Rachelle, our remedial massage therapist, took on the task of asking the *hard* questions from the team at Personal Best! Here are their answers – just for fun!
Natasha Russell- Physiotherapist
- Favourite stretch or exercise?
I just love walking, especially with my Nordic poles. Calms the mind and freshens the body. There are few things better than a walking holiday.
- Least favourite stretch or exercise?
I really love most kinds of exercise, but my body doesn’t seem to like HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) as much as I do. It doesn’t seem to recover very well.
- What is your hidden talent?
I make sourdough bread.
- What emoji do you use most often?
👍🏼🙂🐶
- What are you doing in your spare time?
Planning for our big trip around Australia, looking at a garden that needs weeding, and always finding a new book to read.
Tim Buchanan- Physiotherapist
- Favourite stretch or exercise?
Squats - Least favourite stretch or exercise?
Burpees - What is your hidden talent?
Great handwriting and speed-eating yoghurt. - What emoji do you use most often?
🙂 - What are you doing in your spare time?
Something active, cooking or exploring the outdoors.
Jayde Butler- Physiotherapist
- Favourite stretch or exercise?
Bench press or deadlift. - Least favourite stretch or exercise? Burpees
- What is your hidden talent?
I don’t really know? I can sometimes keep a hula hoop for 3 repetitions of my body? - What emoji do you use most often?
🙂 - What are you doing in your spare time?
Paint, read, spend time with family and friends, go on outdoor adventures.
Emma Caccianiga- Remedial Massage Therapist
- Favourite stretch or exercise?
Toss up between downward dog and cobra. - Least favourite stretch or exercise?
Lunges 🤮 - What is your hidden talent?
I can sing - What emoji do you use most often?
🤙 - What are you doing in your spare time?
Learning Korean
Rachelle Van Aken- Remedial Massage Therapist
- Favourite stretch or exercise?
Child’s Pose - Least favourite stretch or exercise? Burpees.
- What is your hidden talent?
Assembling flat pack furniture - What emoji do you use most often?
🤣 - What are you doing in your spare time?
Playing netball, binge watching crime series, cooking and camping.
Mary Gardner- Practice Manager
- Favourite stretch or exercise?
Chin tucks- great for sitting in front of a computer all day. - Least favourite stretch or exercise?
Remembering back to the 90’s it would have to be step aerobics- I am seriously so uncoordinated. - What is your hidden talent?
Hmmmm tough question…. asked my daughter what she thought it was and she said drawing. - What emoji do you use most often?
🤦🏽♀️ - What are you doing in your spare time?
I am really enjoying walking along our wonderful Murray River Trails
Nathan Mobbs- Physiotherapist
- Favourite stretch or exercise?
Extension in Lying (for the lower back)- I’d be a stiff, whingy middle-age man without it! - Least favourite stretch or exercise?
Squats, when my program calls for 5 sets of 5 reps and the weight is still heavy! - What is your hidden talent?
I made a pretty good mini-wine glass out of an aluminum foil chocolate wrapper the other day at dinner – does that count? - What emoji do you use most often?
😉 - What are you doing in your spare time?
There’s “spare time”? How come no-one told me . . . 😉
