John Contreras Physio

John Contreras Physio Courses & workshops for Physiotherapists and Health Professionals. He also developed the APPI Pilates for Runners and Cyclists courses.

John Contreras - Director
APA Sports Physiotherapist, Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist, Certified Pilates teacher and educator

B.Physio (Hons) B.Sc, M.ExSci (S&C), M. Sports Physio

Since graduating from The University of Melbourne in 2001, John has worked extensively in Australia and the UK within the field of Sports Physiotherapy, exercise therapy and rehabilitation. Throughout his

career, John has managed a range of clients including post-operative rehab, acute injury management, return to sport rehabilitation, general fitness and elite athletic performance. He has completed a Master of Sports Physiotherapy (La Trobe University) as well as a Master of Exercise Science (Strength & Conditioning) from Edith Cowan University (WA) and is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist with the National Strength & Conditioning Association (NSCA) and a Level 1 ASCA S&C Coach. John has managed strength training services in numerous clinics both in Melbourne and London and has had years of experience delivering clinical Pilates to professional athletes, including Brentford FC in London and the Victorian Bushrangers in Melbourne. Apart from his clinical experience, John is a former Master Trainer with the Australian Physiotherapy & Pilates Institute (APPI), teaching matwork and equipment Pilates courses to other health professionals across the UK, Europe, Brazil, Australia and the United States for over 10 years. Using his experience combining Physiotherapy, Pilates and Strength & Conditioning training principles, and with a desire to deliver exercise based education with a strong evidence base, in 2012 John launched Resistance Training Rehabilitation workshops and since then has become a sought after educator. Resistance Training Rehabilitation (RTR) courses have been designed to create a clinical pathway from injury management to fitness and high level performance with a strong scientific and evidence base.

Every consult is a stack of assumptions we don’t get time to test 🫠That the patient’s telling us the truth. That they’re...
26/08/2026

Every consult is a stack of assumptions we don’t get time to test 🫠

That the patient’s telling us the truth. That they’re telling us all of it. That our communication style is landing the way we think it is. That they understand what we’re actually trained to do. That they understand timelines. That they’ll respond the way the average participant in the average study did.

None of that is guaranteed. Most of it isn’t even likely.

Experience doesn’t remove any of it. It just teaches you to expect it, and to build in the habit of checking, asking, and running the hard ones past a colleague before you trust your own read.

Which one of these assumptions trips you up the most? Let me know in the comments.

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Some days I coach with a specific goal. A particular joint, muscle group or range of motion. Some days I coach simply to...
20/08/2026

Some days I coach with a specific goal.

A particular joint, muscle group or range of motion.

Some days I coach simply to move and see what emerges.

Pilates gives me that space.

No specific numbers. No PR. No benchmark. No normative values.

Just movement for its own sake.

There’s more value in that than I used to think.

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Twenty-five years of clinical practice will do that to you.Not because ageing is something to fear. But because the diff...
12/08/2026

Twenty-five years of clinical practice will do that to you.

Not because ageing is something to fear. But because the difference between people who trained deliberately and people who didn’t becomes impossible to ignore after a certain point.

Strength. Function. Independence. Confidence in their own body.

It’s not genetics. It’s not luck. It’s accumulated load.

I train because I know what I’m preventing.
That’s enough.

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We talk a lot about patient outcomes and almost never about the isolation created as we deliver them.Physio is built for...
14/07/2026

We talk a lot about patient outcomes and almost never about the isolation created as we deliver them.

Physio is built for 1:1 work, which means the moments where we’re unsure, stretched, or just having a hard week often happen with no one else in the room to notice.

It’s not a personal failing.

It’s the structure of the job. But that doesn’t mean we have to manage it alone.

Who’s the colleague you’ve been meaning to check in on? Tag them below or share this with them

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09/07/2026

Tell me you weren’t listening without telling me you weren’t listening.

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