Exercise Is Health
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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 401
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
E161 - Is It Better To Do An Exercise For A Set Amount of Time Or A Set Number of Reps?
This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie discuss an exercise-related question that most of the fitness industry seems to overlook. However, making this one change in your workou…
E160 - Is Lifting Weights The Best Way To Maintain Muscle Mass After The Age Of 40?
This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie answer a listener-submitted question about maintaining muscle with age. There are a number of myths floating around about what is actual…
E159 - Is Joint Degradation A Symptom?
This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie are discussing joint degradation such as arthritis and disc issues. Are these conditions the primary issue for most people, or are they …
E158 - 3 Adjustments To Make Your New Year's Resolutions More Successful
This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie discuss New Year's Resolutions, why they so often fail, and some simple adjustments you can make to dramatically increase your chances o…
E157 - 2020 Recap and 2021 Projections
This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie recap an eventful 2020. While much of the fitness industry was turned upside down, there were tremendous strides made at Muscle Activati…
E156 - Julie & Charlie on the Mammoth Health Podcast with Brady Seignious
This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie share an episode they recorded for the Mammoth Health podcast back in June. The show's host, Brady Seignieous, explores a number of topi…
E155 - Why (Most) Health and Fitness Challenges Make You Less Healthy
This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie are discussing one of the more popular trends in health and fitness industry as we approach the turn of the year - health and fitness ch…
E154 - How does MAT® improve strength?
This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie continue their discussion from last week about things you can do to improve your strength without increasing the weight you are using. W…
E153 - Three Ways To Increase Your Strength Without Increasing The Weight You Are Using
This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie address a common concern regarding resistance training and increasing strength. If you have heard that in order to get stronger, you nee…
E152 - Can you replace traditional cardio with HIIT?
This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie discuss a listener-submitted question regarding cardio exercise, high intensity interval training (HIIT), and health. If you have ever w…
E151 - High Performance Habits with Dave LoSavio
This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie sit down with Dave LoSavio to discuss high performance habits - habits that you can insert into your day to take your performance, effic…
E150 - Why is slow and controlled resistance training a more efficient way to workout than HIIT?
This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie share a live Q&A broadcast they did for the One Workout Away Challenge. The question focused on efficiency of exercise and why they beli…
E149 - Some of Our Opinions That Are Unpopular With The Fitness Industry
This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie discuss a few of their professional opinions that are not viewed as popular within the fitness industry as a whole. If it has ever seeme…
E148 - "Aren't all workouts good for your health?"
This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie answer a listener-submitted question about a common belief in the fitness industry - that all workouts are good for your health. The tru…
E147 - Boosting Your Brain's Health and Function with Exercise - Interview with Dr. Philippe Douyon
This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie sit down with Dr. Philippe Douyon of the Inle BrainFit Institute to discuss exercise, brain health, and how the former affects the latte…
E146 - A Few of Our Favorite MAT® Things
This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie discuss some of the less-advertised benefits that they have personally experienced from Muscle Activation Techniques® (MAT®). If you hav…
E145 - Why You Should Exercise Even When You Are Injured
Have you ever thought, "I can't workout right now because I am trying to let an injury heal?" This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie discuss this idea, the issues that are cre…
E144 - What's the deal with foam rolling?
This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie sit down to discuss foam rolling - what it is, what it may be doing, what it is unlikely to be doing despite being commonly said to do, …
E143 - Why Modifying Your Workouts Is Not Downgrading Your Workouts
This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie discuss a common term in the exercise industry - modifications - and why the negative stigma that is typically associated with it is not…
E142 - How Stress Affects Weight Loss - Interview with Lyneè Urban
This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie sit down with Lyneè Urban of Operation Fix My Life to discuss stress, weight loss, and the importance of rest in the weight loss process…