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.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.