What is YPB?
It stands for Your Personal Best.
What are the core values and mission statement of YPB?
How many times per week should I do YPB workouts?
We recommend 3 times per week with some kind of additional cardiovascular activity on the “in-between” days. Our functional fitness programming is designed to optimize your daily living activities and overall sense of health and wellbeing. Understand, skipping days and too many days off will slow progress, create imbalances and add frustration regarding your progress.
What is the best way to progress through the workouts?
Safely, methodically & consistently.
Remember, beating up on yourself is not the goal at YPB. This has never served anyone. Progressively adding intensity to your workouts should follow a process. The process is as follows:
- Modify everything. This means decreasing all Rounds, Reps, and Weights (RRW).
Generally, beginners should modify all RRW to 1 round.
Intermediate exercisers may want to modify RRW to 1 -2 rounds.
Advanced exercisers should modify less or more depending on experience with these workouts.
Just because someone has been working out for years does not make them an “advanced exerciser” with YPB Functional Fitness workouts. - Add ONE thing back at a time. Making broad sweeping adjustments to your workouts will only serve to confuse and frustrate and will not help you progress. Think about it, if you change two or three things, meaning you went up in weight on the same day you added reps and weight, which one is responsible for making you miserably sore (if you get sore)? Sore is not a goal at YPB and NOT a sign of a good workout!!!
- To progress to the fully prescribed YPB workout, do it in the following order:
Rounds – Your first goal is to complete all rounds suggested. For 30 seconds the most common recommendation is that you choose a weight you can do *12-13 reps with. More than that, and you may be undertraining, less overtraining.
Reps – Once you have gotten to where you can complete all the rounds of any workout on a consistent basis over several different types of workouts, you should then try to progress to paying more attention to your 12 – 13 Reps in 30 seconds as mentioned *above.
Weight – The last thing you add is weight. This must also be done gradually, ensuring that your movements are done with proper form as demonstrated.
What if I don’t know how to do a movement?
Don’t guess. We have movement standards that are for your benefit and safety in video linked to most exercises. Following these examples will ensure your immediate and prolonged success. To learn these movements, please review the video carefully, email one of our specialists, or post your question on the Facebook Business Page.
Also, each workout you do should be done with the greatest integrity. Each workout you do should stand as a testament to your commitment and dedication to better health.
How hard should I push my first day/week?
Half or less of what’s prescribed! YPB Functional Aging workouts are by design safe but, in most cases, started by VERY deconditioned individuals.
