Build Your Thriving Body

Stop pounding the pavement. If you’ve been logging hours on a treadmill or elliptical, you might be surprised to learn that Low-Intensity Steady-State (LISS) cardio is often an inefficient path to real fitness. While it burns some calories in the moment, it provides very little return on investment for your metabolic health and can be notoriously rough on your joints due to high-volume, repetitive impact. And over time because your body adapts, if you aren’t increasing the intensity you will burn less calories at any give output!!!

At Practical Fitness, we’ve mastered a better way: SteadyPace™. Here is the science of why our high-intensity approach triggers the "cardio" adaptations that actually matter.

1. The Truth About Central Adaptations

When people think of cardio, they are usually thinking of Central Adaptations—primarily increasing stroke volume (the amount of blood the heart pumps per beat).

While both traditional cardio and SteadyPace™ can improve heart function, there is a "ceiling" to how much you can exponentially increase stroke volume. Once you've achieved those initial gains in heart strength, continuing to log endless miles offers diminishing returns.

2. The Peripheral Advantage: Where Results Live

This is where SteadyPace™ leaves traditional cardio in the dust. Real, lasting fitness comes from Peripheral Adaptations—the changes that occur within the muscles themselves.

Our protocol forces your muscles to become more efficient at extracting and using oxygen. By training to a point of temporary muscle failure, you trigger:

• Increased Mitochondrial Density: More "power plants" in your cells.

• Better Capillary Recruitment: Improved blood flow directly to the working tissue.

• Superior Metabolic Waste Clearance: Teaching your body to handle lactic acid more effectively.

  
  

3. More Calorie Burn, Less Joint Wear

Don't be fooled by the "fat-burning zone" on a treadmill. LISS only burns calories while you’re moving. SteadyPace™ HIIT sessions prompt a massive "Afterburn Effect" (EPOC), keeping your metabolism elevated for hours—even days—after you leave the studio.

Best of all? You get these results without the thousands of jarring impacts on your knees and hips that come with running or high-volume aerobics.

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Why spend five hours a week for "moderate" heart benefits and joint pain? With SteadyPace™ at Practical Fitness, you get the central heart benefits plus the superior peripheral muscle adaptations that drive fat loss and longevity—all in just two 30-minute sessions per week.

SO GET SCHEDULED FOR YOUR SESSION THIS WEEK - AND FOCUS ON STAYING ENGAGED, KEEPING REST TIMES DOWN, and SLOWING YOUR TEMPO DOWN!!!!

BOOK NOW!

You will feel the difference immediately, and your Cardiovascular system will thank you!

See you in the Studios!