 minutes.

Link in first comment 👇

08/06/2026

“I don’t feel safe when I’m calm — so I just keep going.” A client said that to me recently and I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. Because I’ve felt it too.

For a long time I thought my consistency with training was discipline. But honestly? Most of it was avoidance. Staying busy meant I didn’t have to sit with the uncomfortable stuff. Your body keeps score though. If you’re always in go-mode, your nervous system will send you a bill — and it shows up as pain, fatigue, injury, or irritability. The hardest work I’ve had to do isn’t in the gym. It’s learning to be okay when things are fine.

If any of that resonated, the Health Continuum Quiz takes two minutes and shows you what your body actually needs right now.
🔗 Link in first comment.

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