Classes by Adrian Gaskin
Adrian Gaskin is an avid learner and teacher, striving for both excellence and simplicity in his movement practice. He is an experienced athlete and teacher of Triggerpoint Therapy, Anatomy Training, Progressive Bodyweight Training, and Pre & Post Natal Performance, combining his training and techniques to bring you intentional and purposeful classes to optimize the way you move through every day. For him, movement is a constant search for improvement and rediscovery of the basics; finding how the body is meant to move.
Adrian’s classes will act as a toolkit to help you build strength, focussing on movements that increase joint health and balance and helping you develop your confidence and move better. Approach his all-levels classes with an open mind, focussing on the quality and form of each movement and appreciating what your body can do.
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Cool Down with Adrian | Functional Stretch Class (3 Mins)
Incorporating a Cool Down practice transitions your body into a state of rest and reduces the likelihood of injury as you recover and resume your daily activities. This full-body Cool Down will focus on flexibility movements and regenerative breath to loosen up large muscle groups, gradually rela...
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Strength Patterns Practice with Adrian | Functional Strength Class (13 Mins)
Get ready to move with confidence and stability through four dynamic intervals, resting intentionally between each. Challenge yourself to focus on quality and control with each Agility and foundational strength exercise, allowing your body to move how it was meant to.
This practice combines a ...
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Physical Education with Adrian | Quick Functional Strength Class (13 Mins)
This practice with Adrian combines four different areas of functional strength training with purposeful movement and breath. Find your focus and engage in a series of Lower body, Upper Body, and Core intervals, using your breath to fuel each movement. Finish off with intention during the regenera...
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Powered On Practice with Adrian | Functional Strength Class (13 Mins)
Go all out with this full body strength workout. This practice combines smooth and dynamic Agility drills with Lower Body, Upper Body, and Core focused movements. Powered On will build muscle groups across your entire body, but train your body to move with purpose and ease in your daily movements...
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Loaded Movement Practice with Adrian | Strength Foundations Class (13 Mins)
Discover how your body is designed to move with powerful intervals of Agility and full body exercises, building a foundation for strength and endurance across the different planes of your body. Loaded Movement includes the following Agility, Lower Body, Upper Body, and Core work exercises from th...
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3D Focus Practice with Adrian | Functional Strength Class (13 Mins)
Connect to your body today in this dynamic strength practice! Activate muscle groups in every region of your body during this high intensity power practice and engaging intervals. These agility and strength exercises will challenge you to move with intention, energizing your muscles, joints, and ...
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Triggerpoint Workshop with Adrian | Restorative Foam Rolling Class (10 Mins)
Learn the basics of triggerpoint work with Adrian in this 10-minute workshop. Triggerpoint therapy helps to connect your body to your mind to improve stability and intention of daily movement, as well as hydrate soft tissue to improve your health, longevity, and recovery. In this workshop, Adrian...
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Squat Workshop with Adrian | How to Squat Safely with Weight (3 Mins)
Begin by standing, feet slightly turned out in comfortable stance. Ground your feet fully into the floor, then lower down into a seated position. Lead with your hips, moving backwards as you pull down. Reach your arms out in front of you, focussing on keeping a neutral spine and activated core. A...
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Functional Movement Workshop with Adrian | Learn How to Hip Hinge (4 Mins)
To practice the Hip Hinge, begin standing with your feet hip width apart and slightly turned out. Place the back of your hands behind you, resting on your lower back. Push your pelvis straight back as you unlock your knees and fold into the crease of your hips. Bend your knees softly to accommoda...
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Loading Movement Workshop with Adrian | Learn How to Safely Add Weight (2 mins)
As you build strength and gain confidence in each exercise, keep in mind that high quality movements are more important than the amount of weight you are practicing with. When you are ready to build up to loading movement, there are three components to consider: neutral spine, breathing, and prog...
