“Maximum Fat Loss”

12/5/08 Posted in Grinnell Training System  |  0 Comments

Your guide to losing body fat, and achieving the healthy and functional body that you want and deserve!

The fitness industry is changing fast. The old school workouts of bodybuilding and endurance athletes are no longer optimal for today’s world. No one has 90 minutes a day to perform long, drawn out weight training and cardio workouts. Our lifestyles are just too busy! We must train harder and smarter, not longer. We can no longer perform solely strength and boring steady state cardio routines. Our lifestyles are much different now. As a population we are moving less, sitting more, and far too busy. Problems such as injuries, pain, fatigue, and obesity are higher than ever. The modern individual really needs to consider many components when starting to take care of themselves.

Mobility, Activation and Movement Preparation: activate muscles, stretch tight muscles and improve movement.

Prehabilation/Corrective Exercise: To help correct or prevent existing and previous injuries such as the hip, knee, and shoulder injuries. Implementing some basic strategies to make the body resilient and free of pain and injury.

Elasticity/Reactive: We need to develop power and speed in ALL populations. Power is lost faster than strength — let’s develop it through sound training practices.

Core Training: This is your foundational centerpiece Forget the core training that you learned when you first started working out. Performing crunches and using machines will not get it done. Today’s core training is about stabilization and dynamic stabilization — not thousands of crunches in an “ab class”.

Strength/Resistance Training: Still the most important part of a program — but we need to focus on function and real world strength – not necessary isolation of individual muscle groups. Science has shown that a higher frequency exposure to training each bodypart and a multiple exposure to rep ranges outperforms the old-fashioned “once a week, three sets of ten” approach for today’s individual.

Metabolic Training aka. Interval Training: 21st Century cardio – the ability to do higher levels of work – and sustain that output over time — not just the ability to work at a level where you can “hold a conversation” This is high effort, get the job done and save lots of time! This I promise you will be sure to burn lots of fat and get you in great condition!

Regeneration: If you have a training strategy – you need a recovery and regeneration strategy. Life is too demanding to just assume that not coming to the gym is optimal for your results. We have too much science available to ignore. Foam rolling and self massage is like magic! Stretching the muscle to increase its length is very important as well. Our muscles get shortened and tight, and all knotted up. Doesn’t it sound like we need to take care of that?

Check back for details on my new class that shows you how to do it all!