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Balham and Wandsworth outdoor exercise

 

The latest trend in the fitness industry is outdoor exercise such as PeakXVfitness

Balham and Wandsworth outdoor exercise. These camps are popping up in

every park in every city in the UK. Balham and Wandsworth outdoor exercise

offers you a great alternative to the plush health clubs and their joining fees,

expensive monthly payments, 1 year tie in contracts and aggressive 3 months

cancellation notice periods.  You see, when you join a gym you may be getting

classes, the latest gym equipment, towels and soap in the showers, but that is it.

You are paying to walk through the door and use the facilities – nothing more.

If you want any further expertise such as a personal trainer then you have to pay

more money. Nor do you get any nutrition advice (although many unqualified and

poorly regulated personal trainers will claim that they provide nutrition advice),

nor will you get any regular goal assessment and monitoring, motivation or

accountability. You are basically left to your own devices to use the gym as the

club’s sales team peruse the elusive targets of securing more sales and generating

more members.

 

We also know for a fact that over 80% of gym members don’t get the result they’ve

signed up for and the health club industry knows this too. What’s also astonishing

is that 50% of a gym’s membership base is inactive at any one time! That means

these people are paying for nothing. So it’s no wonder why people are leaving the

gyms in droves and looking for better, more reliable and financially more viable

options.

 

So if you are looking for great workouts that produce results in a fun and sociable

environment then Balham and Wandsworth outdoor exercise might be for you.

There are many different types of outdoor exercise groups on the market; military

style camps where the instructors shout and run you in to the ground, camps that

specialise in kettle bell training, boxing camps, running camps or even women only

camps. So why not find a camp that can provide all of these types of specialities?

 

Also why not find a camp that prides itself on having expert staff, such as leading

personal trainers, registered nutritional therapists and chartered physiotherapists

who can assure that you get the safest, most effective workout, the most reliable

and scientifically accurate nutrition advice and support you to reach your health

and fitness goals?

 

However, before you sign up to one of these camps do your homework – ask your

self – who runs the camp you want to join? What are their qualifications? You need

to make sure your bootcamp organisers are the real deal; qualified, insured and

most of all – produce results. If your bootcamp organisers can’t provide social

proof and testimonials that they produce results – look elsewhere.

 

To get results you need to train hard and you need to train often. On a quality

camp like PeakXVfitness Balham and Wandsworth outdoor exercise group

you’re guaranteed both. You should be able to attend “CAMP” anywhere from 2-4

times a week with motivated instructors who will push you to the limits of your

current levels of fitness. Research shows that simply training 4 times a week can

produce far greater results than training 3 times a week – a fact many gyms and gym

goers don’t know. Also the type of exercise you do can cause dramatic results.

Consider this – walk in to any gym and walk over the cardio equipment where there

will inevitable be a group of people plodding along on a treadmill or bike watching

the TV doing steady state cardio, look at their body shape. These people are often

the most out of shape both in physique and fitness. There may be a rare bread on

the cardio equipment who are beasting themselves doing interval training, which

is much more effective for fat loss than steady state cardio.

 

Then walk over to the weight section and you will see people working hard pumping

the weights and dripping with sweat. Take a look at their body shape, these people

will often have a much better physique. That is because resistance training (be it

body weight or with things like dumbbells and kettle bells) are essential for fat loss.

 

On a quality camp like PeakXVfitness Balham and Wandsworth outdoor exercise

group there is no steady state cardio and obviously no TV to watch, just hard work

doing interval training such as repeated runs and sprints. Then there are resistance

circuits using body weight, kettle bells, resistance bands and medicine balls to

sculpt and tone those muscles. Throw in some boxing and you are sure to get a

great workout every time.

 

Why choose PeakXVfitness Balham and

Wandsworth outdoor exercise?

 

With over 30 years combined experience in the Health and Fitness industry, you

can be sure the Peak XV Fitness team know what they are talking about.

 

Our programme GUARANTEES that you will:

• Tone your thighs
• Lose at least half a stone
• Flatten your tummy
• Slim down your hips
• Firm up your butt
• Feel sexy and confident

 

Our bootcamps are outdoors and run in all weathers. We are open to all ages and all

abilities.

 

 

 

Wandsworth Common outdoor fitness

 

PeakXVfitness run Wandsworth Common outdoor fitness for groups of women

wanting to lose weight and tone up.

 

At PeakXVfitness we often get asked about the best way to exercise to lose weight.

We get some raised eyebrows from the answer we give as it’s not the normal

perception of what people think they need to do.

 

You see the concept of calories in versus calories out still seems to predominate in

the diet and exercise circles. When you think about calories out – it’s all about the

calories you can burn while doing steady state cardio. Many gym goers and personal

trainers will tell you that there is an optimum “fat burning zone” which is roughly

65% of you maximum heart rate, which is the zone where your body uses fat as a

fuel most efficiently. If you exercise for as long as you can in this zone such as

running on a treadmill for an hour you will burn more fat.

