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How to Improve Your Deadlift: Top Tips for Better Technique and Stronger Lifts
Deadlifting is one of the most powerful exercises for building strength in the entire body. This powerhouse movement activates multiple muscle groups – from glutes and hamstrings to your back and core. A solid deadlift of course helps you to lift heavy things, but more than that, it supports better posture, helps to stabilize and
Busting the Myth: Yes, Your Knees Can Go Past Your Toes in a Workout!
We’ve all heard, “Don’t let your knees go past your toes!” Whether it’s at the gym, in a fitness class, or scrolling through fitness advice online, this rule gets tossed around all the time. “Don’t squat with your knees past your toes,” they say. “Keep your knees back, push your hips back.” But guess what?
Bulletproof Your Shoulders for Winter Sports (and Everyday Life!)
As we shift from sunny rounds of golf to chilly nights on the ice, it’s time to trade in the golf clubs for hockey sticks and gear up for a new season. Before you start taking those slap shots, let’s talk about something that will support you all season long: your shoulders. More specifically, how
Managing Tennis Elbow: Effective Exercises for Relief
Tennis Elbow, also known as lateral epicondylitis, is a condition that causes pain around the outside of the elbow. The annoying pain often creeps up when you pour your morning coffee, grab a plate from the cupboard, or open a doorknob. Despite its name, this condition isn’t limited to tennis players. We’ve likely all had
Optimize your spine
Whether you’re a CrossFit athlete throwing 250 lbs over your head or picking up your infant child from the crib, you need healthy movement and mobility in your spine. One of the first places we start in the clinic when we want to optimize your spine’s function is core activation. We also factor in glute
Supporting Your Pregnancy and Postpartum Life
The Benefits of Pelvic Health Physiotherapy and Chiropractic Care In recent years, there has been a growing interest in Pelvic Health among healthcare professionals, including Physiotherapists and Chiropractors, who are now dedicating more attention to this area of health to better support pregnant and postpartum patients. At Optimize Physiotherapy, some of our practitioners are exploring
Rehab after injury
Dealing with a sports injury can be a daunting and frustrating process. When your sport is a central part of your identity, being away from training and competition becomes not just a physical challenge, but a mental one, too. The rehab process after a sports injury is comprehensive and focused on getting you back to
Breaking Down the Deadlift
In general, the goal of weightlifting is to set the body in a strong position and then maintain that position while moving the weight. This concept comes into practice when doing a deadlift. Deadlifting can feel scary due to old misconceptions and poor training methodology. By breaking down the actual movement and learning how to
Say it Loud!
Pelvic Health Deserves our Attention We’re here to slay the stigma. Despite how far we’ve come in understanding our bodies and minds better, women’s health is still often shrouded in secrecy and sensitivity. So much so, that many women are unaware of the pelvic physiotherapy treatments available to them—and suffer in silence. Optimize Physiotherapy is
Get out!
Boost Your Body and Mind—Exercise Outside Walking. Jogging. Running. Hiking. Sashaying. Whatever your style, most of us know that taking your steps outside is good for your heart, body, mood, and mind. In fact, a UK study of 50,000 walkers—a variety of ages of men and women—found that walking briskly on the regular translates to