New exercise burns calories even after workout
Orangetheory Fitness, based on “excess post exercise oxygen consumption” or Epoc, is the latest fitness phenomenon
Orangetheory Fitness, based on “excess postexercise oxygen consumption” or Epoc, is the latest fitness phenomenon that helps people burn calories during a 60 minute high-intensity interval group workout while increasing the body’s metabolic rate.
“This work out is effective for anybody with any goal, from weight loss to increase in lean muscle mass or simply to stay healthy,” explained Daniel Floyd, Managing Director of Orangetheory Fitness.
Orangetheory Fitness training involves driving the heart rate up and down through paces that are broken down into colour-coded zones, from the warm-up or grey zone to the orange zone and all-out maximum heart rate or red zone. The goal is to spend at least 12- 20 minutes in the orange or red zones – anything above 84 percent of the maximum heart rate – to produce an “after-burn” effect that causes the body to burn more calories in the 24 to 36 hours following the workout.
In each pre-planned class, clients are coached through a cycle of workouts while wearing a monitor that measures heart rate and calories burned in a given zone. Individual statistics – known as splat points - are then broadcast on electronic boards as a form of motivation and challenge.
“The pre-planned programme, issued worldwide by medical specialists, ensures that any client, including an individual who has not worked out a day in his life to an Olympic trainer, can get through the same workout with ease,” explained Floyd. He adds that if there are certain exercises a client cannot manage, coaches are able to adapt with alternatives. This can include clients with disabilities, for example, those with advanced Parkinsons, difficulty walking, or who are deaf.
Orangetheory Fitness, which was founded in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 2010, is expanding rapidly with over 850,000 studios worldwide, including two in Singapore.
This story was originally published in the Global Health and Travel issue of October 2017
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