BenchFit FITT Dial:Intermediate Level

Weight lifting workouts can be dialed in from beginning to advanced depending upon your age, experience with weights, and whether or not you have a current baseline of fitness.The most common problem is that people lift too much too fast, and burn out. Younger exercisers, particularly men, go for the maximum they can lift, and often suffer the consequences of muscle and joint strains. So, are you ready for light toning, stepping in as a beginner, or, basic strengthening, or already at an advanced level,ready to build strength and power? The science of strength training consists of a framework for obtaining the optimum “dose”of exercise, and can be outlined as a FITT formula. FITT stands for frequency, intensity, time, and type of exercise;

FITT Dial:Intermediate Level

An intermediate level exerciser has established a baseline of weight lifting and can hold good alignment and control during machine or free weight workouts, and the following is a sample intermediate level FITT Formula, for Strengthening

BenchFit Solution:Fitness and Time

Feeling time challenged? If not, you are on a vacation somewhere in a southern climate not undergoing a hurricane or tsunami !

Want to tighten up your body, and need a solution? If you are age 30 or older, your body is losing ten percent or more of strength , per decade. And you can’t just pop open a can of spinach and scarf it and buff up like Popeye, instantly.Fitting in “healthy exercise”, by working out with the optimum amount of weight, at the proper “dose”, can begin at only thirty minutes, twice a week. True!

You have to visualize yourself as you want to be, and engage.
Want results? Follow a progressive program guide for strengthening, from beginner to advanced levels. Note FITT Formulas posted under BenchFit workout topics, dial in your level, and expect gradual, empowering results.

The BenchFit DVDs and BenchFit Workout Book guide you through the exact alignment, with attention to energizing breath control and deep postural, core muscle bracing. A “feel-good” response to engaging in a safe but challenging workout will help you to seek return visits to the program: Positive reinforcement!

Beginners need to learn the precision motions for a safe, body balanced program. Intermediate to advanced exercisers can master a flowing, free weight workout with discipline and personal training formatting . BenchFit blends Pilates and progressive core control challenges. It was developed to provide an essential twenty to thirty minute program for the time stressed , and will produce vital bone strengthening, weight management, and functional fitness power for lifting, pushing, pulling, and overall feeling empowered. No Nonsense, optimum form, and including upper body, spine, core, and lower body movements.

Do you have a mini-workout that you get a kick out of? If so, was it created by you, or learned from a class, book or DVD? Let us know, and if it is adaptable to a workout Bench, we could post your picture on www.BenchFit.com, and you will help motivate and challenge others.

Thanks, Maureen

BenchFit FITT Formulas: The Turtle Track for Beginners

Working out without a plan is like a trip without a map, it can be carefree and fun,but also full of unexpected detours and roadblocks. FITT Formulas are guides,with entry points, keys to advance, and levels of challenge.

Working out smart involves progressive programming, and if you are old enough to read this, you have probably suffered minor or major damage at some point in your life from macho madness. The sad thing about really overdoing it with a workout can be a permanent avoidance of exercise, due to pain, fear, and loss of function. All too often our early P.E. experience can be tortuous, unless you are the lucky, gifted athlete who excelled through-out gym class.

FITT Formulas

F: Frequency: Times per week

I: Intensity: Determined by amount of weight lifted, and repetitions, and sets

T: Time: Total time for the Workout

T: Type of Exercise , such as strengthening with free weights