OUR STRENGTH AND CONDITIONING METHOD
In our strength and conditioning sessions, we focus on you as an individual in a private, personal setting. We’ll help enhance your health by focusing on
- Oxygen Levels
- Thoracic Pressure
- Hip Flexors
- Musculatory System
- Cardio / Respiratory Health
We’ll also teach you some anatomy and physiology so you that you know how your body works.
Contact us today to share your goals, ask questions of our team, and schedule your free consultation and session. Call us at 804-244-3006 or complete the contact form.
BENEFITS OF STRENGTH TRAINING
Strength training builds the strength, anaerobic endurance, and size of the skeletal muscles by using resistance to induce muscular contraction. For instance, by lifting a weight. In this case, the weight resists the pull of the arm muscles due to gravity. Necessarily, the arm muscles contract more and more (to a higher intensity) until the resistance due to gravity is overcome. By pushing the muscle to overcome great resistance, a certain threshold is reached. This is called the overload threshold, at which point the muscles actually become larger and stronger.
When properly performed, strength training can significantly improve overall health. The potential benefits include increased bone density, muscle, tendon, and ligament strength, improved joint functionality, improved cardiac function and increased metabolism.
The basic principle of strength training involves the overloading of a specific group of muscles by changing the number of repetitions in a set, the tempo, the length of resting time between sets, the specific exercises, and the weight involved.
Due to the weights and the degree of muscle contraction involved, it is especially important to adopt good form with strength and conditioning training. Otherwise, you risk incurring a potentially serious injury during training. Additionally, failure to maintain good form can actually have a deleterious effect on results, since the incorrect muscle or muscle group might be engaged instead of the intended one.
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BENEFITS OF CONDITIONING
Conditioning training is a form of aerobic exercise to train the heart and lungs to pump blood and circulate oxygen through muscles and organs with greater efficiency. Typically, this involves the use of continuous, repetitive movement of whole muscle groups at once. Examples of this type of exercise include running, swimming and cycling. A healthier heart is more efficient at pumping blood, which does not mean that it beats faster; in fact, healthy hearts will beat more slowly. A healthy heart has a greater stroke volume (how much blood the heart pumps per beat). Conditioning training also increases the diameter of blood vessels, which allows more blood to move through the body. Oxygen is carried more efficiently to muscles, which improves their performance.
Cardiovascular health is very important to overall fitness. All athletes undertake conditioning training regardless of their sports because it forms the basis for almost all physical activity. Conditioning training also helps lower the risk of heart disease.
Contact us today to share your goals, ask questions of our team, and schedule your free consultation and session. Call us at 804-244-3006 or complete the contact form.