Why is the studio kept at 64°?
Everything at the studio is designed to support your focus and effort. During our workouts, the muscles generate significant heat that needs to be dissipated. We keep the studio temperature at 64° year-round to prevent excessive body heat from interfering with workout quality.
Less than 20 Minutes?
During each session, we target the major muscles using different exercise machines. We move from one exercise to the next with minimal delay. In your first sessions, it may take 20 minutes or more to finish each workout. As your condition improves, you’ll shorten the transition times between exercises, and eventually you’ll be able to finish the workout in under 15 minutes.
Our method of health conditioning is safe and effective, suitable for young and old, from serious athletes to those just beginning their strengthening journey.
Twice a week or less?
Although exercise produces many exhilarating sensations, the beneficial changes we seek to achieve are not made immediately during exercise. We have all experienced examples of this “super compensation” when a wound heals or when we develop a callus. The tissue takes several days to heal and improve after damage. We exploit this principle to our advantage.
First, we work out to provide specific physical stress that depletes the muscle fibers in a way that other forms of activity do not. Then, we allow the body three to seven days to rejuvenate and improve.
Many of our advanced clients train by alternating two days one week and then one day the next, such as Monday and Friday on one week, then Wednesday only the following week, and so on.
We remove the guesswork by tracking your progress with accurate time recordings of every exercise. This way, we can prescribe the correct amount of exercise for your steady improvement.
What about once a week?
Your ideal training schedule is determined by how well you improve from one exercise session to the next. Several factors, including overall health, sleep, nutrition, and age, can impact an individual’s tolerance for exercise. For many people, a schedule of one training session per week fits best.
How safe is this for someone who is not in good condition or those of advanced age?
If you have a pre-existing heart condition or other medical condition, you should consult a doctor before beginning any exercise program.
At Essential Exercise, you are always accompanied by a personal exercise specialist to ensure your safe performance on every exercise. We utilize our method of gradual tension for every exercise, dramatically reducing the impact forces that the body encounters.
Workouts are performed using specialized equipment, which allows us to dispense a precise resistance adjustable in one-pound increments to match any level of conditioning.
These machines have been designed to provide resistance at a low friction level, accommodating our use of slow, steady movement. The combination of balanced resistance moved with a gradual speed of motion reduces the chance of injury.
What about losing weight?
If you lose body weight during a calorie-restrictive diet, you lose both muscle and fat. Losing muscle results in a flabby appearance, reduced performance, and a slower metabolic rate.
However, by combining our training with healthy eating, fat is shed more quickly, and muscle is retained. Our training has a significant influence on the anabolic (building up) process of metabolism, which in turn raises the metabolic rate.
When muscles are strengthened, the body’s contours become more shapely and firm. Your improved appearance is a powerful motivator for continued efforts in controlling food intake and achieving sustained fat loss.
I enjoy riding my bike and hiking, but won’t they also help me get in shape?
Recreational activities are an enjoyable part of life, and the fun they provide helps maintain mental health.
However, most activities are done against the random resistance encountered when moving against gravity, which does not give the load needed to stimulate muscle and bone improvement. For this reason, participating in activities like jogging, swimming, and most sports will not offset the natural loss of muscle that occurs with age.
Engaging in our training alone can stimulate an increase in muscle strength, which can help reverse the losses associated with aging.
We have also found that as our clients improve their strength through our training, they spontaneously become more active, often engaging in activities they haven’t done in a while. Their improved strength helps protect them from injury that could occur while engaging in recreational activities.
We would like you to develop your strength with Essential Exercise conditioning sessions first. Then, you will be in better shape to take advantage of the benefits of additional activities done in moderation.
Yeah, but I want more than just stronger muscles.
Essential Exercise health conditioning is effective; no other single activity results in as many improvements to the human body. This may challenge what you thought you knew about exercise, but science supports what we have seen for decades. As a result of workouts at Essential Exercise, you can:
- Lose Fat More Efficiently
- Improve Appearance
- Build Bone Density
- Improve Insulin Sensitivity
- Improve Cardiovascular Efficiency
- Improve Ease of Movement
- Enhance Flexibility
- Protect Against Injury
- Improve Posture
- Manage Arthritis
- Reduce or Eliminate Chronic Back and Neck Pain
- Offset Age-Related Muscle Loss
- Speed Up Recovery From Injury, Surgery, or Sickness
Is it better to have prior workout experience?
Those with prior experience moving at conventional speeds during exercise quickly realize that our slow-motion health conditioning makes training much more challenging. Motivation is the number one key to success for learning purposes; a lack of exercise experience may actually speed up the learning process.