Personal Training
Personal Training Memberships are for anyone who feels they get the best results when they work under the direction of a Certified Trainer and who wants to know that they will always have someone there to help. Frequency can be from as little as once per month to every workout.
Small Groups
Personal Training along with a friend can increase your motivation, accountability and fun factor. Exercise should be exciting and affordable for everyone. By splitting a Personal Trainer you are lowering your cost per session. The Personal Trainer will still give you both very close attention and a great workout!
Larger Groups
Personal Training in a larger group can increase the motivation and fun factor dramatically while cutting down on all participants costs. With the introduction of our new functional room we have a big amount of floor space and will be running group personal training classes soon.
For more information on a free consultation please email: aaron@odysseyfitness.com
Olympic Lifting
Odyssey Fitness is now home to one of Victoria’s only Olympic Lifting groups. Stay tuned to the website or call for more information on new programs based around this exciting sport that can improve your athleticism for any other activity or sport you do. Not only is it some of the best training for athletes, but anyone, any age can reap huge benefits from proper training in this area of weight lifting.
What is Olympic Weightlifting?
It is sad that these great movements hardly exist anymore in the training programs of the West. Those who are performing Olympic weightlifting still have a clear-cut advantage over those who are not in improving performance. How often do you walk into a gym and you see somebody snatching, or clean and jerking a barbell? Not often, if ever.
Many people are dragged into fearing these lifts because of the words of a few. Over time these lifts have been credited as being the most dangerous form of exercise in existence. What people don’t understand is this: exercises do not injure people, people injure people. It’s the uneducated lifter using poor form and inadequate warm-up that results in injuries. The safety of Olympic lifting has been documented in several studies. One study has shown that Olympic lifting has the lowest number of injuries per 100hrs trained compared to both bodybuilding and power lifting.
Olympic lifts use a greater range of motion, which exposes the connective tissues, tendons, ligaments and muscle fibers to various angles and degrees of resistance. This helps the body become more functional, in that it can learn to cope with a variety of forces and activities without becoming injured.
If you look at the best Athletes in the world, 90% of them will have one thing in common, ranging from pole vaulters to shot putters, they all have some form of Olympic weightlifting in their program. Even if that ranges from the traditional power clean to the much more complex snatch. These athletes understand the importance and benefits of these movements and the carry over to their sport. Olympic lifts train the athlete to explode and use the maximum possible force. They develop a high Rate of Force (RF), a key point in sports training. Olympic lifters train fast twitch muscle fibers, the fibers that are employed to give you speed, explosiveness and power. It has been shown that the percentage of fast twitch fibers in the body directly contributes to the vertical jump, the more you have the higher you are able to jump, and this is the best indicator for athletic ability in American football athletes. The jumping and running abilities of Olympic lifters were documented in the Mexico City Olympic Games where they out ran and out jumped the jumpers and sprinters in the vertical jump and 25m sprint! This is an amazing feat considering these men do not train specifically for jumping or running.
There are also many other great benefits of Olympic lifts that help athletes. They develop great amounts of flexibility, a key factor in sports. They teach an athlete to coordinate their body. They teach discipline in studying and mastering the technical challenges of the lifts. They have also been used for helping athlete’s recover from older injuries. In a study, athletes performed an Olympic lift for eight straight weeks, and it was found that the athletes’ resting heart rate decreased by 8%, systolic blood pressure decreased by 4%, lean body weight increased by 4% and body fat dropped by 6%.
It is a very sad fact that there are very few competing Olympic lifters in North America today. There is very little one can do but to open up people’s minds and help them realize the benefits. Perhaps one day we will walk into a gym and we will not see dumbbells or bench press machines, but we will see men on platforms moving huge amounts of weight from the ground to above their head like it was nothing. Hopefully, we have shown you the benefits of the lifts and cleared out some of the negative factors that people use to knock down Olympic weightlifting.
Olympic Weight Lifting at Odyssey
We have a room set aside with all our Functional and Olympic Lifting Platforms and equipment in it. Along with nationally certified coaches and competitors who love nothing more than to share this sport with anyone looking to try it out.
For more information on a free consultation please email: aaron@odysseyfitness.com
Functional Coaching
Functional Cross-training: (Also known as conditioning) refers to training in different ways to improve overall performance. It takes advantage of the particular effectiveness of each training method, while at the same time attempting to neglect the shortcomings of that method by combining it with other methods that address its weaknesses.
“IMPROVED TOTAL FITNESS”
Cross Training includes activities and exercises that develop muscular fitness, as well as aerobic conditioning and train your muscles to work as one, decreasing the risk of injury and boredom. Become more “Functionally Fit” by Cross-Training which will develop seldom-used muscles and will create a more balanced body.
Most of this includes getting back to the basics. Body weight exercises that can be modified to almost any fitness level, but also includes:
Kettle bells
If you want results quick, kettlebell training is for you! Kettlebells are solid cast iron balls with handles that work your entire body as you go through the dynamic exercises. Instead of isolating single muscle groups, kettlebell training delivers full-body fitness.
Rings, Body weight and Various Medicine Ball Exercises
Make an appointment for proper instruction on how to work this into your current program or create a whole new one, safely and effectively.
For more information on a free consultation please email: aaron@odysseyfitness.com