Join us for Jolt Testing Day where the Jolt Fam will be challenged to an express version of the Jolt Fitness Test. This annual testing day allows members to track their yearly progress and receive semi-customized training suggestions on areas of improvement. Use this data to help you progress and make the right fitness choices for your resilient body and high quality life.

The hardest part about quitting is re-starting. And re-starting is not optional. Whether we like it or not, fitness is a daily health practice like brushing our teeth and taking a shower. We don’t think “hmmm, I am not motivated to brush my teeth lately and throw the tooth brush away”…

Research published in the Journal of Applied Physiology in 2012 found that progressive resistance training is effective in improving insulin sensitivity and glucose metabolism. This means that weightlifting can help regulate blood sugar levels and reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Resistance training helps build your body up allowing us to sculpt the areas of the body that aesthetically we’d like to improve. Resistance training can target build, but it cannot target burn….

If you’re reading this, chances are you’re ready to get off the elliptical and take your fitness to the next level. Maybe you’re tired of doing endless amounts of fitness challenges and YouTube workouts that guarantee to “lengthen” and “tone” muscles?

If you went to the dentist and they told you that you have a cavity, would you go home and try to drill it out yourself?

We’re guessing you’d be more likely to rely on the dentist’s help, guidance and expertise. Fitness is the same way, it’s so much easier, more fun, and effective when guided by an expert trainer. If you have participated in fitness in the past and didn’t enjoy your experience in the gym or you’ve never felt like you would “fit in” at a typical gym, we’re here to change that. We’re revolutionizing the fitness industry by providing active health care rooted in education and integrity that improves your quality of life outside of the gym and builds a resilient body.

The most obvious step is resistance training, we need to lift weights to build muscle. When lifting weights, we need to be pushing close to failure and applying progressive overload. In simple terms, this means we are continuously working hard. At Jolt, we use our Lift class to build muscle. These professionally planned workouts are created by experienced and educated trainers who plan the perfect workout to build muscle. Our resistance training Lift classes include the following elements to ensure muscle growth.

Thousands of sit-ups later and we know this isn’t true. What is true is that fat loss and gain is highly based on genetics. This means that the places you store fat and lose fat from first are determined before you step foot in the gym. The good news, we can target BUILD. All those sit ups can make our ab muscles bigger and therefore they will appear aesthetically when paired with healthy nutrition. Another example of this is the glutes (butt), squats, deadlifts, and hip thrusts are a great way to build the muscles of your glutes. Building the glutes allows you to shape your body up rather than trying to target it down. Consider the gym a place to BUILD rather than burn. 

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: