This is what your brain looks like on 16 hours of MAT

I just finished up with the first of three modules for MAT jumpstart. For those of my fitness industry challenged friends.... you know who you are... MAT stands for Muscle Activation Techniques.

I have been learning to identify and correct malfunctioning muscles, whether from overtraining, injury or just lack of use, (muscles that have shut down); and I am gaining the tools to turn them back on, so to speak, so that now when I train a client, they can do the work correctly with all cylinders firing. It has given me a brand new meaning to "functional exercise".

What an amazing weekend. Long. We started Saturday morning about 8:30 and finished about 5:30 and started again at 8:30 on Sunday and went till about 6:00. There is nothing quite like the sight of a bunch of personal trainers hammering around on each other to try to find weaknesses in the other. Especially when those trainers work together everyday! About half of us were women, so I can't blame it all on testosterone, but whatever was filling that room was it's equivalent.

On a more serious note, I learned so much. This stuff is so amazing. It was as if I had to remind myself a couple times that it's real, it's not voodoo. Our instructor was a guy by the name of Kevin Dunn. He was awesome. He is a PT and also an MAT specialist. I don't know how old this guy is, (I'm probably older than him), but still, I want to be him when I grow up!!!

So there are two more modules. This time we did lower body. Next we will do trunk and spine and then upper body. One will be in August and the final one in September. 4 weeks will go fast and I want to have this stuff down before we start the next one, so I will be looking for guinea pigs y'all.
Anyway, I am so glad I decided to go ahead and start training before I finished school.This weekend totally cemented that decision. I LOVE MY JOB!!!
I hope you all had a great weekend. Long post are okay when you've been on a sort of blogging sabbatical. Right?

Stay tuned, Pictures of my weekend to come soon!!
See ya friends.

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Saw this article today.
Helpful hints for others like me, who are dying for the iphone, but contractually stuck in a stupid contract with a phone that can now only be seen as unworthy.

Check it out here....

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