Vigour Physiotherapy

09/24/2025

You asked, I listened!

Starting October 5th, I'll be adding a Sunday 11:30am mobility class to my offerings (skipping long weekends).

These classes are hosted at CrossFit Brio but are open to all!

These sessions aren't your typical "stretching" or “yoga" class.. expect:
- Challenging but scalable training for all levels
- To build active, usable mobility (not just flexibility)
- To strengthen your joints at end ranges so they stay resilient

I've had such a blast running these classes, and I'm pumped to bring you another weekend option.

Check out my website or DM me for rates + class pack options.

Your joints will thank you 💪🏼

06/12/2025

This is a mobility routine that I use daily to keep my body's major joints moving and feeling awesome.

This routine utilizes CARs (Controlled Articular Rotations) which take our joints through their full ranges of motion and help to ensure that all of my tissues get the stimulus they need to stay healthy.

This routine could be done in the morning when you wake up, or anytime throughout the day as a nice movement break.

Try to move slowly and with as much control as possible as you move through the routine.

You should not experience pain while performing these movements, so if you do decrease your intensity and consider getting an evaluation.

06/04/2025

Got 10 minutes? Try this hip mobility series to help open up your front hip and create space where most of us are so tight!

02/26/2025

Another chance to move with me coming soon!

🏔️SPECIAL MOBILITY SERIES with physio Nick Allard 👏

We are so excited to offer a mobility training series for you every second Sunday in March and April, starting March 16th.

“Hi, I’m Nick! I’m a physiotherapist and mobility coach specializing in helping people move better, feel stronger, and build long-term joint health.

My mobility classes focus on improving your active range of motion, building strength in your joints, and making movement more effortless in your daily life and workouts.

Using an evidence-based approach, we’ll work on increasing flexibility, control, and resilience so you can perform better, recover faster, and prevent injuries. This class involves working lots of deep muscle and joint tissues with the goal of improving the health of some of our body stuff that is most overlooked. We target common areas of injury and pain to help you feel and move your best!

This class is infinitely scalable meaning it is for anyone from an elite athlete to someone who just wants to move their body better. You can expect to work hard, and learn a ton about how your own individual body moves. If you are interested in learning more about the specific methodology you can check out Functional Range Conditioning and Kinstretch.

I am excited to meet you and can’t wait to move with you in class soon!”
-Nick Allard, Physiotherapist and owner of Vigour Physiotherapy

You can purchase the whole series or drop in on Mindbody. Members, please reach out for a special rate.

12/30/2024

Shoulder Internal Rotation Stretch + Isometrics

An often overlooked and under trained range of motion of the shoulder is internal rotation. I like this one for shoulder joint health maintenance and increasing range of motion for the shoulder. Also a helpful exercise for starting to feel the difference between ball in socket shoulder movement versus shoulder blade movement.

Start gently and build up some tension once you're comfortable to do so.

If you have pain or feel off with this exercise discontinue and get that shoulder checked out!

12/20/2024

A beginner hip exercise that I love to give patients and incorporate into group classes. Try to keep your body as stable as possible while only moving through your hip joint. Don't push into painful ranges of motion and move SLOWLY with INTENTION. This looks simple but is so so hard. If this feels easy you probably just need to try harder 🙃.

12/11/2024

I’ve been doing a lot of learning and way too much philosophical thinking when it comes to my own physical health and how to best help other people this year. I am happy to be surrounded by super smart people in my life and to have the opportunity to take continuing education courses in how to improve my skills and understanding of the body. Upon starting my own business and getting more serious about optimizing my own physical I have developed the framework in the post above.

There is a lot of inspiration from courses I’ve taken through Functional Anatomy Seminars and the framework itself is basically a reimagination of CrossFit’s hierarchy for development of an athlete.

I see my role as a physiotherapist and coach as being able to help people in the top 3 sections of this pyramid (energy systems training, internal training, and external training) while acknowledging the HUGE importance of everything encompassed in “basic human needs”. Particularly I see a more specific role for myself in teaching people more about internal training and how we can add things into our day to maintain and improve our joints and tissues to better handle the stresses of life.

Thoughts? Questions? Ideas? Let me know in the comments or send me a message!