PHASE 1 - MANAGING YOUR WEIGHT

You are not alone if you find it’s a struggle to maintain a healthy weight—and the overwhelming number of diet books, diet drinks, and diet foods is proof that we want help and are willing to try just about anything to drop unwanted pounds.  Unfortunately, navigating a successful path toward weight loss can be frustrating and seem impossible.  The good news is that Body Science offers tools and guidance that will make your weight loss efforts more effective and deliver lasting results.

Whether you’re a fitness pro or someone who lacks any fitness experience, you need a workout plan that keeps things simple.  We help you put all the preconceived notions, diet lingo, weight loss fads and contradictions from leading experts in perspective.  The Body Science Metabolic Assessment Profile – a combination of movement analysis and your resting and cardio metabolic testing results – are the basis for developing a program just for you with easy-to-understand fitness feedback and straightforward tools, from workouts to meal plans. 
 

EASY-TO-USE TOOLS

Armed with your Body Science fitness assessment, you can now stay on target with the right tools to help you reach and maintain a healthy weight.  Your weight loss tool kit includes an exercise plan, heart rate monitor and meal plans, together making up the complete Body Science solution to weight management.

#1 - Exercise Plan
We firmly believe in a fitness message you probably won’t hear in the mainstream media: honor your limits. There’s nothing to be gained from working out longer or straining your muscles harder than the next guy. Using the information from your muscle and metabolic assessments, your trainer creates a strength, flexibility and cardio workout plan that is personalized to work best for your body, a plan that will help you get off to a good start and guide you on your path to reaching your weight and fitness goals.

 #2 - Heart Rate Monitor
The most important tool for monitoring your cardio workouts is a heart rate monitor, which reports your progress during each session and ensures you are exercising at the right level to burn fat.  The simplest heart rate monitors are low-cost, one-button push watches that come with a simple chest-strap transmitter. The transmitter sends your heart-rate data to most cardio fitness machines while you are exercising.  You can find a heart rate monitor at any fitness store or purchase through Body Science.

 #3 - Nutrition Plan
A new approach to moving your body requires a new approach to your diet – that’s “diet”, not “dieting”.   “Dieting” creates the mindset of deprivation (having to skip out on all your favorites) and rigid control (forbidden foods and counting calories).   With guidance from Body Science’s online nutrition tracking and aerobic training tool - or with help from a dietitian - you’ll learn to fuel your body with the right foods, in the right amounts, at the right times. No point systems or calorie counting required!

GET CREDIT FOR YOUR WORK AND SEE RESULTS

The most common reason for failing to lose weight is not sticking with a plan. That’s tough to admit, but most people find it incredibly challenging to stay on a program or return to it when their efforts falter. And, sometimes the biggest challenge comes once you’ve achieved a bit of success but haven’t quite made it to your goal.  Persevering until your healthy habits become a healthy lifestyle comes more easily when you have regular feedback and constant support.

What we’ve learned at Body Science is that reassessing your metabolism at regular intervals improves your chances of reaching your goals. With Body Science reassessments, you not only see progress from where you first began, but you also get a clear picture of where you’re heading. 

Tracking, managing, and updating your fitness efforts keeps you tied in to your program. Seeing the improvements in your metabolism—your body learning to burn more fat for longer stretches of time, your improving heart rate, the increase in calories burned during cardio exercise—is a great motivator. Feeling stronger and more limber as you advance through your personalized strength and flexibility program is proof that you’re on your way to realizing your vision for yourself.   

Sooner than you think, you’re going to feel better because of the smart ways you’ve been working out. By the time you notice significant changes in your energy level, your fitness abilities, and maybe even in your weight, your body will be ready for a new cardio exercise plan. With regular reassessment, you’ll have a fitness plan designed to take you to the next level, just when you need it.

PHASE II - BODY SCULPTING

Phase II is for you if you’re no stranger to working out.   No doubt you know your way around a treadmill, but after countless workouts, you may feel you’ve hit a plateau. Perhaps you’re starting to wonder just how far you can take this fitness thing: Can you run a 5k? How about summiting a fourteener? Then again, maybe you’re starting to go a little crazy at the gym, doing the same thing day after day, hoping that it will all pay off with a faster and stronger you.

