Your Exercise Priority – SuperSlow Zone®

Do your cardio. Aerobics three times a week. No, wait – is it five? Walk, don’t run. Walk for 30 minutes a day…or is it five hours a week. Get out and do SOMEthing. Conflicting messages abound -how do you sift through this? And, what’s this about strength training on top of it all?

Popular, mis-guided recommendations for your health include “cardio” three times a week and strength training twice a week. We know, we know – how can you fit this into your busy schedule? Well, let’s prioritize based on the results…after all, you are doing this to achieve and maintain results otherwise, why bother?

Strength training is now recommended as the most important exercise for multiple reasons. Muscle loss begins as early as your 30’s, and you have to actively maintain it , let alone build muscle, to avoid sarcopinea (loss of muscle mass) & osteoporosis. Your heart and lungs exist to support or service the working skeletal muscles. When you increase your strength, your muscles work more efficiently, creating less demand on the cardiovascular system.

By stimulating the skeletal muscles, a growth mechanism activates that affects other biological systems, in particular your metabolism. Your body burns more calories – an increase by 4-8% in your resting metabolic rate which translates to burning more calories while at rest. Compare THAT to the incremental caloric burn you gain for traditional activities such as running, swimming, or biking.

Other critical improvements include cognitive benefits, cardiocirculatory fitness, improved aerobic capacity, helping to control diabetes, and enabling a quality of life that aging attempts to take away from us. From fitting better into your pants, to just being able to pull ON your pants, it’s a win-win.

So, where does SuperSlow® strength training fit into all of this? Well, let’s see. You want to look fitter because you are fit. Be more active, or at least support the lifestyle you want to live (now, and in the future). And avoid health issues that may have haunted you or your families in the past. We on track here? Sounds like you need to integrate strength training into your life. …ah, you say, “I don’t have the time!!” Not so with SuperSlow® .

At the SuperSlow Zone® you give maximum effort with a Zen-like focus in your short, 20 minute, supervised, all-body one-on-one session . Arrive at the SuperSlow Zone® in your work or day clothes, do your work out and on your way you go. SuperSlow’s high intensity strength training uses a proven, safe method to accomplish your strength training needs 50% faster than traditional resistance training with the effect of not just burning calories during the workout, but to burn them all the time.

Rest is important for building muscle, so your workouts require 72 hours to build more muscle – any less than that and you’re working against the muscle build process. In today’s time-crunched, environmentally conscious lifestyle that means that for just twenty minutes, twice a week, SuperSlow Zone is the ultimate prescription for fitness.

By Madeline Ross, CEO SuperSlow Zone, LLC and

Marie Ortiz, Owner SuperSlow Zone Silver Creek, CA & Certified SS Instructor