Zuu?? Can Bodyweight Training Workouts Help Your Empower Business
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Zuu?? Can Bodyweight Exercise Workouts Help Your Empower Business?
You might be wondering what on earth bodyweight exercise workouts can do to help your Empower Network business. The simple fact is – ANY exercise can help. For starters, it is well documented that a healthy body leads to a healthy, clear mind. It is also helps to create a well balanced lifestyle, with time for nurturing yourself amidst your busy, productive working life.
What is Zuu? Why Bodyweight Exercise Workouts?
Created by Gold Coaster (Australian) Nathan Helberg over a 4 year period, ZUU is a registered training style based around “primal pattern” bodyweight exercises. They have been constructed into high intensity full bodyweight training workouts with very specific sequences, engaging both the aerobic & anaerobic energy systems. Basically that means every time our players do a ZUU workout it will be one of the most comprehensive and intense experiences they’ll ever do!
Elite coaches in many sports such as NRL, AFL and Rugby Union, are finding that an intensive ZUU program in a short period of time is able to improve:
- The body’s core strength
- Strength through the body’s full range of movements
- The body’s mobility through a full range of movements
- Coordination under pressure and fatigue
This is all done through lifting, moving and supporting an athlete’s own body weight, strengthening the whole body and not just isolated components. The ZUU helps to build strength and core stability without weights from an early age, and requires the athlete to be strong in ALL positions (when balanced or off balance). Over a relatively short period of time, benefits to our players are expected to be:
- Decreased injury through increased mobility
- Increased strength and balance in and around the contact or contested zones of play
- Increased recovery ability from bouts of high intensity effort
- Increased game fitness with the ability to finish games strongly and outrun opponents
How Bodyweight Exercise Workouts Help With Stress Relief
Intense exercise essentially burns away the chemicals that cause stress, at the same time releasing endorphins into the system. Other chemicals like dopamine and serotonin are also released in the brain during exercise. The combination of these chemical actions all combine to lower feelings of stress and anxiety, and heighten a sense of well-being.
Since exercise reduces stress chemically, it can also have a meditative effect during intense bodyweight exercise work outs. The rhythm of the workout relax and clear the mind, allowing for a fresh approach to stressful business activities.
Regular bodyweight exercise workouts also impact on the way you feel about yourself. For example, if clothes fit comfortably and your body is strong and toned, you tend to feel good about yourself.
These are just a few reasons why getting a bodyweight exercise program like Zuu into your weekly routine is a must! The benefits for your Empower Network business will be outstanding. ZUU is innovative, new and leading edge, backed by solid sports science and gut-busting testing and research. Although it’s early days, there are many elite strength and conditioning experts who think ZUU will stand the test of time, and become a main stream fitness and strength program.