Why You Need Low Impact Workouts

Working out is crucial to your overall fitness, especially in today’s society where most Americans have jobs where they sit the majority of the day at a desk in front of the computer. In order to stay healthy and/or lose weight or keep weight off, you need to do some form of movement that will elevate your heart rate and burn calories to keep you in overall good health.

The Lagree Method is a boutique fitness studio in Dublin, Ohio, that offers Lagree Fitness. Founded by Sebastien Lagree, this type of fitness workouts are high intensity, low impact, full body, muscular endurance training that will not only get all of your muscles moving, but will isolate them, which will give you strength and muscle tone. Below, we’ll go over some of the reasons why you need low impact workouts in your exercise routine. Contact us today for our fitness class schedule, and drop by!

WHY YOU NEED LOW IMPACT WORKOUTS

First off, what are low impact workouts? Impact, when talking about exercising, is the force exerted on your bones and joints by an activity. While our bones and joints do need high impact exercises in order to stay strong, too much high impact can stress our joints and actually cause damage over time. Thus, it’s important to find a balance no matter what type of exercises you do.

Balance in Your Fitness Routine

As briefly mentioned above, you need to mix up your workouts if you want to see optimal results. For example, running every day won’t build your upper body, and doing pulls up every day won’t do anything for your lower body. You need to do a variety of workouts in order to stimulate your muscles in different ways to balance out your body. Plus, doing the same thing over and over is not only hard on your body, but it also is mind-numbingly boring. Over the long run, you are not likely to stick with an exercise type if you are bored by it.

Build Strength and Endurance

Low impact exercises are great ways to build strength and endurance. For example, going for a long walk can help build your legs and doing yoga can help with balance and coordination. Lagree Fitness focuses on holding muscle tension to the point of failure, which pushes your muscles to work harder and thus grow stronger. This is also where you will see the difference in the muscle tone in your body.

Lose Weight

To lose weight, the science is simple: you burn more calories than you take it. This forces your body to use fat as energy, which, over time, takes the weight off your body. By participating in low impact exercise you can lose weight and be healthy. Many people, due to health reasons, cannot participate in high impact exercises, and that’s ok. You can still lose weight by doing low impact exercises, such as Lagree Fitness.

Increases Your Cardiovascular Health

One characteristic of low impact exercise is that you can sustain it for a longer period of time because your heart is not working as hard. This improves your endurance and your cardiovascular health as your heart is pumping harder than normal for longer. In the long run, any exercise is good exercise, including low impact exercises.

ARE LOW IMPACT WORKOUTS FOR YOU?

There are many people who could benefit from low impact workouts. These include:

• Those recovering from injury

• Seniors who don’t want the impact on their joints

• Those looking for a break

• Those beginning a fitness routine

Low-impact workouts will give you the same results you are looking for (such as losing weight and muscle tone) as high-impact workouts; it just won’t be as fast. By their very nature, they are slow and controlled, the very definition being that at least one foot stays on the ground at all times. However, you can achieve the results you want, you just have to be patient. Great examples of low-impact workouts include:

• Biking or cycling

• Elliptical machine work

• Hiking

• Yoga

• Pilates

• Dancing

• Swimming

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CHOOSE LAGREE FITNESS AS YOUR WORKOUT METHOD OF CHOICE

The Lagree Method offers Lagree Fitness, which is a combination of HIIT and low impact exercises that offer amazing health and wellness benefits. You can lose weight, gain muscle and muscle tone, and feel better about yourself. You will improve your fitness level in all ways, from endurance to cardiovascular, and it’s all done in short, 45 minutes classes. We will push you to work hard and once you see the results, we know you will back for more.

The Lagree Method in Dublin welcomes all to try out our fitness studio and learn about our amazing equipment and fitness method. Come in, try a class, and see for yourself what the hype is all about. Visit us today!