Taylor Burns
CSCS, Owner & Founder of Absolute Human Performance
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3 Exercises You Should Do If You Sit All Day

One of the most common postural issues in people is kyphosis, which is just a fancy name for a rounded upper back.  This can cause a host of problems and is created by sitting in front of a computer all day, staring down at your phone, and driving long hours.
Feb 23, 2018 1 min read

From The Archive: My Story

I wrote this one year ago on Bell Let’s Talk Day. I’ve decided to share it again this year in hopes that it may help someone going through a dark time.   It was a late winter night in January of 2013.  I sat alone in my car, parked
Jan 31, 2018 5 min read

The 4 Biggest Lessons I Learned in 2017

2017 was a wild rollercoaster of a year, to say the least.  I achieved a long held goal of pitching again, I moved back to Canada, entered into a relationship with a truly wonderful person, observed my mother endure literal hell as she battled through six rounds of chemotherapy, lived
Jan 21, 2018 3 min read

Creatine: Everything You Need to Know

There are a lot of rumours about creatine that simply aren’t true.  I hear them often when I recommend an athlete consider supplementing creatine. This post will dispel some of these rumours and explain why creatine is probably a very beneficial supplement to take.  It is in fact the
Dec 31, 2017 2 min read

It's the Road, Not the Inn

In Don Quixote, Cervantes states, “it’s the road, not the inn”.  This short phrase is something that I have tried to – never mind remind myself consistently, but ingrain into how I live. Have you ever achieved something incredible, something worth striving for?  I mean something really worth striving for:
Nov 6, 2017 2 min read

The Power of Gratitude

For almost two years now I’ve started my day off the same way.  I write down three things I’m grateful for.  I’ve found it to be incredibly powerful in shifting my attitude to being positive first thing in the morning and I find I am more likely
Oct 12, 2017 1 min read
Squat to Squat Better

Squat to Squat Better

Our bodies are meant to move.  We were never meant to be sedentary beings, and sitting at a desk and in a car for the vast majority of your day creates a number of different problems.  For thousands of years human beings were nomadic; constantly on the move hunting and
Oct 3, 2017 3 min read

You Reap What You Sow; Except You Don't

I haven’t written a single word about the year I got to play college baseball again.  Quite frankly, I’m still not ready to – I’m too afraid of what I’ll type.  As I continue to transition back into ‘reality’ I’ve set and begun the process of
Sep 1, 2017 2 min read
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