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Rebalancing Health Giovanni is a CHEK‑trained strength coach bridging musculoskeletal rehab and S&C.

He offers bodywork and training for surfers and everyday people, taking you from broken to strong with a longevity‑focused approach. As a CHEK Professional, Giovanni specialises in Corrective exercise and holistic health and Strength and Conditioning. This approach assists the client to prevent injury, succeed in late-stage rehabilitation and effectively re-balance their health and wellness to perform optimally in life and sport. EAT -MOVE -SLEEP -FLOW

Giovanni’s times with you the client starts with a precise physiological and postural musculoskeletal assessment, this steps can be done either in person or remotley. He believes that different body types, gender, history of history lifestyle and personality impacts the strategy taken towards re-balancing the health of each individual. No matter what issues a client seeks to overcome or the goals they want to achieve, creating a comprehensive profile of the client’s situation is, for Giovanni in his approach, crucial to determine the cause and to create a tailored program to heal and prevent injury, overcome ailments, re-balance health, and improve performance when subsequently undertaking amateur or professional sport.

“Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think." Albert Einstein


Online coaching available with a wide range of support materials, online pre-recorded video coaching materials.

15/10/2026

𝗜 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗯𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝟳’𝟰” 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽-𝘂𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁 — 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝘄𝗼-𝗳𝗼𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝗽. 🏄‍♂️

That was Isaac’s call, not a mistake.

His logic (): if you want to understand your rail, ride a board that forces you to engage it in weak waves. A bigger board doesn’t let you hide. You can’t rely on speed. You have to commit. 💯

What shifted for him:
✅ Weight distribution
✅ Timing
✅ Loading the back foot before the critical section

The board made the feedback louder. Most surfers chase smaller boards thinking it’ll sharpen them up. Worth asking the opposite question. 🤔

Free 6-week surf strength and conditioning program in the bio, built around the hip stability that makes rail surfing feel less like luck.

Full conversation on my YouTube channel now, link in bio. 🎧

Thank you Gio.

14/10/2026

𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗡 𝗜𝗦𝗔𝗔𝗖 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗣𝗔𝗗𝗗𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗝𝗔𝗪𝗦, 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗡𝗢 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗔𝗕𝗟𝗘 𝗩𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗦. 🌊

No CO2 cartridge. No pull cord. Nothing built to bring you back up.

𝗜𝘀𝗮𝗮𝗰 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 () told me what it actually looked like back then. Guys paddling into one of the heaviest waves on the planet wearing boating vests — the kind made for a boat accident, not a two-wave hold-down at 20 feet.

That was the safety net. That was it.

No jet ski standing by for every session. No purpose-built gear. Just fitness, instinct, and whoever was paddling next to you.

The sport has changed fast. Inflatable vests, dedicated safety teams, rescue sleds — all of it came after guys like Isaac were already out there without it. Worth remembering next time someone calls big wave surfing a lifestyle brand.

Full conversation on my YouTube channel now — link in bio. 🎧

Thank you Gio.

13/10/2026

In 23 years of surfing, I have never once seen a surfer use that movement in the ocean.

Cable machines.
Resistance bands pulling from fixed points.
And two‑arm shoulder extension in an open chain — the one everyone thinks “looks like paddling.”

We never use both arms at the same time.
Not for swimming.
Not for catching waves.
Not for paddling into a set.

Every stroke is asymmetrical.
One arm enters the water, anchors, and creates a rotational force.

And in that exact moment, the trunk has to resist that rotation — not follow it.
That’s the real pattern.
That’s the real demand.

Two‑arm shoulder extension in an open chain doesn’t carry any of that over.

It removes the instability, the timing, and the rotational resistance your trunk has to produce the moment your hand hits the water.

Thank you Gio.





02/10/2026

If you’re only training shoulder extension with cables, you’re quietly pulling your joint out of balance.

I see this a lot with surfers who’ve been gym training for years.

They come in with shoulder pain they can’t explain.

They’re consistent with their workouts.

They’re putting in the work.

But somewhere along the way, the training itself became part of the problem.

Cable machines and bands aren’t bad. They’re useful tools.

The issue is when they become the only tool.

They isolate.

They train one muscle, one plane, one direction — and they do it really well.

But your shoulder doesn’t live in isolation.

It’s held together by a whole system of muscles that have to work in relationship with each other.

When you keep loading one side of that equation, the other side quietly starts to lose its say in things.

