Newsletter October 13th 2025
Hello,
I hope you’ve had a great week, are enjoying a relaxing Sunday, and embracing the beautiful change of seasons.
Week Two of our October Reset!
Many of you are still working through the5-Day Glute Resetand noticing just how much better your body feels with stronger hips. This program was designed to improvemuscle activation, range of motion, strength, endurance, and pelvic stability.
Consistency is Key
If your goal is to stay injury-free, mobile, and strong then know consistency is key. FIS TV was originally created for my MAT clients managing injuries and other physical issues—but now that it’s available to anyone with internet access.
My Mission is Broader
My goal is to help people get out of pain, move better, and stay strong for life. Every video is grounded in science and biomechanics, offering therapeutic, muscle-focused routines that you won’t find anywhere else.
This Week’s Focus: Mobility Reset 🌿
Mobility is one of the most important components of living your best life.
This week, I’m releasing two new mobility workouts—upper and lower body—to help you restore freedom of movement and reduce stiffness. As always, the workouts are designed to be balanced, safe, and adaptable, even if you’re currently working through joint issues.
I love taking the guesswork out of exercise for you and being your guide to a pain-free, healthy lifestyle.
📅This Week in FIS TV
October 13-19
Mobility, a major part in human mechanics, is this week's focus!
👉 Mobility Reset will be the focus on the 3-5-7 Day Fitness Plans
👉 Enjoy a new upper and lower body mobility workout this week
👉 Learn about why we get tight in this week's blog
Join the FIS TV Community
New to FIS TV? Click below to join today—connect, learn, ask questions, and get extra education and motivation.
Your free classroom for strength, mobility, and pain-free living.
Unlock Shoulder Flexion
Why It Starts at Your Hips and Spine
Coming this week! Shoulder flexion is more than just raising your arm overhead—it’s a full-body movement. In this video, you’ll learn 4 holistic exercises that connect your hips, spine, and shoulder blades to improve mobility and reduce stiffness.
▶️ This Week's Featured Video
Glute Reset Day One
Combat sedentary habits and repetitive movement patterns with targeted glute isometrics designed to uncover weakness and restore strength in the gluteal region.
These bodyweight isometrics will help you safely move through your available range of motion and jumpstart better muscle contractions.
🕒 15-minute workout
🧍♀️ Focus: Hip extension, pelvic stability, trunk control
⚙️ Equipment: None
This Week in FIS TV
Sunday, October 12
Weekly Fitness Plans drop in the FIS TV Library
💡 Includes Mobility workouts for upper and lower body
💡 Don’t forget to check theOnline calendar (best viewed on desktop)
Monday, October 13
New Workout drops in the FIS TV Library
💡 Mobility Reset: Lower Body releases at 6:00am EST.
💡 Equipment: Dumbbells
Tuesday, October 14
Trainer Tip in Facebook
💡 One Exercise for tightness in the inner thigh + video resource in FIS TV
💡 Tip from 10-07-25:Why Strong Glutes Matter
Wednesday, October 15
New Workout drops in the FIS TV Library
💡 Mobility Reset: Upper Body releases at 6:00am EST.
💡 Equipment: Dumbbells, TheraBand, Yoga Block
💡 Community Newsletter (now monthly) + New YouTube VideoUnlock Shoulder Flexion: Why It Starts at Your Hips and Spine
Thursday, October 16
Mindset Coaching
💡 The Power of Taking Action
💡 Tip from 10-09-25:5 Surprising Facts about Glutes
Friday, October 17
Member Q & A
💡 I pick topics that I answered over the week to help you inside FIS TV
💡 Question:"Will you ever add Pilates Reformer Workouts to the app?"
Why Do We Feel Tight?
As aMuscle Activation Techniques®(MAT®) Specialist and Yoga Therapist, I get this question a lot. Our culture treats tightness as the major problem instead of a symptom. We go to massage therapists, hot Yoga classes, chiropractors, and stretching specialists to help us release tension. One thing that I have learned from my studies isthatmuscle tightnessis asymptomofmuscle weakness. Since our lifestyles areasymmetricaland full of repetitive tasks, our muscles can become imbalanced. Some muscles have to tighten and overwork in order to compensate for weaker ones.
Muscle tightness is actually our body's way of protecting itself from injury. It is an internal bracing system that is caused from some sort of stress that the body is trying to combat and manage.
Types of Stress
Physical: such as with inappropriate exercise or mechanical injury
Emotional: such as with chronic stress or trauma.
Chemical: in the form of poor nutrition, alcohol / dehydration, or medications.
*Sometimes all three forms are going on, which makes our central nervous system overloaded.
Proper exercise can be used to improve our ability to tolerate stress. Learning about which areas of our body are weak can direct us where to focus our training. As we improve our weaknesses, our muscle function will be healthier.
Isometric resistance training is a great way to treat muscle weaknesses and manage them, since they slowly re-start the connection of the damaged muscle. We actually teach the CNS (brain, spinal cord) to contract the muscle more efficiently.
In conclusion,
When we become stronger and muscles can contract better, we will see a decrease in the associated muscle tightness.
Stretching and other methods may be temporary in terms of feeling better, but if the body is tightening up from weakness, the stretching can actually be violating the body's natural protective mechanism to keep us stable.
Chronic tightness is due to long-term weaknesses that the body has experienced.
The exercises on FIS TV are designed to help us train our weaknesses, keeping a balance of muscle pull.
References:
Muscle Activation Techniques. (2022). What is neurological muscle dysfunction and how does MAT address It? From: muscleactivation.com/muscle-activation
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
