Benefits of Gaining & Maintaining Lean Muscle Mass
Research has consistently shown that adults lose approximately six pounds of muscle every decade!
We choose to emphasize strength training in our programs so that our clients can maintain a strong musculoskeletal system now and in the years to come.
We offer specialty packages that combine modalities to create a comprehensive approach that supports longevity and promotes graceful aging.
Benefits of Gaining & Maintaining Lean Muscle Mass
In addition to the cosmetic benefits of strength training below are more reasons to strength train:
Increase & Maintain Physical Capacity to Perform Daily Living Skills
Since muscles are where our power is produced and where movement originates, it only makes sense to do what we can to maintain our muscular strength.
Prevent Muscle Loss
Research has proven that adults lose approximately six pounds of lean tissue, mostly muscle, every decade of life.
Promotes Fat Free Body Mass
Increased lean muscle mass = higher metabolic rate = more calories burned. While you'll most likely burn more calories during cardiovascular exercise, weight training will keep that slow burn going for up to 36 hours post workout, leading to a larger and more sustained calorie burn.
Increase Caloric Burn
When we lose muscle our resting metabolic rate automatically decreases. Resting metabolic rate accounts for about 70% of the calories that we burn every day at rest. When our metabolism slows down, the calories that used to be used 24 hours a day to keep our muscles functioning now go into fat storage. It is so important to maintain or rebuild muscle so that they can reduce fat and keep it off.
Decrease Risk of Injury
Strength training improves the strength of muscles, tendons ligaments and bones. This helps hold the body in proper alignment and protects the bones and joints when moving or under impact.
Prevents a Number of Other Health Issues
Muscles produce hormone-like substances called myokines that play an important role in keeping many organs and processes within the body working optimally. When we lose muscle, we’re losing one of our major factors for positively influencing our physiological health and well-being.
Improve Bone Density
When we lose muscle, we lose bone. When we lose muscle, we automatically also lose proteins for our bones which leads to osteoporosis.
Decrease Risk of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
Muscles are the largest storehouse of glycogen or sugar in the body. When we lose muscle, we have a much higher risk of high blood sugar and diabetes, leading to cardiovascular issues.
We work with intentionally varied modalities to keep your workouts safe and exciting!
Bodies are complex & dynamic. Fitness should be balanced too!
To supplement and complement your Total Body Strength Training workouts:
We have designed the perfect combination of modalities to improves your strength, balance, mobility, flexibity and cardiovascular conditioning,
Cardiovascular Exercise
We use a unique blend of HIIT (high-intensity interval training) & aerobic exercise that gets you moving in every plane of motion. HIIT is incorporated into every LivFit Cardio Fusion class because it promotes: more calorie burn in less time because of intense bursts of effort with periods of rest and helps burn fat more easily by helping you get into a calorie deficit - assuming your nutrition is in check.
Yoga
Improves flexibility and mobility, helps perform strength training exercises more effectively for maximum benefit, helps you get back to your strength workouts sooner with less soreness, improves stress relief and calmness, helps gain new perspectives to improve day-to-day living, and helps achieve optimal mind-body balance.
Strength Training vs. Endurance Training
Strength Training
To maximize strength you need to be within the anaerobic energy system. Muscles respond to time under tension. So, just the opposite of the aerobic and endurance activities, to train muscles and muscle function, to build muscle and to increase bone density, you need to fatigue the target muscles within the anaerobic energy system by using a weight heavy enough that it fatigues the muscle somewhere between 30 - 90 seconds.
Endurance Training
Programs such as Barre and Body Pump- don’t emphasize muscle strength but rather more muscle endurance. While performing the same exercise for over one and half minutes you may get great muscle definition. But what you are building is mostly muscular endurance. Muscular endurance can be a very effective musculoskeletal conditioner so we add this style into our weekly Cardio Fusion and yoga classes as well as sneak it into our strength training workouts. Endurance is very different than building muscular strength.