HNL Movement Podcast

Have you heard about anatomy trains? Did you know that your myofascial system creates direct connections and seamless integrations between individual muscles. This episode is all about understanding the various myofascial meridians that travel the body from head to toe. The myofascial system contains countless nerve endings, provides sensory information, and stores mechanical information as we mov...

Have you heard about anatomy trains? Did you know that your myofascial system creates direct connections and seamless integrations between individual muscles. This episode is all about understanding the various myofascial meridians that travel the body from head to toe. The myofascial system contains countless nerve endings, provides sensory information, and stores mechanical information as we mov...

Let’s welcome Guysen Terai to the HNL Movement Podcast! Guysen recently moved back to Hawaii after being a strength & conditioning coach at Oregon. This episode discusses many topics related to strength & conditioning, coaching strategies, navigating through your career, and finding your purpose to make a positive impact on those around you. Guysen talks about growing up in Hilo and playin...

Do you suffer from nagging and annoying knee pain that is preventing you from doing activities? Even if you are pushing through the pain, your performance will slowly declining with any type of knee pain. This episode is all about understanding the wide range of potential causes of knee pain, how to eliminate your pain, and most importantly train to improve your knee health and performance. Andrew...

Summer is over and Andrew is starting his 2nd year in his PhD program! This episode is a brief update on his PhD journey as well as the upcoming HNL Movement content. Like with any endeavor, it’s about utilizing your experiences and growing along the way. With a year under his belt, he is excited to get started with his 2nd year. Andrew shares valuable insights for everyone to apply to their journ...

Welcome Ed Gibbins, the Co-Owner and Chief Product Officer at Rewire Fitness, to the HNL Movement Podcast! For everyone out there, especially athletes, how do you train and recover mentally and cognitively? There is evidence and proven strategies that help to enhance physical readiness and performance, however, many of us don’t have the tools or experience to apply these mental and cognitive strat...

This episode is all about how to implement an effective warmup strategies to help you better prepare for your training sessions and activities that you are jumping into. This is a great general overview of key components that are included in effective components. The components Andrew mentions are (1) increasing circulation/metabolism, (2) progressing mechanics and movements, (3) warming up the ne...

Do you have rotator cuff problems? Are you looking to prevent shoulder injuries in overhead sports? Listen in to this episode where Andrew breaks down key concepts for optimal shoulder health. This episode is all about the rotator cuff: anatomy, function, and key training considerations to elevate your shoulder performance.  This episode is a must to understand the importance of the rotator cuff....

Welcome Takahiro (Taka) Uchida to the podcast this week! Taka is an assistant athletic trainer with the Atlanta Hawks. He shares his journey of moving from Japan to the United States, working to become a Certified Athletic Trainer, and making the most of the opportunities in front of him. From the time he moved from Japan, he had dreams and aspirations of working in the NBA one day. He is now livi...

Listen in to this informative and educational episode on all things pertaining to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries.  Andrew has a wealth of experience in clinical practice and research when it comes to ACL injuries. This episode covers many key points including:  ·  ACL anatomy ·  Function of the ACL ·  Mechanism of ACL injuries ·  How do you know if you injured your ACL ·  ACL injury sta...

Andrew shares 5 key areas to focus on that will greatly improve the quality of how you move. These fundamental concepts will apply to all different types of training and movements. The 5 areas to improve your movement quality that Andrew dives into are:  1. Mobility 2. Stability 3. Posture/alignment 4. Muscle activation 5. Tempo/speed of movement Andrew shares great information and examples of how...

Let’s welcome Sheera Goren to the HNL Movement Podcast! She is the Co-Founder of Zygo, an innovative and revolutionary product that streams audio underwater. Growing up playing soccer as well as other sports, Sheera discovered ways to continue living an active style after playing collegiate soccer. This led to discovering boutique fitness classes, fun outlets of being active, and eventually wonder...