What I keep coming back to is this — surfers don’t need more isolation. They need better integration.

The paddle, the pop‑up, the rotation through a turn — none of that is a single muscle firing in a single direction.

So the question worth sitting with is whether your training actually reflects how your body is meant to move.

Full video on YouTube — link in bio.

Thank you Gio.





30/09/2026

Archie came in after almost two years of pain that stopped him from squatting properly.

Three weeks later, he was squatting pain-free.

That doesn't mean the job was done.

Getting out of pain and actually fixing what caused it are two different things — in Archie's case, getting pain-free took three weeks, but restoring the movement properly took a full year of work.

Two years of compensation doesn't disappear overnight, even when the pain does.

If pain has been quietly running your training (or your surfing) for a while now, that's the real distinction worth understanding: relief is fast, correction takes time.

Thank you Gio.

28/09/2026

You were born breathing.
But there’s a good chance you’ve been doing it wrong your entire life.

What keeps showing up — whether it’s a hold‑down at Shipstern Bluff or someone sitting at a desk in Mullumbimby — is that around 70% of people breathe dysfunctionally.
Not occasionally.
Habitually.
The same way someone can have a dysfunctional running gait and never know until something breaks down.

The wild part is nobody ever taught you to breathe.
You just started.
And kept going.
Decades of the same pattern, locked in.
Chest tight.
Shoulders doing the work.
Nervous system running hotter than it needs to.

Through , Jason explains that you don’t need extra time carved out to fix it.
It integrates into what you’re already doing.
Which means the barrier to starting is smaller than most people think.

That one stayed with me for a while.

Thank you Gio.





28/09/2026

Every assessment tells a story about how someone surfs. Shoulder rotation, hip mobility, spinal movement — it's all connected to the pop-up, the turn, the paddle out. One client put it plainly: "the depth of your knowledge is amazing."

Understanding that is what lets us build something that holds up wave after wave, session after session — not just in the gym, but out at your local break.

Thank you Gio.

27/09/2026

Most surfers think paddling is purely open‑chain movement. Pull the water, recover, repeat. But it’s not that simple.

The moment your hand enters the water and anchors — that’s closed‑chain. Your body is moving over a fixed point. That’s not a pull. That’s a push. And the muscles doing the work in that phase are completely different to what most surf training programs are targeting.

What I see a lot is guys spending hours on cable machines and lat pulldowns wondering why their paddle still breaks down at the back half of a long session.

Cable work has its place.

But it mostly trains the open‑chain recovery phase.

The closed‑chain anchoring phase — the one generating actual propulsion — needs ground‑based, loaded movement patterns to really develop. Crawling, pushing, rotational loading through a stable base.

Stuff that doesn’t look very surf‑specific but absolutely is.

If you want to train both halves of the stroke in a way that actually transfers to the water, I put together a free 6‑week surf strength and conditioning program.

Thank you Gio.





25/09/2026

Food is more than a source of energy.
It’s pleasure.
It’s connection.

Just like surfing — you might be able to do a hundred turns on a wave, but they look like crap.
Because there’s more to it than brute force.
There’s timing, coordination, rhythm, feel.

Food is the same.
Yes, we want it easy — I’m all for that.
But it also has to nourish us, not just chemically, but spiritually.

The way it smells.
The way it feels to prepare.
The way it brings you back into your body.

That part matters more than people think.

Thank you Gio.




24/09/2026

Paddling is 50% closed‑chain movement.
Most surfers have never trained that half.

When your hand enters the water and you’re pulling your body over a fixed point — that’s closed‑chain. Your hand isn’t moving. You are. The load travels through a completely different pathway than an open‑chain pull.

What I keep seeing is guys doing cable rows, lat pulldowns, band work — and wondering why their paddle still feels weak or their shoulder keeps going. Those movements have their place. But they’re not replicating what actually happens in the water. The nervous system doesn’t recognise the pattern the same way.

Something I come back to a lot with clients is this: the paddle stroke isn’t just a lat exercise. It’s a whole‑body load transfer through a partially fixed system. The shoulder, the thoracic spine, the hip — they all have to sequence together. When one piece isn’t doing its job, something else picks up the slack. That’s usually where the injury lives.

If you want to train for paddling, you have to understand what paddling actually is first.

Free 6‑week surf strength and conditioning program in the bio.

Thank you Gio.





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