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The most common reason for people to start exercising is to lose weight and look better; but being overweight can negatively impact a person's health and one's quality of life.
Without a doubt, the best way to lose weight is with the combination of an appropriate eating plan, and regular appropriate exercise. Because no two people are the same, a weight-loss exercise program designed specifically for you can help you reach their weight-loss goals faster.
A toning & shaping exercise program focuses on increasing muscle definition, enhancing the individual shapes of different muscle groups and reducing body fat.
A toning & shaping program is a combination of resistance exercises and cardiovascular exercises. Toning & Shaping differs from a bodybuilding program, where bodybuilding focuses on increasing the overall size of muscle groups. Think of a swimmer's physique.
Boxing is arguably one of the best ways to get fit, lose weight and tone up - and it's so much fun.
Boxing helps tone and sculpt the abdominal (abs) and upper body muscles, whilst also conditioning the lower-body muscles. The high impact nature of boxing helps improve bone-mineral density in the arms. It increases cardiovascular fitness and muscle endurance. The exercisers speed, power, agility and reflexes are also improved.
With a background in kickboxing, and for all of the above reasons, boxing is one of my favourite types of workouts.
High intensity interval training (HIIT) alternates short periods of
intense anaerobic exercise with less intense recovery periods.
Burning 1000 calories in a single HIIT session is not unheard off. Research has shown, with an appropriate weight-loss diet, HIIT regimens significantly reduces body-fat in exercisers. For this reason, HIIT is an exceptional weight-loss tool. HIIT also improves anaerobic fitness and glucose metabolism.
HIIT can be quite intense and should only be attempted by advanced
exercisers.
Bodybuilding is the process of increasing the overall size of a ones skeletal muscles.
Subjecting muscle groups to repetitive and progressive resistance training creates the bases for growth of new and existing muscle fibers.
A higher calorie diet with the correct macro nutrient ratio facilitates the growth of these muscle fibers.
A typical bodybuilding program would have a combination of isolation exercises to target individual muscle groups, and compound exercises to target multiple muscle groups.
Although the lines between strength training and bodybuilding are quite often blurred. Strength training differs from bodybuilding as the former aims to increase the strength of a muscle, but not necessarily the size of the muscle.
Strength training is usually associated with sports such as power lifting but for a different perspective on strength training, think of a sprinter. A sprinter would train to strengthen key sprinting muscles for explosive acceleration whilst keeping the overall size and weight of these muscles to the minimum. Any additional body-weight would slow the sprinter down and thus be deemed counter productive.
A flexibility training program focuses on improving the range of movement in joints by increasing the length of muscles or muscle groups that span these joints, commonly known as “stretching”. Stretching is often overlooked and stretching exercises should be included in most, if not all, exercise programs.
Speed & Agility is the ability to move quickly and easily. Whilst flexibility is essential to achieving agility, a higher muscle to fat ratio is needed for optimum agility.
A person that prioritises speed & agility would not want to carry any additional bodyweight other than what is necessary for peak performance. Think of Parkour and Free-running.
A postpartum training program takes into consideration the physiological and morphological changes of pregnancy. Abdominal muscles may separate during the pregnancy (Diastasis recti). The muscles and ligaments that support the bladder, uterus and bowel are weakened after pregnancy, and the pregnancy hormone, relaxin, and progesterone, can affect joints and ligaments for up to 6 months, post pregnancy.
This increases the risk of injury, therefore postpartum training is closely monitored.
A postpartum training program focuses on proper musculoskeletal recovery, improving core stability, pelvic floor function and posture.
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