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How Resistance Training for Women Promotes Weight Loss

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Weight training is this super scary, underworld activity performed by huge muscle bound men and looking at a dumbbell is enough to build huge muscles! The truth is, as any man will know who’s tried to gain muscle, it’s not quite so easy. 

Weight training is an excellent way to reduce body fat, tone up, firm up and increase muscular strength and fitness. If you are a women concerned about using weights for your workout or to lose weight, it’s time to think again, it’s one of the most effective methods to stimulate weight loss and maintain your desired weight.

The difference between the huge weight lifters and women wanting to lose weight and tone up. When it comes to training it’s all about freqancy & intensity or more simply reps, sets & weight. Its how we train not the training that will dictate muscle size, tone and strength.

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Why do I need to complete a PARQ form?

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Required before starting personal training or participating in a group exercise session.

The PARQ Form (Pre-Activity Readiness Questionnaire) is a health screening document designed for individuals about to take part in physical activity. The questionnaire will identify health issues and recent injuries, illness, ailments and cardiovascular conditions that require the attention of your trainer, gym or fitness establishment before taking part in demanding physical training. 

The PARQ form is a quick and effective way of screening clients and customers about to participate in physical activity of any kind to ensure you are safely able to take part without risk to yourself. The PARQ has been an industry standard for ensuring individuals are safe to participate in a physical training programme. The role of this form and screening process is not necessarily diagnostic but instead assessing risk.

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Lung Function Peak Flow Test (PEF)

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Quite simply, your peak flow is the maximum flow rate during a forced expiration, this gives an indication of the size and power of your lungs. Commonly used for the diagnosis and treatment of asthma. It can also be useful in understanding a person’s lung function ability and progression. Having a good level of physical activity helps to increase your lung function. It is impaired by smoking, if you have a cold or various pulmonary disorders, or as mentioned, Asthma.

Your Peak Flow reading is taken and recorded as part of the Kiss Fitness Health MOT, part of the personal training consultation.

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Bio Impedance Analysis

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This is just one method for testing your body composition, it is, however a very convenient and portable way of performing a body composition assessment to determine body fat percentage, total body water and fat-free mass.

In this method you are either connected to electrodes on your hands and feet or use a cheaper alternative in the form of scales or hand held devices, a small current (about 0.4-0.8 amps) is passed though the body, it’s OK, you won’t feel anything. Whichever devioce is used, they all achieve the same things with varying accuracy and likewise range in price from affordable to very expensive. The electrodes measure resistance as it passes through the body, it works on the principle that the resistance is inversely related to fat-free mass contained within the body, a body fat percentage can then be calculated.

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