E351 – How To Prepare Your Feet For Running

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: http://vagaro.com/muscleactivationschaumburg/services Are your feet ready to run? Whether you are already running consistently or you are preparing to start, your feet need to have the strength and mobility to hold up to the stress. Unfortunately, while many people see the need to make sure their hips, knees, and back are ready, the feet are an often overlooked area that, when neglected, Read more

By Team MAS, ago

Why Your Piriformis Syndrome Isn’t Getting Any Better

Ladies, Piriformis syndrome affects so many of the women I talk to when I am out running errands or at the park with my kids. It is a literal pain in the butt that is keeping many women from feeling like they can be their strong, lively, energetic selves. Can you relate?? And while lots of ladies seek out physical therapy, massage, and even chiropractic care to try to help, there is something that nobody Read more

By Julie Cates, ago

E350 – A Simple Plan To Get Your Low Back Moving Better

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: http://vagaro.com/muscleactivationschaumburg/services Does your low back feel like it’s not moving well? Too often, the strategies that are promoted to help your low back feel less restricted are over-complicated and ultimately ineffective. So what can you do to help get your low back moving well on a consistent basis without getting bogged down in the complexities of many popular methodologies? On this Read more

By Team MAS, ago

Top Strength Training Tips Basketball Players Make – Part 3

Basketball players, Your strength training should be a top priority for both injury prevention and maximizing performance. However, how many players do their strength training doesn’t accomplish either goal. I have written about the first two of four big mistakes I see basketball players make when doing their strength training. You can check out Part 1 here. You can check out Part 2 here. Today, I am diving into the third big mistake I see, Read more

By Charlie Cates, ago

Your Body Needs To Compensate. Here’s How To Do It Better.

Let’s get something straight from the get go… Your body needs to compensate. Now, we know you have been told that compensation is a bad thing. We know you have seen that therapist or trainer who told you to do specific corrective exercises to get rid of compensations you have. We know you have been led to believe that every ache and pain you get while walking or golfing or living life is a result Read more

By Team MAS, ago

E349 – Should You Be Wearing Barefoot Shoes?

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: http://vagaro.com/muscleactivationschaumburg/services Barefoot shoes ebb and flow in popularity with the general public, and even though we are personally fans of them for ourselves, it does not mean that they are right for every person. So what things do you need to consider when deciding whether or not barefoot shoes are for  you? On this week’s episode of the Exercise Is Health® Read more

By Team MAS, ago

What Your Joints Need To Be Healthy

  What do you need for your joints to be healthy? Too often, we see people easily identify what healthy joints are NOT–painful, swollen, immobile, creaky, crackly, etc.–but not be able to identify what healthy joints ARE. More importantly, people have no idea how to get healthy joints, even if they are able to say, “That’s what I’m going for.” First things first–joint health typically implies that the cartilage of the joint, i.e. the spongy Read more

By Team MAS, ago

How To Help Your Knees Feel Better Going Down Stairs

  Ladies, If there is one area of our lives that I see give women over the age of 50 trouble as they get older, it is using the stairs. Too often I have heard from women who have knee pain going up and down stairs, and who are altering their life because of it. They start going down the stairs backwards. Then they go up the stairs sideways. Then they completely rely on the Read more

By Julie Cates, ago

Top Strength Training Mistakes Basketball Players Make – Part 2

  Basketball players, Your strength training should be a top priority for both injury prevention and maximizing performance. However, how many players do their strength training doesn’t accomplish either goal. A few weeks back I brought up the first of four big mistakes I see basketball players make when doing their strength training. You can check out the full article here. Today, I am diving into the second big mistake I see, and it all Read more

By Charlie Cates, ago

E348 – 3 Things You Need To Know About Your Shoulder Blade

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: http://vagaro.com/muscleactivationschaumburg/services Have you ever been told you have an issue with your shoulder blade? While the shoulder blades get a lot of blame for different symptoms and postural issues, the truth is it may not be your shoulder blades’ fault. In fact, this area of the body is one of the most complex to consider, and on this week’s episode of Read more

By Team MAS, ago