The SuperSlow® Philosophy of Excercise involves several specific requirements:

• Intense Workouts: Each exercise of each workout is performed until momentary failure of the muscles occurs. This is the stimulus the muscles require to achieve growth and strength gains. Each workout exercises all major muscle groups of the body.
• Brief Workouts: If a high intensity level is achieved during exercise, you can not exercise for more than 20 minutes or so - even less for advanced subjects (around 10 minutes).
• Infrequent Workouts: Once the required stimulus is applied to the body (a brief and intense muscular workout) you need adequate time to rest, recover, and allow the adaptations to take place in your muscles and bones. Most people require a minimum of 72 hours rest between workouts; therefore, exercising no more than once or twice a week is required. Many see this required rest period as a huge benefit, because they don't have to spend hours in the gym every week.
• Avoidance of Steady State Activity: We believe that any steady state activity (ex. running, "aerobics", spinning, tae-bo, etc.) for the purpose of exercise is dangerous and largely ineffective. First, these activities burn very few calories (about 100 calories per mile run) during or after performing the activity; therefore it is largely ineffective for weight loss. Second, many steady state activities don't build any significant lean muscle mass - in fact, excessive running, biking, etc can act to break down your muscles into their component amino acids (Ever notice how emaciated long distance runners look?). Third, most steady state activities are very high force, which can cause massive trauma and injury to your shins, back, neck, etc. Finally, we believe that the best way to get to the cardiovascular system is through working the muscles and the best way to get to the muscles is through SuperSlow® weight training.

The SuperSlow® Training Protocol mandates a 10 second positive motion (ex. moving the weight stack up) and a 10 second negative motion for each repetition of each exercise. Why so slow? Three Reasons:

• Safety - We eliminate acceleration and sudden movements which can cause injury
• True Exercise - We eliminate any momentum in the exercises that could decrease effectiveness
• Concentration - Slow Movement allows for better focus on precise muscle movement