Ian O’Dwyer

One of my favorite exercises to strengthen the lateral core is a four second breath in and exhale, engaging the big toe, pelvic floor, diaphragm, and tongue. Then progress to a short step with the arm in a horizontal position, and then progress to stepping laterally and maintaining a good sports position.
 
Transcript: "What's some of my favorite exercises to strengthen the lateral core for adaptation or ability to move through space. I have either real bearing and understanding that the course, starts our toes and finishes at the nose and we know that deep core line is proven their through dissection. So we've got to understand that when we're training the core, we're training the inclusiveness, we're training everything, one of my favorite exercises, I'll take and even less common that a bag, and I'll make it a beer. And and I've got my now, my handle and I'm just going to get someone to go in and do a four second breath in exhale. And I want to be able to feel that big toe covered floor diaphragm and tongue connect and I want that to hold for five seconds and you'll see it's a client's moving about. Maybe that's too intense. You want to come back and take some of the intensity out of it. If the clients comfortable, you might get them to do once again, the breathing Activation. So they're activating their big toe pelvic floor, diaphragm and tongue. And then you can get them to run through a short step just moving with the arm in that horizontal position. So you can See, I've actually got no stress in my shoulder. All I'm doing now is I'm creating opportunity for my whole lateral line to have to perform and then I can take it into a third progression where I can actually get them to step laterally and be able to be strong in that position. Making sure that I've got a good sports position available."

I would like to add questions about topics that empower people from an emotional, mental, physical and spiritual perspective. These topics should address the inclusiveness of the human being, breath, mobilization and stabilization, play, performance, and strength. Additionally, it should include advice on preparation and recovery for optimal performance.
 
Transcript: "What topics would like to add some more questions about. That's a really, really great top because of the fact that when we look at people who are wanting answers about various challenges in their careers, whether it's sport corporate, whether it's every day, workers, mums and dads kids with learning disabilities. I love answering questions that Empower people from an emotional mental, physical spiritual perspective. I love it because of the fact that it It looks at the inclusiveness of the human being. Not the exclusiveness, we tend to Silo things. We tend to say, it's a muscular problem. It's a neural problem. It's a skeletal problem. When realistically, you can't separate the mind, you can't separate the heart that Gap. You can't separate this extracellular Matrix that surrounds everything that's nebulous in our body. So when we start to talk about, how we can Empower people how we can guide, how we can coach people, I mean just did an answering and addressing everything from breath to mobilization stabilization to play to Performance strengths. And what is strength. What is everyday strength? Is it loaded movement? Strength is a traditional strength is of isolation, is it integrated? So if we're going to look at about or talk about getting and being effective as coaches as guides, then we need to understand what the tissues are that. We need to address. Dress. What their roles are how it affects and how we can affect them, through changing, the emotional state and the amount of stress that goes into them. And then, of course, we want to talk about how do we prepare them and how do we recover them? Because if we have a scenario now, where we can give the tissues of the of the human being, the optimal preparation and Recovery the performance, we're going to have is going to be phenomenal."

Instead of patronising people by saying "good job", be curious and ask how they are feeling. Encourage positive responses that will create a positive outcome.
 
Transcript: "How do we get creative with our words? Instead of just saying to our clients, good job. I really feel that the most important thing that we've got to focus on as a coach as a guide is connection. And when we connect to people conversation communication is simple. It's not about us patronising people by saying good job. It's about inquiring caring, being empathetic, being compassionate, just like you would, if you had your friend, your family member training with you. So what's really important is I'm always inquiring with my with my clients with myself. How does that feel? I want to get their feedback not just verbally but also their feedback, physically, emotionally and mentally. Because what you'll find is, the more that they know that you care, then the more they're going to start to actually be able to feedback important information for us that we need to know that we need to be able to create a solution for You know, lots of times people will say, where am I supposed to feel? This doesn't matter where you feel it. Every person is going to feel it differently. But we need to understand that when they give us an answer that we can then create an encouraging response, a positive response that allows them to know that they're going into a positive direction. They're not going through a negative response which is going to create a negative outcome."

