GRIT Performance - Endurance Sport Physio

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GRIT Performance - Endurance Sport Physio

Alberta's premiere endurance sport resource. Offering specialized research based physiotherapy services to athletes: coaching, physio, run/bike analysis.

Research + Education + Experience. Craig Schmitt, physiotherapist, kinesiologist, and certified coach, offers evidence based expertise on treating, educating, and training endurance sport athletes including runners, triathletes, and cyclists. Providing cutting edge musculoskeletal assessment, performance analysis, and hands-on treatment, Craig will assist you to maximize your athletic potential. Every client is unique and will receive individualized care and custom exercise prescription and training plans based on the latest research and personal goals.

05/03/2025

These truly are the best days, I wish they’d never end. Hanging with my boys, watching them play a game they love and are so passionate about. And doing it with great people. There’s no place I’d rather be (even ahead of being at the Oilers game 6 clincher!). Yep, these are the days.

03/24/2025

You can have all the training in the world….have your nutrition dialled in….have a positive mindset. But having problems with your feet (blisters, hot spots, runner’s toe) = death for a runner! One of the skills of successful trail & ultra running is learning how to cope, how to manage problems when they arise. And they will, they always do. Come out to run with us this Wednesday, after which we’ll have a talk by led by our de facto expert , who will walk us through some of the foot maintenance needed to run extremely long distances (Trish in fact just covered 263km of trail running at the southern lakes ultra in New Zealand). See you in a couple days!

03/18/2025

These are the days. Watching Naomi do her thing at XC Ski Nationals (best race of the year at the most important time!), waking up to the mountain view, getting in a sunny hike, then capping it off with a little Irish music on St Patty’s Day. The best. Next race in an hour!

02/23/2025

Join me this Wednesday for an easy run (leaving from Garden Heights parking lot @ 6:15), which will be followed up by a chat at Sawback Brewery on the debate of using super shoes for your big races in 2025. Are they worth the price tag? Do they make difference? Let’s talk about it!

02/06/2025

It’s good to have somebody to run with when it’s -25 outside….even if that somebody is Hannibal Lecter.

01/27/2025

Most of you will remember America’s Funniest Home Videos, right? Each show they made sure to include some clown get blown off the back of a treadmill….and we would laugh at him. Well, this weekend that clown was me. Bored out of my mind by minute 11 (how does do this for 60km?) the focus drifted….and the next moment I banged my knee…then the shoulder….then the head….then was spit out the back. And my first thought? Did anybody see me?? Haha!! I wish I was recorded so I could laugh at myself. In the end nothing more than a scraped knee…and the humiliation of falling off a treadmill.

01/23/2025

Good run with the crew last night! And thanks to for once again hosting us, where we had a discussion about the merits of using sodium bicarbonate as a supplement. Is it useful for endurance athletes? What is a proper dosage? Has anybody tried it before? What does the research say? You needed to be there to find out…ha! It’s always fun to hang out with fellow running nerds to just chat about our love for the sport. I’ll plan another one in February (topic undecided), so look out for that announcement.

01/16/2025

Open invitation to anybody who would like to join! It will be a fun, social run leaving from Bower Ponds (at 6:15 sharp!) for somewhere between 6-8km. Then we’ll head over to for a pint to discuss the merits of using sodium bicarbonate as an endurance athlete. It will be very informal, I’m hoping for some open interaction…maybe somebody out there has already been experimenting with it? See you there!!

01/14/2025

It’s decided. June 8 will be my “A” race, a marathon near Seattle. It’s always good to sign up, fully commit to something early on to give your training more specificity. Every single workout between now & then will be targeting this day. What is everybody else doing?

01/10/2025

Does anybody else get stressed out about nailing their Friday morning run…when nobody really cares except you?! Nicole thinks I’m ridiculous…but it’s a thing! Been thinking about this one since waking up yesterday. This can’t be normal.

01/06/2025

A good variety of treatment being provided today. Some teaching, some endurance sport coaching, and of course treatment of various injuries. Is something preventing you from playing your sport? You can book in with me now, the link is in my bio.

01/01/2025

Happy New Year to all! Your goal for 2025 should be to find a good friend willing to take off work every Tuesday afternoon, go for a run with that friend, then have a pint over a game of cribbage. Thank you for slugging it out at 1pm every Tuesday!

Address

38440 Range Road 270
Red Deer, AB
T4E 1C5

Telephone

+14033028330

Website

http://www.gritperformance.ca/

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