fitness
L-R: Deborah Sparks-Kerss, master trainer; Niri Patel, managing director; Catherine Patel, operations director
fit20
IT WAS in New York in 2005 that Dutchman Walter Vendel first came across high intensity resistance training, a method of training discovered and developed in the 1970s by Ken Hutchins and Arthur Jones. He was struck by the effectiveness, efficiency and potential of the concept, but with an average price of $125 per session, Vendel doubted the training concept would work in his native Netherlands. He therefore decided to adapt and refine the
concept back at his own studio and in 2009 the first fit20 franchise studio opened in Zwolle, the Netherlands.
The high intensity resistance training concept that clients can perform in their work clothes without breaking a sweat is starting its UK rollout.
Today, fit20 has grown to 130 studios in six
countries: the Netherlands, Belgium, UK, US, Qatar and New Zealand. The brand also has corporate studios with a number of multinationals such as Siemens and Randstad.
20 minutes a week fit20 is a personal training studio. Clients are trained according to the high intensity resistance training method, by appointment, with a personal trainer. Using Nautilus equipment that uses
concentric and eccentric loading, clients train
in slow motion recruiting all four different types of muscle fibre, explains Niri Patel, managing director of fit20 UK. “The fit20 method brings client in a safe and
guided way to the point where there is no energy and strength left in the muscle i.e. muscle failure. The body adapts to meet the demands it can’t meet, which causes the muscles to become stronger and its reflexes faster, but it also generates a host of other effects that strengthen and regenerate the whole system, including the cardiovascular system and blood glucose metabolism.” The five major muscle groups are trained in
five to six exercises focusing on arms, legs, chest, back and stomach. Clients are always trained under the guidance of a personal trainer, and close to muscle failure. Their results are tracked via an App so clients can monitor their progress.
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