Whether you’re a regular at the gym or dedicated to an at-home routine, not only does your time matter, so do the results of your efforts. The good news is that Body Science Active Metabolic Aerobic training can help you get maximum benefit for your time and your effort.  You’ll be equipped with detailed information that you can put to use with every workout. The tools to help you attain your goals—from the workouts to the meal plans—are straightforward. And checking in to track your progress is easy to do. So what’s the first step? Your path to fitness success starts with your Body Science muscular and metabolic assessment and profile.

FITNESS INSIGHT

Whether training for a half-marathon or honing perfect abs, your Body Science muscle and metabolic assessment profile helps you understand your personal fitness capabilities and ability to reach your goals.  With science-based, performance-level technology, the muscle and metabolic assessment provides specific data: joint weaknesses, muscle tightness, movement imbalances, how efficiently your body burns fat, at what heart rate you begin to slide into burning less-efficient carbs, the efficiency of your breathing during workouts, and more.

A Body Science trainer will you through a series of movements to determine your muscular needs. Then two simple tests: a resting metabolic assessment that tells precisely how many calories your body requires each day, and a 10- to 15-minute active assessment (not stress test) that shows when your body is at its best during cardio exercise.

This personalized information is then used to create a fitness program that will train your muscles and metabolism to perform at the highest levels and allow you to make the greatest gains in your workouts.  This is our science-based secret to carrying less fat, building more muscle, and attaining your ultimate fitness goal. 

TOOLS TO GET FIT

Now that you’ve had your assessment, you’re ready to tune in, turn on, and get to work. Your complete solution to staying on target and achieving your fitness goals are three can’t-miss tools from Body Science.

#1 - Workout Program
If you’ve been jogging on the treadmill at 5mph 5 days a week, or sweating through that same old group exercise class for as long as you can remember without making progress, chances are you need to change your exercise intensity. Your individualized Body Science cardio, strength and flexibility plan will help you do that wisely. We assess where you are and coach you through targeted workouts on different days to deliver the results you desire. Instead of working harder and harder, your Body Science program will give you an intelligent work out plan—one that changes up your intensity, and changes your results for the better.

#2 - Heart Rate Monitor
One must-have tool in your fitness regimen is a heart rate monitor. From the super-simple to a GPS-friendly model with a bonanza of features, a monitor is the thing that gives you the precise fitness feedback you need to get the most from you’re the time and effort you put into your cardio workouts.  Without a monitor, you’re likely guessing at whether you’re moving at the right right speed and intensity. Your trainer can help you find a heart rate monitor that offers the features best suited to your needs.

#3 - Nutrition
It’s easy to overlook the “fueling your metabolism” component of a total workout regimen, especially if you generally eat healthy foods. But if you’re off by even as little as a granola bar a day in your caloric and nutrient profile, you could be costing yourself 10 pounds a year! To attain your fitness goals, you’ve got to get serious—and savvy—about your daily intake. Your Body Science metabolic assessment profile gives you your daily caloric range.  You can share this information with a dietitian, who can help you get the right balance of nutrients within your range, or use Body Science’s online nutrition tracking and aerobic training tool to analyze your diet and help with meal planning.

GET MOTIVATED, STAY MOTIVATED

As you’re putting your assessment to use and working with your fitness tools—sticking with your strength and flexibility plan, monitoring the data from your heart rate monitor, eating what’s best for your body—you can feel the progress you’re making toward your fitness goal.  However, we can all use a little more help in the motivation department. Reassessing your muscular and metabolic profile every 12 weeks will do just that. A reassessment will show the changes in your fuel composition (how much more fat than carbs you’re now burning) and quantify your success. Most importantly, as you work toward your goals, reassessing your body’s metabolic function means you’ll be able to stay on top of your needs and tweak your fitness regimen as you go, adjusting the intensity and keeping the exercise challenge fresh and interesting, both mentally and physically.

PHASE III - ADVANCED ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE

When you’re at the top of your game, progress is often measured in the smallest of increments. You improve by mere seconds or even a fraction thereof in your race time, just a yard or two if not inches on your tee shot, perhaps the smallest of the plates in the weight room. At elite levels of athletic performance, when you want to run faster, move the ball farther, or push greater weights, every aspect of your training must be measured, evaluated, and tweaked to near-perfection.

