Great question. While the best way to understand our unique process is to come in for a free consultation and demo workout, we’ll briefly explain the methodology here. It’s all about Inroad.

The key to understanding our success depends on your understanding of what “exercise” really is, and what it can and cannot do. So, what it exercise?

As you know, and as any grammarian will tell you, a word that means everything means nothing. Unfortunately, our so-called “experts” in exercise physiology think it’s a good thing to discourage a formal definition of exercise. If we had a formal definition of exercise, we risk alienating almost anyone in defense of his/her activity and the infinite variety of nondescript activity.

If exercise is defined as “any physical activity requiring effort”, it basically becomes a useless, meaningless term. But that’s what we’ve done in our culture.

So, instead of running around saying useless words with no distinctions, let me offer you our Formal Definition of Exercise.

The following definition was originally crafted by Ken Hutchins and basically sums up what we are attempting to accomplish in a workout at MYO. Memorizing the following definition of exercise with make you smarter and more qualified than 95% of fitness “experts” out there.

Here it is: “Exercise is a process whereby the body performs work of a demanding nature, in accordance with muscle and joint function, in a clinically-controlled environment, within the constraints of safety, meaningfully loading the muscular structures to inroad their strength levels and stimulate a growth mechanism within minimum time.”

If you memorize all the components of this definition of exercise, you can very quickly and easily assess whether or not a certain activity is truly exercise. If it doesn’t fit the definition, it doesn’t make the activity bad or worthless, it just belongs in the category of Recreation, not Exercise.