Washington Post says The Perfect Workout's "Slow-motion strength training is hard — and fast."

Thanks to The Washington Post for featuring us in an article that helps spread the message about Slow Motion Strength Training and its amazing results associated with this scientifically proven method.

Here are the points from the article:

• The Slow-motion strength training studios feel less like a gym and more like a physical therapist’s office.

• These training studios offer clients more of a personal training in a quiet, no-frills space filled with Nautilus equipment 

• It's a complete workout in just two short sessions per week.

Here’s the drill: 

• A high-intensity, low-impact program known as "slow-motion strength training"

• Gradually lifting and releasing weights without the aid of rest or momentum brings muscles to exhaustion also known as “muscle success”.

• It is extremely difficult but it’s also only a total of 20 minutes per session.

• Though The Perfect Workout, a California-based outfit founded in 1999, is new to the East Coast, the Slow-motion strength training concept isn’t.

• The Perfect Workout system cites principles outlined just over 30 years ago by fitness professional Ken Hutchins. 

• In slowing down movements to safely train women with osteoporosis, Hutchins concluded that the technique builds muscle more effectively than conventional weight training.

• The effectiveness of slow-motion strength training depends on the individual, according to Lee Jordan, a spokesman for the American Council on Exercise, but it offers a broad range of people a safe and viable program.

• Like high-intensity interval training, Jordan says, it seeks to remove the top barrier to exercise: time. 

• Unlike high-intensity interval training (“by its very nature, it’s extreme,” Jordan says), slow-motion strength training is accessible to anyone.

• Practitioners of slow-motion strength training also satisfy their need for cardiovascular activity.

• The key to an exercise routine is sticking to that routine. And The Perfect Workout's clients say this program works.

• Clients love to hate slow-motion strength training but they keep coming back because they get results.

• Slow-motion strength training practitioners often report better body composition plus lower blood sugar and cholesterol.

• Slow-motion strength training may not be sexiest or most trendiest, but it gets the job done quicker and safer.

• Many clients of an advanced age love the safety along with the added bone strength that slow-motion strength training offers.

• Slow-motion training sessions come in several convenient packages. Some packages even help reduce osteoporosis and Type 2 Diabetes. 

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Judy Lost 2 Sizes and 26 Pounds!

Strength training helped Judy, 66, lose 26 pounds and drop from a size 12 down to an 8. She says her clothes fit better, she has more energy, she sleeps better, her shoulder and neck pain is gone, and she has a more muscular, toned body.

When your husband is a foodie and a chef who makes amazing meals, it can be a challenge to stay in good shape, especially at age 66. For Judy Schons, it wasn’t for lack of trying. She did the obligatory one-hour block at her health club, whether that was a spinning class, on the treadmill, or some other aerobic exercise. She got good results, but Judy describes that kind of exercise as being “a rat in a cage,” and thinks exercising inside for an hour is ridiculous and abhorrent for anyone who lives in beautiful San Diego. “I did not look forward to it,” she says. “At 20 minutes I was tired, 30 minutes I was bored silly, and 45 minutes I accepted it and just tried to finish.” Making it to 60 minutes was gratifying but simply took too long.

Suffice it to say, The Perfect Workout’s two workouts per week of only 20 minutes each were a big draw. She also wanted to increase her bone strength and density and change the way she looked. “All my life I’ve had chubby thighs and hips. It ran in my family. I always felt like I wasn’t wearing clothes well. I didn’t look good in pants.”

