It will take off because at that price you don’t need many members for profit. Talking sub 200 per facility.
Are you allowed to train when and how you like? HIT is not a restricted area, in my opinion.
Not looking at their site, youve to book by appointment and have a “qualified fit20 trainer” (whom look like they belong in an office) with you lol.
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I wonder how many of us HIT trainees will have more experience than these self proclaimed experts? What does it take to become a certified/qualified fit20 trainer?
This type of Darwinistic selection is what alienate serious trainees from HIT in the first place.
Is there any similarity between Fit20 and Kieser facilities?
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I’ve seen a few coaches i want to look like, but never a trainer.
I do not believe it is possible to be an experienced HIT trainer without looking like you lift.
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Is it $100 for 4 sessions per month? If so, that is just $25/session, which is the lower end of what I typically see for HIT studies in the US. So that doesn’t strike me as super expensive. If it is $100 per session, then yes, that is expensive. Then they are then probably in the financial district in London.
From what I’ve seen, the target market for this kind of stuff is a middle aged or older client who has a fair amount of disposable income, knows they need to do some strength training to remain functional in old age, but dislikes exercising, and has little interest in being a gym rat or getting jacked. Even one session a week will be of some benefit for an older otherwise sedentary individual, if done properly.
Build “elite muscle” on one 20 minute session a week? Not likely! But then again, very few people build elite levels of muscle by any means. That requires unusually good genetics, good drugs, and more volume. (Of course, somewhere, there is probably that one guy who is a curve breaker who can look fantastic with very little training. But so what? Outliers like that are interesting, but hardly instructive.)
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Oh am sure theres plenty with a great deal more experience.
This particular model is nothing more than superslow repackaged. Seems to appeal to a more middle aged / advanced years clientele…which is fair enough, the equipment is a pulldown, chest press, leg press, back extension, ab machine etc, not the worse exercises by any means, however…id argue that the same people should also be preforming some exercises on their feet. Elderly people dont fall and break hips sitting on stair lifts.
The other thing i notice in their promotional video is that the clients are sitting preforming the exercises with big smiles on their faces, now forgive me, but i thought it was a high intensity/effort training facility lol.
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The average session it says is £32.50, think thats about $40
I hate that so many of these HIT facilities have you supervised by a trainer putting you through a workout. Even if I’d love to check out the equipment (SGT Strength and Power comes to mind) I don’t want someone else to put me through the workout, I want to check out the equipment at my own pace and gave the option to do a second set if I so choose lol
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You sound like Grant from Dr. Darden’s old forum? Max pyramid?
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They just got FREE advertising on this high profile
training website.
This is just another example of the HIT BUSINESS
It can be very profitable. They also don’t want to injure
anyone for liability reasons.
Is it optimal? Is it enough? Not for me. But at the end of
the day the trainee should decide if it works for them or
what they can handle. We are all a work in progress.
If people improve their health in the process then it’s a
good thing. It’s obviously geared toward the average
natural person. Probably busy people who could care less about bodybuilding.
Not for an enhanced guy or even a natural doing a split that gets them results.
I’m speaking within the context of this thread. I am not looking to debate or argue on the best way to train.
Even Dorian recommends two full body HIT workout a week for the average natural trainee. Two times a week for the most. He says up to ten exercises per workout.
He is all over U-tube talking about this.
FWIW if your into HIT I think you can get better results with someone pushing you through a workout.
I’m talking about forced reps. Help with negative only training. Encouraging you to get an extra rep or two. Hell I even do better when someone else is counting my reps. It’s less to think about.
At times my son helps me with my workout. I digress
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Yes, it certainly is. Some studios which are Hit related now use a twice a week approach. I am not sure if Inform Fitness or Fred Hahn do once a week. I would not mind a coach, but, they need to know what they are doing. Obviously. Also, I do not want to be treated like an inconvenience, rather than a client.
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100%, its like being forced to have a driving instructor after youve past your test lol
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I miss the time I was training at 16 training on life fitness electrical equipment. Those machines were so far ahead of their time all that was missing was a WiFi connection. I think Gary Jones was behind them.
Having an observer let alone a trainer helps when you’re training. Someone who can check your positioning and when you start to sacrifice form.
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I agree. But they have to be committed. I think Ellington Darden stated the X Force machines, where he has visited, while excellent, are less effective when trainees are left to their own devices. I have used exerbotics equipment (The Exercise Coach). But the owner and the other trainer acted like they had things they would rather be doing.
Whether it was the Nautilus of yesteryear, Super Slow style sessions, X Force, exerbotics, a qualified coach should be there to push the client. Some disagree, and that is OK. Generally they know what the are doing.
I hope your workouts go well. Make sure your coach has you in mind and is not texting. Also with that type of HIT approach, watch your goddamned diet.
Id agree with complex lifts, but you most certainly do not need an observer checking your position on very stable high end fixed machines preforming basic human movement patterns.
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