Welcome back to this week’s edition of 2-Minute Tuesdays where we are talking to you about one exercise topic for two minutes and giving you three reasons why you should take our advice. This week we are talking about differences between exercising for your health versus exercising for sport.
Check out this snippet from Charlie’s most recent post on FitnessProfessionalOnline.com, titled “The Physiological and Mechanical Tradeoff“!
“As a personal trainer, one of the difficulties I often run into is trying to balance what a client can do with what they want to do. Often times these situations will look like this:
Client: “I want to build my glutes.”
Me: “Okay, let’s add in some lunges today.”
Client: (During the first set) “Ouch, this is bothering my knee.”
I call this dilemma the physiological/mechanical tradeoff. It’s a tradeoff because, as personal trainers, we know how we want to challenge our clients’ physiology, but we need to be able to do so within the mechanical parameters that are presented. (more…)
Welcome back to this week’s edition of Two-Minute Tuesdays where we pick one exercise topic, talk about it for two minutes, and give you three reasons why you should follow our advice. This week we are talking about balance, specifically, exercise tips to improve your balance.
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. 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! 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 Read 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…)
