Group Training Timetable

Our Training Methods

At Enliven Fitness we believe that variety in your training program is key to keeping your healthy exercise habit fun, interesting and motivational, which in turn delivers greater results. Our classes are structured in a way that allows each training session every day of the week to be different, and each week thereafter for it to change.

Some of the Training Methods we use in our group classes are:

Interval Workouts: These workouts are divided into Metabolic Interval, Interval Strength and Cardio Interval.

Main benefits include:

• Improved Muscular Strength
• Improved joint strength and stability (fantastic for injury recovery & prevention)
• Increased metabolism (body’s ability to burn fat as energy outside of your workouts, all day long)
• Increased bone density
• Safest form for beginners (minimal risk of injury)

Endurance: We use many forms of Endurance type workouts, e.g   AMRAPS (As Many Rounds As Possible in a Set time),  SRFT (Set Rounds For Time), TRFT (Total Reps for Time). They are completed once per week as excess endurance training can be taxing and catabolic on the body and lead to injuries. Main benefits include:

• Increased metabolic efficiency (body’s ability to burn fat as energy while exercises)
• Improved cardiovascular fitness
• Increased lactic acid threshold
• Improved muscular endurance strength

Strength: Our strength workouts are completed once per week, as doing very heavy lifts too often can be too stressful on the nervous system. This type of workout is generally the most undervalued, especially in women, yet strength work is needed more in females to really tone up and keep melting the fat away. Main benefits include:

• Significant boost in metabolism (fat burning effect)
• Increases the body’s natural level of healthy hormones (needed for fat burning and recovery)
• Improved joint integrity, stability and bone density
• Slower past to allow time to learn and focus proper techniques
• Increased overall strength, with transfer effects into other workouts

Speed and Power: Consists of fast, explosive movements to increase your heart rate followed by longer rest periods. To get the most out of this type of workout you need to give 100% effort whilst doing each exercise to gain the maximal benefits. Main benefits include:

• Increased muscular power and speed
• Improved athletic and sporting ability
• Neural Adaptations  for better overall performance in all workouts

Mixed workouts: Includes aspects of some or all of the Interval, Endurance, Strength and Speed & Power workouts. Main benefits include:

• A combination of results gained from all training types above
• Diverse & exciting
• May be partner, team based or relay workouts.

The Importance of ALL of these workouts for overall health and fitness.

Strength, stability, endurance, cardio, agility,posture and flexibility are all important to gain complete fitness. If we overtrain in one area, for example it is very common for people to overtrain in cardio based exercises; they will gain endurance but will often lack the strength and stability in their joints, and flexibility of their muscles, which will make them more prone to injury.  We all want strength, but if our strength is flawed by lack of stability in our joints we are creating an incomplete system. This training system has been specifically and carefully designed to ensure that you are training your body safely and completely, and are not overtraining or under training is each area of your fitness. This training system is an exciting and diverse way to exercise, allowing development of your fitness in a complete way. It has been designed specifically so you can train multiply days in a row, however it is recommend that beginners to not do more than 3 sessions per week and progressive up to 5 sessions per week as their fitness improves. We urge you to embrace each and all of these different training days, as they have been developed for everyone’s personal progress in mind. You may be surprised what you can achieve when you are training to your full ability through these various workouts.