The Momentum Fitness & Weight Loss System

1. How The Momentum Fitness works:
What is a Heart Rate Monitor?: A heart rate monitor helps you measure the intensity of your workout. Most heart rate monitors come in two separate pieces – a chest band and a wrist watch.
Sample Interval Workout: Sample 25-Minute Interval Workout with 3-Minute Intervals
Warm Up: Be sure to warm up for 5 minutes. You can walk, jog in place, jump rope, or run around the block. In fact, you can do anything that gets your heart rate elevated, as long as you don’t overdo it. This means that your perceived exertion (P.E.) during the warm up should be a 5 on a scale of 1 to 10 (“1” is the exertion required to sit on the sofa and at “10,” you’ve just passed out). Never go above a perceived 8.5 exertion while doing this or any workout.

Give Yourself A Break! The Importance of Recovery in Your Training
Your success with Momentum lies in the strength of interval training — not only getting your heart rate up, but also letting it come down again before starting your next interval. Alternating between exertion and recovery strengthens your heart (a muscle) and lungs because you are training the two how to respond to, and absorb, exertion. The more you work your heart and lungs using Momentum intervals, the quicker you will recover over time. This is why your recovery heart rate is such an important indicator of your fitness level.
There are several ways to find your recovery rate. Momentum users can actually see it on their heart rate monitor during their interval workouts. For example, if you hit a target heart rate of 150 during a 3-minute interval, and your heart drops 30 beats per minute during your 1-minute recovery, your recovery rate is 30 bpm.

2. Product Description
The Momentum Fitness & Weight Loss System

The Momentum Fitness & Weight Loss System uses interval training techniques, one of the hottest trends in health and fitness, to cut your exercise time in half, and give you the healthy weight-loss results that you have been looking for. Momentum fits easily into every lifestyle, whether you like running on a treadmill in the gym or biking a mountain trail.

3: Credibility: References , endorsements ( creditability of person who endorsed )
The Science of Momentum Summary Report documents the benefits of using the Momentum System.
"The Momentum System takes a straight-forward approach to exercise and nutrition, without the empty promises so common in many other programs. I have been in the health and fitness field for over two decades and am happy to endorse Momentum as a quality product that is based on science, and not just on hype."
Joseph Quatrochi, Ph.D.
Professor of Human Performance and Sport (HPS) at Metropolitan State College of Denver

The Science of Momentum Summary Report documents the benefits of using the Momentum System.
#1: ACSM Guidelines: Interval Recommendation
For the first time, the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the most widely recognized authority on fitness guidelines, specifies "intervals" as an acceptable method of working toward improving cardiovascular fitness in their textbook, ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise and Prescription(ACSM Guidelines), 7 th Edition (2006 ­ released May, 2005).
ACSM Guidelines: Interval Recommendation
The RESEARCH
· Interval Training: Lose 3 Times the Fat
· Interval Training: Burns up to 30% More Calories
· Interval Training: Results in Three 30-Minute Workouts Per Week
· Interval Training: Strengthens Heart and Lungs
· Interval Training: Builds Endurance
· Interval Training: Increases "After-Burn"


The Momentum Fitness & Weight Loss System combines a 6-, 12-, 18-, and 24-minute No Excuses Workout with Interval Training techniques and a common-sense approach to nutrition and health.


4. Person behind this product
Jonathan Roche is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on heart rate-based interval training. Through his company, Breakthrough Health & Fitness, Jonathan promotes the use of heart-rate based interval workouts to achieve maximum fitness and weight loss results in the shortest period of time. Says Jonathan, “It’s not how hard you train. It’s how smart you train.”

Jonathan, a native of Boston, Massachusetts, is a certified personal trainer, an award-winning fitness video instructor, an 10-time Boston Marathon runner and an 12-time Ironman Triathlon finisher selected All-American by USA Triathlon in 2003. He has run 11 Boston Marathons as a member of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute team.

Jonathan Roche BlogTalkRadio - see the recored Radio talk on the right side. If you listen to talkshow Very practical advice asking to park car couple minutes away in the office parking lot.

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