Melbourne Strength & Conditioning Coaching

Training frequency will depend on your experience level, overall health, fitness goals, and injury. After your assessment, Solidus’ strength and conditioning coaches will determine the right training frequency for your needs. 

We’ll also design a program around your lifestyle and current training programs. For example, if you’re a tennis player who intends to increase muscle mass and strength, we’ll provide a training schedule and workload that doesn’t interfere with your regular training.

Strength training is highly effective for injury prevention for many reasons. A good program can strengthen your muscles, tendons, ligaments and bones, as well as improve your flexibility, posture and balance. Strength training also increases bone density and leads to better coordination and balance, preventing falls that often occur with older people or those with balance problems.

Strength and conditioning exercises use a combination of bodyweight and weighted exercises, along with cardiovascular training to develop your strength, endurance and flexibility. Exercises are selected to include movements that support sporting activity and everyday tasks, ranging from reverse lunges using your bodyweight to squats using weight bars.

When our Melbourne strength and conditioning coaches incorporate their expert knowledge of physiology, anatomy and biomechanics, they can design functional programs specific to your needs and goals. Whether you’re prone to injury, currently injured, or hoping to improve your day-to-day quality of life, you’ll see much faster results when your training program is designed specifically for you!

Strength training is a great way to build strength and improve muscle mass, but it can be dangerous if performed incorrectly. When weights are lifted with improper technique, i.e. jerking during an exercise to lift the weight, it can cause misalignment and stress your muscles, joints and tendons. This leads to sprains and more severe injuries like muscle tears.

In addition to lousy form, overloading your muscles too quickly by adding too much weight can cause injury. Our Melbourne strength training programs incorporate adequate rest times between training sessions while adding recovery weeks where volume and intensity are decreased. Training intensity will only be increased when your body has adapted to the current demands, so progression overload is gradual.

We specialise in injury prevention and rehabilitation, so if you’ve sustained muscle or joint damage, we can properly diagnose your symptoms and locate the cause of any pain or discomfort.

For our Melbourne strength and conditioning coaches to help you achieve your fitness goals, you must provide them with relevant medical information. Please let our program designer know about this during our initial consultation if you suffer from any injuries, ailments, or illnesses.

Our Melbourne strength and conditioning coaches will review your lifestyle, current training program, condition and any injuries. We’ll then perform physical assessments by analysing your body mechanics, posture, flexibility and core stability. This allows us to identify any imbalances or muscle weakness contributing to injury.

We’ll then provide a summary of our findings and a personalised program to support you – whether you have the goal of injury prevention, rehabilitation or performance enhancement.

Our strength and conditioning coaches use an evidence-based approach to personalise your training, meaning everything you do is based on tested and proven principles and methods.

In addition to expert knowledge of physiology, anatomy, biomechanics and sports science, our Melbourne strength training experts also have a wealth of experience treating people from all backgrounds. You’ll receive the best care and support to get you back to your regular activities as quickly and safely as possible.