We'd like to thank the Washington Post for choosing us to be featured in an amazing article about Slow Motion Strength Training and the results associated with this scientifically proven method.
Here are the points from the article:
- The Slow-motion strength training studios feel less like a gym and more like a
physical therapist’s office.
- These training studios offer clients more of a personal
training in a quiet, no-frills space filled with Nautilus equipment
- It's a complete workout in just two short sessions per week.
Here’s the drill:
- A high-intensity, low-impact program known as
"slow-motion strength training"
- Gradually lifting and releasing weights without the aid of
rest or momentum brings muscles to exhaustion.
- It is extremely difficult but it’s also only a total of 20
minutes per session.
- Though The Perfect Workout, a California-based outfit
founded in 1999, is new to the East Coast, the Slow-motion strength training
concept isn’t.
- The Perfect Workout system cites principles outlined just
over 30 years ago by fitness professional Ken Hutchins.
- In slowing down movements to safely train women with osteoporosis,
Hutchins concluded that the technique builds muscle more effectively than
conventional weight training.
- The effectiveness of slow-motion strength training depends
on the individual, according to Lee Jordan, a spokesman for the American
Council on Exercise, but it offers a broad range of people a safe and viable
program.
- Like high-intensity interval training, Jordan says, it seeks
to remove the top barrier to exercise: time.
- Unlike high-intensity interval training (“by its very
nature, it’s extreme,” Jordan says), slow-motion strength training is
accessible to anyone.
- Practitioners of slow-motion strength training also satisfy
their need for cardiovascular activity.
- The key to an exercise routine is sticking to that routine.
And The Perfect Workout's clients say this program works.
- Clients love to hate slow-motion strength training but
they keep coming back because they get results.
- Slow-motion strength training practitioners often report
better body composition plus lower blood sugar and cholesterol.
- Slow-motion strength training may not be sexiest or most
trendiest, but it gets the job done quicker and safer.
- Many clients of an advanced age love the safety along with
the added bone strength that slow-motion strength training offers.
- Slow-motion training sessions come in several convenient
packages. Some packages even help reduce osteoporosis and Type 2
Diabetes.
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