Further Your Knowledge
Unlocking the Benefits of Varying Repetition Speed and Time Under Load for Optimal Fitness Results
How slow do I need to move during a set of an exercise?
All methods of exercise will result in health and wellness benefits (assuming it is balanced with adequate recovery), but not all exercise methods are as efficient, safe, practical, or easy for everyone to adhere to.
Maximizing Your Results: The Importance of Exercise Recovery
Exercise (stress) of a meaningful degree is required to tell the body something needs to change. Recovery is required to allow the body time to build up bigger and stronger. Without recovery, you are only doing more harm than good. Under recovery is more often than not the problem with lower levels of health and performance rather than overtraining.
Optimizing Your Workout Routine: Finding the Perfect Balance of Exercise Duration, Frequency, and Intensity
The workout is vital to STIMULATE our bodies to change; recovery is necessary to ALLOW our bodies to change. If you don't allow adequate recovery, you are wasting your time and efforts by breaking down your body and not building it back up.
Understanding the Definition of Exercise for a Healthier You
Exercise itself is breaking down the muscles of our body to stimulate our bodies to adapt. Exercise itself does not make you stronger or healthier. The recovery between exercises is where the magic happens. If the balance between exercise and recovery is off, it can be very detrimental to your health. If you get nothing from this, please take away this: Recovery is AS essential to optimizing health as exercise.
Fitness Resources Our Trainers Swear By for Optimal Health & Results
In the age of technology, fitness apps are becoming ever so popular. Fitness apps allow users to track their progress and monitor their fitness goals. Some even help find products and services that can be cost effective and convenient. Our trainers have compiled a list of their favorite fitness resources for you to check out.
Stuffed Bell Pepper Jack-o-Lanterns
Whether or not you want to carve a cute face into a bell pepper, these stuffed peppers are an easy and nutritious meal for the fall time.
Imagine Strength: The Next Generation of Exercise Equipment
While it is true you can use many things for resistance tools, what we truly need is a more intelligent dumbbell. There’s not many personal training facilities that get to have input into the design of machines. Jeff Turner and the designing partners of Imagine have hit an absolute home run with the Imagine Strength equipment. We have unique features no one has ever put into equipment.
Essential Foods to Maintain a Healthy Diet: 15 Items to Always Have
Set yourself up for success this year by stocking your fridge and pantry. Know that each day is different, and no days will be perfect. What matters is that you stay consistent with these habits 80% of the time. If you are looking for more personalized nutrition advice, schedule a nutrition consult with one of our in house Nutrition Specialists.
The Crucial Role of Supervision in Strength Training
Those who used supervision for strength training had better outcomes in almost every way. Especially, post- menopausal and osteoporotic women, which had a 74% lower dropout rate than those that chose to strength train by themselves. While there was no evidence that supervision affected fat loss any different, it showed better outcomes on strength gains.
