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. This week we are bringing you three tips if you are looking to build muscle without tearing up your joints. Three tips to help you support your joints and not get wear and tear.
“I don’t know how my body got like this. My entire life I’ve done the right things. I have eaten a healthy diet. I have exercised regularly. I have been doing the right things for as long as I can remember.”
As a personal trainer and MAT™ specialist in Schaumburg, this kind of statement is one that I hear every now and then. People are in disbelief that, despite their best efforts, their bodies are not feeling and functioning as they would expect. Their joints are achy, their muscles are stiff, and their once-youthful energy seems to be just a memory. And the most frustrating part for them is that they have always tried to do what others told them would be good for them. They always tried to do the right things for their body.
However, the unfortunate truth is that the information they were given and the activities they were doing have likely contributed significantly to what they are now experiencing.
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. This week we are talking about three commonly-accepted myths of exercise; things that people typically throw out there thinking that they are true but are actually false. As personal trainers, these are myths that we have to combat on a regular basis.
Check out this fantastic testimonial from Cindy, one of Julie’s rock star personal training clients! Cindy has been working with Julie for the past three months and has noticed some drastic changes in her body. She describes the challenges she faced while trying to exercise once she turned 50 and how Julie has helped her with those. She speaks to the importance of lifting weights in a mindful manner and not just doing cardio to support her health. She also talks about how the strength training she has done with Julie has helped her joints feel better and has improved her self-confidence.
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…)
