5Keys Fitness

by Adam Milligan, EquiVita

Early in my business, I realized that many of the people who came to me for an assessment were not coming from Physical Therapy nor referred by a physician and, in fact, had not had any recent injury. Instead, they had heard about the assessment from someone and thought it would be a good way to start a fitness program. So, I created the Transitional Fitness Assessment from my post-rehabilitation model to be able to include all individuals regardless of the current level of fitness and background. The Transitional Fitness Assessment is a great tool for determining the strengths and weaknesses of one’s body and necessary for finding the right exercises.

To be most effective, though, the other aspects of fitness had to be considered and added to the biomechanically-based Transitional Fitness Assessment. Those other aspects I call Keys and there are 5Keys necessary for a successful fitness program: Resistance, Cardio, Flexibility, Nutrition and Rest. Each of these Keys has a continuum of focus and effort with varying amounts based on your desired goals. Rather than an all-or-nothing approach, the Keys enable an easier way to make the process of fitness fit with your life.

That is not to imply that it is easy. Quite simply, fitness is hard. Creating a lifestyle of fitness is contrary to nearly everything the body would prefer to do, but that is only because the body is designed from an environment where physical activity was a necessity and not an option. Now that activity is mostly an option, the body’s methods seem to be working against us. Accepting that your body is not fighting you and that it just has different goals is the first step toward understanding how you can make a real difference in your life.

There is no question that simple statements like “To lose fat you just need more calories out than in” are true. What is not so simple and makes fitness hard is trying to figure the equation. Your body has an amazing ability to manipulate the equation to have it balance in the direction it wants. From increasing the amount of calories it will absorb from food, to changing the angle of an exercise to stress joints more and allow the muscles to rest, your body is working to achieve its goals of burning fewer calories and performing less work.

Fighting the body for each little step is just a long hard road that often leads to frustration, but the 5Keys process can help. Understanding your body puts you in control of creating the environment to allow your body to change. From focusing your exercise the right way for you to trigger your body’s responses to providing adequate recovery time for your body’s recuperation, the 5Keys Fitness Model gives you the control of how your body will respond.

It all starts with the Initial Assessment. The 5Keys Fitness Assessment provides you with the information about your body to make the choices that are right for you. This education will help you achieve long-lasting changes in your body and your life. While there will be many short-term goals and achievements along the way, the 5Keys process is the path to creating your own lifestyle of fitness and dynamic life balance. Your own EquiVita.

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The unique EQUIVITA approach to a Fitness Assessment begins with a comprehensive evaluation of your
current state of posture, biomechanics, flexibility, circumferential measurements, and exercise history.
During this 2-hour (When was the last time you spent 2 hours with a health professional for your
preventative health?) assessment we will teach you about the five keys of fitness and help you to decide
which areas you want to emphasize. Your body’s muscle and bone structure do affect how and what
exercises you should do, and we will help you to learn about what’s best for you. When you are finished,
you will leave with an exercise plan that you understand. We will teach you about your body’s needs and
what will work for you, based on the five keys of fitness.

We combine the results of this process with your vision of the ‘healthy you’ that you want to target. From
this foundation, we can customize a program that will maximize the efforts directed to reaching individual
goals while reducing risk of injury.

For this comprehensive initial assessment we ask that you plan for 2 hours of time and be familiar with the
recommended guidelines. The cost of the initial assessment is $170 and does not require that you sign-
up for other EQUIVITA services.