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Fraser Harrison

@fraser13harrison

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Performance and Wellbeing Coach
Supporting people perform better in life, leisure, and sport.

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I value technical mastery. Whether it’s weightlifting, gymnastics, erg work, or running, I’m drawn to the mechanics, timing, and coordination behind performance. I enjoy going deep—refining movement, improving efficiency, and making sense of the details that support progress.

But mastery isn’t just about depth. It’s also about clarity.

I create and refine systems that help people understand and apply complex ideas. I focus on principles, because principles provide structure across contexts. They help guide decisions, even when methods need to shift.

That said, methods have their place. I use them to create rhythm, reduce friction, and support confidence. When well-timed, a method can help someone take action without overthinking or self-judging. But it’s always used in service of the person—not the plan.

What drives my coaching isn’t perfection or precision. It’s making things usable. Helping people make progress that’s grounded, meaningful, and sustainable, so they can train with purpose and keep moving forward. by @fraser13harrison

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9 months ago

Here’s something @fraser13harrison wants you to know:

Movement Standards Should Guide, Not Pressure

Standards matter.

They make sure we are doing what we say we are. They give us something to measure against. They help us track progress and inform what to do next.

Without standards, everything becomes subjective. It’s harder to know if you’re improving, or just staying busy.

But standards aren’t always the starting point.

They are always the reference point.

Early on, the focus isn’t on meeting every standard straight away. It’s on building the ability to move toward them. That means creating consistency first. Building confidence. Learning how to engage with the process without feeling like you’re already behind.

When standards create pressure too early, people hesitate. They overthink. They disengage. That’s not the role of standards. They should reduce uncertainty, not create it.

My first priority is simple: move first.

I’ll meet you where you are. We’ll do the next best thing. Over time, we refine the how. The standard becomes a tool to guide decisions and support continued progression.

Start by moving. Build some rhythm. Then use standards to guide where you go next.

That’s how progress becomes something you can sustain. by @fraser13harrison

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6 months ago

At what point does a reminder become a personality trait? by @fraser13harrison

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6 months ago

Keep them guessing… taken in Rebels Weightlifting Club by @fraser13harrison

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6 months ago

If you are struggling with muscle ups, but want to progress, here are a few drills to try and build up over time. by @fraser13harrison

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7 months ago

Wanna nail your handstand walks? These can be tough but we’ve got some drills to make it easier by @fraser13harrison

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7 months ago

Two years at Rebuild Capalaba.

Two years of early mornings, late evenings, mopping chalk off the floor, bars dropping, and people choosing to show up.

When I stepped into Rebuild Capalaba, Rebuild Wynnum had already built something special over many years. The standards and culture were well established. My role was to carry those forward, learn from what had worked, and help Capalaba grow into its own version of the same values.

Over the past couple of years we’ve spent a lot of time reinforcing what good training looks like — respecting standards, building strong fundamentals, applying the right effort, and remembering that the goal is progress over time, not just proving something in a single session.

The values that guide us here are simple.

Integrity — setting a standard and sticking to it. Choosing what’s right for progress, not what’s simply convenient in the moment.

Progress — understanding that development takes time, and that consistency and patience compound.

Happiness — recognising that it isn’t something that appears after the work is done, but something created through the actions and choices we make along the way.

The lifts matter, but the environment matters more.

Seeing members support each other. Seeing people take ownership of their training. Seeing effort respected without ego dominating the room.

It’s this culture that people experience when they walk in. And I’m so incredibly proud of it!

Two years in, I’m grateful for the trust people place in me and the coaching team, and proud of the connection and standards that have grown here.

Looking ahead, the focus doesn’t change:

Keep building connection.
Keep protecting standards.
Keep helping people develop real, durable fitness.

And most importantly, thank you to every member who has walked through the doors and contributed to what this place has become. You’re the reason the culture here is what it is. taken in Rebuild Capalaba by @fraser13harrison

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7 months ago

There’s a difference between being a knowledgeable trainer and being a coach.

Both care deeply.

Both may have years of experience.

But the distinction isn’t just what they know—it’s how they apply it.

A knowledgeable trainer often knows the ‘what’ very well. They’ve trained hard, been coached, made mistakes, and learned from them. Their advice is often rooted in personal experience—what worked for them, what felt effective, what they wish they’d done differently.

Coaching goes further.

A coach draws from personal experience, but also from the experiences of others, from principles of training, learning, and skill development. They don’t rely on one lens. They apply multiple perspectives to better serve the person in front of them.

A coach can take an idea, a method, or a concept and shape it. They can adjust the language, the structure, or the dose. They make it accessible. They know why something works, not just that it worked once.

And this doesn’t mean using more words or complex cues. Often, it means simplifying the concept and focusing on what matters most.

