Thanks to The Washington Post for featuring us in an article that helps spread the message about Slow Motion Strength Training and its amazing results.
According to 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.
The article features the high-intensity, low-impact program known as "slow-motion strength training". It means that gradually lifting and releasing weights without the aid of rest or momentum brings muscles to exhaustion (muscle success). 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.
However, 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, which is time. Unlike high-intensity interval training (“by its very nature, it’s extreme,” Jordan says), slow-motion strength training is accessible to anyone.
It also talks about the benefits and the good practices of slow-motion strength training. According to the article, 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 also often report better body composition plus lower blood sugar and cholesterol.
Although slow-motion strength training may not be sexiest or trendiest, it gets the job done quicker and safer. Moreover, many clients of an advanced age love the safety along with the added bone strength that slow-motion strength training offers. Lastly, slow-motion training sessions come in several convenient packages. Some packages even help reduce osteoporosis and Type 2 Diabetes.
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