The Super Slow is a training method originated in the U.S. over ten years ago based on the slow training: you train so slow (born conceptually opposed to aerobics) repeating for about twenty minutes (one session per week!) You are separate exercises to as many machines; each exercise is divided into ten movements, each of which lasts fourteen seconds.
Working so slowly it stimulates the growth of new muscle groups (to counter the trend towards ” closure ” of the movement) resulting in caloric expenditure and weight loss. The inventor Ken Hutchins argued that this type of training could lead to the gym all those who, frightened by the effort, if they were kept at bay. After an initial boom, the poor results have blocked the mouth, and the method is now more than just a curiosity.
What works – Hutchin’s calculations are correct: those who have a flabby muscle when performing the exercises correctly in a month can burn about 9,000 calories, or the equivalent of 300 kcal per day. It seems a staggering amount, but it is nothing when you consider that a 70 kg runner who runs for 12 km per day burns 24,000 calories a month.
What does not work – Unfortunately, many things? The comparison with the runner already tells us that the slow training can be just a little help to a low-calorie diet. This is equivalent to running 5-6 miles a day, every day. Who has tried knows that 300 kcal per day are nothing if you are not even on a diet?
Further, the benefits cover only the first time, and once that new muscle groups have been created, return to the old ways to burn fat. Is it true that this is a session only 20 per week, but the soundness of the exercises is not easy and those who do not have sufficient concentration may run poorly or too quickly, negating the discourse that is at the basis of the method?
In addition, training costs are high: special machines are required for a population that is in the gym once a week: as an operator of fitness liable to render his system, investing in new machines, just to try a method that is likely to be effective only in the first month?
