Tight back; tight hips; tight hamstrings… Oh my! At Muscle Activation Schaumburg, tight muscles are one of the most common complaints we hear from new clients. They’ve tried stretching. They’ve tried foam rolling. They’ve tried massages. They’ve tried deep breathing. And they are still tight! Can you relate at all? Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
Basketball Players–here is an excerpt from a recent issue of the PRO Hooper Newsletter. If you would like to receive content like this every single week, you can get signed up for free by clicking here. WARMING UP How do you warm up for practices or games? Most players take Read more
How do you know if your body needs Muscle Activation Techniques®? MAT® is an extremely powerful system to help your muscles contract better and help your joints move well, but how do you know if it is for you? There are a number of telltale signs that you need MAT®, Read more
A concept we bring up often is the idea of using today’s workout to set you up to come back and workout again tomorrow. When you follow the four Exercise For Life Principles, this goal becomes much easier to attain. But what if you wake up one morning and you Read more
Ladies–do your workouts leave you feeling achy and sore after? Do you avoid working out because you don’t like feeling sore? Do you choose to not increase the weight you use because you think you will feel sore after? I hear these things from women all the time… “I am Read more
Is your body approaching 100,000 miles? I had a client come in a few weeks back and we were discussing the importance of regular maintenance work for his body and muscles. As an auto mechanic, he was accustomed to the idea of doing maintenance work for cars and making sure Read more
Ladies, I have heard from so many of you recently that you are getting back into the workout swing again, but you are feeling that your body isn’t responding how it used to. Specifically, many women I hear from tell me that they are always feeling injured from their workouts. Read more