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

By Team MAS, ago

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

By Team MAS, ago

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

By Team MAS, ago

A Non-Obvious Solution To Tight Muscles

Tight muscles are really annoying. Between limiting how well your body moves and feeling just plain uncomfortable, tight muscles rarely have anybody feeling happy. But, did you know that almost every way of dealing with tight muscles doesn’t actually address the real reason for the tightness? It’s true. Most ways of dealing with tight muscles just try to cover up the symptom of tightness and hope that will be enough to keep the tightness away. Read more

By Team MAS, ago

E435 – The #1 Thing That Determines Your Workout Success

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 has the biggest influence on your results. On this week’s episode of the Exercise Is Read more

By Team MAS, ago

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