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The Health Benefits of Performing The 'Peak Fitness' Routine

Peak Fitness exercises are known to burn excess body fat, help manage weight, improve cardiovascular health and lower the risks of diabetes

The Spine Pro is here to get you moving forward on your health. Peak Fitness exercises are well-known to burn excess body fat and help manage our weight, but they also produce some rather remarkable side benefits as well. A Peak Fitness routine can also improve cardiovascular health and lower the risks of diabetes and other chronic illnesses. These high-intensity workouts improve glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity, two critical factors that directly contribute to optimal health.

But the benefits don’t stop there. This form of interval training also helps to:

  • Improve athletic performance, speed, and agility
  • Provide a more youthful looking complexion
  • Increase energy and stamina
  • Improve muscle tone

Creating a Peak Fitness Exercise Routine

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The great thing about Peak Fitness training is that we don’t have to travel to the local gym in order to gain its many advantages. With only 20 minutes of exercise twice per week, we can begin seeing consistent results in a very short time. Short intervals of sprinting outdoors is one option, but this routine can sometimes lead to serious injury without stretching properly and warming up beforehand. Here is a guideline for creating a Peak Fitness routine.

  1. Take 3 minutes to warm up and stretch the limbs.
  2. Perform a Peak Fitness exercise at top speed and with as much power as you can muster for a full 30 seconds. You should feel completely out of breathe afterwards. If not, then simply increase the weight or perform more repetitions.
  3. Allow 90 seconds of recovery between each set, but keep moving at a slow pace.
  4. Repeat the 30 seconds of high-intensity exercise 7 more times with the 90 seconds of recovery in between each set. When first starting out, you may only be able to complete 2 or 3 sets. That’s okay. Keep building up until you reach 7 complete sets or 20 full minutes before increasing the weight.
  5. End your session with a cool down period of about 3 minutes. Perform the same exercise but reduce the intensity by about 75 percent.

Perform this routine no more than 3 times per week. This allows your body the necessary time to recover and for you to receive the highest levels of physical, mental, and emotional benefits. You will also want to keep your heart rate elevated to your anaerobic threshold during the short 30-second intervals. To calculate this number, simply subtract your age from 220. Peak Fitness is easy, fun, and safe for people of all ages.

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