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E254 - How To Progress Your Cardio After You've Been Derailed

Release Date: 11/09/2022

E376 - 3 Unusual Signs You Need Muscle Activation Techniques®

Exercise Is Health

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: How do you know if your body needs Muscle Activation Techniques®? While there are common signs that your muscles are not functioning well–such as certain muscles always feeling tight, flexibility being limited, joints aching, and muscles feeling weak–there are some more uncommon signs that also indicate your body needs MAT. On this week’s episode of the Exercise Is Health® podcast, we are highlighting three of the more unusual telltale signs that your muscles are in need of getting...

E375 - The #1 Thing Missed When It Comes To Neck Weakness

Exercise Is Health

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Does your neck feel weak? Maybe it feels like you have difficulty holding your head in the posture you’d like. Or maybe your neck often feels fatigued throughout the day. Unfortunately, when it comes to trying to build a stronger neck, there are a number of concerns and misconceptions that hold people back from strengthening their neck in an effective and safe way. And there is one huge thing that is often overlooked that can help you to easily strengthen your neck. On this week’s episode...

E374 - Why Your Achilles Issue Is Actually A Muscle Issue

Exercise Is Health

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Does your Achilles tendon ever feel tight or sore? Too often, the attempted remedies for Achilles issues focus only on the Achilles itself, leaving much to be desired in terms of pain and symptom relief. But, what if we told you that the symptoms in your Achilles aren’t actually indicative of an Achilles issue? Instead, almost every single Achilles issue is actually indicative of a muscle issue. On this week’s episode of , we are exploring why this is, where the muscle issues may be...

E373 - Why Your Forward Shoulders Aren't A Rhomboid Issue

Exercise Is Health

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Do your shoulders round forward? It is often said that forward shoulders are a result of weakness in a specific muscle group called the rhomboids, but that’s actually not true. While the rhomboids can help to pull your shoulders back, it is extremely unlikely that them being weak will cause your shoulders to round forward. So unlikely in fact, that we have never seen that to be the case in over 14 years of working with people who have forward shoulders. However, we have consistently seen a...

E372 - Should All Of Your Weights Be Equal?

Exercise Is Health

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: When you lift weights, should all of the weights you use for specific areas of the body be the same? Should you use the same amount of weight when you do leg extensions as when you do leg curls? Or rows and chest presses? Or squats and deadlifts? This is a question that we get a lot, and on this week’s episode of , we are addressing it directly. Not only do we answer the question how it is often intended, but we answer another potential variation of it that actually has bigger implications...

E371 - One Big Thing That Is Misunderstood About Tight Calves

Exercise Is Health

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Do your calves get tight when you walk or workout? There are many methods and remedies to try to stretch and loosen the calves, but all of them are missing one big variable that helps your calves relax. Unfortunately, this common misunderstanding about tight calves leads many people to constantly feel like their calves are tight every time they try to exert themselves. On this week’s episode of the Exercise Is Health® podcast, we are identifying what this misunderstanding is and what you can...

E370 - Tight Quads? Here's What May Be Going On.

Exercise Is Health

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Do your quads constantly feel tight despite your best efforts to get them to relax? Maybe you notice it after sitting for a while or after you have been standing more than normal. Or maybe they are always tight all times of day. While most approaches focus directly on trying to relax the tightness, there are multiple variables that may be contributing to the tightness. On this week’s episode of , we are discussing many of these variables and what you should be considering with each of them so...

E369 - One Huge Missed Component When Trying To Improve Your Golf Swing

Exercise Is Health

Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Do you want to head into golf season swinging your best? You can spend hours at the range and take weeks of lessons this winter, but if you are missing this one thing, your swing (and golf game) are going to fall well short of their potential. On this week’s episode of , we are discussing what this one thing is, why it is critical to the improvement of your golf swing, and how you can start implementing it throughout your week. If you want to make sure your golf swing is at its best heading...

E368 - 3 Considerations If You Have Forearm Pain

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Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Forearm pain can be one of the most nagging, long-lasting issues you experience. While many remedies focus strictly on the forearms themselves, there are often things that are completely overlooked with these types of approaches. However, taking an approach that doesn’t solely focus on the forearms can actually create faster and longer-lasting relief. On this week’s episode of , we are exploring three considerations that we have found to be helpful when working through forearm pain. If you...

E367 - One Simple Thing To Add To Your Workouts To Increase Your Strength & Consistency

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Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: What if there was something simple you could add to your workouts that would not only help you get better results, but help you stay more consistent with your workouts, too? And what if this thing didn’t require any additional time or energy on your part? You could keep doing exactly what you are doing with your workouts, but just make a slight tweak to them. Believe it or not, there is something that does all of this! On this week’s episode of , we are unveiling what this one simple thing...

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Have you ever been thrown off of your workout routine only to find that exercising does not feel as easy as it did once you try to start back up??

Whether it is an injury, illness, or just life in general getting in the way, most of us have times when we don't exercise for a while. And, unfortunately, when we try to get back into it, we can find that our body is wanting us to slow WAYYYYY down.

So how can you progress yourself back to the strength and fitness levels you had before? Should you dive back into where you left off with your workouts and expect your body to catch up? Should you throw in the towel and decide that it's too hard to get started again so you shouldn't even try?

Or is there another way to get yourself back into the swing of things that not only will help you progress your strength and fitness while you are getting started, but will help you keep coming back to your workouts long after you are feeling like your fit self again?

On this week's episode of the Exercise Is Health® podcast, Julie and Charlie explore this idea of progressing yourself and your workouts after you have taken some time off. They lay out a straightforward plan that you can start implementing today to get back into your workout routine in a way that is sustainable and feels good.

Check out all of the details in this week's episode!

Want a step by step plan of exactly what you need to know to rebuild your aching body in as little as six weeks without changing your lifestyle?

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