We’ve moved to a new website visit innovativeresultsgym.com 

Orange County Personal Trainers - Personal Training in Orange County, CA

Innovative Results has been voted #1 orange county personal trainers, best gym in orange county and provides fitnesss training to support active lifestyles

  • About
    • Our Program
    • Our Gym
    • Our Coaches
  • Articles
  • Store
  • Contact
  • IR3 Online Members
  • FREE Trial

The Benefits of Battling Ropes – Battle Ropes Help Improve You

February 16, 2016 by IR Staff Leave a Comment

By: Mark Elmasry

Native to Orange County, every minute outside of the gym is spent outdoors and in the water.

Benefits of the battling rope are huge because it is a well rounded exercise. Exercises with the battling ropes train so many different aspects. The battle ropes train your three physiological energy systems, train your mechanics to keep healthy posture, and is mental training as well. When executed correctly, battle ropes offer a plethora of disciplines that can be practiced.

Improves All Three Energy Systems

Working with the battling ropes challenges all three energy systems. Physiologically, when training with the battle ropes, you can move for a short term, 12 seconds or less, mid-length exercise bouts 10 seconds to a maximum of about 2 minutes, and long term as anything above 2 minutes. The short and explosive bouts will newport beach personal trainertrain your phospho-creatine “alactic” energy system. This is the powerful energy system that requires as many fast twitch muscle fibers as you can fire together and needs over a minute to recharge completely. The mid-length exercise bouts with the battling ropes is anything from 10 to about 120 seconds at a fairly intense pace, which is the lactic system. This is where our fast and slow glycolysis happens, put simply, where our lungs and muscles feel “the burn” and want to quit immediately. This energy system can be trained and maximized to an ideal near-2 minute capacity. Third, and finally, we can use the battling ropes to train our oxidative energy system. This is moving at relatively slow pace for a long period of time, or any amount of time longer than 1 and a 1/2 minutes.

Jessie Penne Ropes

Improves Posture

Exercising with the battle ropes requires good posture. If you start to round your upper or lower back, your work capacity is severely compromised and you cannot fulfill your physiological potential. If you do maintain healthy and normal posture while training the battling ropes however, you can train your nervous system to learn a whole new endurance level and push your mechanical breaking point. The battle ropes inevitably fatigue every person at some point and we all find our spine’s “breaking point” where our posture is no longer at an optimum level for exercise. Training with this exercise/ physical therapy tool can be an excellent coach to teach our bodies to maintain spinal integrity through low grade or explosive movements. We can train an elderly person battling arthritis to slam the battling ropes as if doing a power lift, but we will never have that subject actually perform any power or Olympic lifts. The battling ropes are tremendously safe and user friendly for all levels and ages.

Afternoon Crew

Improves Mental Discipline

Lastly, the battling ropes train a mental discipline to focus inwardly. We are not going any where with the exercise tool as it if affixed to an anchor, so we need to train ourselves to be mentally focused, clear minded for the exercise bout we are enduring, and to tune out any other mental and physical distractions that arise during our battle rope exercise. The ropes are mentally a beat-down while simultaneously can be a mental escape from reality for the short amount of work you are doing with them. You must have the right attitude, mindset, and mental state to perform this exercise.

The battling ropes or battle ropes train our minds as well as our bodies in different areas. This is and will be a great exercise tool for a long time.

Did you like this article? Leave us a comment and share this with your family, friends, and coworkers.

Interested in using battle ropes during an Innovative Results fitness training program? Fill out the form below to attend the Orange County Fitness Playground classes: Active Recovery, Active Conditioning, Active Strength, and Active Performance.

 

Filed Under: Blog, Guidance - Coaching - Support, Mental - Mindset, Movement - Exercise Tagged With: Battle Rope Training, battle ropes, Battle Ropes Exercises, Battles, battling ropes, improve posture, Newport Beach Personal Trainer, Physical Exercise, Rope, Rope Exercise, Rope Training, Ropes, Used Battle Ropes

The Benefits of Good Posture – A TED-ED Video shared by Innovative Results – The Orange County Fitness Playground

August 21, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

poor-posture1We hear it from a young age, your mom at the dinner table, dad, grandparents or maybe even teachers, telling you to “stand-up straight,” and/or “don’t slouch.”

They were right!

From their perspective, it didn’t present the BEST looking you from an appearance stand-point, but how about your physiology?

Innovative Results – The Orange County Fitness Playground, knows to well what happens when we slouch.

The all too common side effects of poor posture that may start as minor aches and pains, can soon negatively affect your internal organs!