 

However at PeakXVfitness Wandsworth Common outdoor fitness classes

we DON’T DO THIS!. This theory is flawed. Yes it will work for a while if you are very

overweight or haven’t exercised in a long time – sure you are going to burn some fat.

But your body is a highly tuned machine and it will adapt to that imposed demand

quite quickly (in as little as 3-8 weeks) after which you will start to see diminishing

returns.

 

This is the point at which you plateau and need to change your programme. I’m sure

you’ve all either experienced this or seen it first hand in the gym. Just look at the

people plodding along on the treadmill or on the bike in their “fat burning zone”,

are they all lean and ripped? Probably not!

A much better way to go about doing “cardio” to optimise weight loss and a tactic

we employ at PeakXVfitness Wandsworth Common outdoor fitness groups

for women wanting to lose weight and tone up is to do high intensity interval

training, otherwise known as HIIT.

 

This is where you do period of very high intensity work, such as 20-60 seconds of

all out maximal effort running or sprinting or whatever else you like, interspersed

with periods of rest of between 30-120 seconds. These types of workouts have been

proven to be much better for weight loss and muscle gain compared to steady state

cardio and they can be completed in as little as 15-20 minutes. In fact one protocol

called Tabata training can be done in 4 minutes. We do this quite often on out

bootcamps on Wandsworth Common and it is really effective for getting your

heart rate up, getting you out of breath and burning fat.

 

Here are some examples:

 

Wandsworth Common outdoor fitness lactate intervals

 

Set up a 20-30 metre track with cones which you can run between.

30 seconds on (maximal speed shuttle running between the cones)

50-60 seconds off (active rest – walk / stay on your feet)

 

Repeat this 6-10 times. As you get fitter start to reduce the rest periods down to

30-40 seconds. Do this for a maximum of 4-6 weeks, after that you’ll need to change

something to continue to adapt and either lose weight or gain muscle such as using

Tabata (described below) or doing some aerobic intervals (longer working time

60-70 seconds on 60-70 seconds off). The secret to effective weight lose with type

of exercise is to change things up every few weeks, shock your body in to adapting

and burning more fat.

 

Wandsworth Common outdoor fitness Tabata circuit

 

Kettle bell swing or skipping, do an all out maximal effort for 20 seconds, then rest

for 10 seconds. Repeat this 8 times. In just 4 minutes you’ll be green and ready to

crawl home.

 

This type of training raises you EPOC above and beyond what any steady state cardio

can do in your “fat burning zone”. Without getting too technical all this means is

that it raises your metabolism for hours after you have finished training, whereas

the steady state cardio may only raise your metabolism for a little while. Now this

isn’t an excuse to eat more crap food, but if you eat well AND you have a raised

metabolism from HIIT, voilà you have great fat loss results.

 

 

Does the thought of outdoor group personal training in South West London appeal

to you?

 

Many people going to the gym either find it boring or don’t get any results. Unless you

hire a personal trainer which can be very expensive the chances are you won’t really

know what to in the gym do to make your workouts fun and effective.

 

The other problem with joining a gym is the joining fees, expensive monthly payments,

one year contracts and aggressive 3 month cancellation policy.  You see, when you join

a gym you may be getting classes, the latest gym equipment, towels and soap in the

showers, but that is it. You are paying to walk through the door and use the facilities –

nothing more. If you want any further expertise such as a personal trainer then you have

to pay more money, sometimes up to £50 an hour!

 

Nor do you get any nutrition advice (although many unqualified and unregulated personal

trainers will claim that they provide nutrition advice), nor will you get any regular goal

assessment and monitoring, motivation or accountability. You are basically left to your

own devices to use the gym as the club’s sales team peruse the elusive targets of

securing more sales and generating more members.

 

We also know for a fact that over 80% of gym members don’t get the result they’ve

signed up for and the health club industry knows this too. What’s also astonishing is

that 50% of a gym’s membership base is inactive at any one time! That means these

people are paying for nothing. So it’s no wonder why people are leaving the gyms in

droves and looking for better, more reliable and financially more viable options.

So what is the answer?  If you are looking for great workouts that produce results in a

fun and sociable environment then outdoor group personal training in Balham South

West London might be for you.

 

Secrets that the gym goers don’t know

 

Manipulating hormones during exercise is one of the key elements to successful fat loss.

Research has shown that doing resistance training, particularly when performed in a

circuit as performed on an outdoor group personal training On Wandswoth Common

in South West London, increases certain hormones such as testosterone, cortisol and

growth hormone. The goal with this type of weight training circuit is to produce as much

lactate as possible in the working muscles. When lactate builds up in your muscles you

get that burning sensation as they quiver under the strain of hard exercise.

 

Lactate production is directly correlated to growth hormone production – so training hard

to produce as much lactate as possible is a great way to burn fat. Here’s how it works.

