

Exercise Is Health
Muscle Activation Schaumburg
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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Jan 4, 2023 • 24min
E262 - How To Hack Your Fitness New Year's Resolutions If You Are 50+
Do you find yourself caught in the same cycle year after year where you set health and fitness goals for yourself on January 1, but by mid-February they are only a distant memory? If so, there are three things you need to understand: 1. You are not alone; 2. It is not your fault; 3. You CAN change this cycle for yourself! This is one of the biggest pitfalls that so many fall into every year, but you need to know that the mainstream fitness industry is not setting you up to succeed long-term. They want to keep you entertained in the here and now, regardless of what that does to your health overall. So how can you break out of this cycle once and for all?? That is exactly what Julie and Charlie are discussing on this week's episode of the Exercise Is Health® podcast. They lay out a straightforward plan for you to follow to not only get you results faster, but help make sure your results are sustainable because you will be able to keep coming back to your workouts to build your health and strength without feeling sore or injured. Check out all of the details in this week's episode! Want to get instant access to hundreds of workouts that build your health, strength, and function that you can do right from your living room using minimal equipment on any device? Sign up for our Exercise For Life Membership Program! This exclusive program will have all of your home workout needs met with strength training workouts, cardio workouts, mobility workshops, and more! Just head to http://www.exerciseforlifestudios.com/membership to get started!

Dec 28, 2022 • 37min
E261 - The Science of Fasting & Longevity - Interview with Dr. Joseph Antoun
Dr. Joseph Antoun, expert in fasting and longevity, discusses the science of fasting, different types of fasting, benefits of fasting and the development of a fasting mimicking diet. He also emphasizes the significance of biological age in health and longevity and shares expertise on fasting and promoting the One Workout Away Challenge.

Dec 21, 2022 • 20min
E260 - 5 Facts You Need To Know About Using Bands Before Your Next Workout
What's the deal with workout bands?? Are they as effective at building your strength and muscle as using weights? And what should you know about using them to make sure you don't get hurt? On this week's episode of the Exercise Is Health® podcast, Julie and Charlie are diving into all things bands to respond to the top questions and myths that surround this popular form of exercise. If you use bands for your workouts, listen up! There are some gold nuggets in this episode you are going to want to hear so you can apply them to your next workout. Check out all of the details in this week's episode! Want to get instant access to hundreds of workouts that build your health, strength, and function that you can do right from your living room using minimal equipment on any device? Sign up for our Exercise For Life Membership Program! This exclusive program will have all of your home workout needs met with strength training workouts, cardio workouts, mobility workshops, and more! Just head to http://www.exerciseforlifestudios.com/membership to get started!

Dec 14, 2022 • 19min
E259 - What To Do When Your Strength Training Is Making You Less Flexible
Is your strength training making you less flexible? Maybe you notice that your body feels stiff and achy after your workouts... Or perhaps it is the fear of losing flexibility that is keeping you from doing strength training... Whether you are actually becoming less flexible or you are simply concerned about becoming less flexible, your strength training does NOT have to decrease your flexibility. In fact, there are some straightforward principles you can follow during your workouts that will actually help your strength training increase your flexiblity! But, these principles are almost always overlooked by the mainstream fintess industry, which may be exactly why you are losing flexibility. On this week's episode of the Exercise Is Health® podcast, Julie and Charlie dive into these principles to explain what they are and how you can start implementing them into each of your workouts. If you are sick of your workouts making you feel stiff and achy, listen up! You can learn what these principles are and start applying them to your workouts today. Check out all of the details in this week's episode! Want to get instant access to hundreds of workouts that build your health, strength, and function that you can do right from your living room using minimal equipment on any device? Sign up for our Exercise For Life Membership Program! This exclusive program will have all of your home workout needs met with strength training workouts, cardio workouts, mobility workshops, and more! Just head to http://www.exerciseforlifestudios.com/membership to get started!

Dec 7, 2022 • 20min
E258 - 3 Key Principles To Apply To Your At Home Workouts To Increase Effectiveness
Are your home workouts actually progressing your health, strength, and function? Or are they simply something that gets you sweaty and you can check off your to-do list? While many home workouts will tout being challenging or really pushing you, how can you be sure that you are actually benefiting your health from doing them? On this week's episode of the Exercise Is Health® podcast, Julie and Charlie discuss three key principles you can start applying to your home workouts to make sure they are heading you in the right direction. Regardless of how you choose to exercise at home, these principles can be used with your workouts to give you the best chance possible of building your health, strength, and function. Check out all of the details in this week's episode! Want to get instant access to hundreds of workouts that build your health, strength, and function that you can do right from your living room using minimal equipment on any device? Sign up for our Exercise For Life Membership Program! This exclusive program will have all of your home workout needs met with strength training workouts, cardio workouts, mobility workshops, and more! Just head to http://www.exerciseforlifestudios.com/membership to get started!

