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5 Ways To Change Up Your Workout So You Don’t Get Bored

Bored with exercise?  Finding that your current workout plan is a drag?  Interested in learning new ways to change up what you are doing?  Looking for some tips to amplify your results at the gym?

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Join us on Monday, November 7 for our final Exercise For Life Talk of the year!  At Muscle Activation Schaumburg, certified personal trainers, Julie Errington and Charlie Cates, will be discussing five simple ways to completely transform your current exercise routine.  In this live workshop, Julie and Charlie will be teaching you some of their biggest secrets that they use with their clients to provide a world class exercise experience and make exercising feel like it has never felt before. (more…)

By Charlie Cates, ago

Do You Know The Difference Between A Butcher And A Dietician?

I am a personal trainer in Schaumburg, Illinois.  My career is to help individuals make optimal decisions about their exercise life.  I have other interests, too, most being creative things like dancing, sewing, or re-decorating.  I am also interested in gaining a further understanding about finances, investing, and managing money.  By no means do I expect to become any kind of professional in the field, but my father somehow passed on the “interested-in-understanding-finances-and-numbers” gene. In Read more…

By Julie Cates, ago

Your “Exercise GPS” in Schaumburg

What is the goal of your exercise?  Why do you choose to exercise as you do?  Are you trying to accomplish a goal in the next few weeks or few years?  What about the goal you are trying to accomplish with the very set you are doing right now? Exercise is a process.  A process of challenging your body with a specific stimulus in an attempt to create a specific adaptation.  The adaptation is what Read more…

By Charlie Cates, ago

The Best Pill You Aren’t Taking

“In the bottle before you is a pill, a marvel of modern medicine that will regulate gene transcription throughout your body, helping prevent heart disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity, and 12 kinds of cancer — plus gallstones and diverticulitis. Expect the pill to improve your strength and balance as well as your blood lipid profile. Your bones will become stronger. You’ll grow new capillaries in your heart, your skeletal muscles, and your brain, improving blood flow Read more…

By Charlie Cates, ago

Do You Really Want To Live A Little?

Have you ever heard of the saying “just live a little”? Usually, it goes a little something like this: “‘Just live a little’ and have one drink with us” …. When you are trying to not have alcohol. “‘Just live a little’ and take off work to go on vacation” …. When you are trying to make the next big leap with your business. “‘Just live a little’ and have this one piece of chocolate” Read more…

By Julie Cates, ago

Client Testimonial: Kurt Wuckert

Kurt Wuckert, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu athlete and coach at Alliance Jiu-Jitsu and Evolution MMA in Schaumburg, IL, talks about his experience with Muscle Activation Techniques™ (MAT™) and the changes he has noticed after just a few sessions.  Kurt discusses some of the differences in his performance, recovery, and training that he has experienced while taking part in the MATRx™ process with Charlie Cates at Muscle Activation Schaumburg. Check out this fantastic testimonial from Kurt as Read more…

By Charlie Cates, ago

Exercise As A Lifestyle Stinks

Have you ever heard the saying “exercise is a lifestyle”?  I am pretty sure we all have heard it and we REALLY need to cut it out and stop saying it.  Let me tell you why.

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Why do some people say this?  Because the true and best changes from exercise are seen with consistency and long-term efforts.

But, what does it sound like is being said?  Exercise must dominate your life.

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By Julie Cates, ago

What your gym hasn’t taught you

“What Your Gym Hasn’t Taught You:  How to use common exercise machines to decrease your risk of injury, reduce the time you spend exercising, and improve your results.” Join us on Monday, September 12 at 6:30 PM for this free community talk at Muscle Activation Schaumburg! Certified Personal Trainers and Muscle Activation Techniques™ Specialists, Charlie and Julie, will be demonstrating and discussing how to use seven of the most common exercise machines found in nearly Read more…

By Team MAS, ago