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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.
Body Fluid Dynamics In Healing: Part 1 (Intro)
Disclaimer: all opinions and techniques in this post series are solely based on Mark’s personal and professional education and experience knowledge. There are other professional options and approaches to addressing body fluid dynamic treatment and management. Body...
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Overload Principle and the Importance of Base
Traditionally, fitness programs use the progressive overload principle as a way of ensuring advancements in their fitness journey. This is usually achieved by the means of increased reps, sets or weight. However, when we work with an inactive or maladaptive body, the...
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...