Strength Training at GHF

The Largest Free Weight Area In Town

Regular strength training is a powerful component of fitness. Lifting weights helps you develop strong, lean muscle to improve your metabolism and lose fat, prevent injury, improve mobility and range of motion. At GHF, we provide the best and most strength training machines and free weight equipment to maximize your workouts and give you variety for enhanced results.

Equipment

The largest selection of free weights, deadlift platforms, squat racks, cables and selectorized machines. Featuring X-Force Negative Training machines, Matrix, Hammer Strength, MedX, and functional training stations.

"The Line" Strength Circuit

Perfect for the rookie exerciser, The Line gives newcomers a structured way to get the best results in the shortest amount of time. You’ll move through a series of nine MedX Strength machines, working out all your major muscle groups along the way.

The most important feature of The Line is our staff. Just look for the friendly people in the blue shirts. They will help set up each machine for you, and assist you with every workout, at no extra charge. This services is included in every membership.

With three centers to choose from, Gainesville Health & Fitness is here help achieve your strength training goals.

The X-Force Body Program

An Innovative New Method For Negative Training

X-Force is the most meaningful advance in strength training in the last 30 years. A patented "tilting" weight stack allows for a 40% heavier resistance on the "negative" (lowering) part of the exercise. This heavier negative resistance allows for a greater intensity of effort through a higher quality of resistance. Great strength gains in less time! Results that previously required several workouts a week can now be stimulated in 1-2 workouts a week. By doing the lowering (or negative) part of a lift slowly, you activate can key hormones in your body that enhance fat burn.

Accentuate the Negative.

Research clearly supports the concept that negative (eccentric) training significantly improves muscular size and strength. And that even better results can be achieved by combining this with positive (concentric) training.

Eccentric training is also known as ‘negative’ training simply because it is the opposite of traditional concentric training, which has always been labelled ‘positive’. In the positive training phase the weight is raised which means that the muscle shortens as it works. In the negative phase the opposite happens: the weight is resisted as it is lowered, which means that the muscle lengthens as it works.

With this program, you will:

Elevate your fat-burning metabolism during and after hours after your workout.
Stimulate the production of interleukin 6 and other chemical messengers that help to breakdown fat storage in fat cells.
Boost bone density and even grow new bone cells to protect against osteoporosis.
Reverse age-related muscle loss and build strength for life.
Lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol, reduce systems of anxiety and depression and improve sleep.
Improve blood sugar levels, reducing risk of metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. Transform your body with the most effective and technologically advanced strength-training system available.

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