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Part 1: Serious Strength Personal Training By Jackie Curto  |
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 Wow! What a workout.
Serious Strength Personal Training Studios at 9630 East Amherst, NY 14051 offers a workout to live stronger and longer in just 30 minutes a week. Fredrick Hahn author of The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution and owner of Serious Strength in New York City recently opened the new location of his revolutionary training facility here in Buffalo.
I had the opportunity to sit down with Kevin Auwarter, manager/instructor of the Buffalo studio to find out what the Serious Strength Personal Training Studios all about. As well as learn what the Slow Burn method is.
Let me first start out with, I’m currently a member of another local gym in the area. The biggest problem I have with my gym is a problem with time. If I go after work, forget it, I might as well not even attempt to go because all I’m doing it waiting and resting in between machine availability. Not the case at Serious Strength, you schedule your appointment around your schedule and have access to all those machines with no wait.
As well as the fact that my current gym gets you to sign off on that paperwork and then send you on your merry own way to navigate through the massive amounts of equipment. They expect you to know how to use each machine and how to use it to benefit you. Yes, now some places will give you a complimentary personal training session when you join. I’ve had mine from said gym, but that was over 7 years ago. But can you really get the effective results you desire from an hour non personal session. No, and that’s why Serious Strength is the way to go when looking for a place to obtain your goals.
Serious Strength it’s not like other gyms. They don’t sign you up and let you go with no direction. At Serious Strength it’s a one on one, truly personal training session. There is no general membership so you get privacy unlike other places were it’s easy to be distracted and lose focus. You get complimentary nutritional guidance and body composition testing. Upon walking in you’ll notice that its much cooler, its 65 degrees so no need to shower. No needs to shower you ask? Yes that’s right; you can do your workout in 30 minutes and not be dripping with sweat with it still being effective.
What is the slow burn method? It’s a slow and controlled method of strength training that is gentle on your joints yet powerfully effective at enhancing your strength, cardiovascular health, joint flexibility and metabolism. So powerful it only requires 30 minutes of your time per week. How can you not go wrong with only 30 minutes a week, you can get in workout and get back to your life without having to spend an hour a day for 5 days a week in a gym with no attention. With slow burn the movements are smooth and slow with the focus on form, breathing and working to muscular failure.
How do they break the conception of working out more to achieve more? Kevin takes the time to educate you and teach you on the benefits of starting a program with them. He is not a trainer but an instructor. And truly he is, I walked out knowing more about the science of fitness and exercising then any other personal training session I’ve had in the past.
What are the benefits? In typical workout, the vigorous up down movements, the pounding of joints could lead to injury. With slow movements you reduce your chances of injury. Slow Burn will give you an increase in strength, faster metabolism, more energy, sounder sleep, denser bones, reduced back and neck pain, arthritis relief, improved cholesterol levels, greater physical endurance, improved insulin sensitivity and enhanced flexibility. The slow burn method we use also engages the muscles far more deeply and throughout the entire range of motion.
If I start will I look like Arnold Schwarzenegger? The answer, it depends on your genetics, hormones. If anything you will walk out with a sleek, toned sexy body that is ready to hit the beach. Women especially are not very likely to “bulk up” simply because overall women have lower testosterone levels than men. What both men and women can typically expect is that the muscle they have will become much stronger (along with their tendons, ligaments, and bones), and they will most likely add some lean muscle tissue to their body.
What about cardio? I come from the thought of warm-up with cardio maybe 20-30 minutes then hit the weights for 20-30 minutes for a workout. With strength training your muscles become stronger and more efficient at drawing oxygen from the blood, so that ultimately your heart and lungs don't have to work as hard to deliver this to them. This is typically what people feel as 'the cardio effect'. An example would be if I were to take Lance Armstrong’s heart and lungs and put them into my body, would I be able to win a Tour de France? No because I need my muscles to help serve the heart and lungs. With the Lance Armstrong analogy, it's simply that it isn't really Lance's heart and lungs that get him to the finish line ahead of everyone else. It's the muscles in his legs and hips (and a whole lot of determination). So by starting with the Slow Burn Method at Serious Strength, you’ll be gaining and protecting the muscle mass you have.
Let’s talk training and results? After 15 sessions, about 7 weeks, you will see the results you are looking for. Note: some individuals will notice change in a shorter or longer session. However with any training once you have reached your goal you should continue to maintain that goal so you protect the muscles. By training you will restore bone density, muscle mass and see and increase in flexibility.
What nutrition or diet is recommended? We do not want weight loss per se but a fat loss and a muscle gain. This could mean you still weigh 140 but have less fat but more muscle and still weigh the same. They don’t advocate a low fat/low cal diets. Auwarter mentioned that high protein foods (fish, meat, chicken, eggs, and nuts) are recommended, as well as healthy fats and oils. Stay away from refined sugars (soda, candy, white bread, bagels). It’s important for fat loss goals to lose sugar then exercise. With keeping your blood sugar lower you will be able to reach those fat loss goals that you want to achieve.
With just sitting down with Kevin for an hour to talk about the Slow Burn Method and what Serious Strength Personal Training Studios offers, I can tell you that is more that I ever received at the gym I’m a current member of. He is beyond doubt a great educator/instructor and takes the time to explain everything to you without talking down to you. I had a better understanding of what exercise and fitness was and how it would benefit myself in the long run. If you or someone you know is looking to achieve the fitness goals they want then take the time and call Kevin at Serious Strength Personal Training Studios at (716) 636-7700 or www.seriousstrength.com, set up an appointment and see how it can change your life today.
Be sure to look for part two of this article series, as I go into my initial consultation and first real exercise session with Kevin.
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