We get it; your first class can be intimidating to show up to. We have all felt the nerves before our first class. There are a lot of thoughts running through your mind. You may be worried that you won’t make it through an entire class, that you won’t know how to do what is asked, or that people will know you’re a beginner. It’s common to feel a little bit nervous about your first class, we recognize that, and our trainers are highly trained to ensure you leave feeling better than when you walked in.

At Jolt Fitness we believe that health is not only physical, but also mental, emotional, spiritual, and environmental. Being strong in all five dimensions of wellness is key to overall life long health. We believe that once we stop obsessing over how our body looks, and start focusing on what our body can do we will find true freedom and optimal health. We believe their is strength in numbers and a solid community is necessary to meeting your goals. Jolt is here to help you level up your strength mentally and physically. No teammate left behind, we are here to push you to your next level, to build the best version of you, and empower you to live your optimal life.

We need to be smart with cardio. Running your daily 10 kilometers and participating in exclusively endurance based high intensity cardio can be catabolic. This means your body wants to be as small as possible, so it can carry you for as long as possible. To do this your body breaks down muscle to make you lighter to carry in endurance based activities.  It starts to break down tissue and has no resources to rebuild. Please note, poorly programmed RT programs can do this too! 

When it comes to doctors orders, they are typically cardio based prescriptions urging patients to get 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous aerobic activity each week. That’s just 21 minutes of activity each day, and that’s great! We support that everyone should be moving each day whether you walk, run, crawl or sprint, we believe movement is health.

However, this neglects the importance of resistance training. Resistance training (RT) is moving external force for intentional muscle adaptations. We need to pick things up and put them down, just like our bodies are required to do every single day. Here’s the Jolt Fitness prescription:

When you walk into a “classic” style gym, the majority of the room is taken up with foreign looking resistance training machines like an ocean of plastic, iron, and someone else’s sweat as people rip through generic circuits day in and day out.