At Muscle Activation Schaumburg, we believe your health is your most valuable asset. Join hosts Charlie and Julie Cates as they discuss how to utilize exercise to help improve and maintain your health, as well as interviews with health and wellness experts from various fields including chiropractic, accupuncture, psychology, nutrition, and functional medicine. Both Charlie and Julie are certified personal trainers and Muscle Activation Techniques® practitioners in Schaumburg, IL.
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E348 - 3 Things You Need To Know About Your Shoulder Blade
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E347 - 3 Things To Consider With Achilles Issues
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E346 - What To Do If You Can't Feel Your Muscles Squeezing
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E345 - A Little-Known Reason Why Your Body Is Feeling Older
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E344 - What Is Muscle Activation Techniques®?
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E343 - How To Optimize Your Bone & Muscle Health After 40
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E342 - How Can You Exercise Every Day? - Part 2
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E341 - How Can You Exercise Everyday? - Part 1
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E340 - Why Having Strong Hamstrings Isn't Enough To Prevent Hamstring Injuries
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E339 - Why Pushing Your Range of Motion Is Making You Less Mobile
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E338 - What To Change With Your Workouts If You Have Piriformis Syndrome
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E337 - The 3 Things You Need To Consider After Knee Surgery
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E336 - The Hidden Issues Underlying Neck Tightness
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E335 - Your Feet Need To Be Mobile. Here's Why...
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E333 - The Muscle Issues Behind Frozen Shoulder
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Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: http://vagaro.com/muscleactivationschaumburg/services 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 tow…
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E331 - The #1 Thing Dentists Can Do To Keep Their Hands & Neck Feeling Great
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E330 - 3 Big Mistakes With Postural Exercises
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E329 - How To Create A Healthy Liver For Life - Interview with Kristin Kirkpatrick
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E327 - "I've Stopped Exercising For 6 Months... Have I Lost It All?"
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Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Muscles Strong & Functioning Well: http://vagaro.com/muscleactivationschaumburg/services How much time do you spend planning your warm up for your workouts? Most people fall into one of two camps: 1. Absolutely none; or 2. A ton. Unfortunately, if you are trying to figure out what to do on…
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Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Keep Your Feet Strong & Functioning Well: http://vagaro.com/muscleactivationschaumburg/services How often do you work on strengthening your feet? While people often think about building stronger legs, a stronger core, and stronger arms, rarely is building stronger feet prioritized. What this is lead…
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E324 - Where You Need To Be Strong To Prevent Injury
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E323 - An Easy Way To Take Pressure Off Your Discs
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Your Injuries Are Not From "Just Getting Old"
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E321 - What Your Corrective Exercises Aren't Correcting
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E320 - 3 Little-Known Ways Your Muscles Keep You Healthy
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E319 - "Is Working Out Every Day When I'm In My 60s Too Much?"
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E318 - How To Efficiently Loosen Your Tight Hamstrings
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Get Started With Muscle Activation Techniques® To Help Your Joints Stay Healthy & Strong: http://services.matschaumburg.com There is one part of your body that will help your joints stay healthy, strong, mobile, and injury-free, and it is not the joints themselves… Your muscles! While many people are under the belief that a joint symptom means ther…
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E316 - What To Do If Walking Is Bothering Your Hips & Back
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Learn How Muscle Activation Techniques® Can Help You Feel Stronger Than Ever: http://services.matschaumburg.com Walking is one of the most convenient ways to stay physically active throughout the day, but what if it isn’t agreeing with your body? Even though there can be a ton of health benefits from walking regularly, if it is causing your feet, k…
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E315 - Is Being Mindful While You Workout The Key To Feeling Happier In 2024?
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One of the most consistent recommendations we give is to be mindful of what you are focusing on while you exercise. We have had a number of conversations about how this will positively impact your physical health, but what about your mental health? Is being mindful while you exercise a key component to building your mental health and wellbeing with…
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E314 - Why Fitness Assessments Have You Focused On The Wrong Things
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Fitness assessments are all the rage at the turn of the year. New Year’s Resolutions combined with a desire to document where you are starting from to track progress make many people susceptible to the hype of various assessments. Whether it is as simple as a sit to stand test to as advanced as a VO2 max assessment, people of all fitness levels are…
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E313 - How To Workout If You Have A Rotator Cuff Issue
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Have you ever had an issue with your rotator cuff? Not only can this be incredibly painful for the shoulder, it can also be a large reason why people choose to stop exercising temporarily or all together. But, if you’ve followed our content at all, you know the number one thing you can do to live a long, healthy, and strong life is exercise… So how…
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E312 - How Do You Use The 4 Exercise For Life Principles With Cardio?
