pain – 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 Breathing Basics https://pkhealth.ca/breathing-basics/ https://pkhealth.ca/breathing-basics/#respond Thu, 02 Dec 2021 02:03:41 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5829 In recent years, the term “breathwork” has become a misunderstood fad – a term that’s been lumped in with new age-y concepts like chakras and horoscopes. Yikes! Third eyes and Pisces season aside, REAL breathwork is imperative if you’re looking to feel and perform better. In the present article we’ll discuss the two main ways in which breathwork can positively influence your health.

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/breathing-basics/feed/ 0 Unstiffen yourself (Part 2) https://pkhealth.ca/unstiffen-yourself-part-2/ https://pkhealth.ca/unstiffen-yourself-part-2/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2021 20:42:07 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5818 To move well and get out of pain, you must unstiffen yourself. If you’re stiff, you’ll move like a robot. And subsequently, your robot-like lack of physical freedom will put undue strain on the structures of your body that are chronically achy. I don’t want you to be chronically achy anymore. So please… unstiffen yourself. In the present article – the second in a 2-part…

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/unstiffen-yourself-part-2/feed/ 2 Unstiffen Yourself (Part 1) https://pkhealth.ca/unstiffen-yourself-part-1/ https://pkhealth.ca/unstiffen-yourself-part-1/#respond Tue, 27 Jul 2021 23:14:14 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5796 Stiffness is, in all likelihood, the root cause of your chronic pain. It could be as straightforward as having a stiff lower back from sedentary living. We could take it one step further, where for example a stiff foot may be causing too much strain to be put on the knees. We could even go down the psychosomatic rabbit hole and see that for instance, a stiff mind may be causing…

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/unstiffen-yourself-part-1/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 The Adult Pacifier https://pkhealth.ca/the-adult-pacifier/ https://pkhealth.ca/the-adult-pacifier/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:32:47 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5680 The artificial world of likes and followers is, for the most part, a very very bad thing: Machiavellianism, screen addiction, unchecked social comparison, and mindlessness are a few examples of the consequences that arise from unconscious social media use. With that being said, I still make the conscious (and to be completely transparent with you, sometimes painful) choice to use Facebook and…

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/the-adult-pacifier/feed/ 1 A User’s Guide to Rest https://pkhealth.ca/a-users-guide-to-rest/ https://pkhealth.ca/a-users-guide-to-rest/#respond Fri, 15 Jan 2021 19:19:33 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5670 2020 swept me into a violent, exhilarating hurricane of growth and productivity. All of this culminated in the busiest month of the year in December. While the world was fulfilling the quasi-religious societal expectation of relaxation and gluttony, I was pushing to finish strong. Really strong – like this guy. It’s January 12th now. I’m foooooooking exhausted. So next week I’m planning…

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/a-users-guide-to-rest/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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