The dreaded “C’s” of the car, computer, couch, and cellphone are turning all of us into what Innovative Results clients know as the “Human Cashew,” causing simple body and muscle movements more difficult or worse–PAINFUL!

The great news is that poor posture can be fixed, and so can the ailments that come with it.

Aside from fitness certifications, and an enormous amount of continuing education on health, fitness, movement, recovery, healing, and improved quality of life, we will scour the internet looking for excellent experts to back the claims we have already studied, researched, and know are true.

It is no different with this very important aspect of our physical and mental self – posture!

We found an excellent TED-ED video that describes the benefits of good posture.

View the FULL Benefits of Good Posture lesson from the TED-ED YouTube Channel, and then follow up with some great Innovative Results articles on reversing poor posture below!

Check out these video exercises to reverse poor posture from Innovative Results:

The Road to Improved Posture – 17 Mobility Drills for Your Upper Back & Shoulders
Stuck at a Desk All Day? This Exercise is For You!

If you are looking to improve your posture and improve your quality of life at Innovative Results –  The Orange County Fitness Playground, please fill out the form below, and one of our motivated coaches will set up your free trial.

Filed Under: Blog, Guidance - Coaching - Support, Mental - Mindset, Movement - Exercise Tagged With: benefits, benefits of good posture, Costa Mesa, costa mesa gym, Dinner Table, Ergonomics, exercise, Fitness Certifications, Fitness Playground, Good Posture, healthy living, improve posture, Improve Your Posture, Improves Quality, Innovative Results, lick hack, Movement - Exercise, Nonverbal Communication, Physical Exercise, Playgrounds, Poor Posture, posture, Stand Up Straight, TED ED, training, Video Exercises

3 Simple Tips to Improve Your Posture Today

September 13, 2010 by ptpt 3 Comments

In the last article I discussed what Forward Head Syndrome (when your head shifts forward compared to your shoulders) and how it effects your health. To be proactive, avoid injury, headaches, and other health related issues make these 3 changes.

1) Your car head-rest has that name for a reason, your head should actually touch it. Many people recline their car seat too much, so they are forced to bring their head forward to see the road. Some may think it is looks cooler to slouch, but how cool is chronic neck pain and headaches. Bring the back of your car seat up to no more than a 15 degree recline.  Sit with your head touching your head rest, adjust your mirrors to the correct spot and stick with it.

2) Check your pillows. Many people, especially if their head tends to be forward, sleep with a pillow that pushes them forward, or even worse they sleep with more than one pillow. Have a loved one or friend look at you in your sleeping position, your head should be aligned with your shoulders, not in front of them.

3) Bring your office or home computer up to eye level. If you use a laptop, get one of the ergonomic wedges that make it a little higher.  Take frequent posture breaks, if you find yourself looking down while you work. Set your phone or computer to remind you to take a 2 minutes break to stretch every 20 minutes.

If the above tips are difficult for you to do the ligament, bone, and muscle structure has most likely adapted to the forward head position. Getting some help can make the changes happen faster and more comfortably.

The great news is YOUR BODY IS DYNAMIC and no matter what your age you can make healthy changes to your alignment that will improve your health and vitality. I have patients in their 80’s getting great results. Don’t give up!
Remember to take it slow. Making a change too quickly can cause extra soreness and headaches. If you get sore ice for 10 minutes, and seek some care to help your body accept the healthy changes.

Specific Exercises and Stretches to come. Enjoy!

Here is a link with examples of the laptop ergonomic helpers. http://www.laptop-ergonomics.com/

Dr. Chrissy Stamm owns and is the lead chiropractor at BALANCE IN MOTION, the wellness studio in Costa Mesa. Check out her website here:  Costa Mesa Chiropractor

Filed Under: Blog, Guidance - Coaching - Support, Recovery Tagged With: back pain, better posture, costa Mesa Chiropractor, eliminate back pain, forward head posture, improve posture, reduce back pain

  • Facebook
  • Google+
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Which Class Are You Going to Try First?

Articles

Innovative Results

2925 Airway Ave. #J
Costa Mesa, CA 92626

*Located just off Redhill, behind the John Wayne Airport

Contact Us – info@innovative-results.com

Disclaimer: All quotes are the experiences and opinions of individuals, actual results may vary.

 

Connect with us

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

IR3 Training Schedule

Monday-Friday
5, 6, 9:30 am
3:30, 5, 6, 7 pm
*MWF at 12 Noon

Saturday
8,9 am
10 am Charity Workout

Sunday – CLOSED

Search

View Larger Map
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Sitemap
  • Privacy Policy

© 2023 innovative-results.com · Rainmaker Platform