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.
At Muscle Activation Schaumburg, we often receive the question of, “How do I know if Muscle Activation Techniques® is something I should be doing?”. This is a very valid question because MAT® is something that helps a wide variety of people, from professional athletes to professional parents, from elementary school kids to executives, and from the most active among us to those who are far more sedentary. All of these populations seem to benefit from MAT®, so how can you know if MAT® is something that you are a candidate for?
When it comes to the “who” of MAT®, we generally see that our clients fall into one of three categories here at Muscle Activation Schaumburg. But, the category that you fall into depends on how you answer the following three questions. If you want to know if you are a candidate for MAT®, ask yourself these three questions: (more…)
As a Muscle Activation Techniques® practitioner, I often get asked the question, “What is MAT®?”. This is then usually followed up by, “How do I know if I need it?”. Fortunately, there are many signs that you may benefit from MAT®. While some signs and symptoms may appear after needing MAT® for years, I want to discuss four early warning signs that may present themselves before you experience any bigger issues. If you notice any of these warning signs within yourself, that can be a clear indicator that your body is in need of Muscle Activation Techniques®.
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 a specific machine. In fact, this machine is usually just thought of as “the ladies’ machine”. But, we need to explain to the fellas why you need to be using it as well.
The machine we are talking about is the hip abduction and adduction machine. That is the machine where you sit down and you push your legs out or you sit down and you push your legs together.
When striving to live a healthy life, things can often feel as if they are “all” or “none”. Today, you either “were healthy”, or you “were not healthy”. We might think that as long as we keep living days that are “all healthy” everything will be okay. We won’t need Read more…
Welcome back to this week’s edition of 2-Minute Tuesdays where we are bringing you one exercise topic, talking about it for two minutes, and giving you three reasons why you should follow our advice. This week we are talking to those of you who are gearing up for summer vacation, specifically an active summer vacation. How can you prepare your body so you can fully participate in the activities of your vacation?
Check out this awesome testimonial from one of Julie’s rockstar personal training clients, Kaili Harding-Kaminski! Kaili and Julie have been working together for over four months now and Kaili has seen some awesome results. Kaili describes the changes with how she looks and feels throughout the day as well as while she is working out. She also speaks to the importance of the accountability that Julie provides for her on a regular basis and how that impacts her decisions when she is not at Muscle Activation Schaumburg.
Welcome back to this week’s edition of 2-Minute Tuesdays where we are bringing you one exercise topic, talking about it for two minutes, and giving you three reasons why you should follow our advice. This week we are speaking to the former college and high school athletes. This is for those of you who used to compete on a regular basis and are now at a loss on how to exercise without that competitive model.
When people think of muscles, they usually don’t immediately think of a Muscle Activation Techniques™ (MAT™) practitioner, but they should. Similar to how somebody might think of a dentist after hearing “teeth”, or a chiropractor after hearing “back” or “spine”, Muscle Activation Techniques™ may one day have that same relationship when somebody hears “muscle”. For the time being, though, that typically isn’t the case, and here’s why — many people aren’t sure of 1) what MAT™ is, and 2) what makes MAT™ unique. In that case, let’s discuss both of these.
