Functional Strength & HIIT
As an expert female personal trainer in Dubai, I curate training programs that are solely based on your fitness needs. In fact, my pragmatic approach to functional strength training encompasses workout routines that are targeted towards:
• Enhancing your endurance
• Improving core stability
• Developing a better body balance
Wait there’s more…
Along with a fun and enthusiastic functional strength training program, you can also reap the benefits of a HIIT workout.
What is a HIIT workout?
HIIT, or high-intensity interval training, is a selective compilation of full-body workouts that require maximum intensity. These short bouts of exercise last anywhere from 30 to 45 seconds, followed by a period of active recovery of the same duration or longer. This is a cyclic workout regimen that is repeated anywhere between 3 and 5 times, depending upon your stamina and fitness levels.
Thus, the fusion of HIIT workouts and functional strength training can help improve your fat-burning capabilities while building your strength and endurance at the same time.
Benefits of HIIT
- It increases muscle growth and neural adaptation
- Your fat mass is significantly reduced
- Controlled levels of blood pressure
- Increase in bone mineral density
- Reduced fracture and osteoporosis risks
- Improves mental health. This means a lower likelihood of experiencing emotions such as anxiety or depression
- Improved lifestyle, i.e., better sleep quality or better diets
- It gives you a leaner physique that can boost your self-confidence and self-esteem.
In addition to this, functional strength training is extremely beginner-friendly, and it is an effective full-body workout. With the help of my fitness training program, you can attain better body balance and athletic fluidity.
What to Expect in a Workout Routine?
Since functional strength training involves workouts that mimic daily life movements, you can expect a plethora of innovative and exciting bodyweight workouts that can get you pumped up and get all your muscles working together.
Next, while I customize the HIIT workout routines according to your fitness goals and needs, they are mostly based on these three levels:
Warmup
This usually entails a light to moderate workout that lasts for only five minutes. These workouts can be either cycling or jogging at a steady pace to get your heart rate pumping. My objective here is to make you feel slightly breathless but still be able to hold a conversation.Intervals
This is where functional training starts. Here, I will aim to make you reach at least 75% of your maximum heart rate. For optimal results, remember to maintain the same level of effort throughout the workout.
This is a cyclic workout which lasts for 25 -40 minutes. The cycle is as follows:
• 45 seconds of high resistance training
• 60 seconds of recovery
• Repeating these intervals as instructed
Cool Down
Now, you have reached the end of your workout. For the last five minutes of your routine, we will do exercises that are directed toward calming your heart rate.
For instance, some of the workouts you can expect at this phase are:
• Walking at low intensity for 5 minutes.
• Cycling at a steady low pace for 5 minutes.
• Upper and lower body stretches.
Nutritional Care
To achieve the best possible outcomes from functional fitness, you also need to integrate a sustainable clean diet into your lifestyle. With the aid of my workout program, you will receive detailed counseling on proper nutritional care for your body.
While the general norm for any fitness-based diet is a caloric – deficit meal plan, I will help you recognise the accurate number of macronutrients you need to consume, to maintain a fit and healthy body.
Say goodbye to unhealthy detox diets and cleanses! Allow me to change your mind set on eating intuitively. A healthy balance of proteins, fats and carbohydrates is all you need to achieve a sustainable healthy mind and body.
The combination of functional strength training and HIIT fitness programmes foster multi-directional movements in your body. This enables you to conduct daily activities with more ease.
Let me help you devise a fresh routine that will challenge your body in new ways, stimulate your metabolism, improve your cardiovascular fitness, promote hypertrophy, and result in an overall improvement in body composition.