Category: STRENGTH

Strength sessions are designed, executed and monitored by Prahlladh. The aim of strength training is to structurally balance and strengthen your body’s musculature. The intensity of the training is dictated by your existing fitness, prior injuries (if any) and past training experience.

Depending on your level of fitness and past experience, sessions can last anywhere between 45-90 minutes.

In our indoors gym. It is equipped with all the necessary machines and weights required for both a full-body routine and for individual muscle exercises.

You only fear that which you do not know. It is our job to educate you about the proper use of weights and how to exercise with the right posture and stance to minimize muscle pain and injuries. Furthermore, we begin with light-weights (especially for beginners) and increase the weights as your muscle-strength improves.

Muscle-gain is directly related to the level of testosterone in one’s body. Since women do not have this hormone, it takes a lot of weight-training (and hormone injections) for women to gain muscle. The goal of “Strength-Training” is to increase strength, not muscle-mass.

Injury rehabilitation is a major part of strength-training. You will find that as you train, your old aches and pains will reduce as your weakened muscles grow stronger. If you cannot perform certain exercises, then substitute exercises will be taught to you.

Beginners are taken through a moderate full-body workout routine which primes their muscles and limbs for more advanced and intense training sessions as the weeks progress. The primary focus of the training is to teach you the right form, technique and breathing rhythm.

Students with moderate or even extensive experience in weight/strength training will be made to focus on advanced versions of: Big-lifts, Squats, Deadlifts, Front-Squats, Bench-press, Dips & Pull-ups etc. Each strength-training program is personalized and will take into account your previous experience and injuries (if any).

The maximum number of students allowed during strength-training is 2. And only if they are of the same fitness level.

Yes, you will need your heart-rate monitor as it will help your trainer to adjust the speed with which to move you from one exercise to the other.