LIFT
Build full body strength, enhance your flexibility and elevate your yoga practice with LIFT!
Surprise yourself with finding those ‘impossible’ yoga poses suddenly very possible.
Notice how much more confident and capable you feel in everyday life with a new-found strength in your legs, core and upper body.
And overcome the plateau you feel in your flexibility, discovering your ability to safely stretch further with confidence.
Following this training method of strength training x yoga is shown to:
Boost your energy levels in day-to-day life
Improve bone density which is increasingly important as we age
Positively benefit your mental health and sense of self
Increase your metabolism for losing fat and/or improving muscle tone
Reduce your susceptibility to injury
Increase life expectancy and quality of life in our later years
Make you feel like a boss! 😎
The beauty of strength and mobility training is that it is scalable, meaning it is both suitable for:
beginners who are completely new to strength training
as well as seasoned lifters who want to switch up their programming to something more mobility focused.
You choose the weights that you perform each exercise with. It would be unsafe for anyone to tell you exactly what to use without a 1-on-1 review. Within the training log, guidance is given for beginners on how to select a weight, but then there is no ceiling for those who already have a strong baseline!
The yoga and mobility classes are suitable for all levels as options for different abilities are provided throughout the class.
LIFT is specifically designed to need a minimum about of equipment to make it appropriate for training at home.
If you prefer to train at a gym, that’s great! Within LIFT you'll find 'Exercise Alternatives' for those who have access to more equipment such as cable machines, and you are welcome to pick which exercise you want to do.
For those that prefer to train at home, the only essential equipment you will need is:
Dumbbells
A long resistance band (not a booty band)
Everyone's abilities are entirely different, so there is no weight I can confirm that will be appropriate for YOU. My best advice is to get adjustable dumbbells which you can make progressively heavier as your strength improves to prevent needing a huge range of equipment.
Otherwise, a good rule of thumb is that you will want a set of heaviest weights to challenge your leg muscles, a medium set for challenging your largest upper body muscles such as the chest and back, and a lightest set for the smallest muscles of the shoulders and arms.
