E441 - Your Body's Two Fences That Dictate Your Mobility
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: Your body has two types of fences that dictate how well it can move. While some people may be very mobile through their hips and knees, other people may be very mobile in their back and shoulders. And some people, no matter how hard they try, seem to never be able to improve their mobility, while other people just need a little nudge and their body completely opens up. Much of these scenarios are determined by the metaphorical fences that we are discussing on this week’s episode of...
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E440 - How To Improve Your Cardio Without High Impact
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: Does your body hurt when you do high-impact exercises? If so, you are not alone. Unfortunately, many ways of doing cardio are higher-impact, which can leave your joints feeling angry when you are just wanting to build a healthier heart. So, how can you improve your cardio without suffering from the negative effects of high-impact exercises? On this week’s episode of the Exercise Is Health podcast, that is exactly what we are answering for you. We lay out our top two recommended ways...
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E439 - 3 Musts For Getting Your Workouts In Consistently
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: There are three things that must be present in order for you to workout consistently. If you are struggling to consistently workout, one of these three things is guaranteed to be missing. What are these three “musts” and how can you implement them into your day? On this week’s episode of the Exercise Is Health podcast, that is exactly what we are discussing. We break down what each “must” is, why it is important, and what changes you need to make in order to have it be part of...
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E438 - 2 Easy Ways To Make Your Workouts More Effective
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: You don’t need a new workout routine to get better results from your workouts. You just need to switch a couple things about HOW you are doing your workouts. In fact, you can do the exact same exercises you are currently doing, with the same sets and reps, the same workouts times and times per week, and simply by changing these two things, you will get better results from your workouts. On this week’s episode of the Exercise Is Health podcast, we are detailing out what these two...
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E437 - One Huge Benefit Of Consistent MAT & Exercise
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: Consistently exercising and getting Muscle Activation Techniques® are two of the most important things you can do for your strength and health overall. While there are many benefits that can be experienced soon after you get started with each, there are some unique benefits that you are more likely to experience once you have been consistent for about 12 months. And, one of these benefits in particular is often the most impactful on your strength and function. What is this big benefit...
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E436 - How Soon After Your MAT Session Can You Exercise?
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: How soon after your Muscle Activation Techniques® session can you exercise? Many clients want to keep up their regular workout routine while getting their muscles tuned up with MAT, but how long after a session should you wait to workout again? While working out–and strength training in particular–are certainly an important part of maintaining healthy, strong muscles, exercising too soon after your MAT session can actually prevent you from getting the results you want with MAT. So...
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E435 - The #1 Thing That Determines Your Workout Success
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: What determines how successful you are at getting the results you want from your workouts? While a lot of people push different workout strategies, nutrition plans, and recovery routines to get results, we have found that there is one thing above all else that has the biggest influence on your results. On this week’s episode of the Exercise Is Health podcast, we are diving into what this one thing is, why it is so powerful, and how to make sure it is a primary focus for you and your...
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E434 - What To Default To When Your Body Feels Off
Exercise Is Health
Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Loosen Your Tight & Achy Muscles Without Stretching: What do you do when your body feels off? Maybe you have a nagging pain that just isn’t going away. Or maybe you woke up feeling like you, once again, “slept wrong”. Or maybe you just feel like your entire body is wading through thick mud today–heavy, lethargic, fatigued… What do you do when you have a day–or a week or a month–like this? On this week’s episode of the Exercise Is Health podcast, we are discussing what we recommend almost everybody default to doing when...
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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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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 the Exercise Is Health® podcast, we are exploring three considerations that we have found to be helpful when working through forearm pain.
If you are tired of the traditional approaches to addressing forearm pain, or if you’d like to learn what they may be missing, this conversation is for you.
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