Training

• Heart Rate Monitoring
  - Understand which energy system you are training
  - Allows you to monitor during your workout
  - Aerobic system is the cornerstone of endurance performance
• Nutrition
  - Low Glycemic Index, Whole Foods, Eating Clean
  - Know what you should eat before, during and after exercise
• Stretching
  -Proper length tension relationship for muscles to work optimally
  -Helps prevent injury
• Strengthening
  -Core strength is important for solid base of support
  -Upper/Lower extremity strength is important for efficiency
• Recovery
  -Gains are made when you allow enough time for your body to recover and adapt to the stresses you have applied.
  -Recovery is a part of your training
  -Training needs to be individualized

Physical Therapy Fitness Assessment:

Learn about how your structure, flexibility and strength impact your fitness level. Know how to perform specific exercises to prevent injury and keep you exercising to your fullest potential.  Receive information on proper footwear and equipment fit to enhance your level of performance and comfort.

Body Composition Analysis

Body Composition analysis gives you a more complete picture of the shape you are in because our scale can tell if you’re losing pounds from fat or from muscle.  Understanding your body’s metabolic rate will show you how to eat the MAXIMUM amount of food and still lose weight. Your body will be healthy, happy, and satisfied.


Metabolic Rate Testing

Metabolism is the process of converting food into energy food into heat or energy. The rate and efficiency with which the body coverts food to energy is referred to as the metabolic rate. The most common way to measure metabolic rate is called Indirect Calorimetry, otherwise known as the amount of oxygen consumed. Every calorie consumed requires a fixed amount of oxygen to be converted to energy. The rate at which oxygen is used is directly proportional to the rate of caloric expenditure. Therefore measuring the rate of oxygen consumption is equivalent to measuring the amount of calories being used.

VO₂ Testing

The volume of oxygen consumed is VO2. Values of VO2 are reported in milliliters per minute (ml/min). The VO2 is then reported in milliliters per minute per kilogram of body weight (ml/min/kg). The max amount of oxygen an individual can consume is referred to as their “VO2Max” and is a measure of their level of fitness. Factors that include affect a person’s VO2 max include level of cardiac and pulmonary fitness, muscle mass, muscle perfusion and genetics. Anaerobic or ventilator threshold can also be determined by a VO2 test. Anaerobic threshold (AT) is the level of exercise beyond which lactic acid begins to accumulate in the muscles. As a person exercises, the muscle consumes oxygen and produces carbon dioxide and lactic acid. As long as the heart and lungs provide enough blood flow to the muscles the muscles can operate “aerobically” in a relatively painfree state for a long periods of time. As the level of exertion increases, the muscles reqire more oxygen than the body can provide and metabolism becomes ‘anaerobic’. In anaerobic metabolism, lactic acid accumulates in the muscles and they become fatigued and sore.