Yes! You'll work with the best. Your coach will be SWR founder Brian Murray, who has spent the past 20 years studying the effects of brief and intense muscle contraction on body composition change with age. The result of this research is Brian's straight-talk-no-nonsense approach that has helped hundreds of women and men not only dramatically change their bodies, but their lives.
Brian holds a Masters Degree in Exercise Physiology from Auburn University. As a foremost authority in the strength training and fat loss fields, Brian has been a featured guest on Fox News and CNN talking about methods for efficient physical transformation.
Brian is the author of STOP TRYING TO LOSE WEIGHT, YOU'RE MAKING YOURSELF FATTER. Get your copy here.
STRONG WOMEN ROCK will improve your strength and your endurance, rebuild your bones and muscles, restore your vitality, and postpone the aging process more safely and effectively than any other form of exercise, in ten minutes a week. It sounds impossible, but it is absolutely true.
Since the effort you produce is higher than anything you normally do, maximum engagement of your nervous system is possible, producing immediate results. This means a little goes a long way. Due to this fact one session a week is all that is needed for optimum changes.
STRONG WOMEN ROCK is for everyone. It is a safe and very effective method of training suitable for every age and physical condition, from the top athlete to the person who can hardly walk due to weak muscles, and for everyone in between.
A STRONG WOMEN ROCK workout will give you greater cardiopulmonary fitness and endurance than running. The endurance you get from running along for miles every week comes not from any cardiovascular conditioning but from the strength that such a routine ultimately develops, as well as from the sport-specific training effects that occur.
The heart and lungs don’t get much stronger, if at all. The muscles in general, and the legs and hips in particular, become stronger, and this increased muscular strength brings about the changes we call ”getting in shape”.
Running and other forms of “aerobic” exercise strengthen the muscles. Stronger muscles working more efficiently to draw oxygen from the blood reduce the demand on the heart and lungs, which gives the impression of improved cardiovascular or cardiopulmonary fitness.
You have the heart and lungs that you were born with. Each of these organs has a limited performance capacity, and as long as you are working within that capacity, they seem to work just fine. When you exceed that capacity, however, the perception is that your heart and /or lungs are out of shape. As you age and lose muscle mass, activities you used to do with ease when you were stronger now become difficult, you pant and puff and your heart pounds when you try to do them. But that isn't because your heart and lungs have gotten weaker – your muscles have, and as a result, their inefficiency makes you exceed the comfort level and capacity of your cardiopulmonary system. You don't need to strengthen your heart and lungs; in fact, you can't. You need to strengthen your muscles so that they can once again function easily within the capacity of your heart and lungs.
Flexibility, as is also the case with just about everything else concerning our bodies, is genetics, to a great extent. The performers you see who are hyperflexible, who can bend over backwards, stick their heads between their legs, and do other seemingly impossible feats were born that way. You could practice for the next twenty years and never achieve that kind of flexibility, nor would you want to. Your ligaments would stretch, your joints would become loose, and you would be prone to dislocations etc.
Muscle strength actually enhances flexibility. A trained muscle is not only stronger, it is also more supple, has improved circulation, is better hydrated and can exert much greater force across the joint of motion. Strong muscles moving the joint through its full range of motion while maintaining the integrity of the ligaments produce optimal, stable flexibility.
Unfortunately, most people believe that the best way to improve flexibility is to stretch the joint. What they are gaining, in fact, is loose, unstable joints.
Medical evidence shows that all the components of the joint improve with proper strength training. The increased ligament and tendon strength, coupled with the tremendous increase in muscular strength and elasticity resulting from STRONG WOMEN ROCK training, gives joints enhanced flexibility as well as a dramatically decreased risk of injury. A stretching regimen, on the other hand, does just the opposite — it increases joint flexibility at the price of increased risk of dislocation.
So if you want to increase your flexibility forget about stretching, yoga, Pilates, and all the rest. Come to STRONG WOMEN ROCK for 10 minutes a week instead and make your joints be the best they can be.
Bones are designed to bear weight, to do work. When they are stressed, they adapt, grow and become strong. When they are not asked to do their load-bearing job, they quickly become thin, weak and frail. Disuse is deadly to a healthy bone.
Weak bones is an epidemic in many parts of the world, resulting in injuries and crippling conditions for millions.
Without reservations we can say that properly performed STRONG WOMEN ROCK training brings about bigger and better sustained bone-density gains in men and women of all ages — even those in their eighties and nineties — than any other form of exercise.
Whether for you such improvement translates into better athletic performance, less risk of osteoporosis later in life, rebuilding bones already weakened and thin, or better endurance in everything from recreational sports to climbing stairs or lifting your groceries, a once a week STRONG WOMEN ROCK session is the key to healthier bones.
Have you ever seen an injured limb after it has come out of a cast? It’s withered, stiff, and weak. It looks like it has aged 20 years. The goal of rehabilitation is to restore normal function. Although ultra sound, electrical stimulation, stretching, and cryotherapy are helpful tools in the rehabilitation process, the most important tool is increasing the strength of the surrounding musculature. STRONG WOMEN ROCK provides a low force, fast and efficient way to restore a patient’s function.
Strong muscles act as a corset of support and provide you with better “shock absorbers” which decreases your chance of injury.
With no moving parts or heavy weights to cause injury, the amount of force generated for each exercise is entirely controlled by the trainee, eliminating the risk of new injuries while rehabilitating from surgeries or existing injuries.
The isometric exercise you do at STRONG WOMEN ROCK will lead to large improvements in strength and voluntary activation of musculature. The vertical lift is the most valuable exercise out of all of them. This one has the most application to anything you do in your life. It directly taxes all of the vertebral muscles from top to bottom and adding the Shoulder Shrug exercise taxes the neck area directly. All of this leads to less fatigue and improved functional ability all over.
Absolutely NOT! That is a myth. We have never seen it happen.
The SWR approach is the athletes best friend. Why? It doesn't create inflammation, which is an athletic performance killer. At SWR, you give your best effort for a few seconds. This exposes your body to a high load safely and painlessly. This load is what leads to far greater changes in neurological efficiency.
This means more power, the ability to do more with less effort, and no wasted time recovering from the inflammatory process initiated by traditional athletic training practices.