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Training designed to increase the body's strength, power, and muscular endurance through resistance exercise. The most common form of which is weight training.

A measure of how well your blood transports oxygen around the body, and how well your muscles utilize the oxygen.

The body's ability to exercise with minimal fatigue. Often used with other terms such as; endurance training, muscular endurance and cardiorespiratory endurance.

Ability to know where your joint is in space—for instance, when standing on one leg—due to a system of pressure sensors in the joints, muscles, and tendons that provide the body with information to maintain balance.

Cardio is short for cardiorespiratory or cardiovascular exercise and refers to exercise that elevates the heart rate to pump oxygen and nutrient-carrying blood to the working muscles. Most often used for exercise performed on equipment like treadmills, elliptical runners or stationary bikes, it is important to know that ANY exercise that elevates the heart rate can provide cardiorespiratory benefits. Circuit training with free-weights or performing an AMRAP (as many rounds of a particular circuit as possible in a given amount of time) can be considered cardiorespiratory exercise.

ESD is the cardiovascular component of Core Performance training programs. The intensity of the workouts is broken up into three different heart rate zones, which are differentiated by color: Yellow is easy/recovery, green is moderate/strength, and red is hard/power. Instead of slow, plodding workouts, ESD will have your muscles, nervous system, and hormones acting together to help your body work as efficiently as possible.

The highest number of heart beats per minute (bpm) when exercising maximally.

The lowest rate of body metabolism (rate of energy use) that can sustain life, measured after a full night's sleep in a laboratory under optimal conditions of quiet, rest and relaxation.

This term is commonly used to describe a general mode of exercise such as yoga or Pilates, because they are traditionally performed with bodyweight (with the exception of Pilates programs involving equipment such as a reformer or barrel) and require concentration to execute challenging movement sequences. However, any purposeful movement, whether it’s a biceps curl or downward facing dog, requires conscious effort. Therefore, almost any physical activity that involves learning and executing movement patterns, no matter how basic, requires cognitive focus and should technically be classified as mind-body.

Passive recovery involves things like massage that require little to no effort.

The units of heart rate, beats per minute

Training in which the pace is varied from a fast sprint to slow jogging.

A salt formed from lactic acid. See also lactic acid.

Concerning the heart and blood vessels.

Oxygen consumption/uptake by the body. Usually expressed in ml.kg-1.min-1, sometimes in l.min-1.

The metabolic process that occurs in the cells, by which the body uses oxygen to produce energy.

Process by which your body converts food to energy, sometimes referred to as your “fat furnace.”

A term for someone's aerobic fitness capacity - their ability to do prolonged exercise without fatigue.

Nutrition at Core Performance is seen as a way to fuel your body for optimal energy and production, not as a way of dealing with stress or curbing emotions. The path to success isn’t about deprivation, but instead it’s focused on being proactive with your health by combining nutrition and exercise for maximum results.