Check out this awesome testimonial from Julie and Charlie’s client, Liz! Liz describes her experience doing personal training with Julie and Muscle Activation Techniques™ with Charlie. She talks about how what she has learned with Julie and Charlie has far outweighed everything she learned the previous 20 years of exercising regularly, as well as her body’s transformation over the past three months.
Welcome back to this week’s edition of Two-Minute Tuesdays where we talk about one exercise topic for two minutes and give you three reasons why you should take our advice. This week we are talking about three reasons why exercising for Baby Boomers is a must and three tips to make sure it goes smoothly. (more…)
Exercising for quality is difficult. As a personal trainer and Muscle Activation Techniques™ practitioner in Schaumburg, this is an issue I run into on a daily basis. Exercising for quantity, on the other hand, is much easier. This tends to be the default most people fall back on when they start exercising. It is completely understandable because, as mentioned, it is far easier to exercise for quantity than it is to exercise for quality. But there is a way to change that, and it is simpler than you may think.
First, though, what is exercising for quality versus exercising for quantity? (more…)
Welcome back to this week’s edition of 2-Minute Tuesdays where we are choosing one exercise topic, talking about it for two minutes, and giving you three bullet-point reasons why you should follow our advice. This week we are giving you three reasons why moving throughout your day is a must. Why you need to get up from your desk and walk around. Why standing up out of your chair and going to get water, or Read more…
The Greg Roskopf’s Muscle Activation Techniques™ Jumpstart Program is coming to Muscle Activation Schaumburg! The Chicago area’s first series of MAT™ Jumpstart courses in 2017 will be hosted at Schaumburg, IL’s premier destination for Muscle Activation Techniques™ and personal training. Enter the code MAS before checking out to receive 5% off the cost of the course! Who: Personal trainers, chiropractors, physical therapists, massage therapists, MAT™ specialists, or anybody else who is wanting to explore Muscle Activation Techniques™. What: Muscle Activation Techniques™ Jumpstart Program Read more…
Welcome back to this edition of 2-Minute Tuesdays. This is our third video where we are talking about an exercise topic for two minutes and expanding upon it later. Today we are talking about three reasons why we suggest you move slowly when you are doing resistance training. You will detect issues sooner. The first reason is that you are going to feel and detect issues that are going on in your body right away. Read more…
I used to stretch all the time growing up. I would stretch before I worked out. I would stretch after I worked out. I would stretch in the mornings. I would stretch in the evenings. I would stretch all the time because I wanted to improve my joint mobility and make sure that my body was prepared for my workouts. For over a decade, stretching was a staple in my workout routine.
Despite all of that stretching, I never got to the point where I felt really flexible. I would always feel stiff and achy. My muscles felt chronically tight. This persisted until I made one change to how I was doing my “stretching”. (more…)
Welcome back to 2-Minute Tuesdays! This is the second edition of our weekly show. Today we are going to be talking about the number one thing you need to be thinking about when you are resistance training. And that is …. squeezing the muscles you are working. So, if you are doing a biceps curl, you aren’t thinking about moving the dumbbells up and down. You are actually thinking about squeezing the muscles you are working, which are your biceps. As personal trainers in Schaumburg, this is a HUGE focus for us when we are working with our training clients. (more…)
Check out this awesome testimonial from Julie’s personal training client, Peggy! Peggy describes her experience working with Julie at Muscle Activation Schaumburg. She talks about the intimidation she previously felt when going to the gym and being around personal trainers, and how working with Julie was nothing like that.
Welcome to our first edition of 2-Minute Tuesdays where we bring an exercise topic to you and talk about it for two minutes every Tuesday. Today we are talking about why resistance training is a MUST. Why you MUST include it in your workout plan. Why you can’t just do cardio. Why you MUST be doing some kind of weight training.
