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Margaret Siegel
Margaret Siegel is a Certified Muscle Activation Techniques Specialist (MAT) and an Ace Certified Personal Trainer. Her intensive training in MAT, her 12 years of personal training experience and her over 20 years of experience in the fitness related fields allows her to design an individualized program for each person’s health, fitness and nutritional goals in order to help them live healthy and balanced lives. Margaret’s specialty training involved a ten month internship with 200 plus hours focusing on addressing muscular imbalances that lead to pain and inefficient orthopedic function. In addition, her continuing education in Trunk and Spine; Resistance Training Specialist (advanced training for exercise professionals); and Cadaver Anatomy and Mechanics allows her to treat the body as a whole system and finding the root cause of the problem.
Margaret is aware that people (active and inactive) can injure themselves just by living their daily lives. Utilizing MAT principles, she is able to help create proper joint integrity and muscle balance. Developing training, rehabilitation and general fitness programs to enhance performance for clients of all ages, developmental abilities and skill level, Margaret is able to focus on specific client issues. Her clients have indicated that because of her ability to understand how the body moves they have experienced better posture, improved flexibility, ease of movement and less pain.
Her other experience included co-creating several sports based programs at the Sport Club of West Bloomfield: Junior Sports Conditioning, For Girls Only, Just Footwork, Triathlon Training for beginners and Parent/child Athletic Conditioning. In addition, she has taught group exercise classes in body conditioning, athletic conditioning and spinning. She is presently working towards a certification in TRX Suspension Training. She works at a one week summer camp for children, ages 7–18, to help them refine their speed, agility and strength training skills. Margaret’s related coursework in addition to the MAT and ACE certification focused on Diet and Exercise, Nutrition, First Aid, CPR, Anatomy and Physiology.
