Overall Benefits of StickFit® & StickBlitz™
The following positive adaptations can be attributed to participating in a sustained aerobic intensity, mixed modality StickFit® class combined with StickBlitz™.
PHYSIOLOGICAL
Cardiovascular, Muscular and Health Benefits
- Increase cardiovascular fitness and capacity with sustained aerobic training
- Increase calorie burning potential
- Lower resting HR
- Improve stamina
- Increase size and number of mitochondria
- Improve muscle strength, endurance and overall conditioning
- Improve immune function
- Improves sleep
Posture and Neurosensory Benefits
- Increase kinaesthetic awareness and proprioceptive response through fundamental movement pattern training, resulting in heightened self-awareness and enhanced movement skills
- Increase muscle recruitment to improve agility, balance, coordination, stability
- Increase core activation
- Increase intrinsic joint strength and muscle balance will activate functional and core strength and improve connective tissue tensile strength
- Increase structural integrity, therefore improving posture and stabilization, mobility and ROM
Physical Cognitive Skill Benefits
- Ambidexterity: Equally adept in the use of both left and right sides of the body
- Coordination: The ability to move hands and feet separately or perform different functions at the same time
- Cross Lateral Training: Moves where arms or legs cross over one side of the body to the other
- Multi-Tasking: The ability to use the attributes of unconscious actions, peripheral vision and function from any position, at the same time
- Flow of Movement: Being able to flow from one position or exercise to another with relaxed muscles and continue fluidly through varied sequential movements
- Peripheral Vision: Ability to use midbrain (reflex) not relying on pre-frontal cortex where we analyze and process our thoughts, making reaction time faster
- Improve cognitive executive function
- Improve memory and mental acuity
- Improve mental awareness of the physical body
- Improve mood and self-motivation
- Improve work production
- Improve social interaction
- Improve self confidence
- Decrease stress
- Community and Camaraderie
- Healthy Interaction and Competition
- Encourages male participation in a group exercise platform
