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iWorkout Muse Featured in Milwaukee Biz Times

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Innovations: Milwaukee company tops iTunes ‘What’s Hot’ list with new application

By Alysha Schertz email , of BizTimes

Published December 11, 2009

The Apple iPhone has become one of the most popular technology items for consumers.

And hundreds of thousands of applications have been developed to enhance the iPhone experience. One of those applications, iWorkout Muse, was developed by Milwaukee-based Workout Muse, a fitness music and media production company, and has been on Apple’s iTunes application store “What’s Hot” list for the past few weeks.

B.J. Gaddour co-creator and fitness director for the company, formed Workout Muse LLC in 2008.

The company works with a team of sound designers to develop customized workout tracks, complete with audio start, stop, and rest instructions, which guide the user through the workout.

“We were becoming really popular among fitness professionals around the world,” Gaddour said. “We experienced a lot of success with professionals who needed custom tracks for their classes, but when the recession hit we needed to take it a step further.” (more…)

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Interval Workouts with ZERO Rest!

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Traditionally interval training consists of alternating between bouts of maximum effort (know as the work period) and bouts of active recovery (known as the rest period).

However, some of my favorite interval workouts are ones that involve consecutive work sets with ZERO rest.

I call this CONTINUOUS (enter length of work set HERE) Circuit.

This is an advanced interval training protocol, and it accomplished several things:

1.) Maximizes work output in minimal time if you alternate between non-competitive exercises: upper body push and pull, double-leg or single-leg lower body, knee or hip-dominant, core, cardio, etc.

2.) Maximizes local muscular endurance and time under tension for competing exercises that work the similar movement patterns/areas of the body (e.g. alternating between different push-up variations)

3.) The best interval protocol is the one you have done for a while, if ever- mixing it up with continuous work sets will be a great stimulus to prevent or break through plateaus!

Check out an amazing abs workout using the continuous work set format below: (more…)

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