E339 - Why Pushing Your Range of Motion Is Making You Less Mobile
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Do you feel like you are becoming less flexible and mobile despite doing all the “right” things? The truth is, many of the traditional strategies for increasing mobility can actually be making you less mobile, especially if you are really trying hard to push yourself with them. Fortunately, there are some simple changes you can make with what you are doing to avoid these issues completely and start to increase your mobility on a consistent basis. On this week’s episode of , we are...
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E338 - What To Change With Your Workouts If You Have Piriformis Syndrome
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Do you have piriformis syndrome? There are a lot of proclaimed remedies out there, but what if everything you try just seems to make things worse? How can you keep your body feeling strong and fit despite having piriformis syndrome? On this week’s episode of , we are laying out a plan to follow with changes you need to make to your workouts if you have piriformis syndrome. Not only can these changes help to ensure that your piriformis syndrome doesn’t get worse, they can also help your body...
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E337 - The 3 Things You Need To Consider After Knee Surgery
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Have you ever had knee surgery? Too often, the focus during the recovery process is 100% focused on the knee, but that is only a piece of the puzzle. Regardless of whether you have had surgery to repair your ACL, to replace your knee entirely, or any other type of knee surgery, there are three considerations we recommend everybody take to help speed up and optimize their recovery process. On this week’s episode of , we are diving into what these three things are and how to go about...
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E336 - The Hidden Issues Underlying Neck Tightness
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Does your neck tighten up? Neck tightness is often blamed on posture, working on a computer, or using a smartphone, but the truth is there is a lot that can influence how your neck feels. In fact, there are three areas in particular that are rarely ever discussed but that we’ve seen have the biggest impact on how the neck feels and functions. On this week’s episode of , we are diving into what these three areas are, how they can influence your neck, and what you can do to make...
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E335 - Your Feet Need To Be Mobile. Here's Why...
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Did you know that your feet are one of the most complex and influential structures in your body? With 28 bones, over 30 joints, and 50 muscles in each foot, there is a lot going on down there! Unfortunately, most people don’t realize how important it is that all the joints of their feet move well and all the muscles of their feet are strong. In fact, when it comes to many foot issues, one of the most common approaches is to make the foot less mobile… But this carries a whole slew of potential...
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E334 - 3 Surprising Truths About MAT®
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Have you ever learned something new that completely contradicted so much of what you believed up to that point, such that once you learned it, you couldn’t see your old beliefs the same way again? This has happened to us time and again since we started practicing Muscle Activation Techniques® over a decade ago. On this week’s episode of , we are sharing three of the most surprising truths that we have learned since we started practicing MAT®–all of which are bound to shake up your world...
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E333 - The Muscle Issues Behind Frozen Shoulder
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Have you ever had a frozen shoulder? This is one of the most common shoulder issues that people in their 40s, 50s, and 60s experience, and it can be one of the most complex, as well. While many ways of improving frozen shoulder focus on improving the joint’s mobility, there is a huge role that your muscles can play in both relieving frozen shoulder and making sure it doesn’t come back. But, the muscles that may be the key to it all may not even be in the shoulder… On this week’s episode...
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E332 - It's Not Your IT Bands' Fault
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Have you ever had an IT band issue? Maybe your IT bands are chronically tight. Or maybe you have even been told you have IT band syndrome. Or maybe you have had some pains down the side of your legs towards your knees… Despite how your IT bands may be feeling, what you have been told about it, or how many other people want to blame your IT bands for any physical issues you have, the truth is, it is not your IT bands’ fault. There are some very specific reasons why your...
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E331 - The #1 Thing Dentists Can Do To Keep Their Hands & Neck Feeling Great
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Dentists–do your hands and neck feel like they are wearing out on you with all of the reps you are putting on them day after day? These two areas are far and away the top areas of complaint that we hear from dentists all the time. Maybe you’ve tried everything you can think of to get your hands and neck feeling better, and are even considering surgery to try to fix what you are feeling. If this is the path you feel like you are going down, we want to tell you about something that can...
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E330 - 3 Big Mistakes With Postural Exercises
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: Do you do exercises to try to improve your posture? While these types of exercises are popular in many circles within the fitness industry as well as with different types of therapists, there are some big mistakes we see people commonly making with these exercises. Unfortunately, making any of these mistakes doesn’t just lead to feeling achy or sore; these mistakes could actually be the reason why you aren’t seeing any difference in your posture with the exercises you are doing. On this...
info_outlineHow long do you need to workout for it to qualify as a "good workout"?
45 minutes? 60 minutes? Longer?
What about 20 minutes?...
Oftentimes, when people think about exercising for 20 minutes, they either disregard it as an option because "it's not long enough to get a good workout"...
Or they try to make up for the shorter duration by cranking the intensity WAY up.
But - does it have to be this way?
Do you either have to workout for longer periods of time or in ways that are really intense and risk injury?
On this week's episode of the Exercise Is Health® podcast, this is the topic we are exploring.
We lay out the biggest issues with most 20-minute workouts and what you can do differently to make sure you can get stronger, more fit, and healthier without increasing your risk for injury.
If you are trying to get an amazing workout in but feel like you don't have enough time to, this discussion is for you!
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