Nov 30, 2022 • 27min
E257 - How To Easily Apply Everything You Learn On This Podcast
Have you ever wondered how you can apply everything we teach you each week on this podcast to your workouts? With 257 episodes out so far, there has been A LOT of information we have covered over the past five years. But is there a simple way to take the information we discuss every Wednesday and implement it directly into your workouts? On this week's episode of the Exercise Is Health® podcast, Julie and Charlie are giving you exactly that -- the shortcut you have been looking for to efficiently and effectively take all of the strategies and tactics you have heard us talking about throughout the years and start using immediately in your workouts. If you are looking for the easiest way to implement this information without having to remember every single thing we have taught you over the last decade, this episode has your answer. Check it out for all of the details! Want to get instant access to hundreds of workouts that build your health, strength, and function that you can do right from your living room using minimal equipment on any device? Sign up for our Exercise For Life Membership Program! This exclusive program will have all of your home workout needs met with strength training workouts, cardio workouts, mobility workshops, and more! Just head to http://www.exerciseforlifestudios.com/membership to get started!

Nov 23, 2022 • 25min
E256 - How To Easily Customize Your Workouts Without Knowing Anything About Exercise
Do you want to have a customized approach to your workouts but don't have any idea how to get it asides from paying a trainer? There's actually a simple system you can follow to get you 80% (or more) of the way there all on your own. And guess what... you don't even have to know anything about exercise to make this system work for you! On this week's episode of the Exercise Is Health® podcast, Julie and Charlie break down what this system is, why you need to follow it, and how to go about implementing it into your workouts. Not knowing what to do to make exercise feel good for YOUR body no longer needs to be a concern with these straightforward steps. Check out all of the details in this week's episode! Want to get instant access to hundreds of workouts that build your health, strength, and function that you can do right from your living room using minimal equipment on any device? Sign up for our Exercise For Life Membership Program! This exclusive program will have all of your home workout needs met with strength training workouts, cardio workouts, mobility workshops, and more! Just head to http://www.exerciseforlifestudios.com/membership to get started!

Nov 16, 2022 • 31min
E255 - Exercising For Your Last Decade
What will your last decade of life look like? Will you be healthy, active, and strong? Will you be able to pick up your great-grandkids and have the stamina to tell stories while you go for long walks? Will you be able to travel and see the world with your spouse, unaffected by physical adversities that may creep into your day? So often with exercise the mainstream fitness industry tells us to focus on the transformation over the next six weeks or six months... but what about 20, 30, or even 60 years from now? On this week's episode of the Exercise Is Health® podcast, Julie and Charlie discuss a plan of action that you can implement to make sure the last decade of your life looks and feels exactly the way you want it to. The reality is that we all have a last decade we will enter into at some point, but the day to day possibilities we encounter can be very different if we choose to exercise accordingly. Check out all of the details in this week's episode! How would you like eight workouts with Julie and Charlie for FREE?!? That's right... $0 for eight workouts!! Well, starting Monday, November 21, they will be doing LIVE WORKOUTS right from the Muscle Activation Schaumburg Facebook page, and they'd love for you to join! Be sure to give their page a Like and block out your calendars for November 21, 23, 28, 29, 30; December 1 and 2 from at 11:05 AM ET; as well as 12:05 PM ET on November 22 for LIVE WORKOUTS that you are going to LOVE!!

Nov 9, 2022 • 26min
E254 - How To Progress Your Cardio After You've Been Derailed
Have you ever been thrown off of your workout routine only to find that exercising does not feel as easy as it did once you try to start back up?? Whether it is an injury, illness, or just life in general getting in the way, most of us have times when we don't exercise for a while. And, unfortunately, when we try to get back into it, we can find that our body is wanting us to slow WAYYYYY down. So how can you progress yourself back to the strength and fitness levels you had before? Should you dive back into where you left off with your workouts and expect your body to catch up? Should you throw in the towel and decide that it's too hard to get started again so you shouldn't even try? Or is there another way to get yourself back into the swing of things that not only will help you progress your strength and fitness while you are getting started, but will help you keep coming back to your workouts long after you are feeling like your fit self again? On this week's episode of the Exercise Is Health® podcast, Julie and Charlie explore this idea of progressing yourself and your workouts after you have taken some time off. They lay out a straightforward plan that you can start implementing today to get back into your workout routine in a way that is sustainable and feels good. Check out all of the details in this week's episode! Want a step by step plan of exactly what you need to know to rebuild your aching body in as little as six weeks without changing your lifestyle? Sign up for Charlie's new FREE training – Exercise For Life Secrets – happening this week! Click here to register!

Nov 2, 2022 • 27min
E253 - How To Be Successful With Exercise
Do you struggle to be successful with your workouts?? Have you tried to exercise in the past but did not reach the goals you had set for yourself? Is the feeling of not being successful keeping you from exercising consistently? If so, you are not alone, but this does not have to be your story any longer. In fact, on this week's episode of the Exercise Is Health® podcast, Julie and Charlie lay out a simple plan of action that anybody can follow to start having consistent success with exercise. If you feel like the fitness industry is not set up for you to succeed, listen up! There are some things you can start doing NOW to change this for you once and for all. Check out all of the details in this week's episode! Want a step by step plan of exactly what you need to know to rebuild your aching body in as little as six weeks without changing your lifestyle? Sign up for Charlie's new FREE training – Exercise For Life Secrets – happening this week! Click here to register!


