Benefits of Bootcamp
This is more than just a bootcamp, it is 3 days a week Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 5:30am and called IMPACT (Intense Mixed Performance Accelerated Cross Training). Why is it just 3 days? North Jersey Fitness program is your one month fitness and lifestyle program designed to get you fit or fitter fast! IMPACT incorporates all of the advanced training principles used by the fittest athletes and fitness models and modifies it into a fun and productive group workout you can enjoy and see quick results from. The workouts are 3 days per week for 55 minutes. Each workout includes a 5 minute warm up to get your energy up, your blood pumping and prepare you for what’s to come. Next is a 10 minute speed, agility and quickness segment referred to as SAQ. Here you will perform drills seen in track and field events, in foot ball combines and from your grammar school gym class. SAQ is followed by 20 minutes of strength and conditioning. You can expect some traditional and some new strengthening moves to sculpt your perfect body. Monday is a lower body focus. Wednesday targets the upper body and on Friday is the important midsection including any and all muscles below the chin and above the hip bone. Just when you think you have exerted yourself, get ready for 10 minutes of fat blasting cardio conditioning to leave your metabolism at an all time high for hours following your IMPACT workout. Finally you will be rewarded with 5 minutes of total body stretching that will leave you feeling accomplished, happy, successful and inspired.
Benefits of 5:30 am Workout
Wake up and smell the sweat. That's the guiding principle for morning exercisers, those disciplined creatures who jump out of their beds and into their sneakers at dawn while the rest of us ... don't. While most experts say you should exercise whenever it's best for your lifestyle — and that you shouldn't try to make yourself into a morning person if you aren't one — there are real advantages to working out soon after you wake up. For one thing, people who get their workout over early in the day are more likely to stick to an exercise routine, according to Chris McGowan, owner and Personal trainer at North Jersey Personal Fitness, LLC. “As the day goes on, we start to get busy, and one of the things we push out is our exercise program. It's the easiest thing to drop,” says McGowan, whose clients often cancel their afternoon training sessions because a work meeting ran late or a child got sick. Working out before the day heats up “would allow for a lower to moderate heart rate that would facilitate a high fat burn,” says Tommy Boone, professor of exercise physiology at the College of St. Scholastic in Minnesota and co-founder of the American Society of Exercise Physiology. “A person would probably be able to sustain their exercise a little bit longer. That would reap a little bit more benefit.” People who want to shed pounds might want to exercise first thing in the morning on an empty stomach because the body will burn off stored fat for energy rather than carbohydrates, says Donovan Fogt, assistant professor in UTSA's Department of Health and Kinesiology. Working up a sweat in the morning also gives exercisers energy throughout the rest of the day, Fogt adds. That's primarily because exercise blunts the crash in blood sugar that follows high-carb breakfasts, keeping energy levels consistent.
