The Ultimate Fueling Guide for Around the Bay 30K
If you’re gearing up for Around the Bay 30K, you’ve probably been logging your runs, maybe adding some hills, and planning your taper. But there’s one thing that can take your performance to the next level—and it has nothing to do with running.
It’s fuelling.
Seriously. If you want to run stronger, feel better, and recover faster, dialling in your nutrition before, during, and after your runs is hands down one of the biggest game-changers. And the best part? You can start seeing results without adding more miles to your training.
Sports Physiotherapy: Elevating Your Performance
Sports physiotherapy is a specialized area focused on preventing, diagnosing, and treating sports-related injuries. It's all about enhancing your performance and ensuring you can participate safely in your chosen activities. Sports physiotherapists have a deep understanding of how different sports impact the body, allowing them to create personalized treatment plans just for you.
Mastering Finger Training for Climbers
Finger strength is a hot topic among climbers, and for good reason. At our clinic, we work with many climbers, and hang boarding is often their go-to method for finger training, especially when preparing for a bouldering or lead climbing trip. While hang boarding has its place, there are more specific techniques that can be even more effective. In this blog, we’ll break down three key methods for finger training: recruitment pulls, wall endurance sets, and feet-on campus boarding.
Our First Arc’teryx Climb Academy in Squamish as Ibex Project
Back in September we officially launched as Ibex Project so this was the first Arc’teryx Climb Academy that Don and Jess attended under that umbrella. It was great to get the name out there and see all of the athletes, some for the first time face-to-face.
Squamish, BC was home to this year’s Arc’teryx Climb Academy from August 23-25 and we were honored to be included, hanging, assessing, treating, and partying with all of these amazing mountain athletes. We met old friends and made new ones during three days of diverse, and well-organized events.
The town of Squamish was an amazing host and the team at Arc’teryx put together a fantastic three-day lineup including clinics, educational seminars, Pavilion Park programming, and the Academy Music Series where the athletes got to let loose and dance the night away, and dance we did!
The True Value of Physiotherapy: Beyond Pain Relief
Many people assume that the primary goal of physiotherapy is to reduce pain. However, the true value of physiotherapy goes far beyond that. At The Movement, we believe that effective physiotherapy is about meaningful change, resilience, and long-term improvement.
Low Back Pain For Runners
Over the last 4 years running rehab has been a big focus of our team at The Movement with almost all of our clinicians actively running on a daily basis. We have learned a thing or two about running and rehab.
Running Around The Bay In 2025? Consider these 3 things!
What’s up guys name is Dalton I am a physiotherapist and a runner who has helped many runners overcome injury and run strong. I have also been on a mission to qualify for the Boston marathon and have dedicated much of my own training to that over the last 4 years. Last year I ran the 34k around the bay for the first time and I had a blast. That is why today I am here to tell you that if you are a local runner who is looking to take on the 30k around the bay this year I have 3 things you are going to want to consider to make it the best time.
These 3 Steps Will Change How You View Rehab Forever
I’ve been in this profession for 7 years and the amount of information that comes at us on a daily basis about how to manage injuries is overwhelming. Even for me, someone who spends most of his time reading, listening, and consuming information to best serve the hundreds of clients I see each year.
That’s why I’m here to simplify and provide you with a framework that’ll change how you view your injuries forever. Remember, simple doesn’t mean easy. But let’s dive In.
3 Mistakes People Make When Rehabbing Tendons
If you’re reading this you’ve probably dealt with a nagging tendon injury before. These injuries can be annoying and feel like they are never going to go away. Over the years as a physiotherapist I’ve seen plenty of people who come through our doors with tendon injuries and most of the time they’re making 1-3 of the mistakes I’m about to cover. The good news is I’ll also provide you with a few takeaways on how you can get started on treating tendons the right way.
