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Strength Training Trumps Cardio for Effective Fat Loss: Here's Why

Strength Training Trumps Cardio for Effective Fat Loss: Here's Why

Exercise itself is not the ideal mode for weight loss. Exercise has many benefits to the body that have nothing to do with weight loss. Exercise can: improve muscular and cardiorespiratory fitness, increase bone density and function, reduce the risk of hypertension, coronary heart disease, stroke, and diabetes, reduce the risk of falls and fractures, improve mental health.

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Super Slow Strength Training: 7 Tips for Success

Super Slow Strength Training: 7 Tips for Success

Near Zero Momentum - Each rep will be performed in a 10 second positive phase, followed by a 10 second negative phase. Your instructor will cue you on when to change directions, as well as when to slow down or speed up. Focus special attention to the turn arounds, and control your speed.

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Revolutionize Your Workouts with Super Slow Training: The Exercise Institute Way

Revolutionize Your Workouts with Super Slow Training: The Exercise Institute Way

Proper strength circuit style exercise, or global metabolic strength and conditioning is a safe means to an end. Properly done, exercise can serve as a stimulus to the body. If that stimulus is intense, brief and infrequent enough it will trigger our bodies protective mechanisms in a positive way. Increasing our muscle mass and in turn help us live longer, stronger, leaner & injury free.

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A Critical Component of Exercise: Maintaining Proper Form

A Critical Component of Exercise: Maintaining Proper Form

A sure-fire way to improve muscular strength is to lift weights. The purpose of strength training is to use the weight to cause muscular fatigue, not to use your muscles to move the weight. Good form and technique are crucial to engaging the correct muscles during exercise, and building a strong, balanced physique.

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