Viking & Valkyrie Fat Loss Training
No Frills, No Fillers, Just Results
Introducing the only type of group training for fat loss, strength and stamina that will sculpt and tighten your body and not just make you a softer, slightly smaller, but just as saggy version of your old self!
A few words from Nick Mitchell, Men’s Health & Men’s Fitness Author; “London’s Best Personal Trainer” (Time Out); founder of Ultimate Performance Gyms:
Group training for fitness and fat loss is a great concept in these tough economic times, but all too often the onlyoption has been the park bound, old school PE lesson style of bouncing around doing calisthenics and jogging in the “Great” British weather; an endeavour that always sounds more fun than it really is and almost always fails to generate rapid and consistent fat loss results. Admittedly, you get a nice bit of team bonding and it serves as one way to make the reluctant exerciser commit to working on their fitness. But I don’t really think that’s enough. I think being fun, economical, and convenient are all important factors, but so are effectiveness and visible results! After all, our Viking & Valkyrie Fat LossTraining is brought to you by my industry acclaimed, award winning Ultimate Performance personal training teamwho are world renowned for producing cover model results with their clients!
What we have on offer for you has turned the group training fitness model on it’s head and is the reason why our Viking & Valkyrie Fat Loss Training is the quickest growing “Fitness Boot Camp” business in the UK!Even within a group context our unique brand of exercise and nutritional guidance sees you receiving specific diet advice for your own individual needs, and our training programmes have been devised to elevate your heart rate, stimulate metabolism for up to 36 hours after training, and challenge and push your muscles via functional training through natural movement patterns so that you benefit from a massive, positive hormonal response to exercise – one of the key things lacking from old fashioned bodyweight type circuits.How we have addressed the deficiencies of the traditional Boot Camp
Regular Fitness Boot Camps have a couple of positive things going for them. Namely they are relatively inexpensive, and the good ones can be fun.
My biggest gripe with most military style Fitness Boot Camp classes is that whilst they can get you fit, they are certainly not the most effective way to get yourself in shape. I’ve discussed this so many times when interviewed for fat loss articles in magazines such as Men’s Health, Men’s Fitness, and Women’s Fitness, but you need to look at the hormonal response to exercise, not just the actual calories burned whilst doing it. The best way by far to elevate your metabolism, and KEEP it elevated, is to use sufficient resistance for your muscles.
Allow me to use an analogy: you can run around a room with a fly swatter trying to whack an imaginary fly until your arm burns like it’s on fire, but do you think you are burning a load of calories and creating profound changes in body composition? Of course not. But what if the fly swatter weighed 10lbs instead of half a lb?!
Different story eh. You’d burn a tonne of calories, develop some new muscles and coordination, and it would be exactly like using a sledgehammer…
So whereas jumping jacks, burpees, and prancing around in the park are all good for you and will certainly help you get fitter, it isn’t the correct exercise modality for those of you what real results quickly and efficiently.
I flattered myself that I was fit until my first Viking training session. Oh my God, it was tough. When I thought I couldn’t do anymore I was spurred on by the encouragement of the people around me, and the trainers were so supportive and patient with my uncoordinated attempts. Within 3 weeks myself, and everyone else, can see a huge difference in me and I am totally hooked on my Saturday sessions!
Andrew Keyton
I never thought such hard work could be so much fun! You can literally feel the fat melting off your body!
Jenny Blacksmith
You should understand that there are numerous problems with the traditional Boot Camp model, that with just a bit of extra effort and planning we have overcome for the massive benefit of our participants:
“One Size Fits All” Means Too Many Are Left Meandering
Boot camp training is a lot cheaper than regular personal training because you don’t get the “personal” attention to the same level. There is no way around this as it is a matter of simple economics. This is where the traditional Boot Camp really falls down for me, as they just lump everybody into the same bracket and expect differing abilities, recovery levels, body types, and goals to all be matched by everyone doing the same thing at the same time! This becomes an even more significant issue when one factors in what I call “real training”, ie moving objects in some form, as what is challenging for a 250lb man will be radically different from what is appropriate loading for a 100lb woman! And don’t try to tell me that two slightly different weighted kettlebells will cut it because laughing in your face is just rude, and my mother brought me up to be better than that!
The solution to the problems of “one size fits all” (that actually should say “one size compromises all”!) is simple and we have cracked it with our new approach, but for traditional Boot Camps it is not always easy to do. By the way, when I write “not easy to do” I mean “costs more money”, “takes much more planning”, and “significantly cuts profit margin”.
Because we are way beyond being the typical one man band Boot Camp operation, and can draw on the largest team of high level personal trainers in Europe, we have the scale of organisation to put you in the group most appropriate to your fitness, strength, stamina, experience, and desire. The only question that then remains is are you a Viking or a Valkyrie?!
Two of our Viking and Valkyrie Trainers.
