2018 Australian Jiu-Jitsu Champions

August 12, 2018

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Nathan Waters - Total Health Performance

Congratulations to Simon Chandra, Jon Bovard, and Riaz Hussain who competed at the 2018 Australian Jiu-Jitsu Championship yesterday. Simon and Jon won gold, and Riaz won a bronze medal. 3 medals from 3 competitors is a great result. 

Simon won gold which made it his 4th national title in a row. I am really happy for him. He got a silver at the worlds in Abu Dhabi earlier in the year in a really good performance and to see him win gold at nationals is a good reward for his hard work. 

Jon won gold in the open weight class which is a really good effort. Weighing 85kg is probably a decent weight to compete at in the open class. Going up against guys over 100kg is still a big ask but 15-20kg isn't all that bad when you still have enough strength and most of the time more conditioning than the heavier guys. Jon had prepared really well for this competition dropping a lot of body fat and body weight, and working much harder on his conditioning than in the past. 

Riaz won bronze competing at a much younger age category than he is meant to. On his Facebook post he wrote "Bronze at the Australia National Jiu Jitsu Championships, no choice but to compete at

Master 2 rather than Master 5, lost to an arm bar submission by my 36 year old opponent." Giving away 15-20 years and getting on the podium is a really good achievement. 

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Fat Loss - Jon Bovard

August 9, 2018

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Nathan Waters - Total Health Performance

It is always good to see your clients happy with their results and how they are progressing. Jon started working with us a couple of months ago and has had some great results. This is what he posted on Facebook just the other day:

"this year, at 41, I finally decided to do something.

Before I was 97kg, 27% bodyfat and grumpy.

Now after 3 months of eating right, training hard, and driving my poor wife crazy, I am 12kg lighter and grumpy.

thanks to my poor wife Lou for putting up with me, and THP - Total Health Performance Nathan, for the advice and keeping me honest."

Jon has also dropped 10% body fat and increased his lean muscle mass. He has also won a few jiu jitsu medals over the past month or two and is preparing for nationals in Melbourne this weekend, so we wish him all the best. 

We do get people to lose a lot of weight so if you thought we were just for athletes, it isn't the case, we can also help you reach your fat loss goals.

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Pesticides Negative Impact on Health

August 4, 2018

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Nathan Waters - Total Health Performance

We try to avoid as many environmental pollutants as possible. To completely avoid them is nearly impossible but we control what we can control and then do our best to support our bodies to detoxify the rest as best as possible. One of the biggest environmental pollutants to try and avoid is pesticides. 

Pesticides are found on the foods we eat, in the water most people drink, and are even used around most people's homes. This is why personally we try to buy organic produce and recommend our clients do the same, use a filter for all of our water, and don't spray toxic chemicals around our home. It is very hard to see people in your community spraying things like Round Up all over their yards when you know how damaging these chemicals are to human health. Just to have weed free or greener grass at the expense of your health doesn't make and sense, especially when there are organic ways to garden to get the same results. These people aren't bad people, I am not saying that, they are just unaware. That is why I thought it would be good to share some information today.

Nicole Spear, MS, CNS wrote an article which highlighted many of the problems associated with pesticides. I have shared what I thought to be the major take away from the article but check it out in full to learn more. 

"A review in the journal, Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, indicated:

“There is a huge body of evidence on the relation between exposure to pesticides and elevated rate of chronic diseases such as different types of cancers, diabetes, neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson, Alzheimer, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), birth defects, and reproductive disorders. There is also circumstantial evidence on the association of exposure to pesticides with some other chronic diseases like respiratory problems, particularly asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cardiovascular disease such as atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease, chronic nephropathies, autoimmune diseases like systemic lupus erythematous and rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, and aging.”

This same review cited the primary mechanisms of action behind pesticide exposure and chronic disease include genetic damages, epigenetic modifications, endocrine disruption, mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, endoplasmic reticulum stress and unfolded protein response (UPR), impairment of ubiquitin proteasome system, and defective autophagy."

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