Lactate is an acid and as the lactate builds up in your muscles and blood your blood pH

goes down (becoming more acidic). This causes your growth hormone production to go

up. In the liver growth hormone is converted to a substance called insulin growth like

factor 1 (IGF1) and this causes more fat to be burnt during exercise thus making you

lose more body fat.

 

Blood lactate concentration is correlated to the amount and size of the muscles used

during an exercise. Therefore using exercises that target a large group of muscles such

as squats, kettle bell swings, walking lunges and many of the other exercises used in

outdoor group personal training in South West London is much more effective for

building up lactate than using an exercise that only uses a small amount of muscle mass

such as wrist curls.

 

This type of resistance training is also much more effective than doing cardio for weight

loss. Long slow cardio, like spending half an hour walking up hill on a treadmill (which

may be effective for initial weight loss if you are extremely over weight, but that weight

loss will soon plateau unless you change to another type of exercise) just taps in to your

type 1 muscle fibres, these muscle fibres respond to this type of exercise by getting

smaller and reducing androgen receptors. This also leaves your type 2 muscle fibres

(that can be anything up to and above 50% of your muscle mass) completely unused.

This is a disaster for weight loss! Imagine trying to fight a battle with only 50% of your

army active – you are going to lose that battle. The same is true for weight loss.

 

Also consider this, go into any gym in the world and you will see most of the fat unfit

people plodding along on the treadmill watching the TV of riding a bike whilst reading a

magazine. If you can watch the TV or read whilst you are training you are wasting your

time, you will not get any results, you do not belong in the gym and should go home and

park your arse on your sofa and watch TV or read there!

 

What you need to do is resistance training as your primary form of exercise. Resistance

exercise increases your muscle mass which will mean you burn more fat 24/7. It helps

increase your bone mineral density. It improves your immune system. It improves your

insulin sensitivity. And most importantly it helps you lose weight.

 

So if you want to weight loss results you should try the exercises in video link below.

Also consider joining an outdoor group personal training in South West London

class such as that offered by PeakXVfitness. At a fraction of the price of gym membership

and additional personal training we guarantee results.

 

 

 

Wandsworth Common womens outdoor

fitness bootcamp

 

Could joining PeakXVfitness Wandsworth Common womens outdoor fitness bootcamp

be the answer to your New Year weight loss programme? January will undoubtedly

see a huge rise in the number of people who want to lose weight, get fit and become

healthier. The gyms will be packed with people with good intentions slogging away

on the treadmill. But the sad fact is that by February and March, there is a huge drop

 off in the number of people who joined the gym.

 

This happens for a number of reasons. First and foremost people get bored. Most

people who go to the gym are not experts in the fitness industry and do not really

know how to design themselves interesting and effective training programmes.

Unless you can afford a good personal trainer who changes your programme often

and can keep you motivated you will very likely get quite bored of doing the same

routine in the gym. But this can be expensive as the going rate for a personal trainer

is about £40 an hour, and that’s on top of your gym fees. So if you want results from

the gym it could cost you about £400 a month! Secondly, people don’t see the

results they were hoping for. In 2-3 months of good training you should be able to

lose anywhere from 6-10kg and up to 10% body fat. However this is rarely achieved

probably due to the fact that people don’t know what to do and get bored.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why would joining PeakXVfitness Wandsworth Common womens outdoor fitness

bootcamp help you? Group training like this provides a safe, sociable and comfortable

environment in which to train. You won’t feel self conscious, out of place or like a

fool as many people do in the gym, you’re not surrounded by grunting, sweaty males

throwing their weights around and as with any group programme there is a great

support network that provides accountability and motivation. These two things

along, regardless of the training programme, will give you a better chance of achieving

your fitness and weight loss goals.

 

PeakXVfitness Wandsworth Common womens outdoor fitness provides great

workouts every time. These workouts are designed by experts in the fitness industry

meaning all you have to do is turn up and do the session to get the results. It’s like

having your own personal training to tell you what to do and encouraging you

through each workout. You may be challenged to do kettle bell, medicine ball, band,

dumbbell or bodyweight resistance exercises; you may be put through Tabata

training, skipping, boxing and core workouts and high intensity interval training –

workouts that are proven to help you lose weight. As many of our customers can

attest we guarantee results.

 

You know you have a good health and fitness expert helping you when they are

more interested in YOUR results than anything else. This is why nutrition support

is vital and this advice should be provided for you. But not just nutrition support

provided by personal trainers (who invariable have very little nutrition training),

but by qualified nutritional therapists with an expertise in weight loss.

 

You may have heard that getting your nutrition right is half the battle; well we would

suggest that it contributes to up to 80% of your results. So if you get the wrong advice

or even more alarmingly decide to go on an unsupervised diet you are doomed to fail.

Very few people who go on a diet reach their weight goal and can maintain it long term

unless they are supervised, encouraged through the difficult times, provided accountability

and motivation.

 

If you want to get in shape this New Year with Wandsworth Common womens outdoor

fitness bootcamp visit www.peakxvfitness.com/bootcamps to find out more.