Altum Performance

Altum Performance Private one-to-one strength coaching in a home studio in Pimpama, and online coaching Australia-wide. For bodies that have been through something.

More is not better.

03/09/2026

Your lower back isn’t the problem
It’s just the part doing the work.

Most people feel a movement in their lower back and assume the back is the issue, Usually it’s the position.

Ribs up, pelvis tips forward with them, and the back takes the load the core was meant to take.

Think of a duck’s beak. Top opens, bottom opens. Same hinge.

Bring the ribs down, squeeze the glutes, and the beak closes. Now the core has no choice but to do its job.

More tension. More structure. The joints moving the way they’re supposed to.

Same exercise. Same weight. Completely different thing being trained.

That’s the difference between doing an exercise and training a position.

Which one have you been doing without realising?

01/09/2026

Monday. Youngest is down for her nap, and I’ve got about ninety minutes.

Six video check-ins for my online and hybrid clients, back to back.

Not a message asking how the week went

I go through their actual training, what moved, what didn’t, what’s changing next week and why they’re hearing it from me rather than reading it off a screen.

Then program updates for a few others on top, all of it back to them before the day gets away.

This is what online coaching with me actually looks like, and it’s most of the job.

I ask clients to build training around the week they’ve actually got instead of the one they wish they had.

Hard to ask that with a straight face if I’m not doing it myself.

31/08/2026

Gabby is a barber. She trains once a week in the gym.

One session. One or two conditioning sessions on top, none of them locked to a day, because her day belongs to whoever’s in the chair.

Twelve months of that. Down 10kg+ and deadlifting her own bodyweight for reps.

If you’re doing the maths and it isn’t adding up, you’re right, the training isn’t what did it. The training is the smallest part of her week.

She preps her food so a ten-hour shift doesn’t decide what she eats.
She goes to bed and gets up at the same times, phone down before, sleep treated as something to protect rather than the first thing to trade.

That runs seven days. The gym runs one.

Most people have it backwards. They chase five sessions a week and leave everything else to chance, then wonder why a busy month wipes out three months of work.

The part I didn’t expect: once the pressure to be perfect came off, she started wanting more of it. She’s the one carving out time now. Nobody had to convince her.

That’s the order it happens in. The routine comes first, the wanting turns up later.

More is not better. Better is better.

27/08/2026

Maximise your energy first thing in the morning and crush your day 🔥

1. Morning Sun - Naturally boosts cortisol and sets your circadian rhythm
2. Eat some food - Food is our energy source, get it in, you’ll be more efficient, don’t give me you don’t have time
3. Hydrate - Get 500 - 1L in as soon as you can, gets you ahead for the day and your body needs it

Bonus tip: 10g creatine minimum per day, gives you an energy buffer essentially and has great brain benefits.

26/08/2026

90kg back squat
He started at 60.
Three weeks.

Not from adding more sets, Not from training harder but from finding the way HIS body actually responds and dropping the generic program that wasn’t built for him in the first place.

Then the food clicked

A few small shifts, just from actually paying attention to what he was eating
Energy followed within days.

Same guy, Right approach, Completely different trajectory.

24/08/2026

Bailey used to be in the gym religiously.
Then the shoulder started playing up, work got busier, and he stopped. That’s usually how it goes. It’s rarely one decision — it’s a slow drift, and one day you realise it’s been two years.

Pain isn’t a damage meter. It’s a protective signal, and that signal moves when you build capacity underneath it.

So we didn’t chase the shoulder. We built stability, and we worked on his ability to move through and access the positions he’d lost.

His volume work is now heavier than his old strength work used to be.

Same shoulder. A lot more available to him.

What have you stopped doing because it started hurting?

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