Results are Not Just Exercise Related; Nutrition & Lifestyle Coaching is Vital
If only getting results, especially for fat loss, was so simple as dragging you into the gym three times a week, kicking your ass for an hour, and then leaving you to “eat sensibly”. Every effective fat loss programme requires ongoing nutritional coaching, not just a generic leaflet handed out when you first start a class! In fact it really needs to be even more tailored than that, by utilising a BioSignature Modulation assessment, but how many businesses can always provide experienced BioSignature coaches at each and every session…apart from UP of course seeing as how we now have 17 qualified BioSignature Modulation practitioners!
The BioSignature assessment allows us to be very specific in our nutritional and supplementation advice and using an abbreviated version developed specifically for the Viking & Valkyrie classes, in just a few minutes we are able to pinpoint any hormonal discrepancies that may be holding back your fat loss progress, and give you a variety of recommendations to alleviate the problem. We then reassess every 4 weeks, checking on how much fat you have lost and seeing when your diet or supplement regime might need tweaking as your body develops and improves.
I have laid out the pitfalls of the traditional Boot Camp model because I’ve now figured out the right way to smash through them all. I love the type of training that we do in our classes as it is both enormous fun and highly appropriate for just about every possible goal, although fat loss and fitness improvements are where the most dramatic and startling results are very quickly visible.
We have put together a high intensity workout that will incinerate fat and get you damn fit in record time by using the principles of “modified strongman training” and, if I can put it as simply as possible, by exercising via carrying, throwing, dragging, pulling, and hitting a variety of things such as sleds, sandbags, sledghammers, tractor tyres, ropes, half filled beer kegs, and of course the dreaded Farmer’s Yoke and the infamous Prowler! I won’t bore you with the science of why this is so effective for fat loss (basically your body never has a chance to upshift into a fuel efficient gear and just keeps burning calories for hours and hours after each session) and coordination, suffice to say that it is a true “shredder”, and a training method that I have used in one to one settings for years in order to produce such radical fat loss results as these below!
Utilising modified strongman training principles takes care of one of my negatives about more traditional Boot Camp training, and another problem area of making sure that you get training based on your ability and strength levels has been neatly addressed by splitting things into separate teams based on strength levels with the aforementioned Viking and Valkyrie groups. And yes, if you are not strong enough then I don’t care if you are as red-blooded a male as they come, you’re still going to have to train with the ladies until your game has been stepped up! We are not here to massage your ego and make you feel better, we are here to get blinding results that makes everyone see how our clients are lean, mean fighting machines!
By the way, we really don’t care about your strength or fitness levels, and everyone who comes along sees astounding results and has great, albeit challenging, fun. We only care that you commit and give every task 100%. And guess what, when you do that your endorphins will start to buzz like never before and you’ll feel amazing!
Addressing the issue of nutrition and individualising things sufficiently that we can advise on each person’s separate hormonal and metabolic needs is always going to be tricky in the context of Boot Camp / Group training sessions. Most personal trainers are not even capable of individualising advice in a one-to-one format, let alone a 10 to 1 (we are actually 12 to 2, a ratio that makes us less money but upholds the level of service we give our clients across all areas of our business). But at UP we care far more about results than crowbarring a few extra clients into a class, to me short term business strategies are an anathema. What I’ve come up with is a way to do a mini-BioSignature Modulation assessment in a 10 minute period before class officially starts. We will have 2 fully qualified BioSignature practitioners on hand at all times, so together with their trusty laptops they can whip through a class in no time and give on the spot nutritional and supplementation advice. Given the inexpensive cost of our Viking & Valkyrie Fat Loss Boot Camp there will never be a more economical way to have ongoingBioSignature assessments! Some people may be tempted to come along just for the BioSignature tests themselves, but that would mean missing out on so many exercise benefits.
Where to find us:
All our Viking & Valkyrie Fat Loss Training Classes are currently from one location near Old Street tube station (see map to the right). Plans are currently underway to expand the offering across the United Kingdom and we welcome suggestions for new venues from both trainers and future Vikings & Valkyries alike!
384 Old StreetArches 456-460
London
EC1V 9LT
In addition to the benefits that consistent monitoring and BioSignature assessments can have on your fat loss progress, I’ll also be getting personally involved, and every month will be giving a free (for Vikings & Valykries!) Body Composition Seminar. This will primarily look at nutrition, but I’ll be guided by what the audience wants so it can just as easily cover everything from supplementation to exercise protocols when not at the UP Fat Loss Boot Camp. Given what the normal price of hearing me talk costs, this means the Fat Loss Boot Camps are a real bargain as well as being a fantastic and fun way to get lean and healthy!
The final thing about our Viking & Valkyrie Fat Loss Boot Camps that, for me at least, is the icing on the cake and the reason why you’d have to be crazy not to try it out is the cost. You can have a month of one week classes for less than the cost of the average personal training session. In fact, for less than the price of a Starbucks coffee a day you can benefit from our coaching and get into the best shape of your life!Oh yes, and one last thing. The very first session is commitment free and totally free in price! There is famous saying that in life we only regret the things that we didn’t do. The choice is yours. All you need to do to reserve your free spot is contact us here.
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