3 Benefits of a Low Impact, High Intensity Workout
Finding the right workout class can be a struggle. It’s important to find a class that meets your needs and helps you achieve your fitness goals. While some classes can be fun, they might not include the right type of exercises to really help you tone up and feel your best. The Lagree Method offers low-impact, high-intensity workout classes that have been proven to provide a variety of benefits.
First, let’s start off by explaining low-impact and high-intensity workouts. Low-impact workouts are workouts that are easier on your body. During low-impact workouts, you typically leave at least one of your feet on the ground, which has less of an impact on your body than other types of exercises. Examples of this type of exercise can include walking, yoga, and biking. Because low-impact workouts are less tough on your body, a wider variety of people can benefit from them.
High-intensity workouts, on the other hand, are just as they sound — intense. Examples of these exercises include running, nordic skiing, and jumping rope. A good way to measure whether the exercise you’re doing is truly high-intensity is your heart rate. High-intensity workouts should leave your heart rate in a range of about 80-90% of your maximum heart rate. If you’re below this range, the exercise you’re doing is not technically considered “high-intensity.” As for The Lagree Method, these exercises are done one immediately following the other so that the intensity is kept up throughout the entire class.
The Lagree Method combines both of these types of exercise to create a unique workout that poses many health benefits. If you’re looking for something new, contact The Lagree Method to book your first fitness class today! Read on for three ways that low-impact, high-intensity workouts can benefit your health.
1. Increases Muscular Strength and Endurance
The combination of these two methods of exercise are the perfect blend to allow for increasing muscular strength and endurance. The low-impact allows your body to build up strength and endurance over time without harming your body. This means that you can workout more often since your joints are being taken care of. With the Megaformer technology used in The Lagree Method, which provides your body with a type of counter-resistance, you can improve your muscular strength. The Megaformer also pushes your muscles to the ideal threshold of intensity to stimulate strength and endurance over time.
2. Tones and Tightens Your Body
Because of the unique technology used in the Lagree method, these low-impact, high-intensity workouts combine various types of training — including cardio, strength, flexibility, and more! This combination works every aspect of your body, toning and tightening along the way. Rather than only focusing on one part of your body, these low-impact, high-intensity workouts allow your entire body to be worked during every exercise you complete. Another aspect of these workouts is that rather than being done quickly, each movement is done slowly. This allows your body to build long and lean muscle throughout your entire body, toning it to perfection.
3. Does Not Damage Connective Tissue or Joints
Although the Lagree workouts still involve high-intensity, the low-impact aspect allows a wide range of people to participate — including those with injuries. Rather than beating down your body during these classes, the Lagree method allows you to move slowly and give your joints a break. Although The Lagree Method is less tough on your body than fitness methods such as CrossFit, it is equally as effective. Using the Megaformer, the Lagree method builds strength in every area of your body, improving your posture and joint alignment, which helps relieve some of the pain.
With the Megaformer technology, your body is pushed to its limits through high-intensity exercises while a variety of muscles are worked. If you are looking for a unique, challenging workout that will work your entire body, contact The Lagree Method to join one of our classes today!