What do you want to accomplish? What are your goals? Increased strength to carry out your daily activities? Add 10 yards to your golf drive? Ride your mountain bike 50 miles and enjoy it! Compete in your first triathlon and know that you have the muscular strength to endure the demands of that effort? Increase your bone density without the negative side effects of medications? Take-up 3 notches in your belt? Fat loss? Post-rehab of ‘rotator cuff’ injury? Modulating your insulin/glucogon cycle? Improve your lipid parameter scores?

 

Or how about these? “I’d like to feel better about myself physically!” “I want to get ripped?” “I want to get stronger, but I don’t want to get ripped?” “I’d like to be able to come to a place and simply “work out,” and not have to waste time waiting for a machine to be available.” “I’d like to consider myself as physically competent.” “I’m sick and tired of being seen as weak.” “I want to be strong enough so that I know I won’t ever have to be a victim again?”

 

Or, “I’m sick of wasting money on gym memberships.” “I can never get to the machine I want to work out on.” “I’m embarrassed to be seen by all those young people there.” “The place is just too crowded, with too much noise and a staff who is just so indifferent.” Or, “I don’t have time to work out 5 hours a week.” “I want to get the most out of a workout with the least expenditure of total time.”

 

If you have made any of these comments to yourself or to others, SlowWorks may be the place for you for the simple reason that what happens at SlowWorks is tied directly to what you want. We do NOT have a “one size fits all” protocol” for the simple reason that there is no such protocol.

 

 

Having said that, you should not expect a miracle. There is no “magic bullet.” There is no quick, easy, effortless, “fun filled” way to fitness. Yes, if your goal is to meet all basic requirements of fitness, namely, strength, flexibility and endurance, you can reach them in as little as 30 minutes, one time per week.

 

If your goal is to lose weight (better thought of as “losing excess body fat”), that goal cannot be reached by strength training alone. Signifi-cant body fat loss can be brought about only by the astute manipula-tion of strength training in interaction with any one of a plethora of diet management protocols.

 

If your goal is to develop measurably observable changes in muscular definition and strength, both dietary intake  and strength training variables will need to be systematically varied to bring about your desired outcome.