athleticism – PK Health and Performance https://pkhealth.ca A principles-based approach to sustained wellness and pain-free performance Wed, 06 Jul 2022 17:04:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Feel Your Feet https://pkhealth.ca/feel-your-feet/ https://pkhealth.ca/feel-your-feet/#respond Tue, 08 Mar 2022 19:40:38 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5866 Are you chronically stiff, and always in pain? Do you move like an awkward robot rather than a fluid (and I don’t mean gender, lolz) and athletic human? If that’s you, you need to work on your feet. In the fixing-your-pain-and-becoming-a-better-athlete checklist, body awareness, balance, and coordination are at the top of the list. And to improve those neurological qualities of movement…

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/feel-your-feet/feed/ 0 Block Periodization-Ish https://pkhealth.ca/block-periodization-ish/ https://pkhealth.ca/block-periodization-ish/#respond Wed, 14 Jul 2021 20:41:38 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5779 Having great endurance is good. But having a marathon-runner pencil neck? Not so much. Being strong is awesome, but a powerlifting gut weighs you down. Having great flexibility can be useful, but being bendy without coordination makes you a living manifestation of the QWERTY guy. What I’m trying to say is that there are many physical qualities you should be training in order…

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/block-periodization-ish/feed/ 0 Shake Up Your Training https://pkhealth.ca/shake-up-your-training/ https://pkhealth.ca/shake-up-your-training/#respond Mon, 17 May 2021 01:59:44 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5742 I’m all about using a principles-based approach. In practice, this means that I’m constantly looking to connect the dots and find the commonalities between all movements, sports, and training modalities. Being married to one modality will inevitably lead to stagnation, which is why it’s so important to find the underlying principles that make ‘em work. When I work towards attaining the…

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/shake-up-your-training/feed/ 0 Functional Training Defined https://pkhealth.ca/functional-training-definition/ Fri, 26 Jul 2019 11:33:20 +0000 https://powerlift.qodeinteractive.com/elementor/?p=2391 What in the hell is functional fitness? Is it olympic lifting combined with mountain biking? Is it interval training done in conjunction with yoga? Or is it handstand walking underwater with a dumbbell strapped to your neck? I’m gonna go out on a limb and make the claim that nothing in 2021 causes more confusion than the concept of functional training (with the exceptions being…

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