Body Shape Female Fitness Centre
Fitness in Unley

Every day we assist our members transform their lives in a non intimidating, supportive, merriment environment! Our centers are specifically designed to cater for the unique needs of women. From the size of our weights to the types of classes we offer, everything we do is to make sure that you are prosperous in achieving your goals. When you visit a Body Shape center it is not like joining a massive impersonal fitness chain. Whether your goal is to lost weight, tone up or get fit, Body Shape can design a tailored program to fit you! No other fitness center offers these promises because we are focused on you achieving your superior body shape. Functional training is a term we hear a lot about these days when talking about exercise. It is not one of those fitness fads’ that come and go it is a type of training that has proven to be a simple, effective way of improving your body’s ability to move and perform basic daily tasks. It involves doing exercises that combines the use of various muscles groups and joints allowing you to improve your strength and apply it in a possible way. Functional exercises include many low impact movements that are advantageous to anyone with earlier injuries as well as a great starting point if you are a newbie’. It can be overwhelming when wondering what exercises to start with and going back to the basics push, pull, lift, bend and press movements are immense starting points for any exercise program. You learn great technique form the start which is an urgent basis when you start to apply progressive overload principles (i.e adding more resistance to your workout!). By incorporating functional exercises into your workout your muscles get stronger, your joint range of movement increases and your muscles start to remember’ these movements so when you need to repeat it again your brain and muscles coordinate and your body can perform with more ease and less effort. There is a major emphasis on right technique when performing functional exercises as you are often just using body weight as the main form of resistance and thus you are not everlasting balanced or assisted’ by a machine. You have the opportunity to potentially improve your posture as the exercises implemented through functional training will recruit and strengthen these specific muscles. Consistency is the key with exercise and when you can successfully perform basic functional movements it motivates you to keep challenging yourself and trying new things! Pushups are a vast exercise to develop upper body pressing strength. It improves your core strength and develops shoulder stability. Pull ups use most of the muscles in your upper body (between your waist and neck!) and also develops your grip strength when pulling up your body weight in one swift movement. In addition rowing is a fantastic cardiovascular workout it is low impact and is immense for injury prevention because the seated support reduces load on the hips, knees and ankles. The alternative resistance based rows mimics a pulling’ action and strengthens your upper body whilst improving core stability as you row’. Lunges are unilateral exercises, meaning that they train one side of your body independently from the other. Training one side at a time vastly improves your balance and coordination.