E254 - How To Progress Your Cardio After You've Been Derailed
Release Date: 11/09/2022
E433 - PSA - Stronger Is Always Better
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: It is rare for us to speak in absolutes. Typically, we try to leave room for nuance and individual considerations. But, there is one stance that we feel 100% certain about… Stronger is always better. On this week’s episode of the Exercise Is Health podcast, we are diving into what we mean by this; why we believe this to be true 100% of the time; and what this means for you, your workouts, and your body. If you have ever thought to yourself, “I don’t know if I should be...
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E432 - What Happens When You Stop Strength Training?
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: What happens when you stop strength training? Many people who are active in their teens and twenties slow down their strength training by the time they hit their thirties, but what does this mean for their body? How long can you expect to hold onto the strength you have built and how quickly will your body regress once it starts to lose strength? And, once you are on the downward slope of losing strength, is there a way to get back to the strength levels you were at before? On this...
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E431 - Why You Need Muscle Connection AND Muscle Strength
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Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: How strong your muscles are is distinctly different from how connected your muscles are, and both are absolutely essential to living an active life in a body that feels good. While most people may only be focusing on one aspect or the other, we see time and again that when clients start focusing on BOTH, their ability to live life on their terms improves dramatically. But what exactly is the difference between muscle strength and muscle connection and why is each so necessary to your...
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E430 - One Thing You Need To Know Before Starting Muscle Activation Techniques®
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Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: Some of the biggest fans of Muscle Activation Techniques® are people who had such a dramatic change after one session that they are convinced that is all it takes. While these types of sessions do happen, the truth is that it is mostly dumb luck when they do. Unfortunately, believing the hype that you only need one session for MAT to fix everything leaves a lot of people frustrated with MAT when they don’t have that same experience. Instead, there is one thing we have seen time and...
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E429 - Why Stretching Isn't Helping You Stay Loose
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: Stretching is the most common way to loosen up tight muscles, but there’s a big problem–it doesn’t help you STAY loose. Sure, stretching can create a short-term feeling of looseness, but it doesn’t actually keep the tightness away. In fact, the tightness often comes back more intense than before, which traps many people in a cycle of feeling tight, stretching, creating short-term relief, and then feeling tight all over again. On this week’s episode of the Exercise Is Health...
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E428 - What Does Effective Total Body Strength Training Look Like?
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: Total body strength training is something we recommend to almost all of our clients. Time and again we have seen this to be an effective and efficient way to build strength, but how total body strength training is portrayed by mainstream fitness gives the absolute wrong impression of what actually needs to be done. In fact, what we recommend for total body strength training is a complete 180 to what is commonly thought of as total body strength training. On this week’s episode of the...
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E427 - The Unspoken Truth About Making Strength Gains
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Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: There is a lot of information out there about what it takes to get stronger and this is something we have spoken about often, as well. What isn’t talked about too much, though, is what the actual process of getting stronger looks like how quickly you should expect to see strength gains, how long those strength gains will go on for, etc. Unfortunately, there is one big misconception about the process of increasing your muscle strength that deters a lot of people from continuing to try...
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E426 - An Early Marker of Improved Muscle Strength & Function
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Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: Muscle strength is often measured by the amount of weight that you can lift, but did you know there is actually an earlier indication that your muscles are getting stronger? This early marker is one of the first things we see improve with many of our clients, and without realizing how important of a sign it is, it is really easy to overlook. On this week’s episode of the Exercise Is Health podcast, we are diving into what this early marker is, why it is so important, and how to...
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E425 - An Unexpected Benefit Of Muscle Activation Techniques®
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: There are many well-known benefits of Muscle Activation Techniques® (MAT) like increasing strength and relieving tight muscles. However, there is one benefit of MAT that very few people know about when they start but almost everybody experiences at some point in their MAT journey. This benefit, while not discussed as much as the changes in strength and symptoms, actually has one of the biggest impacts on people’s overall quality of life and what they are able to consistently do...
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E424 - What To Do If Your Everyday Activities Are Flaring Up Your Body
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Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: Does your body get flared up even though you are just doing all the things you normally do? Meaning, there’s nothing out of the ordinary that you did, and yet your body still flares up… Believe it or not, everyday activities are one of the biggest culprits we see that cause people’s bodies to not feel well, so how can you overcome this if the things you enjoy doing every day and the things you need to do every day are causing your body to break down? On this week’s episode...
info_outlineHave 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!
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