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Intensity Techniques: Giant Set

posted by Shawn Kephart on July 30, 2010

The last few weeks, I’ve been sharing insights from our training team that clients have found to be successful tips at increasing results in the same amount of time, making workouts way more efficient. Here’s another one:
A Giant Set is a term that describes a process very similar to what is often called circuit training. [...]

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Intensity Technique: Super Sets

posted by Shawn Kephart on July 23, 2010

Our trainers get asked all the time about how clients can achieve better results in a more time-efficient way to fit people’s lifestyles.
Here’s another tip that’ll make a huge difference: It’s another Intensity Technique you may have heard of, called a Super Set. A super set is taking 2 or 3 exercises and doing them [...]

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Intensity Technique: Rest/Pause

posted by Shawn Kephart on July 16, 2010

Our trainers get a lot of questions that boil down to a common goal: Better workouts, better results, in a more time-efficient way to fit people’s lifestyles. That means that sometimes we feel we can’t get resistance/weight training AND cardio workouts in and still manage to balance work, family and everything else.
Here’s a great tip: [...]

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Intensity Technique: Decrease Rest Time In-Between Sets

posted by Shawn Kephart on July 9, 2010

To make fitness livable long term, we have to balance consistency with a dose of reality, making sure it works into a manageable lifestyle. I tell people constantly there are 168 hours in a week, and if you can give yourself—and me or one of our trainers—3 or 4 of those, we can get you [...]

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Cardio: Why so (in)tense?

posted by Shawn Kephart on July 2, 2010

This high-intensity cardio group class craze has been spreading around the fitness world lately. High Intensity Cardio is also known as HIT Cardio. A lot of people ask me about the benefits and drawbacks of HIT cardio compared to your traditional long sustained cardio, so here’s some perspective.
Whether it’s hiring a personal trainer or simply [...]

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