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Speaker 1: This time for another edition of what we like to
Speaker 1: call here on Bloomberg Business we except for Sweat. Today
Speaker 1: it's about a new fitness concept called Shred that's got
Speaker 1: your attention. I bet here with Morris to him son,
Speaker 1: he's a song he's a freelance writer at Bloomberg Pursuits
Speaker 1: and he does join us on the phone from Brooklyn.
Speaker 1: So tell us about this workout. I love the name shred.
Speaker 1: So what is it? Tim right, Well, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: It's uh, yeah, it's sort of interesting. It was put
Speaker 1: together by this woman Carol and Levie who's a lifelong
Speaker 1: skier and um found that she and her friends just
Speaker 1: maybe weren't quite as ready for the season as they
Speaker 1: thought they could be. And I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of stories out there are people who um, you know,
Speaker 1: go heavy on training their legs and think they're gonna
Speaker 1: be ready. Then they get out there the first day
Speaker 1: of ski season on a trip. They're super excited about it.
Speaker 1: They've paid a lot of money for and then a
Speaker 1: lot of planning for and they find that before the
Speaker 1: end of the day they're pretty well spent. You can't
Speaker 1: do anymore. So, um, it's sort of trying to to
Speaker 1: hedge against that and making sure people get the most
Speaker 1: out of their vacation. And I love this terminology that
Speaker 1: they used, Tim called eccentric strength and tell us what
Speaker 1: that is, because I think it alludes to what what
Speaker 1: you were talking about, this notion that you know, skiing
Speaker 1: uses and anybody who's been skiing after that first day
Speaker 1: of the season, regardless of how prepared you are, as
Speaker 1: you say, things hurt that you didn't really realize you
Speaker 1: had right exactly. And it's uh yeah, sort of different
Speaker 1: use of the word eccentric than maybe we're used to,
Speaker 1: although certainly some skiers can be eccentric. Um. It really
Speaker 1: has to do with the idea of of sort of
Speaker 1: more of a negative muscle movement. And so if you
Speaker 1: think of what it feels like to hike or run
Speaker 1: or walk down a hill rather than climbing up it,
Speaker 1: and so it's a lot of kind of resisting the
Speaker 1: forces of gravity and then all of the stabilization that
Speaker 1: goes into your knees and hips to make that possible.
Speaker 1: So there's a lot of kind of small muscles, tendings,
Speaker 1: things that need to be conditioned to allow you to
Speaker 1: really do that safely in a way that's going to
Speaker 1: minimize the chance of injury and maximize your chance of
Speaker 1: sort of having a really enjoyable day. And on top
Speaker 1: of the sorry you took the class though, what was
Speaker 1: it like? So the class is great, and it's it's
Speaker 1: great because it uh it hits those things and in
Speaker 1: sort of um a lot of this high intensity interval
Speaker 1: training way that that you can do in other classes,
Speaker 1: but in a very tailored way. So it's things like
Speaker 1: UM split squats and uh lunges and a lot of
Speaker 1: exercises balancing either on one leg or on knees or
Speaker 1: on both legs on a bowsuit ball which is a
Speaker 1: sort of half inflated UH ball that that creates a
Speaker 1: kind of unstable surface that that requires you to balance,
Speaker 1: because that's kind of the other part of it, UM
Speaker 1: that this workout hits in the interval component is um
Speaker 1: seeing involves a lot of core strength and a lot
Speaker 1: of balance and things that don't involve any sort of uh,
Speaker 1: you know, squats or leg work out at all, but
Speaker 1: that really involves keeping your whole body, uh upright and
Speaker 1: even in space and having that awareness well and the
Speaker 1: other and they use this piece of equipment called skiers Edge,
Speaker 1: which I have to say they have at my gym
Speaker 1: near my house. Uh it is you get on it.
Speaker 1: It's really kind of crazy, but also really does replicate
Speaker 1: a lot of the movement of skiing right now. It does.
Speaker 1: It does. It's one of those things. I think it's
Speaker 1: very easy to look at it and and I think
Speaker 1: that it's a little gimmicky and be kind of skeptical,
Speaker 1: but you know, it has these independent foot platforms um
Speaker 1: and as you go side to side, and actually there
Speaker 1: are different machines that vary the height at which you're
Speaker 1: sliding side to side. But it really does require you
Speaker 1: to use each foot individually and angle the knees and
Speaker 1: hips in a way that that does mimic skiing. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not a perfect thing, but it certainly does does
Speaker 1: the job. And it's a good cardio work out as well.
Speaker 1: It's funny though it's it's been around since, uh since
Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties, and like you say, they are they
Speaker 1: are at a bunch of gyms and things and and
Speaker 1: tend to be a little under used, but there I
Speaker 1: think having a little bit resurgence. There is this sort
Speaker 1: of eighties thing about it that it's sort of like
Speaker 1: the if the Nordic track is on kind of this
Speaker 1: to date end of the age workout spect and this
Speaker 1: is kind of the amped up, ant up version of that.
Speaker 1: That's a great comparison. Can I just say look at
Speaker 1: the picture that's associated and forgive me for everybody on
Speaker 1: radio you have to go to Bloomberg dot com to
Speaker 1: check it out, but there's a picture and it kind
Speaker 1: of to some extent and do a little physical therapy
Speaker 1: right now for like a neck thing. But it reminds
Speaker 1: me of like physical therapy, like some of the things
Speaker 1: that you're using to get back in shape. And that
Speaker 1: is definitely, uh, that is one of the markets where
Speaker 1: you'll see these things actually in physical therapist offices for
Speaker 1: certain types of knee and hip we have, they are
Speaker 1: actually using these more and more. And again partly it's
Speaker 1: it's because of the motion, and partly it is because
Speaker 1: it's um, you know, it's very low impact. There's there's
Speaker 1: none it's not on a treadmill, it's not running, it's
Speaker 1: just no real joint impact in the motion. All right,
Speaker 1: it's great story. Check it out on bloomberg dot com.
Speaker 1: Timp Zone is a writer for Bloomberg Pursuits talking about
Speaker 1: shred