What The Perfect Workout Can Do For You
Our unique exercise approach can add to your life in a number of ways. Studies show that The Perfect Workout’s special slow-motion strength training produces approximately 50% more improvement than regular weight training.1,2 And it takes just 20 minutes, twice a week to produce such fantastic results.
Remodel and Reshape Your Body
Adults who don’t strength train lose an average of a half pound of lean muscle tissue each year starting at age 25. 3,4 As an example, a typical 55-year-old woman will have 15 pounds less lean muscle (and significantly more fat) than what she had at age 25. Muscle takes up less space than fat, so this typical 55-year-old woman has arms and thighs that are softer and less firm, wears a larger clothing size, and has a slower metabolism that burns fewer calories each day.5
Effective strength training reverses this decline. It increases your body’s metabolism, causing you to burn more fat and calories all day long, even while sleeping. Strength training reshapes and tones your legs and arms. And if you follow an effective nutrition plan at the same time, your faster metabolism will help give you a smaller waist, slimmer thighs, and reduced hips. Adding muscle and losing fat will make your body firmer, smaller, and more shapely.
Greater Health
Slow-motion strength training not only improves your appearance, but your health too. Effective strength training can:
» Increase Bone Density 7 (we have clients who have reversed their osteoporosis)
» Improve Cholesterol Levels 8,9,10 (some slow-motion strength training subjects double their “good” HDL cholesterol)
» Lower Blood Pressure 11,12
» Reduce Low Back Pain 13
More Fun
By getting stronger, you’ll experience less effort in your everyday activities (like carrying groceries or walking up the stairs), as well as greater prowess and enjoyment at anything you do for fun (like golfing, skiing, or playing with your kids or grandkids).
Overall, you’ll gain energy and self confidence. And you’ll be “in and out” in no time – all it takes is 20 minutes, twice a week.
- Wayne L. Westcott, Ph.D. (and others) Effects of Regular and Slow Speed Resistance Training on Muscle Strength, Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, 2001, Vol 41, Iss 2. Pp 154-158
- The Nautilus Book, Ellington Darden, Ph.D., Copyright 1990 Contemporary Books, Chicago, IL, P. 85
- Evans, W. and Rosenberg, I. (1992) Biomarkers, New York: Simon and Schuster.
- Forbes, G. B. (1976). “The adult decline in lean body mass,” Human Biology, 48: 161-73
- Keyes, A., Taylor, H.L. and Grande, F. (1973). “Basal Metabolism and Age of Adult Man,” Metabolism, 22: 579-87
- Campbell, W.,Crim, M., Young,V. and Evans,W. (1994). Increased energy requirements and changes in body composition with resistance training in older adults. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 60: 167-175
- Menkes, A., Mazel, S., Redmond, R. et al. (1993). Strength training increases regional bone mineral density and bone remodeling in middle-aged and older men. Journal of Applied Physiology, 74: 2478-2484
- Stone, M., Blessing, D., Byrd, R., et al. (1982). Physiological effects of a short term resistive training program on middle-aged untrained men. National Strength and Conditioning Association Journal, 4: 16-20
- Hurley, B., Hagberg, J., Goldberg, A., et al. (1988). Resistance training can reduce coronary risk factors without altering VO2 max or percent body fat. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 20: 150-154
- Hurley, B. (1994). Does strength training improve health status? Strength and Conditioning Journal, 16: 7-13
- Harris, K. and Holly R. (1987). Physiological response to circuit weight training in borderline hypertensive subjects. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 19: 246-252
- Westcott, W. and Guy, J. (1996). A physical evolution. Sedentary adults see marked improvements in as little as two days a week. IDEA Today, 14 (9): 58-65
- Risch, S., Nowell, N. Pollock, M., et al. (1993). Lumbar strengthening in chronic low back pain patients. Spine, 18: 232-238