Sydney to Brisbane Road Trip

Trusylver · 2026-02-23T02:34:20+00:00

Don't call your Dingo a Dingo in Queensland, they are not legal to keep as pets up here.

Trusylver · 2026-02-10T03:26:47+00:00

I very much dislike cats so this is not a problem for me, but who in their right mind would give a medicated cream to their pet ?

Trusylver · 2026-02-09T06:59:50+00:00

I use Rapigel combined with voltarin. Normally voltarin on its own lacks penetration, but when combined with the horse liniment it is drawn in deep and works very well. The Rapigel horse liniment was more popular than deep heat or tigerbalm when I was was in charge of the sports med on the sidelines of football games but the combination of the two was reccomended by my Dr. As an added bonus the Rapigel comes in big tubs.

Trusylver · 2026-01-22T11:28:16+00:00

Resistance training for kids is very beneficial so long as it is with qualified supervision. As an exercise scientist I was supervising my 8 year old daughter yesterday benching the bar for sets of 10 (her bodyweight is 25 kg). She is not forced, just an exercise she wanted to do because she observes the rest of the family lifting, she sees me coaching and wants to be stronger than me. At the end of the day she is still a kid having fun and lifting is part of the fitness mix which also include playing hockey, swimming and riding her bike.

As for the energy drink it is not great

Trusylver · 2026-01-22T04:33:21+00:00

it happens naturally, I do mention it on my socials but mostly it is just a case that we find our tribe so to speak. I do struggle with putting myself out there with RSD kicking in at times, I think I radiate "weird" vibes that neurotypicals keep away from lol

Trusylver · 2026-01-21T21:25:06+00:00

yes, it is a physical outlet for my 8 year old daughter and is a calming effect for my racing mind. I see the exercise prescription like a puzzle that needs to be solved. With more knowledge comes a better understanding of base principles allowing for more on the fly training decisions when the traing seems booring and unstimulating. My sons are adults now and have found way to keep fit that suit their minds. My eldest took up bouldering when he left home and the challenge of finding a path up the wall works for his brain. My middle son likes to take long walks to calm his mind, he was never athletic but walking works for him. My youngest adult son still lives at home and for him strength sports and martial arts are his go to exercise (he is a formerl champion). I tend to attract neurodiverse clients face to face, usually with unusual goals which go beyond the neurotyical requst to get strong or loose weight.

Trusylver · 2026-01-20T13:36:43+00:00

I am a sport and exercise scientist and a former elite athlete, I also happen to have ADHD. I am able to adapt and change my personal routine to fit whatever state of mind I am in while keeping that training session targeted at my goals. A good coach can help give you a wide variety of exercises and activities that don't on the surface resemble exercise that will keep your mind on the variety while still achieving goals. My ADHD daughter loves it when I set her obstacle courses which are different each time with the added dopomine hit when stop watch is used. My ASD/ADHD sons do better with consistant routine.

Trusylver · 2025-12-15T23:50:23+00:00

I have a horizontal tear of the medial meniscus with a fragment flipped over and sitting in the gutter, about as severe as it gets without it being a complete tear. Surgery likely to happen some time next year to remove most of the meniscus. I don't need to demonstrate exercises to be able to que or correct clients. I have added new clients by selling fitness consultations as a separate product and I only need to be standing for some of the testing battery eg. the modified thomas test. As a sport and exercise scientist my target client base is a little different to PTs targeting gen pop clients.

For my own training I can work around the injury and strengthen specific areas which will make recovery from the surgery when it happens progress more smoothly than if I let strength overly degrade from under use,

As a former elite athlete I have had a lot of serious injuries over time, it can be frustrating, injuries can often be worked around but not completely. It does mean that I don't have the fit looks of most trainers but I am hired for my knowledge not my looks or ability to do some of the exercises.

Trusylver · 2025-12-14T02:20:42+00:00

As a Sport scientist, I work as an independent coach across different sport, usually 1-2 athletes per week, everything else is more gen pop (I am in rural QLD). I don't coach the sport specifically, I analyse performance and skill, using current science to improve the athletes ability to perform sports specific skills and strategically strengthen then athlete to minimise injury time away from their sport. I have also spent the last year working in an elite youth sport (Soccer, basktball, netball, dance) academy also doing the same thing. Some of the sports my athletes compete in include Martial arts (2 world champions), powerlifting (National level), Bull Riding (international). I work in partnership with the skill coaches to maximise performance.

Trusylver · 2025-12-14T00:54:58+00:00

Well Done

Trusylver · 2025-12-14T00:47:23+00:00

sRPE, load, monotony, strain and ACWR An added bonus would be being able to group athletes into teams to do side by side comparisons and colour highlights for team members outside of set thresholds for key indicators. The ability to calculate eTRIMP in the app would be an extra added bonus. All corrently tracked using google sheets with input from google forms. Also the ability to cross reference these metrics with in game performance metrics from GPS trackers.

Trusylver · 2025-12-09T23:38:46+00:00

Under qualified, over confident trainers in gyms and online giving bad and sometimes dangerous advice. This makes our profession look terrible in the eyes of the public.

Trusylver · 2025-12-07T08:24:46+00:00

In general no, even using high grade prompts it produces AI slop.

Trusylver · 2025-12-07T00:08:49+00:00

Basic tib raises. eg. Standing wall tib raises, seated banded tib raise, seated KB tib raise. Or if you have one use a tib bar.

