Starting new healthy habits or recovering from an injury can have its fair share of up and downs. While you are motivated to reach your goals, it’s essential to navigate this journey with grace and gratitude.

When embarking on a new health and fitness journey, it’s not uncommon to encounter challenges like plateaus, setbacks, nagging pain, and injuries. These obstacles can be disheartening, but understanding how to navigate them is key to achieving long-term success and maintaining healthy habits.

Starting a new fitness & health plan can feel exciting and energizing, especially during the initial stages. It also creates a new found healthy motivation that helps get started.

However, a lot of us start to struggle when that motivation begins to fade, and things are no longer as exciting or energizing as they were.

The tried & true path to long term success is consistency and building good habits.

Let's talk about: Strength Training

Strength training doesn’t require using external loads in order to build muscle and strength. Body weight training can provide a great stimulus for building strength and creating a strong basis for greater body awareness.

More advanced programs look at specific rep ranges and loads for building hypertrophy (muscle size), strength, or muscle endurance. But at the end of the day, basic, simple training movements will elicit those positive results in terms of building muscle and endurance.

Focus on building solid technique, hypertrophy, and overall exercise capacity, and you create the foundation of strength training.

Coming up next, you’ll learn more about strength training, some common barriers to entry, and how to overcome them.

Do you know one of the most potent and effective forms of physical activity that can reap massive health benefits?

Walking.

People become too focused on always exercising at higher intensities, and believe that if it leaves them dripping in sweat and “gassed out”, it’s the only type exercise session that is effective.

While higher intensity exercises absolutely plays a role in making you more fit, let’s not ignore the multitude of health benefits that come from slowing down and simply taking regular strolls.

Low back pain affects many people worldwide. The causes of low back pain can be from many different factors, but the role of hip mobility and stability can often be overlooked.

The overall anatomy of the lumbo-pelvic-hip complex (LPHC) is quite intricate with a series of muscles, ligaments, joint capsules, fascia, and bony support all providing a stable structure that allows for mobility. For the sake of simplicity, let’s just talk about the general concept of mobility & stability between the hips and the spine. By understanding the relationship between the hips and the low back, we can create effective strategies to eliminate and prevent low back pain.

The moment you step into our clinic, you'll know there is a difference.

It's never about the quantity of patients, but always about the quality of your care and experience. If you've ever felt stifled, unsatisfied, or needing more from traditional physical therapy clinics, you're not alone.