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About Us
Have you heard the common trope that our modern, sedentary lifestyles are not the lifestyles that our bodies evolved to live?
The story goes, “Industrialization and modern technology have changed our lives and our environment so quickly that our bodies have not had enough time to evolve their way along with us. Therefore, to give our body what it needs, we should to eat and exercise like our hunter-gatherer ancestors did.
As a result of this thought process, we created an exercise programming framework that best mimics the fitness demands of a hunter-gatherer’s ancestral lifestyle. Then, to make it even more representative of a nomadic homo-sapiens’ lifestyle demands, we randomized the order of the workouts. Yes, we plugged all the workouts into a randomizer rather than carefully ordering them in a thought-out progression or order of some kind.
Oh, and while we’re spilling secrets, there’s lots of Yoga days. Lots.
When it comes to creating and prescribing exercise programming, our philosophy at Intermittent Fit is that; if a human does the exercise programming at all, it risks being biased, skewed, or human-errored into poor programming or overtraining, injuries or burnout. At Intermittent Fit a human doesn’t do the programming, the human just follows the email. The randomizer does the programming, and the human does the scaling of each workout to their individual needs or desires.
Each human member chooses if they will do the workout that day or not (Yes, it’s optional like that.) The human can take a day off, or more than one, whenever. This is where the human learns to interact with his or her own body and notice how it is responding (or not responding) to the daily challenges. It is acceptable to take rest days when you feel like it because there is no progressing program to adhere to; instead it’s random and daily.
It is acceptable to take rest days when you feel like it because there is no progressing program to adhere to.
The individual member also does the choosing of loads to use for the workouts and also chooses the modality at times. As in, you may choose to run or walk or bike or swim or lift weights that day. As long as it falls within (or near) the rep range and muscle groups challenged for that day – it’s a good choice. Usually exercise prescriptions concentrated on the weights that were lifted, the load was all that mattered. At Intermittent Fit we concentrate on the reps and the body parts – The weight is irrelevant and you will not be prescribed specific weight to lift carry or throw. As a member you are instructed to focus on the number of reps that are prescribed each day and forget about the weight or even the type of weight you’re using. Sand bags, heavy backpacks, iron weights, kettlebells or rusty pipes, it does not matter at Intermittent Fit.
At Intermittent Fit, we believe that fitness isn’t just about achieving a certain look, it’s a lifestyle. Feeling sore or tired today? Take the day off working out. And don’t worry, there will be another Intermittent Fit email in your inbox tomorrow with a fresh challenge.
It’s a rolling, random program that can be joined or quit at anytime. You can adhere closely to it, or just read the daily email for personal training inspiration.
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The story goes, that Intermittent Fit’s creator (now known as the Randomizer) was an avid weightlifter and long distance runner. He studied nutrition and exercise in college and went on to work in various corners of the industry. He was a trainer to both children and elderly. He worked in a hospital and in a high-priced fitness center. He was well aware of how to build an exercise routine and he had extensive experience guiding others through workout routines.
“But, I was always worried about where I was in my own program.” The Randomizer is quoted as saying. “I was always creating weekly programs, weekly splits for my bodybuilding, or creating running programs for the next race. It might go well for a while, but life would inevitably get busy or something would change and I’d have to skip workouts. I’d fall one, then two days behind my planned program and feel really guilty about it. Not only that, the further off of my plan that I veered, the easer it then became to scrap the program all together.”
“I found a lot of peace when I stopped doing that and created the Intermittent Fit idea. After that, I just started following this randomized plan that shows up in my email everyday. I don’t worry about taking a day off when I feel tired, or where I might be in the workout cycle, or how many times I’ve done what exercise lately. I just trust the randomness now.”
“Further, as a result of this randomized and wholistic program, I know I’m not exercising for a certain aesthetic goal anymore. I’m not trying to stick to a six or ten week bodybuilding split. Instead, Intermittent Fit gives me peace of mind knowing that I am exercising in a continuous and random way, for life. Just like my ancestors did. Exercise no longer stresses me out, it actually reduces my stress. Intermittent Fit fixed my long and fraught relationship with exercise and allowed me to focus on other parts of my modern life.”
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Our comprehensive fitness framework is designed to help you reach your goals, whether that’s building strength, improving endurance, feeling more confident or feeling less pain. We created a total body, functional exercise program that includes everything from powerlifting to distance running, then we randomized it.
In order to best mimic the random and unknown demands of life as a hunter-gatherer (which is apparently what our bodies still think we are) we will not present our exercise routine as a well planned-out and progressively challenging program for you to follow explicitly. Instead, we present our routine in a random and ongoing fashion. This way, it more closely recreates the life our bodies were evolved to live and the physical challenges our bodies evolved to accomplish; random and unknown.
When is the wooly Mammoth going to make you run at full speed carrying your baby? When will you have to climb something? When will you have to walk many miles in the rain? How many logs must you split before sundown?
We posit, that our stone-tool ancestors did not know what a day might hold for them, or what kind of physical demands that week may bring to them. If this is the environment that our slowly evolving bodies still think we live in, then we should exercise that way; Surprisingly, Randomly. Or… Intermittently.
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Expert Guidance
Intermittent Fit Members receive an email every day with a workout. The workout is meant to be challenging, but not too difficult and the categories are intentionally broad (This isn’t bodybuilding after all.) It’s intermittent fitness it’s made to mimic random challenges that include many muscle groups.
Flexible Scheduling
It can be easy to fit your fitness routine into your busy schedule when you decide which days are workout days and which days are rest days. And you can decide this randomly without falling behind in the program. It’s intermittent and rsandom so there’s nothing to fall behind of.
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