Exercise Is Health

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie interview Dr. Fatima Hyder of IdealAccessMD.  IdealAccessMD the first direct primary care clinic located in Schaumburg, IL.  Dr. Hyder describes the numerous features that the direct primary care (DPC) model offers versus the traditional western medicine model.  Dr. Hyder tells her story of why she chose the DPC model and why she belie...

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie discuss three ways that Muscle Activation Techniques®, or MAT®, can help improve your workouts.  If you have not heard of MAT® before, definitely check out our earlier episodes to learn about what MAT® is and how it can benefit you. In this episode, we reference a post from our blog on MATSchaumburg.com: What makes a Muscle Activation...

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie tackle the "no pain, no gain" myth head on.  If you find yourself caught in a cycle of exercising, getting hurt, taking time off, healing, exercising, getting hurt, taking time off, healing...and on and on, then this episode is for YOU.  Julie and Charlie discuss the four things you NEED to be doing to make sure you reduce your risk fo...

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie answer a listener-submitted question about Muscle Activation Techniques® (MAT®) and running.  The listener asks, "How will MAT® help me become a better runner?".  Julie and Charlie discuss the four key areas in which MAT® can not only help you improve your running, but also help to ensure that you are able to run for as much of your li...

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie are interviewing a Schaumburg power couple - Dr. Ray and Jean Kadkhodaian of the Lighthouse Emotional Wellness Center in Schaumburg.  Dr. Ray and Jean discuss the importance of relationships to overall health and wellbeing, as well as the most important things you need to be doing in order to maintain and grow your personal relationshi...

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie tells her story of being a client of Muscle Activation Techniques® (MAT®).  She describes the various ailments and injuries she has had throughout her life and how MAT® has aided in her recovery.  She also talks about how MAT® helps her to keep her activity levels high and continue to do the things she loves, like dance! Check out all of this and...

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie start to scratch the surface on the disucssion of all the benefits that exercise provides aside from weight loss. So often, people will delay starting to exercise because they feel like they don't have the other components of weight loss in check (nutrition, stress management, etc.). However, the longer you delay working out on a regul...

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, we are tackling one of the most common question we get at Muscle Activation Schaumburg, "What do you recommend I do as someone who is new to exercise to make sure I can keep exercising for the long term?".  Julie and Charlie give you six exercise principles that are a must for you to keep in mind while you are working out in order to make sure your exer...

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie interview Mike Koziol of Whole Health Acupuncture in Elk Grove Village, IL .  Mike is a licensed acupuncturist and discusses his own personal journey of being treated with Chinese medicine to improve his own health and his subsequent study and practice of acupuncture. We discuss topics such as: What is the goal of acupuncture? Who can...

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie discuss a hot topic in the health and fitness industry - flexibility.  What does the word flexibility mean?  What is actually happening within your body when you are becoming more flexible?  What are the things we are commonly told we need to do to improve our flexibility? What considerations need to be taken to improve our flexibility...

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie discuss the Exercise Pyramid.  What is the Exercise Pyramid?  Where does your current exercise routine fall on the Exercise Pyramid?  Why should you build the base of your Exercise Pyramid?  How will the Exercise Pyramid help you stay healthy and functioning well? Check out all of this and more in this week's episode! And, if you haven...

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie are answering your questions about training your core and what to do about low back tightness.  To have your question answered during next month's Q&A, send an email to info@matschaumburg.com  with "Podcast Q&A" in the subject line. You can also message Team MAS on Instagram and Facebook! In this episode, Julie and Charlie reference th...

Welcome to Episode 8 of the Exercise Is Health podcast.  This week, your hosts Julie and Charlie interview author, speaker, internationally-recognized fitness model, and mom, Nicole Moneer.  Nicole discusses her health journey from her childhood through to today - the health battles she faced as a child and young adult, how she learned how to heal herself through proper nutrition, the importance o...

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie discuss their two specialties at Muscle Activation Schaumburg - MAT® and personal training.  How are these two services the same?  How are they different?  When might one be appropriate versus the other? Why are both necessary for optimal health and performance?  Check out all of this and more during this week's episode of the Exercise...

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie discuss the idea of internal exercise and how it is different than external exercise.  One of the biggest problems with the fitness industry is the focus that is placed on the external - weight, reps, time, speed, looks, etc.  Julie and Charlie discuss the steps that need to be taken in order to switch the focus of your exercise from t...

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast we have a rockstart guest on our show - Dr. Jeremy Barone of Barone Spinal Care and Performance in Schaumburg, IL.  Dr. Barone is a NUCCA chiropractor and avid proponent of health and wellbeing.  We discuss exactly what differentiates NUCCA chiropractic care from other types of chiropractic care, what the proposed mechanisms of improvement for the techni...

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie are answering listener-submitted questions!  This is the first Q&A episode for the podcast, and the Muscle Activation Schaumburg team will be discussing topics such as: How can we explain what MAT® is in simple terms? What workout advice do you have for people over 60? How many days each week should I be working out? Make sure to check...

Welcome back to the Exercise Is Health podcast your hosts, Julie and Charlie of Muscle Activation Schaumburg, are discussing exercise, health, and the interconnectedness of the two.  This week, we are talking about a topic that is one of our specialities at Muscle Activation Schaumburg - Muscle Activation Techniques®.  What is MAT®?  Why is it important?  How can it help you reach your health and...

This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast we are talking about hitting singles vs. hitting home runs with your workouts.  So often we want to go into the gym and just crush our workouts - or at least that's what we think we need to do.  But, is that mentality really helping us to reach our goals?  Julie and Charlie discuss. Talking points from this episode: What is the difference between hitting...

Welcome to the Exercise Is Health podcast where we will be discussing exercise, health, and the interrelationship between the two.  We are your hosts, Charlie and Julie Cates, of Muscle Activation Schaumburg in Schaumburg, IL.  Join us every week as we bring you exercise-related content to improve and protect what we believe to be your most valuable asset, your health.  In this episode we discuss...