Gary Heshiki

Gary Heshiki Sydney based Physical Therapist and American trained strength and conditioning coach.

Gary offers a variety of exercise and therapy programs to aid in your health goals. Individuals of all ages and fitness levels can benefit from improving muscle and movement quality to alleviate common aches and pains. Gary Heshiki is a Gold Coast based fitness professional bridging the gap between living and thriving.

31/08/2026

Your pain isn’t always a body-part problem.
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If you’ve been told your hip is “tight,” your glute is “weak,” your posture is “bad,” or your shoulder needs to be “fixed” but you’re still dealing with the same problem…

Maybe it’s time to look at the whole body and not just one area expecting a miracle.
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My approach to physiotherapy is simple:
•Understand why the problem is happening.
•Work out what your body currently can’t tolerate.
•Build the capacity to tolerate it.
•Then get back to doing what you actually want to do.
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I’m an American-trained Doctor of Physiotherapy with 20+ years of experience across physiotherapy, strength & conditioning, personal training and sports rehabilitation.

I work with people in Sydney and Los Angeles who want more than a quick treatment and a generic exercise sheet that you can do a quick image search on your own.
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If you’ve been dealing with a problem that keeps coming back and you’ve tried other allied health care all providing similar approaches before without getting the answer you were looking for, know that the solution is simpler than you’ve experienced.
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Tell me what you’re dealing with, and I’ll point you in the right direction.

18/08/2026

Trouble with feeling external rotation of the shoulder?
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Generally what I hear back is people rotate but feel an insane amount of tension through the front of their shoulder. I find this particularly set up useful in trying to “center” the shoulder better for external rotation.

12/08/2026

When you flex your knee, the result at the knee cap is compression. In an attempt to help teach my client how to access more hamstring stuff to generate force.
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I provide a light pull using a belt to facilitate that because a pushing iso is generally easier to generate more force than a yielding or holding isometric.
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The end result is what you’d expect. Decrease in pain, but more importantly I’ve taught someone how to engage better which allows them to then go home and replicate the feeling.

11/08/2026

Dealing with chronic neck pain requires on to take a look at both orientation of the neck in relation to your body along with how the body moves overall.
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Here I’m alternating between isometric types to decrease the overall tension in the neck

Quick update for everyone in the LA area.I recently had a death in my immediate family, so I’ll be back in Los Angeles f...
06/08/2026

Quick update for everyone in the LA area.

I recently had a death in my immediate family, so I’ll be back in Los Angeles from the 14th for the services staying until the 22nd.

Outside of spending time with my family, I’ll have some availability to see clients while I’m in town.

If you’ve been thinking about booking in with me later this year, here’s an option that may work even better:

Book an in-person session while I’m back over the next couple of weeks, and I’ll continue managing your recovery remotely once I’m back in Australia at no additional cost. Then, when I return for my planned September/October trip, we can reassess, progress your treatment, and you’ll receive another month of complimentary online support afterward to help keep you moving in the right direction.

The goal is simple: more continuity, better results, and ongoing guidance between visits.

If you’d like to book, use the link in my profile. If you’re not sure whether I can help with your issue, send me a DM and I’m happy to chat.

05/08/2026

In the clinic. Here we’re using a combination of a pushing isometric (to get the most stuff working) before moving to a reactive strength via eccentric. The goal, which I didn’t verbalize was to feel certain areas working actively, which can be hard

29/07/2026

In the clinic: Learning how to move through the lower lumbar spine with active Multifidus-erector spinae contraction.
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The goal is to feel what tissues are absorbing and moving when dealing with most chronic low back problems.

28/07/2026

High level athletes must have the ability to produce large levels of force. A limb can look rehabbed on a strength chart or force plate reading, but still be under used via your nervous system.
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Quite often chronic soft tissue problems are a major clue that something is going to give. Therapists and coaches attempt to plug holes through daily treatment and training that continually fails to address a key question. Can this tissue transmit the amount of force their nervous system is asking of them?
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When we consider that for an athlete to be at their best, they need to be at the intersection of having both their neurological and biological systems on the same page. Be this max strength, joint mobility, and rate of eccentric load capacity; without all of them, the body cannot transfer the loads without significant compensation.
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For most athletes, neurological output often exceeds the body’s tissues. Often there are clues, specific factors that can be manipulated if discovered early on, may prevent a lot of connective tissue based injuries.

27/07/2026

Our bodies are always trying to solve problems. If you don’t address a leak, you may continually target the wrong problem and reinforce these patterns.
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Comment the word “MOVE” down below and learn what might be your biggest movement leak.
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If I think I can help, I’ll send you a personalized review, for free.

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120A Fullers Road Chatswood
Sydney, NSW
2067

Opening Hours

2pm - 5pm

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