E281 - Where To Start With Exercise If You Are Super Tight & Restricted
Release Date: 05/17/2023
E367 - One Simple Thing To Add To Your Workouts To Increase Your Strength & Consistency
Exercise Is Health
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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E366 - The Easiest Way To Stay Consistent With Your Workouts
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Being consistent with your workouts is a key component of the results you will get from your workouts both in the short term and over the long term. But, one of the most difficult parts of working out is staying consistent with your workouts. Sure, you can go to the gym once, but how do you make sure you are able to keep going back on a regular basis for years to come? On this week’s episode of , we explore this idea of consistency and lay out the framework we have seen be the most effective...
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E365 - Better, More, New
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Have you not been satisfied with the results you’ve gotten from your workouts and are looking for the next new thing to help you out? While it can be tempting to jump from one program to the next, doing this consistently is almost a guaranteed way to not get the results you want. So, if jumping on the hot new trend isn’t how you get results, what is? On this week’s episode of , we discuss what it actually takes to get results from your workouts and how to structure your workouts to set...
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E364 - PSA - Stop Doing What Is Hurting You
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: We have a Public Service Announcement for you that you need to hear if you have been battling any aches and pains… Stop Doing What Is Hurting You. While this may seem like obvious advice, it is often what people need to hear in order to actually help their bodies feel and function better. On this week’s episode of , we are diving into this idea and explaining how you can actually keep doing the things you enjoy most, even if they are hurting you right now. If you have ever felt frustrated...
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E363 - 3 Strategies To Build Stronger Hands (& Why You Need To)
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: One of the most important areas of your body to keep strong as you age is your hands. Your hands are something you use for almost every task throughout your day, so maintaining their strength and function as the years go by is key to being able to keep doing your daily tasks independently. However, there are very few things that challenge most peoples’ hands during their average day, which means that their hands are getting weaker with every passing year. So, how can you make sure to keep...
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E362 - What Is Your Body’s Injury Prevention Insurance Policy?
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Your body has an injury prevention insurance policy that is built into it, but did you know you can change how robust this policy is? If you are active and using your body in your day to day life, eventually life is going to happen and something is going to get tweaked or strained. Keeping this metaphorical insurance policy strong and up to date is of the utmost importance to minimize the negative effects of the minor injuries that happen every once in a while, but how do you do that? On this...
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E361 - How To Exercise If You Have Tight IT Bands
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Do your tight IT bands keep you from working out on a regular basis? Tight IT bands are one of the most common complaints among people who try to exercise consistently, especially when doing running and other forms of endurance exercise. They can also be one of the most debilitating, as well, stopping many otherwise active people from working out for months on end. So if your IT bands are tight, are you just doomed to having to rest and become deconditioned until they feel better? Or are there...
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E360 - The #1 Thing To Do With Your Workouts To Keep Your Body From Flaring Up
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Does your body flare up when you push yourself too hard? Maybe your back gets stiff after a round of golf… Or your knees ache after going for a walk… Or your shoulders and neck bother you after doing yard work… There is one thing that we have seen time and again be the absolute best thing you can do to keep these flare ups to a minimum, and on this week’s episode of the Exercise Is Health® podcast, we are unveiling what that is. We dive into the key points you need to understand about...
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E359 - What's The Difference Between Rest & Active Recovery?
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Do you know the difference between rest and active recovery? While rest is often what is thought to be needed to help your body recover and feel better, that may not always be the case. In fact, there are many situations where active recovery is more effective than rest at getting your body back to feeling 100%. But what exactly is active recovery, how is it different from rest, and when should you aim to use one versus the other? On this week’s episode of , this is exactly what we are diving...
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E358 - What Professional Athletes Do All The Time That You Don't
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Professional athletes may be known for their speed, strength, and athleticism, but there is one thing that they do differently than most non-athletes that allows them to compete and perform at their highest level year after year. While you can look at their physical size, their young age, and their genetic gifts and think, “There’s nothing that they do that is applicable to me,” the truth is that there is a key component of their athletic success that they abide by religiously that you...
info_outlineDoes your body feel tight and restricted?
Maybe your low back is constantly stiff or your shoulders don't move like they used to...
Many times, these feelings can stop people from exercising consistently. But what if they were the exact reason WHY you should be exercising consistently??
On this week's episode of the Exercise Is Health® podcast, Julie and Charlie are laying out their top recommendations for where to start exercising if you are constantly feeling tight and restricted.
They also dive into the one big thing you need to focus on with each workout to make sure you aren't feeling worse after you exercise.
Check out all of the details in this week's episode!
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