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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.
What Are Amino Acids, & Do You Need To Be Taking Them?
Amino acids break down food, repair body tissue (muscle), make hormones and neurotransmitters, provide energy, maintain healthy hair, skin & nails, & boost your immune system. Although you can usually get all of the amino acids you need through a healthy diet, some people prefer to take a supplement.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Spring Clean Your Fitness Routine: 6 Habits For Better Health
Get Outside: With the weather warming up, it's time to get outside! Enjoying outdoor activities is a great pairing to your strength training program, and we all could use a little vitamin D. Go for a hike with a friend, play in the park with your kids, or go for a walk with your dog. Just get outside!
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.
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.
Transform Your Health with Personalized Nutrition: Everything You Need to Know About Our Personal Fit Nutrition Program
Fitness and nutrition go hand-in-hand when it comes to optimal health. A balanced diet supplies the nutrients your body needs to work effectively. Without proper nutrition, you are more prone to disease, infection, fatigue, increased body fat and low performance. So, let the EI team help you feel and look your best! Ask your trainer for more details.