If you exercise, you need Muscle Activation Techniques®, also known as MAT.
MAT is not some woo-woo practice that only changes how you feel temporarily. It fundamentally rewires how your brain and muscles work together, increasing your strength, improving your mobility, and reducing your risk for injury.
If you exercise–whether you strength train, you do cardio, you do group classes, you do pilates, you do yoga, or you mix it up with something different every time–you need Muscle Activation Techniques®.
Here’s why…
1. Better Results From The Same Workout
You are already doing the workout; you might as well get the most out of it that you can, right?
The MAT process will figure out which of your muscles are not talking well with your brain and help to improve that communication. As a result, when you workout, your brain is able to use ALL of your muscles, not just the ones that were previously working well.
For you, this means that your strength will go up, leading to an increased ability to build muscle, improve your bone density, and workout harder with fewer issues. And when you are able to consistently workout harder, you will get better results.
2. Reduce Your Risk Of Workout Injury
Getting injured when you workout is extremely frustrating. Most of the time, this happens because your body wasn’t prepared to do what you were asking it to.
Specifically, when you have muscles that aren’t working properly, other muscles will have to compensate and overwork, causing them to get stressed and strained.
Muscle Activation Techniques® figures out which of your muscles aren’t working as well as they need to and improves their function.
As a result, you get to enter your workout with your body fully ready to go with all of your muscles firing properly, which means when you do an exercise, you will be less likely to need to compensate and therefore less likely to injure yourself.
3. Faster Recovery After Your Workouts
Recovery is a huge piece of the puzzle when it comes to getting the results you want from your workouts. However, too much recovery isn’t necessarily a good thing. Only working out once a month gives you plenty of time to recover, but won’t lead to the positive results you want.
So a balance needs to be struck between how often you challenge your body with your workouts and how much recovery time you give yourself.
One thing that can be especially helpful is speeding up your recovery processes so you need less time overall to get to the same level of recovery.
When you workout, if you have muscles that aren’t working properly, your body will compensate and overwork the muscles that are working well.
This will slow down your recovery from your workouts because those muscles will have gotten more stressed than you were intending.
However, when all your muscles are working properly, then no one group needs to compensate and gets overworked.
MAT helps restore the function of muscles that aren’t working properly, allowing you to go into your workouts with a body that is fully ready to exercise hard.
And, because everything is ready to go, you won’t need to overstress some muscles to compensate for underperforming muscles.
As a result, you are able to workout hard and still recover quickly because none of your muscles got too stressed.
Furthermore, if some muscles accidentally do get too stressed, MAT can bring them back on board quickly so they are able to fully recover before you go and workout again.
If you would like to experience MAT for yourself, we would love to see you at our studio, Muscle Activation Schaumburg, in Chicago’s northwest suburbs.
At Muscle Activation Schaumburg, we have been trained in the highest levels of MAT–including MATRx, MATRx2, MATRx Stim, MAT Athlete, and MAT Athlete2–and are the most highly-trained practitioners in the Chicagoland area.
To try out Muscle Activation Techniques® for yourself, click here to schedule your initial consultation and assessment.
We can’t wait to see you on our MAT table soon!
In strength and health,
Julie & Charlie
