With slow burn workouts your muscles become more metabolically efficient, they utilize oxygen more efficiently. Do you really think your heart needs to work any harder? In fact, overwork of the heart can cause a disease cardiologists call “exercise-induced cardiac hypertrophy”.Ī slow burn builds all your muscles far more efficiently than aerobics, without stressing your heart. Your heart already contracts about a 100,000 beats a day. Fitness gains actually come from increased peripheral muscle mass and the resultant increased metabolic efficiency. Regular exercise stimulates new cells to be made in the area of the brain that are important for memory and learning Fitness without stressing your heart and lungs Small group slow burn workout at Muscles in Motion in Lake Oswego, ORĪlmost all the benefits from aerobic exercise do not come from exercising your heart and lungs. Once your muscle fails, you move on to the next muscle group. By completely exhausting these fibers, muscle growth factors are released, building muscle. Each rep takes 15-20 seconds and are performed to total failure of the muscle. When doing the slow burn, you perform very slow motion repetitions until complete exhaustion (burn) of all three types of muscle fibers occurs. DelGarbino went on to say studies have shown that men and women following a slow-motion strength training regimen achieve 50% to 100% faster strength gains than those following a traditional weight training program. Slow motion weight training builds muscle mass and fitness faster than any other method. Every exercise is carefully monitored and recorded so that strength gains are measurable. She pointed out that at Muscles In Motion, we see our clients getting stronger on a daily basis. I spoke with Diana Del Garbino, founder of Muscles in Motion, a Lake Oswego studio that specializes in Slow Burn exercise, about what makes her program effective. Studies show that regular exercise is associated with the ability of our genes to repair themselves and to turn back the clock on biological age Do the Slow Burn This can leave lots of time for the other activities you love: Yoga anyone? Kitesurfing?
THE SLOW BURN FREE
Now that we know that exercise can turn back your body’s clock, how do you work it into your busy life? I have learned that by exercising with the slow burn method, I can build muscle mass, gain the cardiovascular fitness I need for other sports, and stay free of nagging injuries, just by resistance training for 30 minutes twice a week. That’s right, fitness confers a 50%-70% reduction in the risk of dying from any cause! Can you spare 30 minutes twice a week? In fact, researchers with the Veterans Affairs recently completed a study of 15,860 men, and found that after 7 ½ years, those who were “highly fit” had an all-cause 50% reduction in mortality, and “very highly fit” men had a 70% reduced all-cause mortality when compared to men of “low fitness”. Of all the lifestyle factors affecting longevity, exercise continues to lead the pack.
Noel Peterson, Oregon Regenerative Medicine Medical Director
How can 30 minutes of exercise twice a week turn back your genetic clock, make new brain cells, save your heart, and prevent osteoarthritis?ĭr.