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 Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com
You don't need a new workout routine to get better results from your workouts.
You just need to switch a couple things about HOW you are doing your workouts.
In fact, you can do the exact same exercises you are currently doing, with the same sets and...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com
Consistently exercising and getting Muscle Activation Techniques® are two of the most important things you can do for your strength and health overall.
While there are many benefits that can be experienced soon after you get started with each, there are some uniq...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com
How soon after your Muscle Activation Techniques® session can you exercise?
Many clients want to keep up their regular workout routine while getting their muscles tuned up with MAT, but how long after a session should you wait to workout again?
While...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com
What determines how successful you are at getting the results you want from your workouts?
While a lot of people push different workout strategies, nutrition plans, and recovery routines to get results, we have found that there is one thing above all else that ha...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com
What do you do when your body feels off?
Maybe you have a nagging pain that just isn't going away.
Or maybe you woke up feeling like you, once again, "slept wrong".
Or maybe you just feel like your entire body is wading through thick mud...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com
It is rare for us to speak in absolutes. Typically, we try to leave room for nuance and individual considerations.
But, there is one stance that we feel 100% certain about…
Stronger is always better.
On this week's episode of the Exercis...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com
What happens when you stop strength training?
Many people who are active in their teens and twenties slow down their strength training by the time they hit their thirties, but what does this mean for their body?
How long can you expect to hold onto t...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com
How strong your muscles are is distinctly different from how connected your muscles are, and both are absolutely essential to living an active life in a body that feels good.
While most people may only be focusing on one aspect or the other, we see time and again...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com
Some of the biggest fans of Muscle Activation Techniques® are people who had such a dramatic change after one session that they are convinced that is all it takes.
While these types of sessions do happen, the truth is that it is mostly dumb luck when they do.
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com
Stretching is the most common way to loosen up tight muscles, but there's a big problem–it doesn't help you STAY loose.
Sure, stretching can create a short-term feeling of looseness, but it doesn't actually keep the tightness away.
In fact, the tight...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com
Total body strength training is something we recommend to almost all of our clients.
Time and again we have seen this to be an effective and efficient way to build strength, but how total body strength training is portrayed by mainstream fitness gives the absolut...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com
There is a lot of information out there about what it takes to get stronger and this is something we have spoken about often, as well.
What isn't talked about too much, though, is what the actual process of getting stronger looks like how quickly you should expec...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com
Muscle strength is often measured by the amount of weight that you can lift, but did you know there is actually an earlier indication that your muscles are getting stronger?
This early marker is one of the first things we see improve with many of our clients, and...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com
There are many well-known benefits of Muscle Activation Techniques® (MAT) like increasing strength and relieving tight muscles.
However, there is one benefit of MAT that very few people know about when they start but almost everybody experiences at some point in ...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com
Does your body get flared up even though you are just doing all the things you normally do?
Meaning, there's nothing out of the ordinary that you did, and yet your body still flares up…
Believe it or not, everyday activities are one of the biggest c...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com
Muscle Activation Techniques® (MAT) is one of the most effective ways to calm down muscle- and joint-related symptoms, but its power doesn't end there.
Once your symptoms are addressed and you are feeling well, it is time to move to the next stage of MAT, and thi...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com
For over a decade we've been practicing MATRx–the highest level of Muscle Activation Techniques®–but two months ago that changed.
For the last couple of months we have been practicing a brand new version of Muscle Activation Techniques®, and the results have been...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com
What do you do when your body flares up while living your life?
Maybe you were shoveling snow and all of the sudden your back got tweaked.
Or perhaps you were putting boxes up high on a shelf and all of a sudden your shoulder started to hurt.
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com
Challenging your body is a non-negotiable if you want to build strength and get results with your workouts.
Often, increasing the challenge means increasing the amount of weight you use when you strength train.
However, many people are hesitant to in...
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com
What should you prioritize with your workouts to get the biggest bang for your buck this coming year?
While there are many programs out there promoting the benefits of balance, mobility, and overall fitness, there is one aspect of exercise that needs to take prec...
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