Although strength training is the foundation to our studio and programming, 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 two Total Body Strength Training workouts:
We have designed the perfect combination of modalities to improve your strength, balance, mobility, 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 Boutique Cardio Fusion session because it promotes: more calorie burn in less time because of intense bursts of efforts with periods of rest and helps burn fat more easily by helping you get into a calorie deficit - assuming your nutrition is in check.
Muscular Endurance Training
Higher repetitions and lighter loads in all planes of motion are scattered throughout our strength and cardio routines using bodyweight, resistance bands, and Bosu balls.
Movement Training
Flexibility and core conditioning such Pilates, functional training, and stretching re scattered throughout our strength and cardio routines.
Yoga
Strength training and yoga make the perfect team! Each practice balances out the other and helps you avoid injury. Strength training helps your yoga posture and keeps proper alignment. Yoga helps to increase your flexibility, making it easier and safer to get a deeper range of motion in your strength moves. Plus you get to work on your breath and a different part of your mind. When yoga and strength training are combined, you get a routine that improves every aspect of your mind, body, and soul.
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 LivFit Boutique Cardio Fusion as well as into our strength training workouts but it is very different to muscular strength.