E451 – Your Convenience Doesn’t Dictate Your Physiology

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com Here’s a hard truth that many people struggle with… What is convenient for your life may not be enough to reach your goals. This applies to all areas of life, but with exercise specifically, we see this too often. Unfortunately, while many people stick to doing what is convenient for them, their health, their strength, and their overall function Read more

Active Recovery – The Missing Link In Your Workouts

You go to the gym and hit the weights. You put miles in on the road. You do the classes. You stay consistent. And while you are making progress, the gains are much slower than you would expect. To top it all off, you feel your body’s ability to push harder during your workouts actually getting worse, not better. Too many people find themselves in this type of scenario. They are consistent with their workouts. Read more

E450 – Stop Holding Your Shoulder Blades Still

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com Have you ever heard that you need to keep your shoulder blades still? Like they need to be held down and back in order for you to properly do certain movements or exercises? There’s a huge problem with this idea; one that is likely causing many of the issues and symptoms you may be feeling with your shoulders. On Read more

E449 – One Of The Easiest Ways To Get Stronger

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com Getting stronger requires you to consistently push yourself with your workouts while also staying safe and injury-free. Many people often sacrifice one of these two for the other–they either push themselves really hard and completely disregard how well their body is recovering or they lean so far towards staying safe that they never challenge themselves. While we have spent Read more

What Nobody Is Telling You About Stretching…

Stretching is often heralded as a fix-all for many aches and pains. Hamstrings tight? Stretch. Low back achy? Stretch. Neck hurt when you move it? Stretch. Shoulder pain when you lift your arm? Stretch. Here’s the problem though… While stretching may make your body more mobile, it won’t make your body more stable. In fact it is well-known to make you weaker and less stable, and this is a HUGE issue. Stretching has been shown Read more

E448 – Why More Information Rarely Helps You

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com More information is rarely helpful when it comes to building your health and strength. Instead of falling into the trap of “paralysis by analysis”, taking massive action on the basic things that get you 80% of the way to your goal is far more beneficial for most people. However, there are two groups of people who often do benefit Read more

E447 – Two Interesting Characteristics Of Our Clients Who Get The Best Results

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com Success leaves clues, and when you look at the clients who have the most success with us, they are no exception to this rule. In fact, there are two distinct characteristics of the clients who get the best results with Muscle Activation Techniques® and strength training that we have seen come up time and again. Fortunately, these characteristics are Read more

E446 – One Thing That Is More Important Than Frequency With MAT

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com With Muscle Activation Techniques®, meeting frequently early on is extremely helpful to build a solid foundation and correct a lot of underlying issues. However, once that foundation is built and your body is feeling stronger and more mobile, there is something that is more important than meeting frequently to help you maintain these results. While frequency is a big Read more

The Power Of Maintenance MAT

Muscle Activation Techniques® (MAT) is one of the most impactful things you can do for your strength, mobility, and overall wellbeing. While many people search out and find MAT because of some symptom such as tight hamstrings, achy knees, or painful shoulders, one of the most powerful aspects of MAT is when a client gets on a maintenance plan. Yes, MAT is extremely effective at relieving tight muscles, painful joints, and many different types of Read more

E445 – One Thing That’s More Important Than Where Your Pain Is

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com One of the most common stories out there is that the pain you feel indicates where your underlying issues are. Elbow hurts? Elbow issue. Back is painful? Back issue. Knee aches? Knee issue. As easy as this story is to follow, it is largely untrue. Fortunately, though, there are indicators that are a lot more telling about where your Read more