Olympians and other top-level athletes have access to human performance labs, where cutting-edge science and top trainers and coaches work to help them wring every bit of excellence from their bodies and minds. Body Science’s Athletic Assessment Program is like having a performance lab right at your fingertips. Whether you’re an endurance athlete, an explosive power competitor, or part of a team striving to take it to the next level, you need information on your: muscles— strengths, weaknesses and joint integrity          metabolism—when you’re burning calories most efficiently, how efficiently your body uses oxygen, what kind of gains are possible in your VO2                                                                                           meal planning—nutritional modifications to fuel your body and prepare you for your training can give you the inside track on achieving your full athletic potential

MUSCLE AND METABOLISM MASTERY

What are you really capable of? It’s a powerful question. To achieve your body’s full potential, you’ve first got to know what that potential is. At the highest levels of sport, we measure potential in two critical areas:  Dynamic Strength – how well your body balances and accommodates high intensity movement - and Peak VO2 - how much oxygen your body can take in and put to use in the process of burning fuel (calories) to perform at the highest level.  Body Science’s Muscle and Metabolic Assessment precisely measures your kinetic efficiency, aerobic and anaerobic base, your threshold, and your peak. With that vital information, you receive a plan that will put you in pursuit of your full potential.

If you’ve experienced the dreaded DNF, your anaerobic threshold is a likely culprit in the dubious “did not finish” distinction. With a metabolic assessment, you can know without doubt what changes you must make to your base conditioning and interval aerobic training to bust through the tape.

For athletes who need explosive power, say for quick sprints up and down the court, quick aerobic recovery means a better chance of beating your competitor off the line. With a metabolic assessment, you and your trainer can build your aerobic base for optimum performance.

When team performance is the thing, the old cliché about the weakest link rings true. What can you do to shorten recovery time for each player? How to motivate your athletes to work toward their utmost athletic potential?  Strength and Aerobic training for the entire team gives insight into the individual performance potential and lets you create specialized workouts for position players. Do that, and you’re on your way to building a training program that improves performance for your entire team. 

ESSENTIAL TOOLS

When you’re playing with the best of the best, performance tools aren’t optional if you want to stay in the game. Tools for aerobic training, tracking, and even eating (your new secret weapon!) can give you an edge:

 #1 - Workout Program
Your muscle and metabolic assessment makes it possible to create a complete training program that’s specific to your end goal and optimized to your individual muscle and metabolic markers. With the need to periodize (cycle) your exercise program, your Body Science assessment defines your profile and the ideal workout program to achieve your performance goals at every phase.

#2 - Monitoring 
A handful of variables must come together at the right time in the right way to tap the best your body can deliver. Measuring and tracking those variables in your cardio workout gives you a systematic way to evaluate your aerobic training progress. Power, speed, and agility all tie together to create ultimate performance, and all are worthy of being tracked and monitored. Another key indicator is your heart rate.  Strap on a heart rate monitor and track your results. You’ll never look at your workout program the same way again.

#3 - Nutrition
In the midst of measuring heart rate, VO2, and numerous other performance factors, it can be easy to miss what’s right in front of you. So, what’s on your plate? Body Science’s online nutrition tracking and aerobic training tool uses your individual metabolic assessment results to recommend menus and recipes that will help you achieve ultimate athletic performance. Developed by registered dietitians, the website tracks calories, vitamins, and minerals as part of your dietary analysis. The information can be easily shared with your coach or nutritionist so that eating the right amounts and type of foods can be a meaningful part of your training program

EVOLUTION OF AN ATHLETE

With hard-won performance improvements coming in such small increments, it pays big dividends to know exactly what you’re getting out of your workouts. An initial Body Science muscle and metabolic assessment records your baseline, and regular follow-ups track the evolution to your peak athletic performance. You’ll be able to see trends within your data, and that will give you important insight into the effectiveness of your training program. Did your base training improve your anaerobic threshold? Have you moved closer to your VO2 peak? Is your body poised for that next step, the one that will make you faster, fitter, and stronger than before? Still wondering why you should bother with a metabolic reassessment? It’s the only fitness tool that truly lets you turn knowledge into real power. And you can’t beat that.