Latitude Wellness

07/09/2025

Spent the last week of June doing some training, and I am so happy to be offering Fascia Stretch Therapy to my clients.

04/04/2023

Wisdom from SVPT Fitness & Athletics. And it isn't just your exercise that needs to be sustainable. Approach all aspects of your life with that question: is this sustainable? And if the answer is "no," then have a think through how you make it so. I advise this from a place of love, and respect, and complete failure in having followed that advice for myself. I woke up April 1 and thought, "I just have to get through April." But then what? Wake up May 1 and say the same for May?? That isn't living! That isn't sustainable. I can't paint myself OUT of the corner (is that a thing?) overnight, but I am laying out steps to fix it. If you are in the same boat, let's row our way to calmer waters together

Consistency is key, but sustainability is everything! When it comes to exercise, it's important to prioritize sustainability over intensity. By adopting a sustainable approach to exercise, you'll create a routine that you can stick to for the long haul, leading to improved physical and mental health.

Check out our blog and learn how to create sustainability in training. 👇

https://www.svptfitness.com/sustainable-workouts-and-training/

03/10/2023

Starting at the end of the month, I'm doing a thing! A class thing where we are going to develop joint strength and mobility

NEW CLASS ALERT! 🚨

Starting March 30, join Trish Macklin, a Functional Range Conditioning (FRC) Specialist and Registered Massage Therapist, to lead you through a blend of myofascial release techniques and FRC mobility training to help you develop increased pain-free mobility, giving you a body with greater strength and control. This class is open to ALL fitness levels and a great compliment to your regular training (it actually will help your training).

First class is FREE, using promo code: “firstclassfree”

03/06/2023

02/23/2023

We all have a place and an activity that lights us up. One of mine is training at SVPT Fitness & Athletics. Find, or return, to the activity that gives you joy.

From Trish: “What is 10 years? An eye-blink? A long time? Yes.

I realized that this past January marks 10 years that I’ve been training at SVPT. Because I decided, one year and 10 months prior to my 40th birthday, that by the time I hit 40, I would be “the most fit” I had ever been. As goals go, that is a bad one. Yes it is time-based, but it lacked some specific measurability for success. I had never before measured or evaluated fitness. I hadn’t really thought about it at all. I also hadn’t thought beyond that “fittest at 40”. What happened was that I discovered that I LOVE lifting. I LOVE being strong. I LOVE having that one anchor point of a weekly training session. A lot of life has happened in 10 years: great things and hard things. And some of the hard things turned out to be foundations for great things. There have been many changes. But the one thing I could count on, rely on, when all felt like chaos and life crumbling down (or building up, but still chaotic, unformed, uncertain, and anxiety inducing), was that I had a weekly “date” at SVPT. When life was (and is, because I don’t think this ever changes) a frantic swirl of rushing from one thing to the next, when I couldn’t/can’t possibly find time to work out, I still have my one weekly session at SVPT.

Ten years. Seems like a lifetime. Seems like no time at all. A decade milestone birthday. A divorce. A move from a nice house in the country to a small apartment on the sketchy side of downtown. Going back to school. Moving to a better rental. Starting my own sole proprietorship business. The COVID pandemic. Buying my very OWN cute little house. Working in Camrose. And Sherwood Park. And Edmonton. And, for a year, ALL THREE.

Whether bouncing through the week on a high of all the potentials, and possibles, and wonderful things that life presented; or barely able to rise from weight of despondency, I’d get myself to SVPT and at least for an hour, everything would be good (or even better, if I started happy). Fitness is so much more than “losing weight,” or “getting ripped”. If those are the reasons that get you started, cool. Me too. Thank goodness because all the other benefits, including the "feeling good in my head," and the interpersonal relationships with SVPT trainers, are a significant part of what has seen me through 10 years. And it is going to continue to be a cornerstone of my wellbeing for the next 10 years. And the 10 after that, and the 10 after that, and the 10 after that….. 😊.”

Thank you for your years of endless support and bad-assery Trish. You are definitely SVPT fr-amily.

02/23/2023

The longer I work in massage therapy, the more clear it is that having, creating, maintaining a healthy body goes well beyond physical intervention. Musculoskeletal pain in not necessarily biological or functional in origin. Just as one part of the body does not exist in isolation from the other parts; the body does not exist in isolation from the mind, and spirit. What looks and feels like wellness to me right now, may not be the same as it was last year. Or next year. Or for you. Many themes are broadly applicable to all, but how we implement the specifics??

02/13/2023

My days are often jammed. Was grateful to take a little break and disconnect this weekend.

01/31/2023

Good morning! Over on Instagram (latitude.wellness), starting tomorrow I'm going to do a daily proof posting of me doing my neck CARs (Controlled Articular Rotations - short version here https://youtu.be/dKnHNGXrxUU or you can see yesterday's video that has it as part of the whole "neck love" package) for two weeks. Everyone gets all pumped up for changing things up in Jan, but then the motivation trickles away. I'm going to bring it back for Feb: do one small thing regularly for two weeks to feel the change. Why don't you join me: post in comments, add your own "proof" video or just hang out quietly in the background!

Rotational exercise for neck mobility. Helpful for necks stiff from being hunched at the computer all day!

01/30/2023

Not really the world's best social media user, but thought I'd have another bash at it! I did a video about caring for your neck. And what it has taken to get me to this point, I'm gonna need to implement ALL of it 😄

An "all in one place" instruction for neck care. Jump to:0:27 for posterior neck1:39 for anterior neck3:07 for jaw5:04 for upper shoulder/trap5:38 for scalen...

03/18/2022

If you are seeing a massage therapist to address pain that is limiting your movement, I recommend seeking out a RAPID Neurofascial Reset practitioner. And depending upon your issue, your treatment will look something like this 🙂.

02/10/2022

02/02/2022

Check it out: discounts for referrals at Integro!