The slow-motion workouts fit perfectly into Judy’s schedule, and trainer Sarah Speers at the Mission Valley studio made sure she got the most out of every session. “Sarah pushes me to exhaustion, and constantly encourages me. She’s a very interesting person, and the 20 minutes flies by. I wouldn’t do this on my own,” says Judy. The key with slow-motion strength training is the emphasis on working toward “muscle success” on every exercise. That’s the point at which you can’t possibly move the weights even a fraction of an inch further, after doing several repetitions for 10 seconds out and 10 seconds back. If you continue maximally pushing or pulling for a few more seconds, you achieve this deep muscle fatigue, and that’s what brings results. Judy started seeing the effects within weeks. Her pants started fitting better, she had more energy, she slept better, and she lost inches. She also noticed her shoulder and neck pain from sitting at her desk was gone. While gaining muscle everywhere (she leg presses 400 pounds now!), Judy lost 16 pounds while going from a size 12 to an 8.

Judy still had another goal, though – to get into a dress that her husband had gotten her. “I tried it on and it had a lot of lumps and was stretched to the max,” she says. During a recent challenge at The Perfect Workout, she lost another 10 pounds, just in time for her 15th anniversary, where she debuted her new svelte look. “I got a lot of compliments on the dress!” While Judy would like to lose another five pounds or so, the increased strength and new look is paying huge dividends. She’s able to hoist those heavy bags of soil from Home Depot, hits the golf ball a good 30 yards further than the women she plays with, and isn’t huffing and puffing after pushing her cart for four or five hours at The Vineyard or Admiral Baker North. Even better, she’s now wearing whatever she wants – skinny jeans, skirts, sundresses, shorts, and sleeveless tops. Her next objective is to wear a bathing suit on a cruise she and her husband are taking in July from Montreal down to Boston. “I’m delighted! I don’t have the ‘wiggle wobble’ in my arms. I enjoy The Perfect Workout, and I really look forward to going to this gym. I’m very happy with what it’s done for my body.”

The Perfect Workout Mission Valley

2635 Camino Del Rio S #201, 

San Diego, CA 92108, United States

+1 619-757-1001

http://www.theperfectworkout.com/personal-trainer-mission-valley/

Dr. Sol Finkelstein has lost 44 pounds since last August! The other doctors call him “Skinny”!

Dr. Finkelstein (shown far left in August 2013, and on the right in March 2014) has lost six inches off his waist, dropped 44 pounds and put on muscle. He explains, “I have biceps that I never used to, stronger abs, and I leg press over 500 pounds.”

When you practice family medicine at a large medical center in San Diego, you don’t have much time to exercise. A couple years ago Sol Finkelstein wasn’t feeling very healthy. His back hurt, he wasn’t working out, and he realized that he was more overweight than he wanted.

“I was always aerobically active,” says Sol. “I was in a running club during college and medical school, but didn’t incorporate weight training. I flirted with it, but got bored really easily.”

At one point back in the mid-80’s his weight went from 175 all the way to 250, then he lost it and kept it off. Beginning in the early 90’s until a few years ago, it slowly increased each year until he was getting close to his peak weight again.

His accountant had told him about slow-motion strength training, and when Sol saw the ad for The Perfect Workout, he decided to finally do something about it. “It was a combination of things. I liked that it was short, just 20 minutes, and intense. My time is so valuable. I thought I’d give it a try.”

Sol says he felt somewhat better right away. “Even though I was still overweight, I could get up the stairs easier. After two to three months, I started getting stronger. I have biceps that I never used to, stronger abs, and I leg press over 500 pounds.” In spite of the strength gains, however, he hadn’t changed his eating habits, so he wasn’t losing weight. On August 17, 2013, he got serious about that, too. He started walking for an hour at lunch time, and he started keeping very close track of what he ate, without giving up the things he loves. “I never want to go on a diet where I can’t have my two glasses of wine,” he says.

Monitoring his caloric intake, walking daily, and slow-motion strength training produced tremendous results. Since last August Sol has dropped from a 42 to just under a 36-inch waist, and lost 44 pounds, down to a lean 187. His back used to hurt all the time and now it doesn’t at all. He credits his trainers, Keith at Rancho Bernardo, and Justin at Mission Valley, with getting him to this point.

