recovery – 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 You Don’t Have Insomnia https://pkhealth.ca/you-dont-have-insomnia/ https://pkhealth.ca/you-dont-have-insomnia/#respond Tue, 21 Sep 2021 20:15:30 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5803 Well, maybe you do. Maybe you do in fact have insomnia in the same way that a person with obesity who fails to eat well and move often has a “slow metabolism”. Yeah… now that I think about it, maybe you do have a unique case of incurable insomnia. Similar to how someone with back pain who fails to clean up their movement quality might chalk it up to having a “bad back”, you…

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/you-dont-have-insomnia/feed/ 0 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 Write Your Way to Better Health https://pkhealth.ca/write-your-way-to-better-health/ https://pkhealth.ca/write-your-way-to-better-health/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2021 21:03:33 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5735 Most of us go through life in an abnormally chronic state of low-grade panic. Not severe enough to be labelled as clinical anxiety, but uncomfortable and ever-present enough to create a feeling of general fatigue and unease that colours our daily living. Left unchecked, this barely-perceptible background noise of mental dis-ease will drive addictive behaviour1, 2 in all its forms…

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/write-your-way-to-better-health/feed/ 1 How to Make Journaling Not Suck https://pkhealth.ca/how-to-make-journaling-not-suck/ https://pkhealth.ca/how-to-make-journaling-not-suck/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2021 23:45:50 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5728 Journaling is therapy. It’s self reflection. It’s you coaching yourself out of poor behaviour and nudging yourself towards the righteously impossible goal of self-actualization. As far as I’m aware, the majority of us want to feel stronger and happier. And between the clinical psychologists, counsellors, coaches, and even the poorly-educated but well-intentioned Instagram “biohackers”…

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/how-to-make-journaling-not-suck/feed/ 2 Social Media Harm Reduction https://pkhealth.ca/social-media-harm-reduction/ https://pkhealth.ca/social-media-harm-reduction/#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2021 18:21:19 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5720 Drugs can be useful and fun, but chronic use will ultimately ruin you. Social media is exactly the same. Let me explain. Last week I spent five days away from screens and social media. Actually… that’s a bit of a lie. I still answered emails everyday and at one point even watched an episode of Love on Netflix (it wasn’t good), but the goal was to stay off all messaging platforms…

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/social-media-harm-reduction/feed/ 1 Train By Feel (Autoregulated Daily Undulating Periodization) https://pkhealth.ca/train-by-feel/ https://pkhealth.ca/train-by-feel/#respond Wed, 03 Feb 2021 01:46:29 +0000 https://pkhealth.ca/?p=5688 You have to train everyday. Movement is medicine, motion is lotion, yadda, yadda, yadda. You already know how important it is to stay physically active, so when it comes to health and performance, the question isn’t whether or not you should train. The question is how you should train depending on how you feel. During the Toronto Raptors’ 2019 championship run, their head of sport science…

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]]> https://pkhealth.ca/train-by-feel/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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