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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.
The True Purpose of Strength Training: More Than Muscular Gains
Resistance exercise is known to increase muscle mass & size, but there are far more benefits to resistance training than just that. Improved mobility, fall prevention, improved cognitive function, increased cancer survival, improvements to metabolic health (including diabetes), and reduction in all-cause mortality, are the real reasons you should be lifting weights. They are also the reasons you should prioritize strength training over aerobic training.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Top Fitness Trends and Insights: Our Takeaways from the Inland Empire Fitness Conference 2022
Our team was able to attend the Inland Empire Fitness Conference this summer. We want to say thank you for giving us this opportunity to go better our craft, and grow as exercise specialists. We were able to hear from 12 different professionals and leaders in our industry. You may have noticed we have started to implement some of these techniques in your training since our return. Here are our biggest takeaways from this event:
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.
New Year, New You: Revisiting Your Resolutions for a Better You
If you have made progress towards your resolutions, good for you! You are one of the few. Studies have shown that only 8% of people actually accomplish their New Year's Resolutions, and most completely abandon them within 30 days. The number one reason people abandon their goals is because they don't have a game plan. You can't just set a goal and forget about it, you have to actually take action towards it.
Imagine Strength: The Why Behind the Machines
"After growing up on Arthur Jones and Darden teachings about proper HIT training and working at Nautilus the tide shifted from safe, effective and efficient exercise to high volume speed training. At this time having worked for Nautilus for 11 years I saw the writing on the wall. Even Nautilus became enamored with cardio equipment, multiple set high volume training, just to make a buck…”
Unlock Your Potential: Achieve Success with SMART Goal Setting
SMART is an acronym used to help you set better goals. SMART stands for, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound. Setting a SMART goal will help you narrow down what your goal should be and how you can achieve it. Here is how…