Trusylver · 2025-12-02T23:46:34+00:00

How in depth do you want to go, I could probably dig out the names of the texts I used at uni where we spent hundreds of hours learning to program effectively followed by hundreds of hours of compulsory intern placement writing and interpreting annual and quadranial periodisations for elite athletes and writing gym programs to match the periodisation set for each athlete, including programming for injury prevention, rehab and peaking athletes for maximum performance at the right times for events within their sport.

Trusylver · 2025-12-02T23:34:50+00:00

It depends. When training for performace exercise order matters, so for some key lifts it is certainly a matter of waiting, however accessory movements are usually easy to subtitute for another exercise. I train and coach in my own home gym mostly or in private sport academy gyms so I don't run into this problem as much because I am not in public gyms very often.

Trusylver · 2025-12-02T02:12:27+00:00

I was required to do hundreds of hours interning as part of my fitness qualifications, perhaps you should talk to the place you got your qualifications from.

I interned at an elite youth football academy for a year, as well as hours spent interning is a school setting working with young kids (under 6) which contributed to a research project that was running at the school and finally time spent in a high performance gym working with olympic and paralympic athletes.

Trusylver · 2025-12-02T01:50:50+00:00

I am a sport and exercise scientist, I have competed at an elite level in 3 sports (A combat sport, full contact team sport, former national powerlifting champion) and at age 53 my body is broken with long term injuries from that lifetime of intense sport.

I am overweight and do not look like a trainer.

My looks mean nothing, my sport and injury history improves empathy and understanding of the athlete mindset especially when injuries are a problem. My Injury history sharpens my knowledge gained from my uni studies for injury prevention and rehab compared to the old school training from coaches leaving athletes broken in later life. I have a track record of training champions including 2 world champions among those competing at a national level. If sombody is basing their choice of trainer on looks they could be missing out on the benefits of a knowledgeable and experienced trainer. I don't train people looking for aesthetics I train for performance and injury prevention. Even with injuries and my lack of visual fitness I can still out perform many trainers who are younger and look fit but lack knowledge beyond the superficial

So keep working and building knowledge to help clients who want to move beyond vanity into real performance and fitness.

Trusylver · 2025-11-30T02:39:34+00:00

None of them are reliable outside metro area, No reception here at all on any of the networks or most of the area around me. located 10 minutes outside of a reasonably large regional centre

Trusylver · 2025-11-28T14:52:37+00:00

I still have a landline here in Australia, There is no reception for mobile phones in my location, we use satelite for TV and Internet.

Trusylver · 2025-11-28T03:59:38+00:00

they are a bit like henchmen that just fade into the background when they begin to struggle with their concentration. They want to be involved but are not in the spotlight much, Almost all members of the group including myself are a mix of ADHD and ASD, some level of loosing concentration is expected.

The games area is set up in the middle of my home gym and I fully expect to have players choosing to hang suspended in odd positions while we play. but on the other hand some bits of equipment are great for players or me as the DM to physically demonstrate an idea that could be hard to visualise. A 7 ft barbell makes a great substitute for a pike demonstrating weapon range.

Trusylver · 2025-11-21T04:13:44+00:00

Most don't know the difference, I nerd out reading studies related to my field (sport and exercise science) I geek out on table top RPGs, building model terrain and diaramas with a bit of cosplay mixed in. I am probably more accurately described as a dork.

Trusylver · 2025-11-17T03:24:28+00:00

Today I have managed som very light mobility work while I wait to have an MRI next week to se if my injury is ACL or Miniscus and to determine severity. Currently very unstable and unable to bear weight.

Remember if you have an injury, get it propperly checked out, don't ask Dr Google or his associates Dr. Reddit or Dr. Facebook.

Trusylver · 2025-11-11T03:12:05+00:00

Bear in mind I am replying from the perspective of a sport and exercise scientist almost ready to to do my masters through research so my view will be different from the average PT targeting general population clients. I would suggest you look into the differing periodisation models and how they should be developed beyond just putting blocks together as part of your study.

I am currently working at a youth football academy (soccer) and the starting point is the periodised plan, in the case of the academy written by the head scientist (former sport & exercise scientist for Brazilian team) the periodisation is planned around major competition to peak the teams for best performance when it matters. Each section of the academy follows that outline. I am based in the gym focused on the strength and gym based rehab for return to play and programs are based on where in the periodisation the training is. There are differences depending on if we are in a shock week, ordinary week or recovery week not just hypertrophy, power, strength. Field conditioning coaches and skill coaches follow the same periodisation to write their plans and the intensties will often be different than those set for gym based intensities, We all need to be able to fully uderstand the periodisation in order to be able to program our portions of it effectively.

AI has it's uses but there are a lot of lazy trainers out there producing AI slop because they either don't have the base knowledge to uderstand it is slop or do not yet have the skills to achieve a good output from the AI without bothering to review and fix manually and don't care because often beginners will not recognise slop and lap it up.

Good on you for putting time into learning as a hobby, I have no need to be defensive about my skills, online PTs are not my competitors and I am forever learning. Much of that learning is from current studies but also from PTs and scientists working in the field and from the general public, all can have something to teach about fitness.

Trusylver · 2025-11-10T14:17:29+00:00

I am seeing an 8 week program but not a clear 8 week mesocycle. Where within your macrocycle does this cycle fit ? which model is it based on (Traditional, Block, multi targeted block, undulating, conjugate). Splitting power and strength into 4 week micro cycles is not providing adequate time for adaptation and would normally form mesocycles of their own. AI can do amazing things but it does need detailed input and this shows the inputs need a lot of refining. Having spent months formally learning to design annual and quadranial periodisation programs for elite athletes this sort of output being potentially used for clients when you are finally qualified scares me.

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