“This will be the fitness studio and testing lab for P.A.C.E. ……”
My voice echoed in the large space. “This floor alone is over 8,000 square feet.”
 The new Sears Center building: The spa and fitness studio will take up the entire right side of the first floor. |
“You can sprint in here!” My P.A.C.E. product manager S.S. was fired up about the new gym.
“It will be most of the back side of the building,” I said. “So we’ll have the wellness practice, spa services and gym on the first floor, and all of the business offices up on the second floor.”
I’ve wanted this since I was a little boy. I’m finally going to have the center I dreamed of.
We’ll be able to do so many things in the new building, it’s hard to know where to start.
Besides the gym, we’re going to have a lab where we’ll be able to finally prove what I’ve been saying all along: That you can change what those “experts” think is unchangeable.
They said you couldn’t change your VO2Max – the highest rate at which your lungs can deliver oxygen to your body. That you’re stuck with what you get. But I showed that you can improve it.
I’m also going to show how powerful your body’s adaptive response is.
What do I mean by that?
In my way of practicing medicine, the long-term effect is always most important. Yet, if you believe what modern doctors and exercise gurus have been saying for years, you’re likely to say to yourself, “Ok, I’m going to go running to drop some weight.”
Yeah, but what adaptive response did you stimulate? How is that going to work itself out in the long term?
Dr. Arthur Siegel, the director of internal medicine at Harvard’s McLean Hospital has some really good insight on this. His more than two dozen studies on runners were published in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation.
When it comes to running long distances, Dr. Siegel was right on the mark when he said, “Your body doesn’t know whether you’ve run a marathon, or been hit by a truck.”
And the “inflammatory storm” triggered by the stress of running a marathon creates the exact same symptoms as heart disease.
The media glosses right over this kind of stuff. But the message is clear: Your body was not designed for monotonous, continuous running.
What happens is that your body reacts to the “injury” you’re inflicting on it – running – with an adaptive emergency-repair response. Your adrenal glands and brain produce the stress hormones cortisol and vasopressin. Your damaged muscles churn out cytokines, which trigger inflammation throughout your body. Even your heart gets damaged.
In one study they tested the blood of 60 marathon finishers and found that after the race, some runners’ hearts had trouble pumping the blood back out to the lungs. They also found increased pressure in the heart, enzymes leaking through the heart’s membrane, and heart cell injury.1
This happens because routinely forcing your body to perform the same continuous cardiovascular challenge, by repeating the same movement, at the same rate, thousands of times over, without variation, without rest, is unnatural.
Adding repeated “cardio” to our busy days and pushing for greater endurance produces the opposite result of what we need in the modern world.
We’re only supposed to be running to save our lives – a fight or flight situation where you produce astronomical amounts of hormones to either fight or escape from danger.
And here we are, running when there is no need to.
Sure, you can train for endurance, but nobody ever stopped to think if you should. If they had, they would have realized that the long-term consequence is that running robs your heart and lungs of their capacity, or power, and trades that power in for efficiency.
But your body wasn’t designed to be an efficient little scooter. It’s built more like a Ferrari: powerful bursts over short distances with plenty of reserve power when you need it.
But the flip side of that is that there’s a lot of power in your adaptive response. In fact, it’s the key to rebuilding the heart power the modern world has taken from you.
And it’s the secret to why my new program is the best product I’ve ever created, and the most effective workout program ever made.
Every one of the fun new workouts I’ve developed for you uses your own power of adaptive response to retrain your heart and lungs so you can regain your capacity and have immediate power – with power to spare.
 Certified P.A.C.E. trainer Rob shows how to do the “marching squat” in my new P.A.C.E. Express program. |
In fact, instead of putting on your running shoes, try these workouts instead. Your heart will grow stronger instead of weaker, you’ll avoid injury, and I guarantee you’ll feel greater stamina, more energy and even burn off more unwanted fat.
They’re a sneak peek from my brand-new P.A.C.E. Express videos:
The first is called the “Marching Squat.” I recommend using your legs for as many workouts as possible because they’re the biggest muscles in your body and help burn off the most fat.
- Start with your legs a little wider than shoulder width apart.
- Raise your arms into an “L” shape, so that your hands are pointed up and your upper arms are parallel to the floor.
- Raise your left knee toward your body, and at the same time twist your torso, pulling your right arm toward your raised leg.
- Switch legs and repeat with the opposite arm and leg. Use this alternating motion for the rest of your set.
You can also try the “Squat and Butt Kicker.”
- Start off with your feet shoulder width apart and do a standard squat, adding in raising your arms straight out in front of you as you lower yourself.
- As you rise back up, pull your arms in as if you were rowing, and raise your right leg behind you as if you were going to literally kick yourself in the butt.
- Lower your leg, do another squat and repeat the butt kicking with your left leg.
These movements, along with the dozens of others I show you in P.A.C.E. Express, make my program the only one in the world that uses the power of adaptive response to retrain your metabolism.
And when we open my new center, we’ll be able to bring you interviews from the P.A.C.E. studio, new results from our testing, and video demonstrations of even more fun and exciting workouts.
Until then, I’ve put it all together for you in one convenient place, no gym or equipment necessary. Click here to get a copy for yourself.