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Mark St Peter
Mark is a therapeutic trainer with 30 years of experience helping people with treatment resistant musculoskeletal pain or mobility issues.
Travel Tips to Unkink Your Body
Whether it be an extended road trip or flight, most of us are familiar with the woes of travel - crammed seats, heavy luggage, foreign sleeping arrangements, the list goes on. And for those who already suffer from chronic pain in their daily lives, a trip can...
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How I Maintain My Posture Work
By: Matt P. Just a quick recap from my last post. I started working with Mark in June 2021 for my “horrible posture”. After 6 months of direct instruction from Mark, I started working on my own to maintain my posture progress. Initially, I was very diligent with my...
What is Base?
It all starts with your foundational alignment of the musculoskeletal system and respecting how the body ought to move. Finding a deeper connection to your Base improves all activities of daily life, recreation and fitness. At Upright Kinetics we are constantly...
Your Only Competition is Yourself
Hello, again friends! Today, I’m going to talk about the scarcity mindset, how it weighed me down, and the work I put into overcoming it. Whether you have heard this idea or not, I believe that most, if not all, people slip in and out of this state at one point in...
The Societal Gap Between Physical Therapy & the Fitness Industry
By: Mark St. Peter I have been working in the physical rehabilitation world for over 30 years. But my introduction to physiotherapy started well before that when I had to undergo my own recovery following a motor vehicle accident which resulted in 70+ surgeries. My...
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is the first step towards transformation. But how does one gain self-awareness? Many different therapies and healers integrate various techniques to achieve such. In my own search for self-awareness, I came across an article titled "Body Awareness: a...
How You Are Fooling Yourself In The Gym
Any gym-goer wants to lift as much weight as possible and maximize their body’s potential. Progressive overload is a strength-training principle that any serious gym-goer follows. This is the idea of increasing the difficulty of a workout over time to further...