UNICUS Fitness Methodology

UNICUS Fitness® Training Methodology

One of the main areas that distinguishes UNICUS Fitness® Training is the unique methodology that drives the majority of the programming and training systems that we create. This methodology is grounded in both science and as a bit of an artform. It allows UNICUS Fitness® Clients to achieve incredible results in minimal time.

The Science of Getting Smaller and Tighter

femaleabwork The Secret behind UNICUS Fitness® Results.

One of the things that really distinguishes our company from every other fitness company is that we only focus on making the human body smaller, tighter, healthier and sexier, all in the shortest amount of time possible. To do this, we came up with our own training principles which we identify as Time Under Tension Training™ and Mechanical Inefficiency Training™. With these two principles as the backbone, we have been able to create all the unique UNICUS Fitness® Programming and Training Systems. Each program is customized and geared toward a particular niche, but all have come from the same principles, so some similarities exist across the lines.

Time Under Tension Training™

This training principle is the opposite of traditional workout methods that advocate Progressive Resistance, Resistance Overloading, Splitting Bodypart Days and Counting Sets and Reps. All the afformentioned training principles come from the world of Bodybuilding and are designed to Hypertrophy (grow) the muscles of the human body in the most optimal way. With Time Under Tension™, the idea is the engage the muscle and make it sustain tension for greater periods of time. The key to growing a muscle is to stimulate it, then to provide periods of rest to it, both inside the workout and outside of the workout. But if you are trying to become smaller and tighter, this is ABSOLUTELY THE WRONG WAY TO GO ABOUT TRAINING!

What you need to do is focus on stimulating the muscle and to keep the stimulation in place for an extended period of time. We have found great success with a range of 60-90 sec per movement. When we string together 3-8 movements, we have found through laboratory tests, that we can make the human body burn more calories per unit of time than every other training method known to man.

Focus on stimulating the muscle for a prolonged period of time and NOT splitting body parts up. With our methods, you will be able to train more frequently and even when you are not training, your body will be releasing calories at a much greater rate.

Mechanical Inefficiency Training™

With this training principle, the focus is on making the human body go against its natural instinct. You see, as a species, the human body is designed to be a very efficient machine. First, it wants to expend the least amount of energy possible, because this usually has ensured its own survival. Second, when it does have to expand energy, it will focus on making sure that it shifts most of the stress to the skeletal system. You see, if the muscular system has to endure most of the stress, you won't be able to endure as much work or energy expenditure due to the burning you will start to feel in your muscles. All this is much more complicated and physiology majors might be rolling their eyes at such simplistic explanations, but we don't want to turn this into a college course. victoryweightloss

So with Mechanical Inefficiency Training™, the idea is to make your body less efficient so that it has to work harder in a shorter amount of time, thereby forcing it to release even more calories per unit of time. The added side effect is that your body will become healthier as well as smaller and tighter.

We achieve the inefficiency by making sure to do certain things like not locking out joints, changing muscle force directions, utilizing gravity's forces to our advantage and just plain not giving you the rest that your body craves. This is how your body worked hundreds of years ago before there were cars, elevators and other creature comforts that made our lives easier, but not necessarily better.

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