FitBase

The Trusted Beauty Guide/The Trusted Fitness Guide and FitBase team up to bring you this exclusive offer!

Personal training has never been this much fun...

Exercisers download an audio workout to their mp3 player and create their own soundtrack using the unique FitBase music mixer.*

Latest Research

Studies have shown that listening to music makes you workout harder and for longer but recent research** has found that the type of music you listen to is the key to success. We all respond differently to different types of music so what may be a motivational workout track for one exerciser may be uninspiring for another. By allowing you to select your own music FitBase ensures your workout will be as effective as possible.

Flexible, Varied workouts

FitBase members have access to 3 new workouts each month including cardio, toning, core strength and flexibility and a choice of levels from beginner to advanced. They can remix each soundtrack up to 5 times allowing them to keep each session fresh and exciting.

Take a FitBase exercise session anywhere – do it at home, in the park or garden or in the gym. All that you need is an mp3 player and the personal trainer will talk you through every exercise offering gentle encouragement, motivation and helpful coaching points. To further ensure correct technique is adhered too, full colour PDFs are provided for each workout. With each programme lasting 20-30 minutes it’s easy to fit a FitBase workout into your schedule and if you want a longer session simply run 2 or 3 sessions back to back.

Full Support and Guidance

FitBase Members are assigned their own real life personal trainer who is on hand to offer guidance and support every step of the way. Members can communicate with their trainer via email 24/7 and are guaranteed a response within 24 hours.

Fitbase membership costs from as little as 50p per day. Visit www.fitbase.co.uk for further details.

*The Music Mixer has been exclusively designed for FitBase and is the only one of its kind available on the internet.

**Criteria taken from an article published in the Sport Journal July 2008.

About Fitbase :

Fitbase was created by Dan Sheppard an experienced personal trainer with a passion for DJ’ing. A former X-Country Mountain Biking champion, Dan has been a personal trainer for 8 years and is an Associate Lecturer in sport science at the University of Brighton. Alongside training top athletes, Dan has DJ’ed in some of the UK’s top venues including Turnmills and the Ministry of Sound. As a DJ Dan always felt that personal training sessions generated better results if they were set to music. “So many people exercise while listening to music”, he says. “FitBase takes your workout soundtrack one step further offering guidance, instruction and motivation through the same device.”

Further notes on the research:

The Brunel Music Rating Inventory (BMRI: Karageorghis et al., 1997)

For a piece of music to truly inspire the listener, it must have:

Strong rhythmic qualities that match the activity at hand and also a tempo which matches the predicted heart rate.

The melody and harmony of the music should promote a positive mood state; that is, they should energise the listener and increase vigour.

The music should also stem from the listener's socio-cultural background and comply with their preferences.

Finally, it is ideal that for the music to be associated with physical activity either through the lyrics, e.g., Work Your Body, or its association with other media such as film or TV. A classic example of such a track would be Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger", which was a theme from the Rocky series.

There are three additional considerations when selecting music:

a) Variety in the music tends to maintain athletes' interest in the activity;

b) The volume of the music should not be obscured by the noise of the exercise environment;

c) If synchronizing music with exercise, the tempo must concur with the preferred work rate. For example, if you are swimming using the breast stroke at a rate of 100 strokes per minute, it would be sensible to use music playing at 100 beats per minute (bpm). Alternatively, breast stroking at a rate of 60 strokes per minute a tempo of 120 bpm can be used as the swimmer can take one stroke every two beats.

Researchers at Brunel University**

suggest accompanying training activities with music, to enable exercisers to tap into the power of sound. To start, assemble a wide selection of familiar tracks that meet the following six criteria:

1. Strong, energising rhythm

2. Positive lyrics having associations with movement

(e.g., “Body Groove” by the Architects Ft. Nana)

3. Rhythmic pattern well matched to movement patterns

of the athletic activity

4. Uplifting melodies and harmonies (combinations of notes)

5. Associations with sport, exercise, triumph, or overcoming adversity

6. A musical style or idiom suited to an exerciser’s taste

and cultural upbringing.

Personal training has never been this much fun...

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the Caudwell Charity.