Are High Intensity Classes Slowly Killing Us?
- Scott Bisbee
- Nov 21, 2019
- 3 min read
Since moving to Edmonton, I have experimented with a few new emerging boutique studios that seem to be popping up everywhere, like OrangeTheory and F45.
They both have pros and cons. For instance, OrangeTheory is good at their onboarding hiring process, "do a few classes, and memorize this script." Whereas F45 is tightly lipped about their on-boarding hiring process.
What I like about F45 though is the exercise selection is limitless, and they don't focus on your heart rate as much where OrangeTheory, that is the whole basis of the class.
I don't think these types of studios are truly helping people though. I feel like this attracts the people of the '80s who were in the whole group class phase with headbands and spandex except this is repackaged for the millennial generation.
To the people that hate exercise in general, going to these classes will not help them change their minds.
How can these studio's get better at what they do?
I think they should incorporate more HRV recovery methods into their training.
If you don't know anything about HRV, google Joel Jamieson. He has an amazing product called the BioForceHRV
With the stress that people have with day to day living, whether it's their job and or families high-intensity exercise will not help you get what you want.
Your body doesn't know the difference between "good stress" or "bad stress" Stress is the same whether you are exercising or stuck in traffic and you are late for work.
By doing high-intensity classes all the time, you can do more damage than good to your body.
Visualize a cup and that cup is filled with stress, be it a bad boss, family stuff, dealing with your kids' school, etc. You can see how that adds up, now if you start to add high-intensity exercise in with no chance of recovery that cup will overspill and you will get injured, sick or just hate life in general.
It's science!
Glycolysis, (sugar burning that supplies all these high-intensity classes that I am talking about here) pollutes your body with lactic acid, ammonia, free radicals, and messes with your hormones if you tap in too much or too often.
Anti-glycolytic training paired with HRV training as I mentioned, can be way more beneficial for you.
Anti-glycolytic training requires creatine phosphate to power your high-intensity efforts whether it is doing kettlebell swings or a power clean, by properly resting in between sets and or having recovery days.
If one of these places had proper programming with active recovery days instead of going balls to the wall for days on end, (5 in my experience) it would be way more beneficial.
Lack of sleep is another issue. Research has shown that irregular quality of lack of sleep and stress is now being linked to the hardening of arterial walls and overall enlarging of the heart (coronary heart disease (CHD) and left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH)).
So if you do not sleep well and are stressed to the max, I do not recommend these classes at all.
I still think these types of studios will be the future and boutique personal training studios, but they need a lot more work.
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