PHILOSOPHY
The UnderGround Lab/DaGrind Team Philosophy
Serious about your workouts? So are we! In fact, our success depends on your getting results. Our programs combine the best principals of diet, strength and cardio training with motivation, intensity and personal accountability to effectively redefine your body.
The UnderGround Lab Fitness Personal Training Guarantee:
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We’ll design and supervise a well-balanced training program for you using correct form and technique to reach your fitness goals. Everybody is different, so we personalize your specific workout program.
The Game Plan
Three MUST HAVES are crucial for achieving and maintaining a fit and healthy body - Nutrition (what you eat, how much and when); Strength Training (using free weights, weight machines, bands, balls—even your body weight—to push against your muscles); and Cardiovascular Activity (exercising your heart and burning calories by elevating metabolism).
Now add this: Accountability and Motivation. No system can guarantee you success. For that, you must be either extremely self-motivated or have someone push you and hold you accountable for the responsibility of your own workouts!
The number one reason most people fail to hit their weight loss and fitness targets is because they don’t incorporate ALL these principals into their program.
Breaking It Down
Let’s Talk Diet
Workouts mean nothing without good nutrition. No food contains all the nutrients you need. Foods however have specific functions that you need to combine for a well-balanced diet. If yours is nutritionally poor, you’re asking for trouble—in and out of the gym. Requirements vary, but everyone needs a good diet. Hands down, it’s the cornerstone of any fat-loss or muscle-gaining program.
Eating 5, 6, even 7 equal-size portions every three hours throughout the day is the most effective way of keeping your metabolism stoked for burning calories and getting lean. |
Hit That Iron
There’s no way around it: You’ve got to lift weights if you want definition. Blast your biggest muscles—chest, back, especially legs—hard to release vital growth hormones. Shock them even more with heavy weights, forced reps and drop sets to boost your intensity and increase muscle-building protein synthesis. All this kicks your anabolic machinery into overdrive during the rebuilding phase—the time your muscles really grow.
Our programs maximize calorie burning while adding lean muscle. Most emphasize high volume, intensity and frequency by mixing low (6-10) and high (10-15) repetitions with little rest between sets. The lower heavier reps add muscle density for boosting metabolism, assisting fat-burning, and definition. The higher lighter reps directly elevate the heartrate for fat-burning. |
Run For Your Life
If you do 20 minutes on the treadmill before your workout you’ve got it backwards. Here’s why. First, you jumped off the treadmill just when you started getting into bodyfat. Your muscles hold less than a half hour supply of glycogen (blood sugar); at that point cardio shifts into burning fat. Aerobics classes are predicated on that very fact. That’s why they’re 45 minutes: the first 20 minutes burn off the glucose, the next 25 burn off the fat. So do cardio after your workout (HIIT), when your sugar’s depleted. You’ll go straight into fat-burning mode, and need only around 20 intense minutes. To maximize the thermogenic effect use interval training that alternates fast and slow bouts of max effort. Of-course this is just the basics, we do tons of tricky business behind the scene to assure your body get the quality changes you’re looking for!
Cardio is BEST performed BEFORE breakfast or IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING a workout! |
What Is The “UGL”?
UnderGround Lab Fitness—we provide a customized method of getting your body into shape fast. Look, this isn’t rocket science (although we do have it down to a formula!). Here’s how it works:
Combine cardio and strength-training and a personalized diet plan with our accountablity and motivational system and we guarantee you’ll lose 10 pounds in one month! |
Diet and lack of physical activity not only account for the country’s current epidemic of obesity, but for half a million deaths annually. Exercise offers dramatic daily improvement in quality of life, and affects the outcome of many diseases. Yet few individuals know how to begin a safe, effective program, let alone gain results. Enter The UnderGround Lab.
Our private personal fitness training facility features friendly, certified and experienced coaches ready to use a wide array of aerobic and resistance-training equipment to get you in shape fast.
Our clients range from athletic high school students to out-of-shape Baby Boomers, elders with joint or heart problems, and people demanding dramatic results in a hurry. Don’t Wait, Come to the Lab and “Git Crazy Wit It”
UnderGround Lab Specialties:
- Weight Loss
- Lean Mass Gain
- Nutritional Counseling
- Body Toning
- Total Body Sculpting
- Stamina & Endurance
- Strength & Power
- Rehabilitation
- Youth
- Older Adult
- Stretching & Posture
- Sport Specific Programs