Research
Focus Areas:
- Health & Fitness Assessments
- Health &Fitness Program Design
- Health & Fitness populations, specific goals, exercise, and nutritional outcomes
- Health & Fitness Training Components, including, flexibility, core, balance, reactive, speed, agility, quickness, strength, and cardio- respiratory.
Here at BodyDoc we place a strong emphasis on providing evidence based health and fitness solutions to fit your life style. We receive our continuing education and break through research from the National Academy of Sport Medicine. Accompanied with our 23 years of health and fitness experience, we provide a variety of exercise interventions designed to improve human movement, health, and performance.
The exercise programs at BodyDoc are based on Optimal Performance Training, designed by the National Academy of Sports Medicine. BodyDoc incorporates six forms of training into every program;
- Flexibility & Balance
- Power & Core
- Cardio respiratory & resistance training
- The OPT method improves biomotor abilities, builds high levels of functional strength, neuromuscular efficiency, and dynamic flexibility. Also it has been successful for training in many people including; college, high school students, elite and recreational athletes; As well as pre & post natal women, those with low back pain, cancer, cardio, and stroke patients. The method of training we provide has helped our clients reach their own personal goals, decrease body fat, increase lean muscle mass, and improve overall health.
1. Stabilization Endurance Training should be used for beginner-level clients who may possess muscle imbalances, lack postural control and stability. This phase is crucial for all individuals no matter their goals as it prepares them for the higher demands of training seen in phases 2-5. Although this phase is the first phase of training in the OPT Model, it will also be important to cycle back through this phase of training between periods of higher intensity training seen in Phases 2 through 5. This will allow for proper recovery and maintenance of high levels of stability that will ensure optimal strength and/or power adaptations. This phase of training focuses on:
- Increasing Stability
- Muscular Endurance
- Improving Flexibility
- Increasing Neuromuscular Efficiency of the Core Musculature
- Improving Inter-muscular and Intramuscular Coordination
The primary focus when progressing in this phase is on increasing the proprioception (controlled instability) of the exercises, rather than just the load.
2. Strength Endurance Training is a hybrid form of training that promotes increased stabilization endurance, hypertrophy, and strength. This form of training entails the use of superset techniques where a more stable exercise (such as a bench press) is immediately followed with a stabilization exercise with similar biomechanical motions (such as a standing cable chest press). Therefore, for every set of an exercise/body part performed according to the acute variables, there are actually two exercises or two sets being performed. High amounts of volume can be generated in this phase of training.
3. Hypertrophy Training is specific for the adaptation of maximal muscle growth, focusing on high levels of volume with minimal rest periods to force cellular changes that result in an overall increase in muscle.
4. Maximal Strength Training focuses on increasing the load placed upon the tissues of the body. Maximal intensity improves:
- Recruitment of More Motor Units
- Rate of Force Production
- Motor Unit Synchronization
Maximal Strength Training has also been shown to help increase the benefits of forms of power training used in Phase 5.
5. Power Training focuses on both high force and velocity to increase power. This is accomplished by super-setting a strength exercise with power exercise for each body part (such as performing a barbell bench press super-set with a medicine ball chest pass).