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TONING + WEIGHTLOSS

Energetic female athlete in studio

ESSENTRICS® FOR TONING AND WEIGHTLOSS

Essentrics is a body-sculpting program designed to elongate the legs, tone the hips, flatten the stomach, and get rid of under-arm flab. It lengthens the pectorals, tones the deltoids and upper back, opens the chest, resulting in improved posture – and it slenderizes love handles around the waist and upper hips. It is a full-body sculpting program in every sense.

A few weeks practicing regular Essentrics (2-3x a week) will produce obvious changes in the length and shape of your muscles, with many clients often losing a pant size. If you want a toned, cut look with perfect posture, you will get it from Essentrics. Consistently applied, it’s techniques achieve those goals – without bulk.

ESSENTRICS DEVELOPS:

  • Overall Slenderizing

  • Long Lean Muscles

  • Flattened Abs

  • Toned Legs & Glutes

  • Sculpted Arms

  • Thinned Waist

  • Defined Back Muscles

  • Weight Loss

THE TECHNIQUE

Essentrics lengthens muscles while it strengthens them, leaving the muscles looking long and lean. Concentric training shortens them, and bulks them up. Eccentric training is more challenging than concentric training, which equates to burning more calories. With consistent Essentrics, your body will begin to change shape as you sculpt your hips, thighs, glutes, arms, back and stomach. This long, lean muscle tone should come as no surprise seeing as the main strengthening technique of this program is the same as in ballet.

Essentrics is a full body weight-free eccentric training program, which is exactly what ballet dancers do. It is strength training that simultaneously incorporates lengthening of muscles in the movements.

Two of the most common goals in the fitness world are to become slimmer and more toned, both of which are achieved through regular practice of Essentrics (2-3x per week). Slenderizing is about making the muscles look lean and thin, and strengthening (or toning) is about muscular strength, elasticity, and cellular health, which is what we’ll be doing in our fitness program together.

Let’s get toning!

COOL FACTS

  • All movement requires muscles. Muscles have millions of cells that contain mitochondria (furnaces that burn fuel or calories). The stronger our muscles, the more mitochondria we have, the more fuel we burn. Strong muscles preserve their cells; weak muscles slowly lose them through cell death and atrophy. If we don’t’ use our muscles, they shrink and the muscle cells die (thus decreasing our ability to burn fat).

    Daily, full body exercise is essential. Counting calories is irrelevant if we’re letting muscles die. Essentrics workouts keep all 650 muscles strong and flexible – and each cell’s mitochondria fully functioning and working efficiently to burn off excess calories in supporting healthy weightloss.

  • For those looking to lose weight, a change in eating habits is essential, not just for the duration of the weight loss, but as a continuous habit for the rest of your life. Essentrics is a helpful partner along with a healthy diet for those looking to lose weight and gain a healthy, attractive body that is full of energy.

  • There are scientific studies supporting the idea that the lengthening of muscle cells will make the muscles stronger. Research shows that during an eccentric contraction (which is what is performed in Essentrics), 30% of the neurons stop firing, leaving only 70% of the muscle cells available for recruitment. That remaining 70% must work harder because they are supporting a longer lever – and it is a well known law of physics that ‘the longer the lever, the heavier the load’

    It has been proven that muscles actually get stronger faster with eccentric training than with concentric training!

SLENDERIZE YOURSELF