Avoid This Injury Rehab Trap
Many people mistakingly quit rehab too early. Most of the time when people do this, they either don’t feel pain anymore or they see that their injury is ‘healed’ on imaging. It should go without saying that these two scenarios in and of themselves are fantastic outcomes. However, this is normally not the best place to stop working with your rehab professional. Far too often, we see people that stop at this point flare things back up when they get back to their activity. Or they keep having the problem recur every so often. We’ll explain why this happens and what you can be working on to avoid this cycle and unnecessary prolonging of your injury and sitting on the sidelines.
The Biggest Injury Recovery Hack
I’m going to try to put myself in your shoes. You’re doing what you love….maybe this is tennis, running, climbing, powerlifting, or some other awesome thing. This activity is everything for you, your mental well-being, and your motivation to continue to get after it! Who knows, maybe this activity even anchors the rest of your lifestyle…and without it your nutrition, sleep, and overall habits go down the drain too. But as long as you have the ability to do these things then you’re good!
Until you get injured…
Elevate Your Climbing Game: The Importance of Training Your Legs
Rock climbing is often seen as an upper body-centric sport, with climbers focusing heavily on strengthening their arms, shoulders, and core. However, neglecting your lower body could be holding you back from reaching your full potential on the wall.
Here are three common misconceptions about leg training in climbing and why it's crucial to overcome them:
Running and Strength Training go Together Like Peanut Butter and Jam!
We GET you.
You’re a runner, not a bodybuilder.
You love the stress relief and way your body and mind feel during and after a great run. The freedom that comes with the simplicity of lacing up your shoes and that’s all you need to get a good workout in. The satisfaction of seeing your run times improve and new distances unlocked.
Your MRI is Not Your Story
MRI’s Are Amazing!
Don’t get us wrong, MRI’s help us identify serious problems and can be life saving when used to diagnose and guide surgical interventions. For example, MRI’s help us with…
Neurological Disorders: MRI is highly effective in imaging the brain and spinal cord, making it invaluable for diagnosing conditions such as brain tumours, multiple sclerosis, strokes, and various neurological disorders.
All About our Partnership with StayAbove Nutrition.
When it comes to your overall health most of us are well aware of the importance of nutrition. We know that certain foods offer a higher quality source of nutrition than others and that it is important to be selective of what we put in our bodies. We’ve realized the importance of helping people with their nutrition and this is why Dee our dietician, is focused on educating and guiding people through nutritional plans to allow for you to take control of your health.
Get Ready for Neck Day - How to Train Your Neck
Let’s face it. No one walks into the gym thinking “I’m pumped for neck day today.” It’s not something we often work on or see people working on in the gym. No one wants to be that person getting looks from everyone because of the weird exercises you’re doing. But just like any other part of the body can be trained, so can the neck. Now we aren’t talking about adding a neck day into your exercise split, but rather adding in some accessories to your upper body loading day. You don’t need to turn into a Formula 1 driver with your neck strength but it can benefit your upper extremity lifts especially in an overhead position.
What is Pelvic Health Physiotherapy?
Did you even know that there is such a thing? Or maybe you know it exists but aren’t sure what it really means or involves? OR, maybe you’ve done it before but didn’t realize we did pelvic physio at The Movement.
Why We Eat What We Eat
We all know that healthy eating is important. It's also no surprise when I say that for most of us, we know what we shouldn't do, or at least what we should do less of. I think before starting any nutrition journey or changing any type of habit we need to explore the “why” behind any behavior. The ‘why’ lets us get to the root cause of why we are doing something so we can
fix it, or
At least gain a better understanding of our own behaviour.
How We Approach Sciatica
‘Sciatica’ is a term that gets thrown around quite often but the reality is that sciatica is a catch all term for symptoms that go down your leg. Without getting into the weeds too much, we’d just like to point out that symptoms like that could usually benefit from seeing a professional such as a physiotherapist, who can make individual recommendations for you. However, in this blog post, we’ll give you an idea of how we approach sciatica at The Movement and teach you about how to move the nerve with exercises called neuromobility exercises. We have also included a free download of 5 exercises to improve sciatic nerve tension!