Benchmark Canterbury

Why is there a growing need to use supplements to help our health? Is the supplement industry helping you find optimise your health and performance?

0:00 Start
2:00 The decline of agriculture and the l…

We're joined by Dr Paula Basilio from my Back relief to talk all things back pain.

0:30 Intro
2:25 Back pain 60%
3:20 Blue zones 
10:10 The 3 stressors 
13:30 Paula’s examination for back pain
 21:10 Ideal…

Today we're joined by Tim Davies an education focused lecturer at Sydney university.
We're discussing what is advanced training ? as well as some of our favourite advanced methods to use.

0:00 Intro/ S…

Did you know a training plateu is when you fail to make progress for 2 or more weeks.
what is holding us back and how to we fix it ?

0:10 intro 
1:30 #1 listening to dumb shittttttttt. 
11:30 #2 Nutritio…

Today we go back to the basics of strength and conditioning training. We explore the differences between working out and training, common fallacies and social media driven fads vs. the benefits of pr…

Winter is coming!
 
 This can be a challenging time to keep our healthy habits and maintain momentum with our health and fitness goals.
 
  In today podcast we’re exploring tactics to get on track and ke…

Discussing pain and injuries with physiotherapist Michael Phipps.
Tackling what pain ? How is it best approached and managed. How can you best recover from your pain and injury and get back to what yo…

It's all connected. Your breath pattern, posture, movement potential and even your nervous system.

0:50 Breathing, survival ,gait 
6:00 How’re you suppose to breath ?
12:00 What is the ZOA ?
15:30 The po…

How to best spend your time in the gym as an athlete ? 
What should you work on to improve your performance ?
Join us as we explore 5 of the most impactful athletic quality's to help improve your perfo…

Functional training is a powerful buzz word in the fitness industry but what dose it actually mean? What dose it mean to make a human truly functional ? 

0:45 What is functional training 
3:35 what is …

A comprehensive guide to improve your deadlift.
 10 of the best tips to move better, feel better and perform better with the Deadlift.

0:35 Deadlift intro
3:25 Tip 1 : Pushing ground away 
7:10 Tip 2: St…

Is A.I the way to lead us forward with our health and fitness or is this the start of the robot uprising ?

0:35 Is AI the answer to health and fitness ?
5:00 Questions 1:  How to lose Fat loss 
18:00 Qu…

There is strength in numbers. Training in a group can help you with your adherence to training. Building friendships and being in a like-minded community.

Group training has been shown to help increa…

A divisive topic in health in the fitness industry ..... to screen or not to screen ? We exploring the pros and cons of using screening and how to best execute a screening.

0:00 intro 
2:00 Screenings …

Ever wondered why you should warmup before training? What are the benefits and what is the best way to do it. Today we will be exploring these questions and sharing our systems at Benchmark to get th…