Whether your goal is to reduce body fat, increase lean body mass, maintenance alone, or to improve your performance with no change in body composition, our fitness professionals will utilize the following five components to establish a personalized program to help you attain your desired goals. Read on to find out what these essential five components are and their importance in your way of life.

5 Components of Fitness

The 5 Components of the APEX System consist of food intake, cardiorespiratory activity, food supplementation, resistance training and personal assistance. Most fitness programs only isolate one or two of those components and try to convince you that those particular components, in and of themselves, are the keys to success. The APEX Fitness System sets itself apart by focusing on all five. And the truth is, without all five components, the chance for long-term success is difficult, if not impossible. Using the following five components, our fitness trainers administer only what is specific to a person’s needs. We gather the necessary data, filter out the unnecessary or incorrect information and deliver only what is most appropriate for you, the individual, and your goals, sparing you frustration, lost time, as well as lost money.

Component 1: Food Intake…Eat Smart, Not Less
It is a well known fact; you cannot loose body fat unless you consume fewer calories than you expend. Therefore, adjusting food intake will assist you in creating the energy deficit needed to utilize the body’s fat stores. You will find that the body will try to counteract this deficit in order to restore your body’s energy balance. The body does this by adapting to the food intake through reducing energy expenditure (e.g. losing lean body mass) or forcing non-compliance (through hunger or cravings). These biological survival tactics must be continually outsmarted if fat reduction is to continue. For increasing Lean Body Mass, the calories consumed need to be above the current level of calories you have been using for maintenance. These extra calories should be no more than the amount needed to build and sustain the increase in lean body mass initiated by appropriate exercise. Most weight loss plateaus are caused because people are rarely consistent about adhering to the proper amount of calories to maintain body-fat reduction or increase their lean body mass. This is why it is important to gain the knowledge and work with an educated professional about the correct guidelines regarding food intake in order to meet your goals.

Do you know the right amount and type of food to eat to support your fitness goals? Our fitness professionals will recommend, monitor, and modify your food intake to keep you feeling satisfied and energetic.

Component 2: Cardiorespiratory Training…
Give Your Heart A Regular Beating
n order to meet your individual goals you should be exercising within your own proper cardio training zone. Do you know what that is? The goal of cardiorespiratory training is to get as many large muscles as possible working hard, but continuously, in order to burn the greatest amount of calories during and after exercise. Because the body is able to adapt quickly to exercise, so it is crucial to alter your workload from time to time. We can help you find your proper cardio zone and design an individualized exercise program that adapts as your fitness level changes.

Make every minute count by having our fitness professionals teach you the proper frequency, intensity, and type of cardiorespiratory exercises you need to perform to achieve your fitness goals. We will show you how to use more calories during exercise and teach you how to maintain the adaptation period with changes in workload so you continue to burn extra calories throughout the day.

Component 3: Food Supplementation…
Sometimes the Small Stuff Makes the Biggest Difference
Supplements provide the following benefits:

1) They allow you to boost your nutrient intake without added calories.
2) They assist with appetite control.
3) They assist in maintaining and increasing lean body mass, therefore offsetting the net weight-loss contribution to the reduction of energy expenditure.
4) They assist in the maintenance of health during periods of extreme physical exertion and limited calories.

We can help you find out exactly what you need to see the greatest results to meet your goals. You will fill out food preference and fitness-program questionnaires and our fitness professionals will enter your answers into specialized APEX software to analyze your personal information. The results and recommendations that are produced will be used to make up your lifestyle program and are individualized to YOU specifically.

Component 4: Resistance Training…Redefine Yourself
Did you know the more muscle you have the more fat you burn? Adding resistance training in any fitness program assists in altering body composition, improves daily activities, and improves performance. However, after time, your body adapts to the workload after performing repetitive exercises over time. Therefore, you reach a fitness plateau. We can help you overcome this stage in your fitness training and lead you to a higher level.

Our fitness professionals will design and help you execute an appropriate resistance training program adapts as your fitness level changes. We will constantly assess your workouts and make appropriate changes to ensure that you are continually making progress. In addition, we make certain you are executing the movements correctly to maximize your body’s potential and ensure safety.

Component 5: Personal Assistance…Get With The Program
With the guidance of one of our fitness professionals we can help you avoid fitness plateaus by monitoring the above components for you. We asses how your caloric intake needs to be altered, make needed changes in the type, intensity, duration, and/or frequency of your cardiorespiratory program, boost nutrient intake in order to help you improve performance and maintain health, as well as change exercises and/or manipulate specific variables in your resistance training program. We make sure you are correctly following your food plan, supplementation and exercise program to ensure you will meet your specific goals.

We make sure the 5 Components are working together for you to create the best results in the shortest amount of time.

Why wait any longer? Contact one of our fitness professionals to get started on the path to your healthier lifestyle TODAY. (209) 532-1202