E346 - What To Do If You Can't Feel Your Muscles Squeezing
Release Date: 08/14/2024
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E364 - PSA - Stop Doing What Is Hurting You
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E361 - How To Exercise If You Have Tight IT Bands
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E360 - The #1 Thing To Do With Your Workouts To Keep Your Body From Flaring Up
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E359 - What's The Difference Between Rest & Active Recovery?
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E357 - What To Do When You Wake Up With A Stiff Neck
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E356 - A Crazy Joint Replacement Story
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Do you have difficulty feeling your muscles squeeze when you workout?
If you have listened to our podcast at all, you likely have heard us talk about our four Exercise For Life Principles, the last of which is to focus on squeezing your muscles when you exercise.
But what if you aren’t able to do this?
What if, when you try to focus on the squeeze, you aren’t feeling any specific sensation in the muscles you are working? How can you troubleshoot this?
On this week’s episode of the Exercise Is Health® podcast, we are identifying why this may be happening and lay out a plan you can follow to start to sense the squeeze.
If you have ever worked out and felt just a general sensation of fatigue instead of very specific sensations of your muscles squeezing despite your best efforts, listen up!
What we share in this discussion can change that for you once and for all.
Check out all the details in this week’s episode!
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