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You often hear us talk about the 4 Exercise For Life Principles as they relate to strength training, but what about cardio? Do these same four principles apply to running, swimming, cycling, etc? Or do you need to consider different things during your cardio workouts to make sure you are building your health, strength, and function without getting …
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E311 - The #1 Way To Get Stronger When Working On Flexibility
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Is your flexibility training making you weaker? It is well known that stretching decreases strength, but do all flexibility exercises have this effect? How can you increase your flexibility without getting weaker, and do so in ways that actually makes you stronger? On this week’s episode of the Exercise Is Health® podcast, we are laying out the #1 …
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E310 - The #1 Way To Get More Flexible While You Strength Train
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Does your strength training leave you feeling still and inflexible? Most people find that they have to stretch and do other flexibility exercises to counteract the effects of their strength training after they workout. But what if your strength training could not only make you stronger, but also make you more flexible? In this week’s episode of the…
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E309 - Are You Active Or Are You Exercising?
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Are you active all day long, always on your feet and moving around, rarely sitting or taking time to rest? While this kind of activity is great, it is not a replacement for more focused and intense workouts. On this week’s episode of the Exercise Is Health® podcast, we are going to break down the difference between being active and exercising, why …
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E308 - 3 Ways We Stay Consistent With Our Workouts
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Life throws in many twists and turns that can derail you from working out. Whether it is social events, late nights, family gatherings, work assignments, or anything else that comes up throughout the day, there are many opportunities to say, “I’m not going to workout today because of ____ .” So how can you get your workouts in despite everything el…
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E307 - Why Working Out "Smarter" Is Not Enough
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“Smarter Not Harder” is a phrase often thrown around in the fitness industry. While the idea of not working out as hard because you are working out more intelligently certainly sounds appealing, there are some big issues that this mindset is creating. What are these issues, how are they holding you back from reaching your goals, and what needs to b…
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E306 - 3 Exercise Musts For Women With Osteoporosis
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Exercise is one of the most effective ways to help your body build bone, but when it comes to exercising with osteoporosis, the main recommendations that are given fall dramatically short of what is actually required to increase bone density. Fortunately, research shows that there are only three things you need to make sure are included in your wor…
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E305 - 3 Big Issues With A.I.-Powered Fitness
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A.I. is a very hot topic these days. From creating images, answering questions, and providing writing prompts to helping automate customer support chats on many websites and so much more, A.I. has infiltrated much of our daily lives, including fitness. But is A.I.-powered fitness as useful as other ways of using A.I.? Are there any downsides to usi…
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E304 - How To Have An Anti-Aging Lifestyle - Interview with Dr. Michael Turner
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Anti aging is a hot topic right now, and while there is a ton of information on the subject, it tends to be fragmented across different topics. You might find an article about supplements. And another about exercise. And another about sleep or stress management. But how can you piece it all together to create a full anti-aging lifestyle? On this we…
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E303 - 3 Ways High-Intensity Workouts Can Be Joint Friendly
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Do you avoid doing high-intensity workouts because of how they make your joints feel? While there are a number of metabolic and health benefits that can come from doing high-intensity workouts, if they are breaking down your joints in the process, the tradeoff may not be worth it to you. But is there a way that you can do high-intensity workouts wi…
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E302 - How To Navigate Working Out When You Have Joint Pain
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Is joint pain keeping you from working out? Maybe your knee hurts and is stopping you from exercising. Or perhaps your shoulder is aching and saying you should take it easy. Oftentimes, we see that if there is an ache or pain in one area of the body, it prevents people from doing exercise for the entire rest of their body. But is taking time off re…
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Do you struggle to feel like you have ownership over your body? Maybe tasks that were once easy now feel difficult. Or perhaps your coordination or dexterity feel like they are leaving you. Or maybe you feel like the body you are living in today hardly resembles the body you remember living in 10 years ago. What can you do about this?? On this week…
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E300 - The Changes That Happen Over 300 Weeks
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What can change for you over the course of 300 weeks? Let us tell you… a lot. But while a lot can change, not everything does, and that’s what we want to explore with you this week. This week’s episode of the Exercise Is Health® podcast is a very special one as we celebrate our 300th episode! We discuss what has changed with us over the last 300 ep…
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E299 - The A.I.M. Principle For Muscle Growth - Interview with Nick Horvath
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Do you have a group of muscles that you are struggling to grow or strengthen? There is so much confusion and misinformation about what actually needs to happen in order to develop bigger and stronger muscles, and while much of the mainstream fitness industry wants you to chase the newest, flashiest, flavor-of-the-day strategy, we find that results …
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