What is Inferno Hot Pilates, HIIT and why it's an effective workout

HIIT or High Intensity Interval Training involves pairing periods of intense high energy exercise with low effort rest intervals to challenge specific energy system.

Inferno Hot Pilates uses Pilates principles of control for effective core building and HIIT to get the cardiovascular up and calories burning. Your core is also known as the power house and refers to the transverse abdominal muscle, spinae erectors, pelvic floor, diaphragm, glutes and legs. A strong core is the foundation for good posture and all functional movements.

HIIT Yoga is another popular class that uses bodyweight with the principles of Yoga to connect breath, mindfulness and strength.

Study has shown that performing a HIIT workout for a period of two weeks can improve your aerobic capacity just as much as six to eight weeks of regular cardiovascular or endurance training.

Why it's important to work the intervals as efficiently as possible in the given time?

The maximum burn or intense exertion kicks your body's repair cycle into hyperdrive, meaning you will continue to burn more fat and calories in the 24 hours after a HIIT workout than you do after, let's say, a steady pace run on a threadmill.

HIIT pushes your body into anaerobic zone making your muscles burn glucose as energy, overtime increasing this anaerobic threshold where you can workout longer with increased endurance without compensating intensity.

Weight training and HIIT workouts allow dieters to preserve their hard-earned muscles while ensuring most of the weight lost comes from fat cells and not from the muscle mass.

What is low impact?

Low impact simply means that there's always a part of your body that is touching the floor when you move. It's great especially if you are in a process of healing your body and would like to take care of your joints. Inferno Hot Pilates adopt the low impact formula.

Why the heat?

The special thing about Inferno Pilates classes is the heat factor. The room is heated to hover around 90-95 degrees farenheit so your muscles warm up very quickly. You'll fire up your core, arms, legs and glutes with a hefty dose of squats, planks, push ups, mountain climbers, and while reaping the fat-burning benefits of a HIIT tempo. All of this actions are done in a hot room without the need to add on plyometric or high impact movements.

Benefit of Incorporating Strength Training With HIIT

Strength training is important for the health of your heart, build stronger muscles, bone density, good posture, improve physical coordination and better weight management.

HIIT can help with quick fat loss and while strength training gives you lean looking and more pronounced muscle mass, shaping your body.

How building muscles can help rid of fat and burn calories?

 

The more muscle mass you have, the higher your resting metabollic rest rate is, which means you'll be burning more calories when performing basic functions.

When performing quick bursts of intense exercise, you are going as hard as you can, at 100% effort. Your body kicks into an anaerobic state, deprived of free oxygen. Your body transform fat into glucose which feeds as en energy source for your muscles to use as fuel. Strength training plus HIIT will help burn fat and increase your metabolism.

The true culprit that leads to bulky physiques is fat accumulation. Excessive body fat is what causes both men and women to look bulky. There can be many reasons to excessive body weight, and this is where you have to take the active role of investigating the cause. Perhaps a healthier diet or unhealthy eating habits could be the culprit.A healthy physique nearly always requires a fairly low body fat percentage to achieve. Incorporating some amount of strength training can help accomplish this.Eat healthy, and eat less.

Emphasizing Movement Quality

A good form and technique is going to protect you from injury, increase your performance and get results. Focus in moving properly, putting your joints in the correct positions so you're able to work your muscles within the biomechanically efficent and safe range of motion.

Good form also makes your workout more efficient. With bad technique, you’ll end up expending more energy than you need to.

Training to enhance movement quality often includes mobility, flexibility, balance, stability and strength. It is one of the biggest keys to achieve great results in all exercise endeavours.

Some says that our every expression is also a movement. Notice how thoughts, emotions and behaviours are also movements pattern invisible to the naked eyes just like the blood flow circulating inside our body and the breath that flows in and out- regenerating new cells.

In Yoga and Pilates practice, there is a constant flow of energy in and through our bodies that affects the harmony in our daily life. If we are constantly rushing, all this will ripple the effect of stress and unbalance. However, when we are consciously present with our body, moving in mindful ways, there is a supportive rhythm and flow that leads us to our next evolving movement.

The quality of the movement we choose is what we then magnify in our bodies as we ‘move’, and this is the energy that is circulating through us. We are in constant expression and relationship with all that surrounds us through the way we move.

A Common Cue "Knees Over Toes" and How Important It Really Is

It is true when the knees travels over your toes in squats or lunges position that there is a shearing force placed on your knees. Fortunately for healthy knees, this is not a problem as your knees can handle this.

However, it is true for those with existing knee injury or undergoing knee therapy to keep knees over toes in chair, squats or lunge positions. In early stage of knee rehab, it is important to pay attention to this alignment. In a group training it is common to hear this cue given as a general "rule" or precaution. Our knees are pretty capable when they're healthy.

Similarity of Mind Body connection between Pilates and Yoga

Some says that our every expression is also a movement. Notice how thoughts, emotions and behaviours are also movements pattern invisible to the naked eyes just like the blood flow circulating inside our body and the breath that flows in and out- regenerating new cells.

In Yoga practice, there is a constant flow of energy in and through our bodies that affects the harmony in our daily life. If we are constantly rushing, all this will ripple the effect of stress and unbalance. However, when we are consciously present with our body, moving in mindful ways, there is a supportive rhythm and flow that leads us to our next evolving movement.The quality of the movement we choose is what we then magnify in our bodies as we ‘move’, and this is the energy that is circulating through us.

We are in constant expression and relationship with all that surrounds us through the way we move. Pilates principles of Control, Focus, Precision are always embodied in the Inferno classes.

In relation to the ageing process

HIIT stimulates the production of your human growth hormone (HGH) by up to 450 percent during the 24 hours after you finish your workout. HGH is not only responsible for increased caloric burn, but it also slows down the aging process.