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
E21 - Interview with Dr. Bob Cates
This week on the Exercise Is Health podcast, Julie and Charlie interview a very special guest - Dr. Bob Cates (Charlie's dad). Dr. Cates practices family medicine in Wisconsin and is a HUGE advocate…
E20 - Interview with Dr. Fatima Hyder of IdealAccessMD
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 d…
E19 - 3 Ways MAT® Helps Improve Your Workouts
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, d…
E18 - No Pain, No Gain, No More
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, healin…
E17 - How will MAT® help me become a better runner?
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 …
E16 - Interview with Dr. Ray and Jean Kadkhodaian of the Lighthouse Emotional Wellness Center
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…
E15 - Julie's MAT® Story
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 h…
E14 - The Benefits of Exercise Beyond Weight Loss
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 …
E13 - Six exercise principles to keep in mind if you are new to exercise
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 m…
E12 - How can acupuncture improve your health? - Interview with Mike Koziol of Whole Health Acupuncture
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 pers…
E11 - Flexibility - A New Age Solution To An Old Time Problem
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 …
E10 - The Exercise Pyramid
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? Wh…
E9 - Core Work and Low Back Tightness - Q&A #2
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 ne…
E8 - The Importance of Gut Health with Nicole Moneer
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 d…
E7 - MAT® vs. Personal Training - Similarities and Differences
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 a…
E6 - Internal vs. External 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 indu…
E5 - What is NUCCA Chiropractic? - Dr. Jeremy Barone Interview
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 …
E4 - Q&A #1
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 wi…
E3 - What is Muscle Activation Techniques®?
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 ar…
E2 - Hitting Singles vs. Hitting Home Runs with Your Workouts
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 lea…