ITALO
STRENGTH
& FITNESS
CERTIFIED FUNCTIONAL STRENGTH COACH in needham, ma
hI, I’M ITALO
i help people new to fitness fall in love with strength traininG…
…AND BECOME THE BEST VERSIONS OF THEMSELVES!
Our Services
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1 on 1 Coaching
Get a personal training session designed to fit your wants and needs! Train with Italo in person, online, or a hybrid of the two.
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HOW I STRUCTURE MY WORKOUTS
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WHAT IS MOBILITY TRAINING?
It combines mobility exercises that increase the range of movements and motions your body can perform. These include flexibility but also balance, pliability, and strength. The full combination is the best way to avoid injury.
One great thing about mobility training is its diversity. You can easily adapt it to meet your needs and your routine. From a pre-workout mobility exercise to a 10-minute full-body workout to a full yoga workout. -
BENEFITS OF BALANCE TRAINING
Body awareness: Balance training helps you understand where your body is in space and how it moves. It helps to know how far to reach for an item on a high shelf, or how to move to avoid bumping into someone.
Reaction time and fall prevention: If you step off a curb and stumble, your body needs to react immediately to rebalance and keep you from falling. Balance training helps your body respond more quickly to these immediate demands and avoid injuries from a fall.
Increased muscular strength and joint support: When you strengthen the muscles used for balance, you help take the stress off of painful joints.
Coordination: Your brain sends signals to your muscles to coordinate movement. Since maintaining balance requires many muscles to work together, balance training improves your mind-body coordination. Staying physically active helps keep you mentally sharp at the same time! -
The Top Benefits of Strength Training
Increases Muscle Strength and Size:
It's the goal of many gym-goers to alter their physique by building muscle. Strength training is the means of making that a reality. While cardiovascular exercise helps work your cardiac muscle, to build skeletal muscle strength and size, though, you'll need to incorporate consistent resistance training.
Protects Joints
The stability of your joints is dependent on the strength of your muscles. Muscles absorb some of the impact that you place on the joints through movements like walking, running, and jumping. They also help protect from directional forces that may push our joints in directions they're not designed to move in.
"The muscles help hold the joints," Sung says. "Think about it like a building. Strong muscles around the joints are like the backbone of the building."
Prevents Injury
It's clear that building strong muscles can help prevent injury at our joints. Strength training also limits risk of bone injuries, too. Bone density increases when the bone is placed under stress the way it is when you lift heavy weights. An increase in bone density can reduce the risk of fractures and breaks. That can also help to reduce the risk of developing osteoporosis, or the deterioration of bone tissue, later in life.
”That's a pro that coincides especially with the elderly population, [by] reducing the risk of falls, and increasing the chances of [being able to] get up after a fall," says Sung.
Help Burn More Calories
Consistent strength training will increase muscle mass in the body. A pound of muscle burns around 13 calories a day, whereas a pound of fat tissue only burns about 4. In the grand scheme of things, that's not a ton calories—but if you're training enough to put on muscle mass, you're likely working out and moving which will also burn more calories. That calorie burn may translate to fat loss if you're expelling more calories than you're taking in, bettering your body composition. -
CORE:
Core exercises improve your balance and stability
Your core is the central part of your body. It includes your pelvis, lower back, hips, and stomach. The stomach muscles are sometimes called abs. Core exercises train the muscles in your core to work in harmony. This leads to better balance and steadiness, also called stability. Stability is important whether you're on the playing field or doing regular activities. In fact, most sports and other physical activities depend on stable core muscles. -
Like any cardio-based exercise, body conditioning gets your heart pumping which is great for improving your general fitness. Body conditioning can even strengthen your musculoskeletal system and improve bone density. All these things add up not just to your fitness levels, but your everyday health and wellbeing too.
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WHERE I TRAIN
140 Gould St
Needham, MA 02494
Hours
Monday–Friday
10am–6pm
Phone
(617) 412-9422