E442 – Why You May Need To Exercise More Intensely If Your Body Is Breaking Down

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com Does your body feel like it is breaking down? Maybe your knee feels achy, your back feels tight, or your shoulders are pinchy. Or maybe it just feels like you are “getting old”. A lot of times, when people feel this way, they are hesitant to exercise intensely–or exercise at all. But, truth be told, exercising at a low Read more

E441 – Your Body’s Two Fences That Dictate Your Mobility

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com Your body has two types of fences that dictate how well it can move. While some people may be very mobile through their hips and knees, other people may be very mobile in their back and shoulders. And some people, no matter how hard they try, seem to never be able to improve their mobility, while other people just Read more

E440 – How To Improve Your Cardio Without High Impact

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com Does your body hurt when you do high-impact exercises? If so, you are not alone. Unfortunately, many ways of doing cardio are higher-impact, which can leave your joints feeling angry when you are just wanting to build a healthier heart. So, how can you improve your cardio without suffering from the negative effects of high-impact exercises? On this week’s Read more

Stop Stretching After Workouts. Do This Instead.

Stretching after workouts is one of the most common things people do to try to help their body recover faster. Whether they are doing it because they believe it makes them less sore or simply because it is something they have always done, stretching out for five to ten minutes at the end of a workout can seem like an easy way to reduce workout aches and pains. Here’s the problem, though… It doesn’t actually Read more

E439 – 3 Musts For Getting Your Workouts In Consistently

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com There are three things that must be present in order for you to workout consistently. If you are struggling to consistently workout, one of these three things is guaranteed to be missing. What are these three “musts” and how can you implement them into your day? On this week’s episode of the Exercise Is Health podcast, that is exactly Read more

E438 – 2 Easy Ways To Make Your Workouts More Effective

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 reps, the same workouts times and times per week, and simply by Read more

3 Reasons You Need Muscle Activation Techniques® If You Exercise

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 Read more

E437 – One Huge Benefit Of Consistent MAT & Exercise

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 unique benefits that you are more likely to experience once you have been consistent for about 12 Read more

Your Activation Exercises Aren’t Activating The Right Things. Here’s Why…

Activation exercises are extremely popular among fitness fanatics, sports performance specialists, and rehab professionals alike. Whether it is banded walks, glute bridges, bird dogs, clams, or some other oddly-named movement, many professionals stake the claim that these types of exercises are both useful and necessary to get your muscles firing. There’s one huge problem with these claims, though… These types of exercises only activate the muscles that are already activated. Yes, these popular exercises are Read more

E436 – How Soon After Your MAT Session Can You Exercise?

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 working out–and strength training in particular–are certainly an important part of maintaining healthy, strong muscles, exercising too Read more