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At the Personal Edge, we utilize intense strength training
protocols. The focus is on the quality of exercise work rather
than total quantity. All workouts adhere to the following philosophy:
 | Intense Workouts: Each exercise of every workout is performed
until momentary failure of the muscle occurs. This is the best
way to achieve maximum growth stimulation and optimize
strength gains. Each workout exercises all major muscle groups of the
body. |
| Brief Workouts:
All workouts are of a high intensity in nature. When
working to such degree, you literally can not exercise for more than 20
-30 minutes minutes, as your overall system fatigues very quickly. Some
advanced subjects require even less total workout time. |
| Infrequent Workouts: Once the required stimulus is
applied to the body (a brief but intense muscular workout), your
body needs adequate time to rest and recover and to allow the adaptations
to take place in your muscles and bones. Most people require a minimum of
72 hours rest between workouts; therefore, exercising no more than once or
twice a week is required. Many see this required rest period as a huge
benefit, because they do not have to spend hours in the gym every week.
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| Minimizing of Steady State Activity: We believe that most
people put too much emphasis on steady state activities such as
running, "aerobics", spinning, tae-bo, etc for the purpose of exercise.
This repetitive stress can be dangerous and largely ineffective for the
increasing of muscular strength and overall fat loss. For one,
these activities burn very few calories (about 100 calories per mile run)
during or after performing the activity. Second, most steady state
activities do not build any significant lean muscle mass - in fact,
excessive running, biking, etc.. can act to break down your muscles and make
the body weaker, not stronger. Third, most steady state activities
are very high force and extremely repetitive in nature. This can
cause massive trauma and injury to your shins, back, neck, etc. At
the Personal edge we believe that the best way to get to the
cardiovascular system is through working the muscles and the best way to
get to the muscles is through utilizing high intensity training techniques and
the slow controlled repetition speed. |
HIT or High Intensity Training and Superslow protocols
utilize slow reps
speeds - anywhere from 6 -10 seconds positively (raising of the weight) and
6 -10 seconds negatively (lowering of the weight) Why so slow and
controlled? Three Reasons:
| Safety - moving slowly eliminates acceleration and sudden
movements which can cause injury |
| True Exercise - moving slowly eliminates any momentum in
the exercises that could decrease effectiveness. As you decrease momentum,
you increase muscle effort. |
| Concentration - Slow Movement allows for better focus on
precise muscular movement |
Make an appointment today ! Phone 703-255-7186, or
email
to:SunirJossan@yahoo.com |
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