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This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie discuss some simple steps you can take to combat the chronic stress that cardio and aerobic activity can often place on your muscles and joints. Making sure your muscles and joints stay healthy and functioning well is vital to ensuring you are able to keep to aerobic activity, and adding in a little bit of time each week to show those areas of your Read more…

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie discuss the bare minimum that you need to be doing from an exercise perspective to build lifelong health. While a single bout of exercise has been shown to improve health, how do you string together multiple workouts to be able to consistently build the health and function of your body? Check out the details in this week’s episode! And, if you are looking for Read more…

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie discuss walking, exercise, and why the former is not the best form of the latter. Despite the often-prescribed advice of “walking is the best form of exercise”, there are some severe limitations to utilizing walking as your primary form of exercise. Check out all of the details in this week’s episode! Looking for a way to get in resistance training on your own at Read more…

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie answer a listener-submitted question regarding something that was happening during The MAS At-Home Workout Program. Julie and Charlie were using isometrics instead of stretching during the cool down part of the program, and they answer why they opted to do this. If you are interested in learning about why Julie and Charlie recommend using isometrics instead of stretching, check out all of the details Read more…

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie sit down with Michael Lingenfelter of The Rider Remedy to discuss exercise, muscle function, and strength and how it all applies to the equestrian community. Michael specializes in helping equestrians improve their body’s function and performance through strategic exercise and Muscle Activation Techniques® (MAT®). He shares with Julie and Charlie what he sees as some of the common challenges equestrians face with their body and Read more…