Andrew provides a great overview of what biomechanics is. Biomechanics is a subdiscipline of kinesiology and one of the key tools to analyze human movement. It entails studying how the body moves using physics and mechanical engineering strategies. Biomechanics answers questions that help to prevent injuries, rehab injuries, train better, and improve performance. In this episode, Andrew explains k...

Recovery is a big topic, but how do you effectively apply recovery strategies to match your training demands? Everyone doesn’t respond the same to training stimuli because of individual differences, and therefore we don’t recover the same following physical activities. The basic aspects of effective recovery are adequate sleep, stress management, nutrition, hydration, and getting rid of inflammati...

Welcome Harrison Kuroda to the HNL Movement Podcast! There’s many great insights he shares from his experiences as an athlete and a coach. He talks about how baseball grew into his primary sport that led him to play at the University of Hawaii. His road wasn’t without obstacles and adversity as he persevered to return after shoulder surgery during his collegiate career. He talks about suffering mu...

Andrew discusses five tips to help you train like how you want to perform. These tips will help you to maximize your training benefits, improve your progress, and execute and perform with more consistency. Apply these five tips below to your training regimen and keep working toward your goals. 1.  Have a positive attitude and mindset 2.  Focus on improving training quality 3.  Make every rep count...

Andrew shares a key tip to help athletes to be powerful and explosive on gameday: relax and stay loose. Once all the training and preparation work has been done, switch gears to focus on giving your body the best chance to execute what you have practiced in training. Excessive stiffness, tension, and tightness takes away from our power production and performance. This can be influenced by many fac...

Let’s welcome back Kupono Fey to the podcast to share many valuable insights on the lessons that athletes learn through sports. Be sure to listen to Kupono’s first episode, episode 35, to hear his story and growth through his career to play professional volleyball overseas. Andrew and Kupono discuss many topics that athletes can relate to through playing, preparing, and overcoming adversity in spo...

Andrew wrapped up his 1st year in his PhD program! He shares his awesome experiences and valuable lessons learned over this past year. Listen in to the perspective and insights of what a PhD journey entails. Andrew pushed himself to his limits and tried to get as much done as possible during his first year. This was an extremely challenging year that was remarkably mentally stimulating to say the...

Andrew discusses a very important topic, and often a misconception, for many athletes in rehabilitation. Tissue healing following injuries is important, but just because you allow adequate time for tissues to heal, that does not guarantee that you will be performing at the same level you once were. The fact of the matter is, tissue healing is one of the many factors that must be considered when re...

Let’s welcome Patrick Katahara, a physician assistant and avid jiu jitsu martial artist to the podcast this week! Andrew and Pat go a ways back while they worked together under the same company, as well as rehabbing his knee following his LCL repair. He shares many of his experiences playing sports growing up and progressing through the years with BJJ and MMA training. Pat also talks about the uni...

Andrew shares valuable perspectives on stress management and how the right amount of stress can be extremely beneficial for you. This right amount of stress, termed eustress, can make us stronger, create favorable adaptations, and help us to improve our performance. Just like how we need the right number of stressors in training to enhance physical adaptations, stressors can also improve our menta...

Andrew dives into helpful information about food journaling to improve your nutrition habits. Long-term food journaling is not necessary to create healthy nutrition habits.  However, after you have been consistently practicing nutrition basics and fundamentals, short-term food journaling can uncover valuable information that points you in the right direction to further improve your nutrition and l...

This episode welcomes two great UH athletes, Marcus and Chanteal Malepeai (formerly Chanteal Satele)! They are great athletes, but more importantly great people who support each other and their teammates both on and off the court/field. They take a trip down memory lane and reminisce on all of the great times as student-athletes at the University of Hawaii. Listen in to their roads to fulfill thei...

In this episode, Andrew dives into a very valuable tip to help optimize your performance; being proactive. Being proactive can be accomplished in many ways. Andrew shares three points that will help you to be proactive in ways that help you to stay a step ahead and prepare yourself to maximize your results.  Point number one is to take initiative with all aspects related to elevating performance....