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Slow-motion strength training is hard — and fast

By Rachel Pomerance Berl

One of the newest fitness studios in the D.C. area feels less like a gym and more like a physical therapist’s office. The Perfect Workout, which opened in August in Bethesda and Falls Church, offers clients personal training in a quiet, no-frills space filled with Nautilus equipment and framed testimonials (many from clients of an advanced age). It promises a complete workout in just two short sessions per week.

The drill: A high-intensity, low-impact program known as slow-motion strength training, in which gradually lifting and releasing weights without the aid of rest or momentum brings muscles to exhaustion. It’s extremely difficult. It’s also only 20 minutes.

Though The Perfect Workout, a California-based outfit founded in 1999, is new to the East Coast, the concept isn’t.

The Perfect Workout and other slow-motion training companies such as SuperSlow Zone, which has a location in Sterling, Va., and InForm Fitness, which has a studio in Leesburg, Va., cite principles outlined just over 30 years ago by fitness professional Ken Hutchins. In slowing down movements to safely train women with osteoporosis, Hutchins concluded that the technique builds muscle more effectively than conventional weight training, although others have contested this assertion.

The effectiveness of slow-motion strength training depends on the individual, according to Lee Jordan, a Florida trainer and spokesman for the American Council on Exercise, but it offers a broad range of people a safe and viable program.

Like high-intensity interval training, Jordan says, it seeks to remove the top barrier to exercise: time. But unlike high-intensity interval training (“by its very nature, it’s extreme,” he says), slow-motion strength training is accessible to anyone.

While advocates of slow-motion strength training claim it satisfies the need for cardiovascular activity, Jordan and other fitness experts argue that people require a mix of aerobic activity and strength training.

Still, the key to an exercise routine is sticking to that routine. And some clients say this program works.

“People love to hate this place,” says Nicole Gustavson, owner of Leesburg’s InForm Fitness. “But they keep coming back because they get results.”

At SuperSlow Zone in Sterling, Jannet Anmahian, 83, makes a show of exhaustion from her weight machine — sticking out her tongue and clasping her hands together in a sarcastic plea for help.

“I always complain,” she says, calling it “part of the game.”

Anmahian adds that “there are no words” to describe the value of this program, which she’s followed for more than 30 years and has no intention of stopping.

Mark Ello, 51, of Leesburg, began training at SuperSlow Zone in 2002 to shape up for his 20-year high school reunion. Since then, he reports better body composition plus lower blood sugar and cholesterol.

“It’s like a Chevy,” he says of the workout. “It’s not sexy, but it gets you from point A to point B.”


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Meet Aja Bradley Personal Trainer at The Perfect Workout Anaheim Hills Studio

As a mother of three, Aja values the time efficiency of The Perfect Workout for her own workouts. As a personal trainer Anaheim Hills, she values how effective slow-motion strength training is at getting her clients their desired results.

For a busy mom with three kids, an hour in the gym is not realistic. That’s why Aja Bradley not only loves training her clients at The Perfect Workout, she’s also completely devoted to the 20-minute slow-motion strength training workouts herself. Growing up with three brothers, she played all the sports they played, and has always been interested in fitness. She’s done her share of weight lifting, even hiring a personal trainer at one point, but never quite like this. Since coming on board as a trainer in October of 2013 and starting this workout, she has more definition in her abs, arms, and everywhere, in a much shorter amount of time.

Once she went through The Perfect Workout’s rigorous training and certification program, Aja quickly started helping her clients get great results, too. “The thing I like most about training is the relationships with clients,” she says. “We’re going so slow that I have time to actually coach. I take the time to understand each person’s goals. That’s very important.” Clients regularly make comments like, “My clothes are fitting better,” “I’m getting stronger and can pick up my grandkids now,” and her favorite, “I arm wrestled my husband and he was surprised by how strong I was!” Aja’s style is a good mix of getting to know her clients on a very personal level, pushing them to full capacity during the workout, and maintaining a very upbeat, optimistic attitude.

Besides her work as a personal trainer, Aja writes for Independent films, and just produced her first one as well. She’s been acting and modeling since she was five, and you may have seen her in a Mad TV skit or in a commercial. There’s not a lot of spare time in the Bradley household, but if she had more she’d enjoy spending more time with her husband and working out with him since they work opposite schedules. For now, Aja’s goals are to stay in shape, keep setting an example for her kids, and for her first movie that she produced to do well. She’s excited to be part of The Perfect Workout team, and says, “I really like how everyone in the company looks out for one another. I love my clients and the people I work with.”

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