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3 Common But Unexpected Responses After Muscle Activation Techniques

Muscle Activation Techniques® (MAT®) is one of the most powerful things you can do to help improve your overall health and function. The goal of MAT® is to assess your body to figure out where you have muscles that aren’t contracting well and then address those muscles to get them working better. When this happens, we see our clients’ strength improve, their joint motion and flexibility improve, their ability to recover from activity to improve, Read more…

By Team MAS, ago

E329 – How To Create A Healthy Liver For Life – Interview with Kristin Kirkpatrick

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: http://vagaro.com/muscleactivationschaumburg/services You have likely thought about the health of your heart and brain, but what about the health of your liver?  While the mainstream news doesn’t typically focus on liver health much, the truth is that without a healthy liver, the rest of your body cannot be healthy long-term. So what can you do to help your liver become healthy and Read more…

By Team MAS, ago

How To Keep Your Joints Healthy With HIIT Workouts

High-intensity exercise and joint health don’t usually go hand-in-hand. In fact, high-intensity exercise is often blamed for joints feeling achy, sore, or painful. But, there are three things you can do with your high-intensity workouts to actually help your joints be healthier. The first is to use your symptom-free full range of motion. Your joints need to move to be healthy, and doing exercises that involve your symptom-free full range of motion are an easy Read more…

By Team MAS, ago

3 Ways Muscle Activation Techniques Helps Women In Their 50s

Ladies–one of the biggest concerns I hear from women in their 50s and beyond is how their body will hold up as the years go by. How their muscle strength and bone strength will fair. How flexible they will stay. How well they will be able to avoid common pains and injuries such as frozen shoulder, plantar fasciitis, rounding of the spine, and joint pain in the knees and hips. While many women see these Read more…

By Julie Cates, ago

E328 – How To Manage Traveling Hip Pain

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: http://vagaro.com/muscleactivationschaumburg/services Do you have hip pain that started in one part of your hip but has since moved around? Maybe it started near the front but now it wraps around the side and goes to the back. Or maybe it was near the top of your hip but has traveled down. This type of traveling pain can be extremely frustrating to Read more…

By Team MAS, ago

Basketball Players – A New Perspective On Warming Up

Basketball Players–here is an excerpt from a recent issue of the PRO Hooper Newsletter. If you would like to receive content like this every single week, you can get signed up for free by clicking here. WARMING UP How do you warm up for practices or games? Most players take little bits of things they have learned throughout their career and morph it all into a routine they feel comfortable with. It may involve a Read more…

By Charlie Cates, ago

Five Ways To Know You Need Muscle Activation Techniques®

How do you know if your body needs Muscle Activation Techniques®? MAT® is an extremely powerful system to help your muscles contract better and help your joints move well, but how do you know if it is for you? There are a number of telltale signs that you need MAT®, but in this post we are going to highlight five of the most common. 1. You Are Losing Range of Motion Think back over the Read more…

By Team MAS, ago

E327 – “I’ve Stopped Exercising For 6 Months… Have I Lost It All?”

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: http://vagaro.com/muscleactivationschaumburg/services Has it been three months, six months, or longer since you last worked out? You may be wondering, “Have I lost all of the benefits I used to have from working out?” While on the surface, it may seem like the answer is, “definitely,” the truth is a lot more nuanced than that. On this week’s episode of the Exercise Read more…

By Team MAS, ago

Exercise Recovery – How To Recover Faster From Your Workouts

A concept we bring up often is the idea of using today’s workout to set you up to come back and workout again tomorrow. When you follow the four Exercise For Life Principles, this goal becomes much easier to attain. But what if you wake up one morning and you just aren’t feeling it? Maybe you feel more tired than normal? Or your body feels a little bit achy or sore, almost as if you Read more…

By Team MAS, ago

Ladies – Here’s How To Avoid Getting Sore From Your Workouts

Ladies–do your workouts leave you feeling achy and sore after? Do you avoid working out because you don’t like feeling sore? Do you choose to not increase the weight you use because you think you will feel sore after? I hear these things from women all the time… “I am always sore for at least two days after I workout…” “I don’t want to workout because I hate feeling sore…” “I can’t lift heavier, otherwise Read more…

By Julie Cates, ago