Posts Tagged ‘metabolic training’

This DVD will teach you how to implement non-traditional cardio training exercises to create a strength, cardiovascular and metabolic training effect simultaneously.
Timed sets, density training, complexes and metabolic “finishers” are included.
This is the method we use to design metabolic training and group classes at Results Fitness, ranked one of America’s Top Ten Gyms by Mens Health magazine.

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Results Fitness Metabolic Training DVD

“What is Metabolic Resistance Training”
By Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS, CTT

What the heck are these metabolic resistance training workouts that everyone keeps talking about for fat loss? Well, you’ve probably heard the term because the internet is buzzing about this type of training for fat burning.

After all, gone are the days of slow cardio for weight loss. Heck, even interval training is starting to get passed over. All in favor of this specific type of workout called metabolic resistance training.

It’s really exciting though, to know that we can build muscle and lose fat at the same time, while getting lean and even having ripped six-pack abs thanks to these short, burst workouts. And you don’t need fancy, expensive equipment. Instead, you can focus on using bodyweight exercises, dumbbells, kettlebell exercises, or even TRX exercises.

Anytime you use supersets or circuits and train with an elevated heart rate and insufficient recovery. You are doing metabolic resistance training. But the metabolic resistance training used by Turbulence Training readers is different.

Thanks to a conversation I had with Alwyn Cosgrove, I’ve modified the heavy metabolic resistance training and also incorporated metabolic resistance conditioning using lighter resistance, and less rest.

In this new Turbulence Training metabolic resistance training workout program, you’ll get 4 workouts, broken down into these two components. Two workouts of heavy metabolic resistance training and two workouts of metabolic conditioning. The heavy workouts are done first, and are followed immediately the next day by the conditioning workouts.

I’ll be writing a lot more about metabolic resistance and conditioning workouts in the future to help you lose fat and gain muscle at the same time. That’s the beauty of the system; not only do the fast-paced, short burst workouts help you burn a ton of calories, but if your goal is muscle building, you can do that too.

Until then, get ready to use a few new exercises and a few training methods we haven’t used before to elevate ” in-workout and after-workout” calorie burning.

It’s all about working your metabolic systems for maximum calorie burning, while only permitting yourself to have incomplete recovery. These are the intense workouts you’ve been looking for. No more slow, boring, monotonous cardio workouts that take forever.
Those days are over.

So be prepared to hear a lot more about MRT and metabolic lifting and conditioning workouts. And again, you aren’t limited to machines or weights. You can do these workouts with almost any equipment, and even with bodyweight exercises only, as my bodyweight cardio circuits have proven.

You’ll have a total blast even doing these types of programs at the park with your TRX and kettlebells and bodyweight. You’ll be so much better off than being stuck in stuffy gym with machines. And make sure to watch my video to find out why MRT might even be better than traditional interval training.

Times are a-changing.

The entire fitness industry is going through a revolution where we move away from bodybuilder and cardio bunny workouts. And that’s a good thing. Doing less cardio and eliminating little isolation exercises, such as crunches, from your routines will help you get results fast.

Get started with the Turbulence Training Metabolic Resistance Training workouts here.

You now have a fun, four-day program that will get you ripped and
give you the body that you deserve.

Train hard but safe with new MRT workouts.

Craig Ballantyne, CSCS, MS

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PS – you can take Craig’s newest Metabolic Resistance Training workouts for a test drive HERE

At the end of the 8 week training period the researchers reported no difference in strength (1RM), peak power, shuttle-run performance and lean mass between the two groups (both groups had the same improvements).

However – only the circuit group lost significant levels of body fat.

The take home message is that circuit training with heavy resistance can provide the same benefits as a traditional strength training program, with the extra addition of fat loss, all in a shorter time frame.

My interpretation: I think if we had the subjects train for the same amount of time (ie a one hour session) – the differences would be even more dramatic. A circuit training group does the same volume in less time than a traditional group, so in the real world where clients could show up for the same amount of time, it only makes sense to recognize that a circuit or superset style of training could allow us to do MORE work than a traditional routine.

I think training with fat loss or general fitness as your goal is probably best accomplished by using reciprocal or non-competing supersets, or in a circuit format to maximize work density. This study shows that it may be as effective even if your goal is improved strength or power.

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One of the most requested things I am asked is “what is your favorite exercise for X?” or “if you could only do one exercise what would it be?”

You asked. We responded with the Results Fitness Exercise Library DVD Set

These are the most commonly used exercises at Results Fitness.

This 2 DVD set contains over 180 exercises with coaching cues, tips, instruction, and explanations for why we use certain exercises.

The exercises are presented in order of difficulty, from the most regressed version of an exercise to the most advanced version.

The most commonly used exercises are recorded and given to you in a easy to understand, technically accurate video that will give you the tools you need to be confident in coaching clients and athletes.

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PS – this will give you an insight into the most used exercises at Results Fitness and allow you to replicate what we do in terms of exercise selection and coaching cues
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Designing Successful Semi-Private Training Programs DVD

Semi-private training is the hottest trend in the fitness business right now. This year for Perform Better I presented on the practicalities of designing programs for these small groups and tips for easy implementation -something that we have considered to have revolutionized at Results Fitness

We go over

• How to integrate assessments – including how we use the Functional Movement Screen at Results Fitness,
• How we select appropriate exercises based on the screen,
• Dynamic warm-up
• Corrective exercise, – how much and what to do
• Core training – the difference between top-down core training and bottom up
• Stabilization training vs Dynamic Stabilization
• Metabolic work – why traditional interval training is dead and rarely used at Results Fitness

The DVD also includes some footage of the hands-on sessions including practical examples of how to put into action the lecture material.

We managed to implement the semi-private system with 100+ participants in a one hour session.

“I’ve never seen a trainer control a room the way Alwyn Cosgrove does. At first glance it just looks like a great workout – but when you’re truly engaged – you see all the subtleties in what he’s doing with the programming”
- Fraser Quelch.
Director of Training and Development
Fitness Anywhere Inc.

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Designing Successful Semi-Private Training Programs

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