9 Minute Exercise Challenge

9 Minute Exercise Challenge

Getting motivated for exercise is hard work after New Year’s celebrations, therefore it’s important to acknowledge and respect your emotional self at this time. In order to improve your fitness daily exercise is essential. If 9 minutes is too difficult to...
Importance Of Body Awareness

Importance Of Body Awareness

Body awareness as a concept is subjective; it could mean ones physical appearance or perhaps ones emotional evaluation of their body. Here at Square Box Fitness we are asking you to be aware of your body moving through exercise and challenging your proprioception....
Start Before You’re Ready

Start Before You’re Ready

I appreciate New Year’s fitness resolutions hold the potential for great expectations; however, your fitness success is more likely if you decide to start an exercise program this year – before you feel ready. We learn so much about ourselves by doing exercise and...
Recovering From Injury

Recovering From Injury

It is amazing the power of a band aid in helping children improve their mental capacity for recovery. While adults have no doubt of a child’s ability to recover from say; a scraped, skinned knee in time. The child’s perception is different; the injury is painful,...
What Matters Counts

What Matters Counts

My most asked question is “What is the best exercise for improving fitness.” The answer isn’t always well received because the best exercise is the one you do on repeat.  Take for example walking; it is often hailed as optimal exercise and it is, providing it is...
Heel Pain

Heel Pain

Plantar fasciitis (PF) is one of the most common causes of heel pain. It involves inflammation of a thick band of tissue that runs across the bottom of your foot and connects your heel bone to your toes. PF can develop without an obvious cause, however the following...