GS Fitness Bootcamp Aylesbury
Strength Training
Why is Strength Training right for you?
At GS Fitness we specialise in strength training, We use a wide variety of free weight and resistance equipment and a wide variety of exercises to improve your strength and fitness. Your personal trainer will design a progresive personal training plan that is built around your personal goals. Strength training truly is for everyone, daily activities are easier when you are stronger and more flexible.
Strength Training Benefits
- Strength training or resistance training involves the performance of physical exercises which are designed to improve strength and endurance. It is often associated with the use of weights. It can also incorporate a variety of training techniques such as weight training calisthenics , isometrics, and plyometrics.
- Improves your ability to do everyday activities: The stronger your muscles, the easier it is to do everyday tasks, like carrying the shopping, lifting your child or gardening.
- Improves your balance and stability: The stronger and more resilient your muscles, the sturdier your balance. This will help keep you safe in your daily activities and decreases the risk of falls or accidents.
- Builds muscle strength: Adults lose between five and seven pounds of muscle every decade after age 40. Strength training will help prevent this muscle loss and rebuild what you may have lost. Regular strength or resistance training is good for people of all ages and fitness levels to help prevent the natural loss of lean muscle mass that comes with aging (the medical term for this loss is sarcopenia).
- Decreases your risk of osteoporosis: Inactivity and aging can lead to a decrease in bone density, leading to brittleness. Studies have shown that consistent strength training can increase bone density, prevent, and may reverse osteoporosis.
- Reduces blood pressure: Strength training can be beneficial for the prevention and treatment of high blood pressure by strengthening the heart, allowing it to beat more efficiently.
- Increases calorie burn: Strength training can help you to take control of your weight and even lose weight. Muscle weighs more than fat. But muscle increases your metabolism, and a higher metabolism helps you burn more calories.
- Reduces low back pain: Research has shown that strength training can increase low back strength and alleviate low back pain. By strengthening the muscles that have become inactive and stretching the muscles that are overactive from long periods of sitting at a desk your posture will help solve your lower back issues.
- Strength Training for runners can be particularly beneficial, helping to reduce injury, and pain when running.
Pre and Post Natal Exercise
Strength training isn't just for professional athletes and competitive bodybuilders – mums-to-be can reap its benefits too. But like other good forms of exercise during pregnancy it’s important that you know how to do it safely.
At GS Fitness our qualified Personal Trainer will design a personalised program that will develop as your pregnancy progresses. Your Personal Trainer is Level 3 Pre and Post Natal Exercise qualified, and a women’s exercise specialist.
Pre and Post-Natal strength-training is a great way to strengthen your abdominal and back muscles, increase your stamina for labor and delivery, and help prevent post-natal conditions such as diastasis recti and weak pelvic floor.
Your PT will ensure that your program follows correct strength training guidance for pregnant women. As your body changes through each trimester, so will your strength training routine.
The benefits of exercise for pregnant women include:
- Strengthening your abdominal and back muscles, helping prevent the lower back pain that's common during pregnancy.
- Building stamina, beneficial during labor and delivery.
- Keeping pregnancy weight gain within a healthy range for your body.
- Lowering the risk of preeclampsia.
- Lowering the risk of Diastasis Recti (separation of the abdominal muscles) and strengthening your pelvic floor.
- Improving your mood and self esteem, potentially helping to manage changes in mood and pregnancy stress.
- Lowering the risk of gestational diabetes. (One study has suggested that strength training can reduce the need for insulin therapy).
- Shorter labor and lowering the chance of a c-section delivery, and helping post-natal recovery.
You may not be the only one seeing benefits: Research shows that strength training may help your baby’s foetal development. One long-term study showed that children born to women who lifted weights three to five times per week during pregnancy had more lean body mass and were longer than children born to women who didn’t lift weights.
Before starting a strength training program with GS Fitness we recommend that you discuss this with your GP or healthcare professional. Once you have been cleared to commence training your PT will invite you to a consultation at our studio in Aylesbury to discuss your personal requirements. This will include assessing your posture and mobility so that your strength training program is as effective as possible.
Weight Loss & Nutrition
Sustainable, Lasting weight loss
If losing weight is your goal GS Fitness will give you the basic nutritional knowledge so that you can achieve lasting sustainable weight loss.
A personalised nutrition plan is included when you commit to a block of Personal training sessions.
After an initial assessment you will be given a nutrition plan tailored to your requirements a booklet explaining the fundamental principles of nutrition and fat loss, including food diaries and progress charts.
Our method will help you change your body composition by reducing fat whilst retaining muscle and becoming stronger and leaner.
All of this is included when you are a GS Fitness customer:
- Tailored nutritional plan
- Personal Macronutrients calculations
- Weekly weigh in and body composition measurements
- Weight loss booklet with recipes and food diary
Contact us now to start your journey.
Learn to lift
Knowing what to do in the gym can be daunting. Our four session Learn to Lift plan will teach you the fundamentals of strength training, giving you the knowledge to train safely and effectively.
Our four session program will teach you :
- How to use a variety of free weight equipment including Barbells, Dumbbells and Kettlebells.
- How to safely and effectively perform exercises such as the Deadlift and Back squat.
- How many sets and reps to use to achieve your goals.
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