Exercise Is Health
At Muscle Activation Schaumburg, we believe your health is your most valuable asset. Join hosts Charlie and Julie Cates as they discuss how to utilize exercise to help improve and maintain your health, as well as interviews with health and wellness experts from various fields including chiropractic, accupuncture, psychology, nutrition, and functional medicine. Both Charlie and Julie are certified personal trainers and Muscle Activation Techniques® practitioners in Schaumburg, IL.
Episodes
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com
Muscle Activation Techniques®, or MAT, is the most powerful process we have come across for helping people increase their strength and mobility while reducing pain and tightness.
But, while the effects of MAT are profound, explaining it to somebody can be challenging.
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com
One key to long-term success with your workouts is staying consistent with them. While much of the world is focused on constantly switching things up, the truth is you need to keep doing the same things over and over again in order to build lasting strength and health.
B...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com
Poor posture is blamed for many aches and pains people experience from back tightness to shoulder and neck stiffness to general achiness all over.
But, while the common solution is to create “good” posture, there is a lie being told about “good” posture that holds many p...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com
Does exercise feel too stressful for your body?
It is very common for people to stop working out altogether when they feel like their workouts are always breaking their body down, but this doesn’t have to be you!
There are some key shifts that need to take p...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com
What’s the difference between people who continue to feel strong and move well after their mid 30s and those who do not?
While everybody has hit their natural physical peak by this stage in life, there are some people who continue to progress while others start their phy...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com
If you have symptoms related to disc issues in your spine, there is some information that is often left unsaid about your discs.
While many people have issues with their discs, not everybody has symptoms related to them.
On this week’s episode of the Exercis...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com
How can you make sure that your body is always ready to go?
That at a moment’s notice, you can be ready to go for a run, play basketball, or pickup a child without worrying about injuring yourself or feeling like you need to take 30 minutes to warm up?
Almos...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com
There is something that we have seen to hold true for every single client we have ever worked with throughout our entire career.
Unfortunately, many people–including many trainer professionals–are under the false belief that this universal truth does not exist.
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Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com
What do you do when your body gets tweaked?
Maybe you felt a twinge in your back while working in the yard. Or perhaps you felt your hamstring tighten up while going for a jog. Or maybe your neck was particularly stiff when you woke up this morning.
When the...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com
Do you struggle to feel mobile despite doing the traditional stretches, exercises, and drills?
If you want to increase your mobility, you need to understand the two basic things that influence your mobility.
Once you do, you will be able to control these var...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com
How do you know if your body needs Muscle Activation Techniques®?
You may hear us talk about Muscle Activation Techniques® (MAT) all the time, but how do you know if MAT would work well for you?
There are some strong signs that your body would do great with ...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com
Are you trying to strengthen your core but feel like you’re not making as much progress as you’d like?
There are two things that absolutely must be done if you are trying to build your core strength up and most people are missing at least one of them within their trainin...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com
Are you falling short of your health and performance goals?
Is your strength not at the level you want? Is your mobility more limited than you’d like? Is your energy throughout the day lower than you’d prefer?
There is one issue that over 98% of people have ...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com
There is one question that every client who is new to Muscle Activation Techniques® has, and that is, “How quickly will I get results?”
If you have ever wondered this yourself, you are in luck!
On this week’s episode of the Exercise Is Health® podcast, we ar...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com
Do you have flat feet that struggle to get stronger?
Flat feet are often blamed for many of the aches and pains people experience, and when they are weak, the issues can be amplified.
But, doing general exercises is not the answer for getting flat feet stron...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com
Are you struggling to get stronger despite consistently working out?
Do you do strength training multiple times a week but haven’t been able to progress to using heavier weights?
Do you feel like your strength has plateaued and you aren’t able to break throu...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com
Do you have SI joint pain?
This common ailment often makes it difficult to sit, walk, and sleep comfortably, especially when the issue is more intense.
However, by getting your body stronger, you can do a lot to help support your SI joints and make sure they...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com
Are you a side sleeper?
Too often, the aches and pains people feel in their shoulders, neck, elbows, and back are blamed on them sleeping on their side.
But the truth of the matter is, sleeping on your side is not your issue.
There is a complete...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com
How do you know if your body needs Muscle Activation Techniques®?
While there are common signs that your muscles are not functioning well–such as certain muscles always feeling tight, flexibility being limited, joints aching, and muscles feeling weak–there are some more ...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com
Does your neck feel weak?
Maybe it feels like you have difficulty holding your head in the posture you’d like.
Or maybe your neck often feels fatigued throughout the day.
Unfortunately, when it comes to trying to build a stronger neck, there are...
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