Improve Your Health Through Vigorous Exercise

How hard do you workout? 

According to a Harvard Alumni Health study the harder you exercise the greater your health. This study looked at the activity levels of middle aged men from 1977 to 1993 the men who expended 1,000 calories per week through physical activity had about a 20% reduction in heart-disease risk. But, the men who expended 1,000 to 2,000 calories per week in vigorous activity had a 30% lower risk of dying from any cause.

So while moderate and low level physical activity may reduce your chance of heart attack or stroke, turning it up a couple of notches and pushing yourself will reduce your chance of encountering any health related problems and extend your life.

So what is vigorous exercise? 

Golfing? No

Running/Jogging/Walking? No

Gardening? No 

These activities are all fine, but are not considered vigorous. Vigorous activity includes:

Intense weight lifting, such as, the programs we design for you.

Sprinting - 10-15 seconds with 30 seconds to 1 minute of rest, repeated 6x-10x

Jumping Rope

Ropes Gone Wild - the conditioning ropes you all love doing at the end of your workouts

The Leg Matrix - every ones favorite

If you are doing our workouts three times per week you are getting your vigorous exercise and expending between 1500-2000 calories per week. So congrats to you are improving your heart health and lessen your chance of dying from any cause as well as extending your life.

Live Fit,

Josh

P.S. We will be closed on Monday May 25th, 2009 for the Memorial Day Holiday. We will also be changing our Saturday hours starting this Saturday. We will now be open 8a.m. - 2p.m.