As exercise aims to stimulate the body’s recovery process, our scientific, evidence-based approach to training is to achieve this in a time efficient way by carefully working your muscles to their current limits in a safe and controlled manner.
“Momentary muscular failure” describes the point during an exercise set when a muscle or group of muscles can no longer generate enough force to move the weight.
The point where muscle fibres have exhausted their energy stores provides the stimulus for your body to respond and grow stronger as it recovers. While momentary muscular failure is not the only way to stimulate muscle growth and strength, it is a highly effective and time-efficient way to achieve optimal results.
With commonly used higher volumes of multiple reps and sets, muscles contract and relax quickly and are not under load for long. In addition, when weights are moved too fast, excessive forces can occur in our tendons and ligaments, resulting in unnecessary injury.
We adopt a controlled, slow-motion protocol, loading muscles safely and evenly. This increases the time muscles are under load, meaning they work harder to maintain the tension and subsequently fatigue to the point where there is a temporary loss of muscular function.
Because weights are moved at a slow, controlled speed across the entire functional range of the targeted muscules, heavy loads are unnecessary.
Each exercise intends to produce a momentary muscular failure (MMF). This deep fatiguing or inroading of the targeted muscle is sufficient to produce the desired benefits associated with resistance training but without the risk of higher volume or heavier weights.
The high-intensity training protocol reduces the risk of injury by safely loading muscles according to their function, with less stress on tendons and joints. All exercises are conducted with manageable, safe weights, well within your limits.
Whilst rep count, weight amounts and time under load are recorded as measured, they are not numbers to be chased. Exercise form is the first goal. The rest will follow.
