Frequently Asked Questions
- Who trains with Chrome Fit?
- How does the team approach help realize results faster?
- What is functional training?
- How is functional movement assessed?
- What is corrective exercise?
- What is performance training?
- How does MMA training fit into my overall fitness program?
- How does flexibility training impact fitness?
- How can training with kettlebells, clubbells, medicine balls, d-balls, dumbbells, cables, bands and sandbags help improve my fitness and performance?
- What do TRX, parallettes and gymnastic rings have in common and how can they help improve my fitness and performance?
Who trains with Chrome Fit?
- Local CEO’s, executives and business professionals
- South Bay recreational and competitive athletes
- Individuals, couples, co-workers, small groups and teams
- People with tight schedules that are interested in optimizing fitness and performance results in 2 – 3 sessions/week
- Youth and adults of all ability and fitness levels
- People who want to improve their wellness, health, fitness and/or performance
How does the team approach help realize results faster?
Trainers have different passions, backgrounds and areas of expertise. A team approach allows every client to benefit from each of the Chrome Fit trainers’ strengths. Exposure to a diverse trainer exercise arsenal and protocol will challenge your body and drive gains in fitness much faster than training with just one trainer.
What is functional training?
See: Functional Strength Training
How is functional movement assessed?
Functional movement is assessed using a Functional Movement Screening (FMS) tool. This tool allows our team to evaluate your stability, flexibility and functional movement pattern ability. Movement is screened and scored. A 0-3 scoring system identifies muscular weaknesses and imbalances and limitations. This assessment is used to prescribe a corrective exercise program to reduce the chance of injury and promote healthy joint and muscle function and movement proficiency.
What is corrective exercise?
Corrective exercise is used to correct muscular imbalance or weakness and correct faulty movement patterns. Corrective exercise can prevent injury as well as create opportunity for an individual to challenge their system with a holistic functional training program.
What is performance training?
Performance training shares common ground with functional training. In fact, performance training is, by nature, functional. Performance training is specifically designed to improve specific or broad sport performance. Athletes of all fitness and ability levels, recreational through competitive, can benefit from performance training. Performance training can be used to improve the execution of a certain component or skill of a sport or performance over the entire sport. Program design is based on sport, position, systemic demands, body weight parameters (such as light weight rowing or weight-governed fight competitions), time of year (pre-season, in-season, off-season), competition schedule as well as current fitness and ability.
“I started working with Sheri twice weekly in February 2010 to supplement my bicycle rides with strength training in preparation for a 545-mile event in June. At that time, I hadn’t been riding my bicycle enough due to lack of spare time outside of work, so Sheri focused on the conditioning I’d need to be ready for the big ride in just 4 months. It takes SO much saddle time to drive strength and endurance solely on the bicycle – I got MUCH quicker results by working with Sheri. I was riding faster and stronger with each week that passed.” ~ Lisa B.
How does MMA training fit into my overall fitness program?
Mixed Martial Art (MMA) training includes boxing, kickboxing, Jui-jitsu and submission wrestling. Chrome Fit offers clients the opportunity to learn the techniques of boxing, to train like a fighter and reap the benefits of this full body, power-based sport. Learn how to move, kick, knee and strike like a fighter. Our MMA coach is able to provide coaching at all levels and all disciplines in one-on-one and group formats. If you’ve never boxed and would like to try it, this program is a great way to get your feet in the “ring”.
How does flexibility training impact fitness?
Often overlooked as an integral part of fitness, and often left out of training programs, flexibility training can keep you moving well and training long and strong. Flexibility has wide-reaching benefits and is a key player in reducing the risk for injury by increasing muscle length, rectifying muscular asymmetries, maintaining proper space within joints and rebalancing muscles after a grueling workout. Flexibility is also central to increasing power. Power is greatly improved when muscles can move smoothly through larger ranges of motion. Imagine two kick boxers kicking – one with tight legs and hips and the other with flexible legs and hips!
A variety of stretching techniques, certain exercises, yoga, pilates and foam rolling can help you increase range of motion across joints.
How can training with kettlebells, clubbells, medicine balls, d-balls, dumbbells, cables, bands and sandbags help improve my fitness and performance?
Where barbells and machines dictate a single plane or line of movement and decrease the recruitment of stabilizer muscles, all of these fitness tools do a great job at providing external resistance while allowing a variety of movement patterns. These pieces of equipment offer variety as well as the opportunity, to train and improve motor skills (power, speed, agility, balance, coordination and accuracy). You could easily train your entire body by choosing one or more exercises and one clubbell, dumbbell, kettlebell, sandbag, medicine ball or d-ball.
What do TRX, parallettes and gymnastic rings have in common and how can they help improve my fitness and performance?
TRX and other strap systems, parallettes and gymnastic rings all allow your body weight to be used as resistance while moving through infinite planes. TRX challenges your legs with single-legged squats or angled power jumps, body weight rows work your back and push-ups work your chest, stabilizers and require huge core innervation. Parallettes allow you to perform L-sits and standard, circular and twisting push-ups as well as suspended planks and planches. Muscle-ups (a full body athletic pull-up directly into the extended arm portion of a dip) have become the most popular gymnastic ring exercise, brought to the forefront of training by CROSSFIT. Rings also accommodate inverted pull-ups, traditional pull-ups, plank and lever positions, and skin the cat.
While using a strap system, rings or parallettes, body angle can be adjusted to provide a challenging and achievable angle for most exercises. As strength increases, angles and exercises are modified to increase difficulty and promote continued fitness and performance gains.
