HNL Movement Podcast
Andrew Takata from HNL Movement discusses anything and everything related to optimizing human performance so that you can improve the quality of your life. Learn comprehensive ways to take care of your body, achieve better health, and elevate your performance so you can achieve your true potential. Andrew shares valuable information covering topics of rehab and injury prevention techniques, movement efficiency, strength and conditioning, and ways to create sustainable nutrition habits so that you can level up your performance in sports, daily activities, and life. He has over a decade of experience working with people of all ages, activity levels, training backgrounds, as well as helping people successfully return to activities following injury. Join Andrew and his passion to learn, understand, and share how health, nutrition, lifestyle, and movement collectively contribute to human performance. It will be a mix of interviews, great conversations, and solo episodes that you won’t want to miss. Hit subscribe, and get ready to optimize your human performance.
Episodes
Andrew talks about key points to get started and taking action steps immediately. We are all guilty of putting things off in life, and that may be involving physical activities, health, nutrition, fitness goals. When you take that first step, that will help you to be on your way to make improvements and grow. Andrew discusses 5 key points to take action immediately, if not today, then tomorrow.
1. Start with an appropriate/reali...
How physically literate are you? Let’s break that down in this episode. Our bodies crave movement to improve fitness, mental state, moods, reduce stress levels, and so on. Movement is integrated in our lives from daily routine tasks to playing sports. Learning how to move well in a variety of ways is essential to improve our physical literacy.
Andrew dives into the importance and value of expanding our movement practices. Practicing...
This week features Cody Collins on the HNL Movement Podcast! Cody grew up working out, training, and excelling in baseball. He shares many lessons learned throughout his baseball career and beyond that we can all take something away from. Stay tuned for this jam-packed episode where we discuss strength & conditioning, training for baseball, facing the “yips,” overcoming injuries, and how he stays in shape and finds his purpose ...
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 move. Knowledge of these integrated li...
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 move. Knowledge of these integrated li...
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 playing sports year-round from a young age...
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.
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 journey. Focus on maintaining balance in ...
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 strategies to our training regimen.
Ed sh...
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 nervous system, and (4) prepping your...
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. The rotator cuff is made up of 4 mus...
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 living his dream working the past 3 sea...
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 statistics
· Treatment options
· Rehab/stre...
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 these basic concepts will help to tune u...
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 wondering how some of these experiences c...
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 key terms in biomechanics such as ki...
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 inflammation and waste products following exe...
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 multiple shoulder dislocations on his...
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
4. Focus on the end of sets/workout
5....
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 factors such as physical tension, nerv...
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