Dr. med. Andreas Krüger

Ever been to a physiotherapist or orthopedist? Every year, around 400,000 athletes are injured in sports accidents in Switzerland, over 90,000 of them in winter sports. You can't train for accidents, but you can increase your body's resistance. For top athletes, this is a regular routine. In the event of an injury, athletes receive optimal, round-the-clock care from several specialists. For a regular sports enthusiast, the situation looks quite different. One invests much less in injury prevention and preparation and needs much longer for recovery and readiness to sport. So what can you as a regular sports enthusiast do to enjoy life as pain-free as possible and save visits to physical therapists, orthopedists, and surgeons?

Current scientific research shows that if you train for hours every week, especially when it comes to medium-intensity endurance activities, there is no added value in improving "health and fitness". Why only high intensity strength training (HIT) is able to optimize all components of metabolic activity and deliver unique health benefits in minutes.

The stronger the stimulus, the greater the signal to build muscle in the body. At the same time, however, the degree of exhaustion after training increases, and with it the recovery time required. This is exactly why High Intensity strength training (HIT) is the most effective and time-saving form of strength training because it enables the greatest possible stimulus in just a few minutes of workout. And this only every 5-7 days, because the muscles need this time to recover.

Losing fat can often be difficult. Often the diet is adjusted and you still do not lose the fat mass that you wanted. The change in diet alone is often not enough to achieve the genetically optimal body fat ratio. In this science article you can find out why high-intensity (HIT) strength training is ideal for boosting fat loss.