by 24fit | Jan 20, 2014 | Injury Prevention, Periodization Training
Question: The longer or more often you train, the better results you will get.
Truth: If you train too long, or too often, you will burn out and will overtrain. It’s about quality not quantity of training.
The 24 Fit DVDs are based on the science of periodization training.
This approach solves the training puzzle of balancing hard work and smart recovery, allowing fitness adaptations and a “hardened” body able to sustain all the hard work and recovery, peaking your metabolic fitness.
Benefits of Periodization Training
Exploits the body’s powerful hormone response to the stress of new exercise stimulus.
Avoids mental and physical burnout and over-training by constantly varying workout stimulus, and providing rest periods for recovery.
Protects the body from injury as it brings fitness to a peak.
by 24fit | Oct 8, 2013 | Injury Prevention, Periodization Training, Strength Training
If you want to keep jumping into every fad fitness workout that comes along and don’t care about losing large chunks of time (and your hard earned fitness) to nagging injuries and burnout, then keep following the fads. But if you want to get lean and fit and stay fit, stop getting injured, and maybe train for a specific event, your run-of-the-mill haphazard training won’t cut it. To kick your fitness up several notches and keep it there year round, you have to train in a way that is good for your body, building it up methodically while limiting the potential for disruptive injuries.
To do that, you need a strategy that is almost bipolar in that it combines workouts that progress your fitness with rest days and rest weeks. Over the weeks and months, this hard/easy training schedule is the paradigm that gives your body time to recover and get stronger, more flexible and leaner.
Sequence is key. The science shows that you have to properly sequence your training to develop one aspect of fitness at a time and then use that as a foundation to build the next. In fact, to achieve your best fitness levels you must be incredibly patient. You will spend a long time building a broad base of aerobic infrastructure and musculoskeletal resiliency before adding more intense workouts. This strategy is virtually foolproof, used by the world’s best athletes in every sport, and it’ll work for you if you have the discipline to follow it.
It’s called Periodization.
The foundation of all modern sports training, Periodization was developed in the Eastern Bloc countries during the cold war in an attempt to dominate the world of sport. It proved so effective that now athletes all over the world, and across all sports, use it routinely to achieve the highest levels of fitness while avoiding burnout and injury. The reason this approach to fitness is so effective and has replaced of all other approaches is because it is on based research showing how the body best responds to exercise. It’s all about human adaptation and it provides predictable outcomes when exercise is orchestrated in a scientifically rational sequence.
Basically, the Periodization model builds your fitness up with a stair step series of methodical, progressive challenges and recoveries that strengthen your body and keep brain and brawn fresh.
Check out the 13 DVDs used in the 24 Fit Workout, which incorporate Periodization Training methods.
by 24fit | Oct 12, 2012 | Injury Prevention, Sports
In this radio interview Warren Olney asks Robert Forster about Kevlar Training the athletes! Robert is in London for the Olympics at the time of the interview. The relevant section starts 3mins into the interview. He talks about infrstraucture building for the human body, toughening the joints, creating stability at every joint, what they call Kevlar Training so it makes the athletes bullet proof, so they dont breakdown on the track.
Robert Forster of Santa Monica is a physical therapist on Bob Kersee’s team who’s been to five Olympiads. One of his athletes, Dawn Harper, won a silver medal in the 100 meter hurdles on Tuesday and Allyson Felix won gold in the 200-meter sprint.
Robert Forster, CEO & Founder of Phase IV and Forster Physical Therapy has teamed with Herbalife to create a fitness program using the very science that has made Robert so successful. His 30 years experience are now available on a set 0f 12 DVDS called 24Fit.
