Ms. Namita Nayyar:
What exercises comprise your fitness regime or workout routine?
Ms. Svava Sigbertsdottir:
We train with no machines. We use free weights and our own body weight; crawling, pushing, pulling, rotating, kicking, huge amount of Plyometric exercises. In the Viking Method we focus on the fast twitch muscles fibres that are the most powerful ones but fatigue quickly.
I do specific exercises that I pair in a certain way; a high intensity functional exercise followed by a more of a static functional exercise, done within a certain time frame or certain amount of reps. This forces you to utilize more energy and oxygen and at the same time create more lean tissue as well as activate the growth hormone, king hormone of fat burning. The growth hormone can only be activated through high intensity training. Training that you do “in the fat burning zone, where you can always hold up a conversation” is not good enough.
You should not be able to utter a word while you are training. This training creates an after burn that is very beneficial. It raises your metabolic rate, meaning you will be burning more energy long after you stopped training. In order to keep this higher rate up, never go longer than 48 hours in between sessions, as after that time it will start to drop.
In the Viking Method programs, there is a huge importance placed on the core. Of working it in the most efficient way. Throughout your training. Not just for the last 5 minutes where you do exercises that mostly are aggravating your hip flexors and tightening your lower back.
Your core is the connector, it is your source of power and we work it in that way. In every single exercise. Balance exercises is another important component; they benefit your neuro-muscular co-ordination, strengthen your joints and ligaments and improve your core strength as well.
Ms. Namita Nayyar:
Do you take some special diet or have a strict menu that you follow to remain healthy and physically fit?
Ms. Svava Sigbertsdottir:
The Nutrition is all about bringing your body into balance. Full of energy, vitality and optimum function of all your systems.
It is also about eating healthy in your every day life. It is not about counting every kcal or weighing every gram of food. I give you the macros you should have, I tell you what food is good to have, I give you guidelines, recipes, meal plans. But I do not tell you every single gram of every meal. That is not a long lasting way to be. Horribly boring, time consuming and most of us have family, partner, friends, and that way is terribly anti-human.
Even the end goal of the daily meal plan examples I will give you, is to not use them. Its about you learning and knowing which food is great to have and when, and recipes to choose from and then for you to be able to pick from those or make your own.
The idea that changing your body shape is all to do with Kcal in vs. Kcal out and the importance of the amount of Kcal is out-dated and not right. Yes we need to watch that we do not eat too much but we have to understand that if you eat 1500 kcal in Mars Bars it will have a totally different affect on you to if you eat 1500 kcal in fish, chicken, vegetables and fibrous fruit. What is important is where your energy (Kcal) is coming from and how it affects your body especially your hormones and producing the optimum hormonal function.
We have the good protein and the healthy fats. (fat does not make you fat!) Loads of vegetables and fibrous fruit. Other carbs, we have after we train as well as on training days we have a slow releasing carbs for breakfast. One night a week, there is a cheat meal. That is a must.
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