How To Prevent Brittle Bones – The Missing Link With Osteoporosis Exercises

Ladies–if you are in your 50s or beyond then I am sure you have thought about your bone health. How can you build stronger bones? What can you do to keep your bone density high? Are there certain exercises you need to do? What about specific supplements to take? All of these questions are exactly what many women think about once they get into their 50s, and for good reason… Bone health is extremely important! Read more

By Julie Cates, ago

E331 – The #1 Thing Dentists Can Do To Keep Their Hands & Neck Feeling Great

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: http://vagaro.com/muscleactivationschaumburg/services Dentists–do your hands and neck feel like they are wearing out on you with all of the reps you are putting on them day after day? These two areas are far and away the top areas of complaint that we hear from dentists all the time. Maybe you’ve tried everything you can think of to get your hands and neck Read more

By Team MAS, ago

Can Muscle Activation Techniques Help You Live Pain Free?

Have you heard of Muscle Activation Techniques® or MAT® but aren’t sure what it is? Have you heard that MAT® is helping people live pain-free, but have no idea how or if it would work for you? Charlie Cates was recently interviewed on the Biohacking Superhuman Performance podcast where he answered these very questions and more. He and the show’s host, Nathalie Niddam, dove deep into many aspects of MAT®, the MAT® process, who it Read more

By Team MAS, ago

Basketball Players – The Best Way To Reduce Achilles Stress

Basketball players–Achilles stress is no joke. Too many seasons and careers have been cut short due to Achilles injuries and tears. Unfortunately, despite all of the training advancements out there, the Achilles tendon is still susceptible to a number of issues. But there’s good news–there is a lot you can do to protect and strengthen your Achilles and the surrounding muscles and tissues; however, what you do may look a bit different than what you Read more

By Charlie Cates, ago

E330 – 3 Big Mistakes With Postural Exercises

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: http://vagaro.com/muscleactivationschaumburg/services Do you do exercises to try to improve your posture? While these types of exercises are popular in many circles within the fitness industry as well as with different types of therapists, there are some big mistakes we see people commonly making with these exercises. Unfortunately, making any of these mistakes doesn’t just lead to feeling achy or sore; these Read more

By Team MAS, ago

3 Common But Unexpected Responses After Muscle Activation Techniques

Muscle Activation Techniques® (MAT®) is one of the most powerful things you can do to help improve your overall health and function. The goal of MAT® is to assess your body to figure out where you have muscles that aren’t contracting well and then address those muscles to get them working better. When this happens, we see our clients’ strength improve, their joint motion and flexibility improve, their ability to recover from activity to improve, Read more

By Team MAS, ago

E329 – How To Create A Healthy Liver For Life – Interview with Kristin Kirkpatrick

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: http://vagaro.com/muscleactivationschaumburg/services You have likely thought about the health of your heart and brain, but what about the health of your liver?  While the mainstream news doesn’t typically focus on liver health much, the truth is that without a healthy liver, the rest of your body cannot be healthy long-term. So what can you do to help your liver become healthy and Read more

By Team MAS, ago

How To Keep Your Joints Healthy With HIIT Workouts

High-intensity exercise and joint health don’t usually go hand-in-hand. In fact, high-intensity exercise is often blamed for joints feeling achy, sore, or painful. But, there are three things you can do with your high-intensity workouts to actually help your joints be healthier. The first is to use your symptom-free full range of motion. Your joints need to move to be healthy, and doing exercises that involve your symptom-free full range of motion are an easy Read more

By Team MAS, ago

3 Ways Muscle Activation Techniques Helps Women In Their 50s

Ladies–one of the biggest concerns I hear from women in their 50s and beyond is how their body will hold up as the years go by. How their muscle strength and bone strength will fair. How flexible they will stay. How well they will be able to avoid common pains and injuries such as frozen shoulder, plantar fasciitis, rounding of the spine, and joint pain in the knees and hips. While many women see these Read more

By Julie Cates, ago

E328 – How To Manage Traveling Hip Pain

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: http://vagaro.com/muscleactivationschaumburg/services Do you have hip pain that started in one part of your hip but has since moved around? Maybe it started near the front but now it wraps around the side and goes to the back. Or maybe it was near the top of your hip but has traveled down. This type of traveling pain can be extremely frustrating to Read more

By Team MAS, ago