Good coaches don’t try to impress with information. They build systems that serve people. taken in Rebuild Capalaba by @fraser13harrison

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8 months ago

Auto-regulation is the skill of adjusting effort, intensity, or direction based on current capacity and context.

It’s not simply about doing less—load, reps, sets, frequency, etc.

It’s about staying with what’s workable, so effort is aligned with What’s Important Now (WIN).

The skill, need, and the approach to auto-regulation changes with age.

In youth, we tend to wear blinkers. We’re less aware of the layers that shape performance—sleep, nutrition, stress, roles—because we aren’t stretched across them. There’s often more time, fewer responsibilities, and more recovery in the margins. So we learn to push. To persist. To chase progress. Sometimes to our advantage, sometimes to our detriment.

As we age, the blinkers come off as we have to diversify our effort and attention across work, caregiving, relationships, health—the needs of others often begin to compete with our own and our wants and desires. Time gets carved up. Energy gets divided. Training isn’t just about what the body can do but what the day, the week, the month allows.

To try and put the blinkers on when our energy and attention is spread so wide is bound to cause friction and frustration.

Auto-regulation here isn’t about doing less or caring less. It’s about knowing when to zoom in, and when to zoom out. When to hold a standard, and when to adapt it—without sacrificing what’s clearly important to us.

As a coach, I don’t expect perfect weeks.

I help people build systems they can come back to, and attention skills that help them stay grounded—even when life is pulling in ten directions.

Auto-regulation isn’t a concession. It’s a skill. A practice.

The art of making effort count without asking everything of yourself at once. taken in Capalaba by @fraser13harrison

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9 months ago

Effort and intensity are often treated as the same thing—more weight, more reps, more output.

But when intensity becomes the only measure of effort, it narrows what “progress” can look like.

As a coach, I help people redefine effort. Not by removing intensity, but by reconnecting it to purpose.

Effort isn’t just what you give.
It’s how intentionally you give it.
It’s the difference between pushing harder and choosing what to push on, and why.

This might look like:
- Dialling back weight to train a more consistent or optimal pattern under fatigue
- Prioritising tempo, control, or quality when output feels reactive
- Letting go of pre-set targets to stay connected to technical focus
- Redirecting frustration into curiosity when a skill doesn’t stick
- Recognising when doing less (on purpose) is still showing up with intensity

We don’t just train the ability to push.

We train the ability to discern, to feel when intensity is aligned with your current capacity and direction, and when it’s not.

Intensity is still in the room. It’s just more intentional. by @fraser13harrison

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9 months ago

‘The year ahead is both your most rewarding year and your most demanding year,’ writes @fraser13harrison

Not because the calendar decides it, but because possibility and uncertainty coexist until we live it.

We can set goals.
Plan the days we train.
Map the commitments and priorities that matter.
Do the “right things” on paper.

And we should.

But when goals are meaningful, progress and friction usually arrive together.
⚡️Effort stretches us, asking for energy we could have spent elsewhere.
‼️Attention is tested, because choosing this means not choosing everything.
❤️Life pushes back because we’re stepping away from what’s easy and familiar to build something new.

That tension isn’t something to avoid. It’s often the price of choosing growth over comfort.

At Rebuild, we don’t chase perfect conditions.
We practise showing up well within real ones.

The same year can deepen confidence, not just chase outcomes. Create momentum through consistency.
And turn challenge into information, not judgment.

So yes, plan for a great year. But more importantly, practise how you show up.

Because the year doesn’t reveal what it offers until you do. by @fraser13harrison

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10 months ago

Progress isn’t always loud.

Sometimes it’s quiet, controlled, and easy to overlook—especially when we’ve come to equate effort with exhaustion.

But lower-intensity sessions aren’t just recovery.

They’re where we refocus on principles to control, reinforce patterns, and recalibrate.

They’re where we practise consistency without chaos, and effort without urgency.

As a coach, I help people build trust in the quiet work:
The tempos.
The pauses.
The constraints.
The work that draws attention to the technique, develops the capability to achieve positions, and strengthens movements.

These sessions or blocks aren’t a break from progress. They’re part of it.

This might look like:
- Moving submaximally to improve coordination under load
- Repeating positions that aren’t yet automatic
- exaggerating specific positions or movements to emphasise them
- Redirecting focus from output to awareness
- Holding shape under fatigue without rushing to finish
- Scaling back load or speed to maintain connection to quality

Can you stay engaged when intensity isn’t just the weight on the bar?

Can you bring full attention across the effort continuum?

Because long-term progress isn’t built on peak moments.

It’s built on the repeatable, the transferable, the workable.

And that includes the quiet days. taken in Rebels Weightlifting Club by @fraser13harrison

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