E339 - Why Pushing Your Range of Motion Is Making You Less Mobile
Release Date: 06/26/2024
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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E368 - 3 Considerations If You Have Forearm Pain
Exercise Is Health
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...
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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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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 the Exercise Is Health® podcast, we are explaining why this happens, what these simple changes are, and how you can start implementing them into your workouts and throughout your week.
If you are looking for an alternative approach to improving your joint mobility without risking pain or injury, listen up! What we share this week is something you need to hear.
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