Introduces - FIT30IFT:

-Advance Training for Intense Fitness Training-

Challenge Several Muscle Groups at a time!


Gabriela 'Gaby' De Mena


On this particular day, we did 12 exercises in a circuit fashion. Each movement was timed for 45 seconds and then Gaby had to transition from one exercise to the next in only 15 seconds.

She performed a total of 3 circuits.

If you noticed we didn't do much conventional weight lifting on this day, but implemented compound movements that involved large muscle groups.

After 30 minutes of this circuit, Gaby moved on to 30 minutes of cardio training in her target heart rate zone.

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Please note: This program is not for beginners


The Most Important Principles in Transforming Your Body

Muscle Confusion was not born yesterday. It has been around for years. I have implemented Muscle confusion for 14 years and for 6 years at our Personal Training Facility in Coral Gables.

Muscle Confusion is the principle of changing your routines to keep your body guessing. The human body is very efficient at adapting to its environment and will seek to maintain homeostasis. If you’ve hit a plateau than you will need to make changes in your diet and to your exercise routine. Why limit your choices when you can have it all? So confusion is actually a good thing.

There are many techniques and especially principles that must be applied in order for an exercise program to be successful in helping you achieve the results you desire without getting yourself hurt.


Let's Take A Look At Several Principles Of Training.


The SAID principal stands for Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demand.In other words, your body always adapts to exactly what you are doing, whether you are conscious of it or not.

When you starve yourself, your metabolism slows. When you overfeed yourself, your metabolism increases. When you're dehydrated, you hold more water. When you're over-hydrated, your body releases water. When you practice Chopin on the piano, your nervous system builds neural connections that enhance finger control. If you don't practice piano, your nervous system doesn't build those neural connections because there's no reason to.

So when you train muscles frequently, your body must adapt to the imposed demand. What we currently know is that a muscle group becomes more neurologically efficient with training.

Okay, so what does this mean to you?The same routine you have been performing over and over again, is not challenging your body any more. It's time to implement principles The overload principle or progressive overload is the gradual increase of stress placed upon the body during exercise training. This technique is recognized as a fundamental principle for success in various forms of strength training programs including fitness training, weight lifting, high intensity training and physical therapy programs.

Our 30 Minute Sessions are so multifaceted that it may fall under different categories like full body circuit training, high-intensity cross training, functional training, target training, basic weight loss, body building, etc. To put it simply our workout approach is flexible and practical depending on the needs and goals of the client. We do not encourage the “do or die” approach. Our clients feel better and energized after the workout.

My experience is, if you lower the barrier of the time required, it is a better trade off and much easier to stick to. If you can get more results with less time and hassle, you will want to do it and continue doing it. And, therefore, continue getting the benefits.

I have found much better results with 30 minute sessions when a program is structured around results.

The real key is progressing your fitness level over a timeline and passing the baton to different phases of training as your fitness level evolves. This is what dramatically accelerates progress without working out harder or longer.

After our 30 minute training, your body continues to burn energy as if you were exercising, even though energy demands are back to a resting rate. This means that you are still burning fat even after you have stopped.


The Fat Burning Effect


of our 30 minute training is through a mechanism called EPOC (excess post-exercise oxygen consumption).

Our 30 minute structured workout allows you to work at a high level of intensity, and your body doesn’t immediately return to its resting rate. 30 in a hurry fitness eliminates the waste of time and long rest periods and moves you efficiently through exercises. You cut down on the amount of time you have to spend in the gym!!


2 Factors for 30 Minute Training.


The Performance Goal Focus.

Overload is the key thing most people miss in exercise. If you keep doing the same level of work, your body adapts to it and quits changing. To get the most out of a short workout, you have to use the principle of specific overload: progressively increasing the level of work on both your strength and aerobic exercises. Our trainers facilitate this special dimension in your workout. Every key exercise is guided upwards in level (either weight, repetitions, or level of work) over time as your fitness level progresses.

Mastery of the Biomechanics of Exercise.

A lot of exercisers leave results on the table because their form is not correct. Often, a simple change in body position, motion path, or rhythm will make all the difference. In most commercial health clubs, people only get a very simple and basic familiarization with exercise form. Or, worse, they copy the form of others around them who never learned it properly in the first place!

In order to get the most out of an exercise, you must make second nature the correct body position, motion path, movement rhythm, and breathing pattern . . .so that you can focus on progression and performance increases. Having the one-on-one attention of our well credentialed trainers gives you the feedback necessary to optimize form.

A correct state of mind

accomplishes much more than rigid, disciplined work. In applying this principle to exercise, we find greater results coming from less work when:

1) Redundant exercises are eliminated.

2) The focus is on progression instead of volume so a few sets get the same result as many.

3) Misconceptions that lead to wasted effort and understood and the wasted effort eliminated.

4) Exercise is done for the minimum necessary frequency, intensity, and time (FIT).


Our Structured workout program focuses on Compound exercises which may be more effective for strengthening the muscles surrounding a joint to help ligaments and other supportive structures maintain stability of that joint, thereby contributing more to functional strength for day to day activities than isolation exercise. These are movements that work more than one muscle group, and burn maximum calories.

How much you elevate your metabolism after your workout is directly related to the amount of muscle you activate at any one time. So you'll want to focus on movements that work multiple muscles, as opposed to those that attempt to isolate muscle groups. For instance, you'll experience a much greater boost in metabolism by performing 10 repetitions of the squat, compared with 10 repetitions of an isolation exercise, such as the biceps curl.

Basically we're using resistance training and the many tools that allow us to overload our muscular system, as the cornerstone of our fat loss programming. Our goal is to work every muscle group hard (relative to your fitness level) frequently, and with an intensity that creates a massive "metabolic disturbance" or "afterburn" that leaves the metabolism elevated for several hours post-workout.


References:

American College of Sports Medicine position stand. Progression models in resistance training for healthy adults. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 34(2):364-80, 2002 Feb,

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