Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com Getting stronger will 100% help you keep doing all the things in life you love and feel way more confident in your body while doing so. But, did you know there is another result of getting stronger that will have a huge impact on your life?? In fact, this result is a primary reason why getting stronger is such Read more

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: https://www.matschaumburg.com Do your joints and muscles hurt when you lift weights? Aches and pains are one of the most common reasons why people stop lifting weights, but it doesn’t have to be this way! In fact, there is a very simple framework you can use to troubleshoot this and stop your joints from hurting when you strength train once and Read more

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com Do you find yourself on the tight/loose rollercoaster with stretching? You feel tight so you stretch. Then you feel looser for a little bit. Then within an hour or so you feel tight again. There is a reason why the tightness keeps coming back and why stretching isn’t helping you stay feeling loose. On this week’s episode of the Exercise Read more

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com Does it feel like your body is getting weaker with each passing year? In our experience, there are only two potential culprits as to why this is happening, and “getting old” isn’t one of them. The good news is that both of these culprits can be addressed directly and are 100% in your control. What are these reasons that are Read more

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com How much should you do when you strength train? Should you do the general three sets of 10 reps that is often promoted, or is there a more nuanced way to get an answer for your individual body? This is a question that a lot of people struggle to answer with their workouts, leaving them feeling sore and injured or Read more

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com Are you working out consistently but find that your body keeps feeling achier and more beat up? If exercise is supposed to leave us feeling healthier and stronger, why does it often seem to have the opposite effect? Truth be told, there are two distinct types of exercise, and if you are only doing one of them, the results can Read more

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com Achilles issues are one of the most common complaints we help people with at Muscle Activation Schaumburg. Whether it is Achilles tightness in a professional athlete or Achilles pain in a 55 year old runner, the Achilles is a major point of stress for a lot of people. Over the years, however, we have seen three common things come up Read more

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com “Functional training” is a term often used by the fitness industry to describe ways of exercising that look like they improve people’s ability to perform everyday activities. Key phrase… “that look like”. Because when it comes down to it, most forms of “functional training” actually do the exact opposite. But that does not mean that all ways of exercising will Read more

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com We have officially released 400 episodes of the Exercise Is Health® podcast! To celebrate, we are looking back on our first 399 episodes to discuss what has changed for us during that time, what we continue to believe to be true from this podcast’s inception, and what has evolved over the course of this podcast to lead us in new Read more

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: https://www.matschaumburg.com Muscle Activation Techniques®, or MAT, is extremely helpful at helping people recover from a number of tweaks, twinges, and injuries. But, there is an aspect of the recovery process with MAT that is often overlooked, and this can have a HUGE influence on how fast the recovery process goes. Over the last 14 years, we have seen that when this Read more