Body Mastery - Workout

The Body Mastery workout lasts about 20 minutes, and you will perform it just once or twice each week. It is a full-body workout, and will include all primary muscle groups in the arms, legs, torso/back, chest, back, shoulders, and head/neck.

Your workout will include 6-8 exercises on specialized machines. One set of each exercise will be performed at a very slow cadence to momentary failure before quickly moving to the next. This simply means that you will work until the targeted muscle can no longer move the resistance. This will take between 1-3 minutes per exercise, and there is minimal rest during and in between each exercise.

This workout is difficult, and depending on your personality, may stretch the boundaries of your comfort zone. However, it is very brief and you will be well rewarded for your efforts. When you leave our studio you will not be hot, sweaty, or out of breath, but you will know that your body has been pushed to its limits and that you have done something great for yourself.

As the body's ability to strengthen increases, it actually requires more recovery time. For most participants, and athletes in particular, this will necessitate reducing workout frequency to once a week after 1-3 months into the program.

If you do not allow proper recovery time between workouts, you will progress at a much slower rate. This is counterintuitive to the common "more is better" mentality, but it is true nonetheless. Think of the time it takes for a minor cut or bruise to heal, and the impact of aggrevating it before it has healed. Your muscles require the same rest and consideration.

If you do not work your muscles to failure, you will leave unused muscle fibers in reserve and your body will not be stimulated to grow. When muscles are allowed to rest even momentarily during an exercise, the spent fiber groups can partially or fully recover and be used again. Likewise, when weights are moved with any appreciable velocity, the resulting momentum effectively unloads the targeted musculature and defeats the purpose of the exercise. This is why we go so slowly without pausing until the exercise is complete.