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One Telltale Sign Your Body Needs Muscle Activation Techniques®

“How do I know if I need Muscle Activation Techniques®?” is a question we get often. While there are many signs and symptoms that indicate you need Muscle Activation Techniques®, one stands out above the rest as the definite indicator. Unfortunately, most of the world would have you believe that you need to do a bunch of different things to relieve this one issue, many of which actually make the issue worse. So, what is Read more

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E461 – Why Strong Feet Are Necessary For A Strong Body

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com If you are going to have a strong, healthy body, there is one area in particular that you must make sure is strong that almost nobody ever strengthens. You won’t find many people working on this area in the gym, nor will you find many machines dedicated to getting this area stronger. But, it is absolutely essential that this Read more

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E460 – What You Need To Know When Trying To Progress With Pain

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com How do you make progress with your strength and fitness when your body is in pain? Maybe your knee hurts… Or your shoulder is bugging you… Or your low back keeps acting up… What can you do from a workout perspective to help your body not get weaker? While many people choose to avoid working out altogether to try Read more

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E459 – Why Your Tendon Issue Is Actually A Muscle Issue

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com Tendon issues are one of the most common complaints we hear about. Whether it is the Achilles tendon, the patellar tendon, the biceps long head tendon, or anywhere in between, tendon issues affect many people. But, what if we told you that tendon issues were actually muscle issues? Because as much as people say, “My tendon is hurting and Read more

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Three Things To Have More Success With Muscle Activation Techniques®

When clients start with us at Muscle Activation Schaumburg to do Muscle Activation Techniques® (MAT), they often want to know what they can do on their own to have more success with MAT. Having worked with clients for Muscle Activation Techniques® since 2011, we can say with a high level of confidence that there are three important things that all clients can do to help them have more success with MAT. First, you need to Read more

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E458 – Sleep, Nutrition, or Exercise – Which Should You Prioritize?

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com There’s no denying that your sleep, your nutrition, and your exercise are all parts of living a strong, healthy life. But there’s also no denying that life gets busy, and as much as we’d like to believe that we can prioritize getting all three perfectly dialed in, that really isn’t the case for most people. So, if you fall Read more

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3 Simple Remedies For Tendon Pain

Tendon pain can be one of the fastest ways to lose much of the progress you have been making with your workouts. Unfortunately, many of the remedies out there focus on one of two things: 1. Taking time off 2. Bracing the affected area While both of these options can be useful to help lessen the stress the tendons are taking on, neither is helpful for making the tendons more resilient or keeping the stress Read more

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E457 – What To Do When Your Body Has Multiple Things Going On

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 has multiple issues going on? Maybe your shoulder hurts, your back is tight, and your knee has flared up… How do you handle a situation like this where multiple areas of your body are symptomatic? For many people, this type of scenario is one of the most frustrating to find themselves in, Read more

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Why Foot Exercises Are Not Enough To Help Your Plantar Fasciitis

There are many common remedies for plantar fasciitis; everything from orthotics to stretches to injections. One remedy that is growing in popularity is to do different exercises for the feet to help strengthen them. While we are all for helping muscles get stronger, there are some big issues that we see with only trying to do foot exercises when you have plantar fasciitis. For what it is worth, if you are going to pick only Read more

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E456 – 3 Things To Do When Your Low Back Flares Up

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com Low back flare ups are a common occurrence for many people. Unfortunately, most strategies for resolving them can actually make them worse. What we’ve seen over the last 15 years is there are specific things that are most likely to help calm down a low back flare up, but they fly in the face of the mainstream advice. What Read more

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