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Welcome to Health and Fitness 101, a blog for people who enjoy the Montana lifestyle.
The aim of our blog is to interpret, distill, and then deliver to you the threads that bind physical medicine with applicable health and fitness ideas and principles.
It's all about helping to connect the dots that foster optimal human function and, ultimately, superior performance. Feel better. Perform better.

Missoula Area Events

All Physical Therapists at Alpine Attain Pilates Certification

History will remember this momentous feat. Over the course of three intense days, Alpine’s PTs are immersing themselves in the rigors of attaining Level 1 Pilates Reformer certification through Balanced Body Pilates.

In a room where all eight of our physical therapists seek to take our treatment skills to a higher level, the energy is palpable.

1st Annual Coaches’ Clinic a Success for Western Montana Coaches

My thanks to our physical therapist Doctoral intern from the University of Montana, Katlin “Kat” Anderson, for providing us with this vital update. Having interned at Alpine PT for the past 14 weeks under the auspices of Bob Botkin, PT, ATC, Kat is fast approaching the completion of her internship. Although she will be missed [...]

April is Pilates Month at Alpine PT

Pilates Month? Who came up with that? Well, actually, I did. And here’s why. . .

Alpine is sizzlin’ with Pilates this April. First, we are anxiously awaiting our second Cadillac reformer from Balanced Body. This one’s for our north clinic. A top-line reformer, the unit also comes complete with an overhead trapezius combo that rocks [...]