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3 Do’s & Don’ts of Muscle Activation Techniques®

Whenever we start with a new client for Muscle Activation Techniques® (MAT), we always spend time upfront going over their expectations and what they want to accomplish with their sessions. Sometimes a client’s goals have to do with resolving a specific pain or symptom, such as tightness in the low back, pain in the shoulder, or achiness in the knees. Sometimes the goals are centered around performance, like being able to run a 5K or Read more

By Team MAS, ago

E434 – What To Default To When Your Body Feels Off

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 today–heavy, lethargic, fatigued… What do you do when you have a day–or a Read more

By Team MAS, ago

3 Uncommon Reasons People Do Muscle Activation Techniques®

Muscle Activation Techniques® (MAT) is well-known to help with pain, tight muscles, achy joints, and overall feelings of weakness, but there are some less-common reasons that many people do MAT, too. Truth be told, MAT affects more than just your muscles and joints; it also affects your nervous system including the balance of your sympathetic (fight or flight) and parasympathetic (rest and digest) systems as well as your brain. Because of MAT’s strong influence on Read more

By Charlie Cates, ago

E433 – PSA – Stronger Is Always Better

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 Exercise Is Health podcast, we are diving into what we mean by this; why we believe this to Read more

By Team MAS, ago

E431 – Why You Need Muscle Connection AND Muscle Strength

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 that when clients start focusing on BOTH, their ability to live Read more

By Team MAS, ago

Tight Muscles Aren’t Your Issue. Here’s Why…

Tight muscles are one of the most common complaints people have. While there are an endless number of gadgets and modalities to loosen tight muscles, none of them are actually addressing the real issue. Unfortunately, what this means for so many people is they can create a short-term change in how their tight muscles feel, but that change never lasts for any substantial amount of time. In fact, not only does the tightness always come Read more

By Team MAS, ago

E430 – One Thing You Need To Know Before Starting Muscle Activation Techniques®

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. Unfortunately, believing the hype that you only need one session for Read more

By Team MAS, ago

E429 – Why Stretching Isn’t Helping You Stay Loose

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 tightness often comes back more intense than before, which traps many people in a cycle of feeling tight, Read more

By Team MAS, ago

E428 – What Does Effective Total Body Strength Training Look Like?

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 absolute wrong impression of what actually needs to be done. In fact, what we recommend Read more

By Team MAS, ago

E427 – The Unspoken Truth About Making Strength Gains

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 expect to see strength gains, how long those strength gains will go Read more

By Team MAS, ago