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Core Workshop with Adrian | Learn How to Improve Your Core Stability (6 Mins)
In this 6-minute foundational workshop, learn how to improve your core stability with Adrian. You’ll learn about the structure and function of your core and how it affects how you move in the world, then practice the Bird Dog and Dead Bug exercises from the Strength Foundations program with Adria...
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Breath Workshop with Adrian | Learn How to Optimize your Breathing (6 Mins)
In this foundational 6-minute Breath Workshop, Adrian teaches how to optimize your breathing mechanics to improve your performance in daily activities. Starting with the diaphragm, your primary breathing muscle, Adrian guides you through a slow and intentional exercise to deepen and expand each i...
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How to Safely Move Through Chronic Pain | A Message From Adrian (4 Mins)
In this episode, join the discussion to gain insight on how you move in your body, how you move with pain, and how to move to keep your tissue healthy. Adrian goes through the types of pain and how it is experienced in the body as a protective mechanism, and as well as how to manage your approach...
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Learn 1 2 Jump with Adrian (2 Mins)
Stagger your standing position, stepping one leg forward and shifting your weight to the ball of the foot. Follow with your opposite foot to match this step. As you finish this step forward, sink into your hips, bend your knees, and bring your arms down to your side. Leading with the arms, spring...
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Learn Banded Deadbug with Adrian (2 Mins)
Sitting on the ground, loop your resistance band around the top of your feet. Lay on your back and lift your knees to line up above your hips, bent at 90 degrees. Keep your feet flexed towards your shins and slightly apart to hold the band in place. Clasp your hands in front of your chest comfort...
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Lateral Bound
Begin in a staggered stance, with one foot forward. Sink down into an athletic position, ready to jump. Your weight should sink into the hip crease of your front leg. Using your arms to drive the movement in the direction you want to bound, step laterally with your rear foot. Start small, steppin...
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Learn Monster Walk with Adrian (2 Mins)
Start standing with your looped band around your ankles and feet hip width apart. Point your toes straight forward in a parallel line. Maintaining a neutral spine, sit back slightly to sink into the crease of your hips. Feel the outside of your glutes activated in this stance with your weight cen...
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Learn Bent Over Row with Adrian (3 Mins)
As you stand, reach your arms straight out in front of you as if in the top of a Push Up with your hands in fists. Initiating with your shoulders, draw your elbows into the side of your body angled approximately 45 degrees out. Feel your shoulder blades come together without pulling your elbows b...
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3D Stretch
Start from standing with a neutral spine, stepping one foot straight back to stagger your stance. Come onto the ball of your rear foot and reach slightly ahead and toward the ceiling with the same arm. Keep your opposite arm extended, reaching down and behind. Focus on lengthening from your toes ...
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Learn Bird Dog with Adrian (2 Mins)
Come to all fours, with your hands directly below your shoulders and knees slightly behind your hips. Grounded here, round your spine downwards, and then towards the ceiling. Find your neutral spine between these positions before moving forward; your back should remain perfectly straight througho...
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Learn Half Kneeling Hip Stretch with Adrian (3 Mins)
From standing, kneel down onto one knee, with your opposite knee at a 90° angle in front. The top of your rear foot should be rested on the floor with stability. Tuck in your pelvis to feel a lengthening stretch in the front of your hip, extending up through your torso. The majority of your weigh...
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Learn Crawling with Adrian (2 Mins)
Find your position on all fours with a neutral spine, knees slightly in front of your hips and hands directly below your shoulders. Squeeze your shoulder blades together, then open them up, returning to a neutral position in between. Turn the insides of your elbows forward to create stability, an...
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Knee Drive
The Knee Drive is an Agility variation of the Reverse Lunge. Start in a staggered stance with one foot stepped back. Sink into the crease of your front hip, placing the majority of your weight forward. Pushing into your front foot, release your rear foot off the ground to bring your knee up to yo...
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Prone Extension
Lay on the floor face down, holding your band with both hands in front of your chest. Raise your head off the ground and rest your chest on your hands. Lift your feet slightly off the ground, reaching your toes out behind you and extending your legs straight back. Squeeze your legs together and a...