On my calculation I’ve spent about three and a half hours at OsteoStrong during the last 14-weeks. I’ve spent almost 35-hours watching dozens of episodes of Danish drama Borgen and have nothing to show for that time investment. I bloody love Borgen but I love OsteoStrong more because my time spent there has improved my body strength by a whopping 49 per cent!
I’m the first to admit that I went into this experiment feeling sceptical. I’m not into fitness unless you count fast-paced walking and always exceeding 10,000 steps a day. My physiotherapist son tells me walking counts for nought on the strength building front. Well counting absolutely matters at OsteoStrong. Everything I’ve done there has been measured by the super computers attached to the equipment I’ve been using every week.
Without feeling any pain, mopping a drop of sweat from my brow or even needing to wear different clothes I’ve been boosting my skeletal strength. Under the careful guidance of OsteoStrong’s professionals I am successfully high jacking my body’s natural decline in strength and balance. I can’t reverse the biological decline that begins from age 30 but I am holding some of that decline at bay. And let me tell you I’m feeling good. Cue Michael Bublé’s voice crooning that song because it’s playing in my head when I think about what I’ve achieved. It really does feel like a new life.
The genius of OsteoStrong is how it helps you increase strength by holding the maximum weight you can handle in a static position. You can’t hold it for more than a few seconds because the stimulus is so extreme and that’s why an OsteoStrong workout (and I use the term with my tongue firmly in my cheek because it doesn’t feel anything like a workout) is so time efficient and yet so effective at strengthening your body.
Last week all the counting (measurement) that’s been occurring every week was calculated as I was taken through my 14-week markers. My skeletal strength improved by 49 per cent because I’ve hit the growth triggers in my upper and lower body and core. My lower body strength has improved by 118 per cent. Here’s another fun fact, when I began this experiment my balance and fall risk was only better than 28 per cent of people of the same age and gender as me. Now I’m better than 48 per cent of them.
OsteoStrong doesn’t do photos and ultrasounds until the 6-month mark when I fully expect my bone density will also show signs of improvement. I’ve delved into the body science a bit and it seems many people overtrain and drain their energy systems in ways that weaken them. Muscle doesn’t grow just because it’s stimulated, it grows because it’s been stimulated intensely enough and with sufficient rest for the body to recover and rebuild enough to respond to the next stimulation. I reckon that’s why Manly Warringah Sea Eagle Marty Taupau has made OsteoStrong part of his training regime. I’ll be watching Marty play with even more interest now.
As a certain shampoo commercial used to say, “it won’t happen overnight, but it will happen” has been my experience of OsteoStrong and I’ll end with another famous tag line as I plan to keep up with OsteoStrong because “I’m worth it”.
Visit osteostrong.com.au/manly-nsw for more info, follow @osteostrong_manly on socials, call 8095 9640, or pop into 45 Sydney Rd, Manly.