The RockTape Blog

As exciting as traveling can be, it can also be very hard on your body, particularly if you are sitting on a plane or in a car for a long period of time. This combined with sleeping in an unfamiliar bed and the general stress of switching up your routine can lead to...

As a Certified Personal Trainer, long-term chronic pain patient, and movement junkie, I’ve experienced firsthand just how vital movement is to our quality of life (or lack thereof). Indeed, modern science has made remarkable advances as it pertains to both the biology...

Balancing Guilt and Joy My mama guilt has been running high as of late, pun intended.  You see, for the past few months, I've been focused on several running goals: first up is an early Spring half-marathon, then a few 10ks, followed by the pinnacle of my running...

Here is a video from Dr Ashley Worobec, Chiropractor and Rocktape Canada ambassador on how to tape the Quad with our 4" big daddy roll for optimal recovery.

Climbing, whether indoors or outdoors, is muscle memory at its finest – if you don’t use it, you lose it. Thanks to a series of very unfortunate events, my early days of attempting 5.10s quickly turned into years of atrophy as my harness and shoes gathered dust....

Concussion Rehab: Benefits of Aerobic Exercise When people think of concussion rehab, they typically don’t envision jumping on a bike or a treadmill, but there has been a large increase in research that is in favor of low-intensity sub-symptom threshold aerobic...

Tape the Rainbow! When clients enter my Physio treatment room, one of the first things they see is a row of tape in many colours and patterns. Why do I have so many options? Colour may alter the effectiveness of the tape application. This is not because different...

How to make your fitness resolutions come true this 2019, while avoiding injury! It’s that time of year again, the gyms are packed, busier then they have been all year. You’ve got your fresh new shoes that you got for Christmas, a new FitBit that you got for a steal...