To determine the intensity of a workout for a client, it is important to understand their current state such as how they are feeling, nutrition and hydration levels, movement patterns, and any discomfort or pain. A simple questionnaire can be used to rate the intensity of the workout and then formulate what the body needs to achieve the client's goals.
 
Transcript: "What fact is going to workout intensity? From a feel so good perspective. We've got to understand the person in front of us where they are today before we create an amount of intensity for their tissues. So what we would want to do before we even started moving them, we would want to understand some of their feedback, understand how they've slept, whether they feel rested, we'll have more don't then mood. Whether they're agitated or whether they're really chilled out, we would want as understanding nutrition and hydration. Because that's in an important factor because if they haven't got enough fuel or hydration, they're not going to be able to complete the task at hand and of course, we want to understand their Movement, we want to have with their movement patterns. We want to know whether there's any discomfort or pain. So we've designed a really simple questionnaire that takes about three minutes that actually, they ask themselves and then measure themselves, which then gives them a rating to understand, where they sit on their intensity workout for today. So once we can identify where they are today, whether they're going to have a 90% workout and 80% work out, or 70% work, at whatever, it may be, then we can formulate what their bodies actually. What their tissues actually need to create the optimal outcome to create the success, the Improvement, the enhancement, that the tissues are going to require for that client to achieve their goals and aspirations."

When designing a program, it is important to consider vector variation and three-dimensional motion. While extreme ranges of motion are not necessarily needed, they should be able to move in ways that prepare them for their sport or challenge. Nerve, muscle, bone, fascia, skin, blood and lymph must all be taken into account when preparing the body for movement.
 
Transcript: "Do we need extreme ranges of motion in our programs? When I'm designing a program, when I'm looking at movement patterns, when I'm going through people in motion, I'm looking for rhythm and timing. And I'm also looking for looking for Vector variation. In other words, I'm looking at the different directions and lines that the forces are going to attenuate through the tissues. So do we need to put people through extreme ranges of motion? No. Do we need to prepare them for the ability for them to potentially go through that in their sport, in their goal, in their challenge. Yes, Jimmy what I have seen over the years in my 25 to 30 years of practicing, is that the people who have become very traditional, very linear in their preparation and strength, generally have major problems at some stage, when they move three-dimensionally. So, we've really got to be able to make sure that the ankle, the knee, the pelvic ring, and the shoulder ring from a fuel summer perspective are conditioned to move in three dimensional motion. And when I start to talk about three conditions are three dimensional motion, I'm I'm talking about nerve muscle and bone. Only and took that fascia skin, blood lymph. Because without those other four, tissues the first three tissues are really not going to function that well. So if I can start to move my clients, it three-dimensionally and I can start to grow their threshold. You will find that when they start to attenuate forces, or stressing, their tissues, they're going to be able to cope with that quite successfully."

I have a non-traditional background and have been in the coaching industry for 30 years. Through this experience, I have learned to problem solve in order to create positive solutions to difficult situations.
 
Transcript: "What is my claim to fame? Well, not really sure that I have any fame or am famous. But anyway, let's let's put it into perspective. I come from a non-traditional background. I grew up with horses, we had race horses, so we understood athletes horses. Teach you humility connection and observation. We had to be able to connect have the humility to know that we didn't know, but through observation we could learn what the horse required. And then as I grew up and played sport, I lost an By the age of three, I cut it out with a knife, which was obviously an accent. But what that, and many years of sport taught me because you can imagine playing Sport with one eye and the amount of injuries. I cocked from not being over saying that I actually had to become the opposite side of my body. To play the sport I played, which was a FL. And then of course, I went into a tray, my trade wasn't being a plumber and being a plumber meant really, from my perspective of problem, solving, I love creating old to new and creating solution. So it's kind of interesting because those phases of my life have led me to this. This. Now, I've been 30 years in a coaching perspective. I worked with everyone from neural disorders. Skeletal disorders, brain disorders, I've worked Elite athletes children with learning disabilities, mums, and dads, right across the board and do I know the answers? No, all I know is there are no answers, but what there is our Solutions, and we can create a positive outcome, a great experience. We've created a positive solution"