Effectiveness: Progressive resistance training is the most effective method to build strength, increase lean body mass and increase resting metabolic rate. Resistance training requires that muscles work against a momentum to limit muscle resistance. Superslow reduces the effects of momentum, keeping muscles continously and meaningfully under tension throughout the entire range of motion, and therefore most effectively stimulated. SuperSlow protocol also stimulates improvements in cardio respiratory efficiency, flexiblity, and bone density.

Efficiency: The purpose of exercise is to stimulate. For optimal stimulation, intensity must be high and therefore work must be brief. Every second of SuperSlow is one with a purpose in mind. Stimulated muscles need adequate time to recover, adapt, and super compensate so that improvements can be made. Higher intensity requires that most people train no more than twice per week, ensuring optimal gains are realized. The fact that cardio respiratory conditioning and flexibility are addressed also makes the workout more efficient.

Safety: Exercise should help prevent injury, not cause it. Yet many people are injured during exercise each year. One major cause is excessive force. It is simply a matter of physics that when a force is placed upon a material that is greater than its structural integrity, the material will eventually break. With exercise, this can be muscle, tendon, ligament or even bone. What is most misunderstood about this especially concerning resistance training is that is it not the weight that caused high force, moreover that weight is moved. Physics states that F=MA. When a lighter weight is jerked or lifted explosively the force can be very high. This is evident in many injuries occurring as a result of simple weight bearing activities (running, aerobics classes). By lifting in a slow, controlled manner as prescribed by SuperSlow, dangerous forces are kept under control and that, combined with proper lifting mechanics, greatly reduces the chance of injury.

Mind/Muscle Link: SuperSlow, primarily involving weight lifting (either machines or free weights), focuses less on moving weights and more on working muscles slowly. What the muscles are doing is more important than what the weights are doing. Focusing on fatiguing the muscle allows greater development of this kinesthetic awareness. Establishing greater mind/muscle link leads to more effective and safe exercise.

Standardization: Measure effectiveness of exercise by results. SuperSlow provides a specific, standardized way to perform exercises, making track of improvements easier.