“You couldn’t do it all by yourself,” he says. “You’d get bored, quit, or wouldn’t show up. It’s like walking on a treadmill. After 20 minutes you’re bored. On my own, I’d stop too early. Having a trainer keeps me going. They seem to care, and they really get excited when you do well. The one-on-one aspect is great.” Sol also likes the safety of slow-motion strength training. “As a doctor, I see people overdo it and get hurt. You’re not going to hurt yourself with this.”

After seeing Sol’s great results, his wife joined him at the Mission Valley studio, and she’s gotten stronger and lost weight, too. They noticed it recently on a trip to San Francisco. “My seven-year old granddaughter wanted to race me, so we ran up the stairs. The other grandparents walked up slowly, out of breath.”

Now that Sol is back in shape like his younger days, the other doctors have started calling him “Skinny”! He’s not all the way there yet. He’d like to get down to 180 in the next couple months, just in time for his 64th birthday in July and his retirement on July 31. Sol and his wife both plan to continue at The Perfect Workout. “It’s a quick 20 minutes. It’s not a burden on our schedules. I wouldn’t spend the money if I didn’t think it was worthwhile.”


The Perfect Workout Mission Valley
2635 Camino Del Rio S #201,
San Diego, CA 92108, United States
+1 619-757-1001
http://www.theperfectworkout.com/personal-trainer-mission-valley/

Bill says strength training reversed his aging!

If you challenge Bill Mueller to do something, chances are he’ll take you up on it and stick with it. Fifteen years ago, a friend challenged him to come to Soo Bahk Do, a Korean Martial Art. He’s been doing it twice a week consistently ever since and has reached the third degree black belt level. A year ago Bill found out about slow-motion strength training the same way, from his wife’s friend who was already a client at The Perfect Workout. “I was totally skeptical,” he says. “I had heard about either using big weights to build mass or light weights for definition,” says Bill. “I had never heard of slow-motion strength training, though.” Curious, he tried a free introductory workout at the Mission Valley studio, started feeling better right away, and signed up with personal trainer Mission Valley.

A few years back Bill did weight training and swam at the YMCA. At age 64, he was fit and trim at 145 pounds, but says he didn’t have a lot of muscle mass, and never had a personal trainer before. He was also looking to strengthen his bones since he has a bit of osteopenia, a condition where bone density levels are lower than normal. His hard work with Anna, his trainer, has paid off nicely. In the same way he’s committed to his martial arts, he’s committed to his Monday and Friday strength training workouts, which goes a long way toward getting good results.

Bill’s general sense of well-being has improved, he’s gotten a lot firmer and actually gained weight, and says, “I feel so much more fit now. That’s all the benefit I need.” He went from 145 pounds with little muscle, to 155 pounds with more muscles and strength. If you think it’s because Bill is super-disciplined and a fitness fanatic, think again. Like most of us, he says, “I get lazy easily. On my own, there’s no way I’d squeeze out all the reps that Anna does. She’s pretty low-key but very positive with encouragement. She keeps good track of everything and lets me know I’m making progress as I’m going along. There’s no way in the world that I would ever work this hard without her encouragement and guidance. No one is going to work themselves to total exhaustion by themselves.”

That’s the key to slow-motion strength training – getting to the point of complete muscle exhaustion. It’s a rare person who can achieve that by themselves working out at a regular gym, which is one of the reasons Bill didn’t get these kind of results before. Even more than the physical part, Bill claims that the mental part of The Perfect Workout is the toughest. “The ability to focus is hard as you get tired. Left to my own devices, I’d probably quit three or four reps sooner than I do.”

An administrative law judge, the 20-minute twice-a-week workouts fit into Bill’s schedule well, and he has no plans to stop. “You feel better overall. Just because I’m getting older doesn’t mean I have to decline physically. If I could stay where I’m at as I get older I’d be delighted.”

The Perfect Workout Mission Valley

2635 Camino Del Rio S #201,

San Diego, CA 92108, United States

+1 619-757-1001