We were as consistent as could be with our 2-Minute Tuesdays posts during 2017. We did not miss a single week – vacations, holidays, travel, rain, shine – it didn’t matter. Every Tuesday we came to you with one exercsie topic for two minutes and three reasons why you should Read more…
Welcome back to this week’s edition of 2-Minute Tuesdays where we are talking about one exercise topic for two minutes and giving you three reasons why you should follow our advice. Now this week, we are talking about exercise tips to help you get over those post-Christmas blues. The parties are done. The food has been eaten. The lights now need to come down. But hey, there’s still New Years! How can you workout between now and New Years to help get over those post-Christmas blues?
Check out this great testimonial from CrossFit competitor Celeste Jenkins! Celeste describes her experience with Muscle Activation Techniques® (MAT®) and the MATRx® process with Charlie at Muscle Activation Schaumburg.
Welcome back to this week’s edition of 2-Minute Tuesdays where we are talking about one exercise topic for two minutes and giving you three reasons why you should follow our advice. Now this week we are disclosing three things that you have never heard about cardio. That cardio activity that you love to do? What has nobody ever told you about it? What are three things that you need to pay attention to?
Joint injuries and injuries to passive tissues such as ligaments and discs are ever-present in our society today. Whether it is rupturing a meniscus or an ACL or herniating a disc, it seems as if both competitive athletes and weekend warriors alike are commonly plagued by injuries to the passive tissues of their body. With these types of injuries only becoming more commonplace from high school athletes to middle-aged rec-leaguers, the question of, “What can be done to help prevent these types of injuries?” naturally comes up. Fortunately, there is something that can be done, and the answer lies in the active tissues of the body – the skeletal muscles.
Welcome back to this week’s edition of 2-Minute Tuesdays where we are talking about one exercise topic for two minutes and giving you three reasons why you should follow our advice. Now this week, we are talking to those of you who may be eating a lot of food in the coming days. We are talking to our American friends who have Thanksgiving coming up. What considerations with your exercise do you need to take if you are going to be eating a lot over the coming days?
Welcome back to this week’s edition of 2-Minute Tuesdays where we are talking about one exercise topic for two minutes and giving you three reasons why you should follow our advice. Now this week, we’re talking to those of you who may be struggling with your sleep. You don’t sleep particularly well. You wake up and don’t feel super rested. How can you still exercise and what considerations should you be taking with your exercise if you are not sleeping well.
Compensation often gets a bad rap. It is portrayed in a negative light as the demise of your orthopedic health and something that needs to be eviscerated by any means necessary. However, compensation is actually a brilliant way for your body to remain highly functioning from one moment to the next. Without compensation, we would likely have far more physical issues throughout our entire body. The caveat, though, is that we may not want to compensate in the same manner for an extended period of time. Not only can this put excess stress on certain muscles, it can also stress your joints.
Welcome back to this week’s edition of 2-Minute Tuesdays where we are talking about one exercise topic for two minutes and giving you three reasons why you should follow our advice. Now this week, we are talking to those of you who are unsure if you may be a candidate for Muscle Activation Techniques®. How do you know if MAT® will be right for your body?
When I was first introduced to Muscle Activation Techniques® in 2010, I had never seen it before or heard of it before. But, the goal of MAT® fit perfectly with an idea I had developed about 18 months earlier. See, throughout high school and college, I was really big into sports performance. Initially, my interest stemmed from wanting to improve my own performance, but it soon grew into wanting to help others improve their performance, as well.
By my senior year of college, I was working with a number of sports teams and individual athletes on campus. I was also constantly running experiments on myself, the most notable of which was testing the hypothesis that if I could just get my body working the way it was designed to work, then I would be able to perform at a much higher level than I ever was before.
