Fix Your Body Massage And Fitness

Fix Your Body therapist and exercise professional Chris Sporton aims to provide a generally holistic approach to body maintenance through massage therapy and exercise by offering a service that treats muscular soreness through massage and looks at the cause of soft tissue injury, seeking to address muscular and dietary imbalances through exercise techniques and dietary advice and reward Chris has a Diploma of Remedial Massage Therapy earned at The Health Arts College in Box Hill and a degree in sports science from Victoria College Rusden. Previously Chris has worked as a Physical Education teacher in government schools and a sports science specialist in the Operational Safety Unit at Victoria Police. Chris was a VFL/AFL boundary umpire in the 1980s in the days where there were only two umpires, each running up to 30 km per game and when it wasn't unusual for 40 goals to be scored from end to end. He completed over 150 senior games including three grand finals - 1985, 1987 and the great 1989 Hawthorn vs Geelong final. The VO2 max (maximal oxygen uptake - a measure of aerobic fitness) scores for the team of boundary umpires at the time was very high with most including Chris (72mL/kg/min) in the elite level of athletes. During his fifteen years as a member of Victoria Police he worked for eight years as a police operational safety trainer involved in the physical testing of recruits, police applicants and operational members. For the last five of those (until the start of 2011) he was the Sports Science specialist for the Operational Safety Division of Victoria Police and responsible for overhauling the methods used for teaching motor skills to recruits and operational members, and for the introduction of evidence based fitness testing for police applicants, recruits in training and probationary constables. He also had a fitness program running for operational members during operational safety training. He is a member of the Australian Association of Massage Therapists (member no 20130) and a member of Physical Activity Australia (formerly Kinect) as a personal trainer (member no KA23070)