A: The advantages MBG training gives over machines and isolated free weight training are many.
First off, the gain in function of movement, "you gain what you train.” If you train in isolation, you gain in isolation. If you train for function, you gain function. Secondly, beside functional strength gains and moment skill gained from training with us, you will lose body fat and gain muscle mass like never before. This is because of the way we train both our body power and functional interval training and combining both with our Eischens Yoga.
Our Body Power class (BP) is focused on continually improving your strength and power on all functional movements. By doing this you will continually add muscle in a functional way to your frame. Basically you will look and feel more athletic as well as perform all movements at a much higher level as well as greatly reduce your chances of injuries. Machines train and gain in isolation which results in a segmented type of build, now if you’re a bodybuilder then this type of training is fine. But for pure health and functional strength, "we train movements, not muscles".
Our Functional Interval class (FIT) are designed specifically to drop body fat and gain muscle mass. Basically training for a sprinters build over a marathon runners build. Almost all gyms everywhere preach doing the plodding stay on the treadmill or stair master for 30 minutes to an hour. We instead choose to work intensely for 20 or less seconds, then rest for about the same time. This type of training (High Intensity Interval Training) has been proven more efficient at burning body fat and gaining muscle. We call it FIT instead as we do functional movements instead of stationary bikes, etc for the exercises, but still do the intense intervals. Comparing our FIT class to aerobic classes or machines is again you gain what you train. The slow plodding is not going to give you that strong athletic build. The aerobic classes are always the exact same as well, no adaptation, our FIT classes are always new and challenging forcing you to always adapt, just like real life:)
Our Eischens Yoga class (EY) is designed to re-align our bodies to work more efficiently. Machines and free weights cannot re-align our bodies towards more efficient movement like Eischens Yoga can. This is because we adapt to do larger movements, it is natural to do this, but because of poor postural habits our adaptions to movement become greater and greater as we get older and the more we must adapt to do a movement the greater the chance of injury and pain. Let’s use squatting for our example. As kids we squat freely, nothing inhibiting our movement, we squat butt to heels and don’t even think about it. This is 110% healthy, this is the Range of Motion (ROM) we are supposed to have, it is normal. Then what happens is instead of sitting fully, we begin to shorten our range of motion by sitting in chairs, seats, by never squatting deeper than 90 degrees (which 100% of aerobics classes teach), by wearing shoes which inhibit our natural ROM and our foots ability to absorb the ground. All of these actions over time shorten our squat until we get to the point that we must bend over from the waist in order to grab something off the floor…this is ADAPTING to a basic movement. We keep adapting, limiting our ROM and increasing pain until something breaks. Eischens Yoga re-establishes, re-aligns and re-activates our natural movement skills and ability by activating those very muscles that have been neglected over time. Lightness returns to the body and also your mind as you re-gain a freedom of movement you may not have felt for some time. Nothing in the traditional fitness world can do this as it takes a trained eye to see the weak, neglected areas of the body and also know how to activate them in a way to re-build proper alignment and health. A Monkey Bar Gym Certified Natural Trainer (CNT) or Eischens Yoga instructor can do just that.