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 the ladies out there who are over 50. What things do you 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 to those of you who are high school athletes. How should you be Read more…
I had a client come in a few weeks back and we were talking about how our approach to exercise is different at Muscle Activation Schaumburg than at most other personal training studios in Schaumburg. I was telling him how our approach to exercise was all about improving our clients’ 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 to those of you who are about to hit the links with your Read more…
When you hear the word “muscle”, what do you think of? A body builder? A car? Strength? A certain look? A specific individual, such as Arnold or Dwayne Johnson? What about when you hear the word “health”? What comes to mind then? Perhaps feeling good and energized; being free of Read more…
When the topic of “how to decrease injury” is discussed, oftentimes ideas such as stretching, joint mobility, and core training come up. While these are all fine and well, an idea this is often not thrown around is that of improving how well your muscles function. However, improving this aspect of your health could be the missing link that you have been looking for to help you prevent injuries.
Before we talk about how improving muscle function could reduce your risk for injury, we have to answer a few other questions. First, we need to identify what muscles actually do. Second, we need to discuss how they do that thing they do. Third, we need to talk about how doing that thing will actually help you reduce your risk for injury. And finally, we need to leave you with some practical application steps of things you can do to start taking action now.
At Muscle Activation Schaumburg, we see a wide variety of clients for Muscle Activation Techniques® (MAT®). We see clients who are younger and older, clients who are more physically fit and those who are not, and clients who are highly athletic as well as those whose athleticism may be lacking. But, despite this variety, there is a consistency that we see regarding the differences between our clients who are professional athletes and those who are not.
At Muscle Activation Schaumburg, we generally have three categories of clients that come to see us for Muscle Activation Techniques® (MAT®). The first category we call progressors. These are people who have a health, function, or fitness goal that they are trying to reach and we help progress their body to being able to do so. The second category is called the maintainers. These clients are happy with their current health, function, and fitness and just want to maintain where they are at. They may come in less frequently than the progressor group (every 4-6 weeks) but are very consistent with their muscle system tune-ups.
At Muscle Activation Schaumburg, the clients that come to us for Muscle Activation Techniques® typically fall into one of three categories – maintainers, progressors, and optimizers. There are distinct objectives for each group, and MAT® can help our clients reach those objectives in different ways.
Related: Are you a good candidate for MAT®?
When clients come to us for Muscle Activation Techniques®, they typically fall into one of three categories. The first group is what we call the Progressors, which is made up of clients who have a health, function, or fitness goal that we get to help progress them towards. Another group is call the Optimizers. These are clients whose body is already working pretty well but they are wanting to optimize their health and function for that last little edge. The third group is called the Maintainers. This group is made up of clients who are able to do the things they want to do and they want to make sure they are able to continue to do those activities for the foreseeable future.
Which group would you fall into? You can take this short quiz here to find out.
