Our Exercise Blueprint
Health, fitness, exercise, aging, and functionality are all very studied areas of human nature. Because of this, one might assume that the fitness industry is full of trainers who scour the research looking for guidance from the latest peer-reviewed literature, and never stop learning.
You’d be wrong.
Most things we see being publicised around health and fitness these days have an inherently high risk of injury, are very inefficient, are largely unsustainable, and exist primarily to sell you the next best product.
Here at MedX Precision Fitness, we promote a sustainable approach to your goals that we like to refer to as ‘evidence-based resistance training.’
We call it: Our Exercise Blueprint.
And this is what we mean by that:
EVIDENCE:
Risk of injury, sustainability, progression, and supervision are all things often overlooked when it comes to a proper and productive resistance training regime.
We know that resistance training can help us build muscle, build bone mass, prevent injury, increase our strength, prevent our brain from shrinking, prevent depression, and reverse some signs of aging, but all too often we leave out the details to maximize our chances of getting all of those benefits.
Full body routines, consisting of mainly compound movements, carried out to/close to momentary muscular failure while under the supervision of a trained professional, performed once or twice per week, is the sustainable, evidence-based path towards an increase in functional ability and healthy aging.
This might seem limited at first, but under the supervision of a professional trainer with a solid understanding of biomechanics; this merely becomes a menu from which to operate to ensure your form of progress.
Some studies to support this view:
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ABILITY:
Whilst there are no ‘non-responders’ to resistance training, it is of the utmost importance to take individual ability into consideration when we administer our workouts here at MedX Precision Fitness.
Structural deficiencies, chronic injuries, acute injuries, and any other physiological hindrance must be taken into account during each and every session.
Failure to take ability into consideration results in a higher risk of injury. Once there is a risk of injury associated with a resistance training prescription it should be considered extremely inefficient.
There is no place for injury risk when attempting to make yourself better.
PREFERENCE:
All of the evidence, and ability, considerations mean nothing if you are being constantly forced to do movements/exercises you hate in an order that you don’t find optimal.
Day of the week, time of day, exercise order, and exercise choice are all important factors to look at when considering the sustainability of ones workout regime.
Consistency is the ticket when it comes to long lasting progress. Taking preference into account puts the right foot forward on our path towards a life long relationship with our training.
What we NEED from an exercise prescription over time, and what we find optimal CAN be two different things, but still fall under the evidence-based umbrella. Need and optimization can be two different things without compromising the integrity of an evidence-based mindset. That’s where a knowledgeable trainer like the ones we employ at MedX Precision Fitness is worth their weight in gold.
Live Better, Longer
Here at MedX Precision Fitness we put all of these concepts together each and every time you come to see us, and this ensures the perfect blend of ingredients to drive you towards your goals of being stronger, looking better, performing better, and of simply; living better, longer.
