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April 7, 2017

The Reason The DVCC Way Of Training Helps You To Lose Large Amounts Of Body Fat

Health, Fitness, Exercise, Cravings, Weight loss, Transformations, Muscle Soreness, Body Fat, Modified Lactic Training

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Nathan:   Hi, I’m Nathan from the DVCC, I am just down here with Stephen Gray, one of the founders of the DVCC, and we are going to be discussing the MLT, which is modified lactic training, the style of training that the DVCC uses. So, Stephen, how long has the DVCC been training its clients using the MLT system?

Stephen:  Well, it has been an evolving process I would say. We’ve formalised it and trade marked the actual process in the last couple of years, 2 years ago, but it has been an evolving system Rly, over the last - certainly our whole career - so 7 or 8 years I would say.

Over the years it has been refined and slightly adapted, improved quite a lot. So yes, it’s been formalised in the last couple of years.

Nathan:   Ok, how did the DVCC go about training its clients when DVCC Bedford, the first centre at the DVCC, actually opened?

Stephen:  Well we have always known there are some principles with training; obviously we specialise in physical transformation, so losing body fat and building muscle tone whilst getting healthier; so there are principles of training and I think the thing with exercise, fitness, health and things like that, there are a lot of misconceptions that stuff changes or has changed, you know, there’s always a ‘shake weight’ coming out or a new gadget or new different thing – you know, you can put something on your abs and it will electrocute you and make you have a six pack! DVCC_FEB_2015_5_of_46

There are lots of different things like that and, fundamentally, the principles of exercise, fitness and health have not changed over the years, and I am talking many years, from the sixties, fifties and things like that.

Obviously we have more knowledge now; we know why things work but some of the principles have stayed the same.

So some of the principles of fat loss are you want to try and build or create as much lactic acid in your body as possible because it raises a hormone called growth hormone, which is very highly correlated with losing body fat.

So we now understand the mechanism behind that; I think about 20 years ago they knew that they wanted to build as much, get as much of a ‘burn’ or that lactic acid type of feeling, to lose as much body fat as possible; but now it has just been formalised and we know the reason why, we know the mechanism behind it.

So we have always tried to create as much lactic acid as possible with, say if I was training you as a client, your goal is to lose as much body fat as possible; if you can create as much lactic acid as possible in your body, you are going to be able to lose as much fat in a shorter period of time, healthily;

I think that’s the key, you’re not going to lose muscle. A lot of training programmes don’t really differentiate between the change, the physical change that someone is going through, which is obviously why we spoke about the progress tracker that we use within the whole process, the Real You Transformation Process.

But that special machine, the body analysis machine we have, allows us to know that it’s actually body fat we’re losing. Because we are not interested in, I’ll lay it out on the line, you know this obviously, I’m talking to someone that knows, we’re not interested in someone losing weight unhealthily.

There are many differences, if someone wants to lose weight unhealthily and they have unrealistic amounts of weight, they want to lose 2 stone in a month, then we are not the place for them, because we are interested in people becoming healthier, having a longer life, a longer healthy life, and transforming their body as well.

So to do that, like I already mentioned, it is important to build as much lactic acid as possible. So we have always worked towards the principles of the correct type of training, and when we distil down things into the modified lactic training process to be able to make this better, then all that happened was we kind of put those things together - so to answer that question in a long winded way, we’ve just basically formalised the principles of training into what is now modified lactic training.

Nathan:   Which is trade marked by the DVCC.

Stephen:  Correct, yes.

Nathan:   Awesome. So for someone that would be listening that maybe wants to start losing weight and is exercising on their own accord, what would be the best way for them to increase the lactic acid within their body?

Stephen:  That’s a good question. If you are at home, there are quite a few different types of exercise, so it depends on what type of equipment and what things you have available.

A very good way of building a lot of lactic acid in the body is actually sprinting. DVCC_FEB_2015_6_of_46Obviously that is unrealistic for someone if they are just starting out on a physical transformation and not healthy enough to sprint, or you’ve got excess weight that you need to lose first, then obviously sprinting would not be your ideal option, but just from a knowledge perspective, sprints do create a lot of lactic acid in someone.

But, in the environment that we have, luckily we are very fortunate, we can create the environment we wanted for training, to be able to do the modified lactic training as well as possible, then we are using very large exercises, exercises that challenge the body greatly, use a lot of different parts of the body, muscle-wise. They create the most amount of lactic acid, which then creates the most amount of growth hormone which then creates the most amount of fat loss. So it’s like a cascade.

Nathan:   There has been a lot of information put out there, maybe misguided information, about aerobic training being the best for fat loss. Would you agree with that, or is that something you disagree with?

Stephen:  I don’t ever like to make sweeping statements, because I always look at things as “Is going for a jog going to be better than lying on the sofa eating a hamburger?” Because I think people are too easy to make some very sweeping statements without looking at what the alternative is or what the other option is.

So if we know, looking from a perfect world position, someone that truly wants to make a physical transformation, which a lot of, obviously all our clients, do, then aerobic training wouldn’t be the right thing for them, because it creates too much cortisol, which is a stress hormone.

A lot of people nowadays are generally stressed anyway because you have toxins that you take in every day, you have physical stress, mental stress, all these different stresses on your body – and then if you are add in another stress which is going for a long jog or things like that, then you are creating even more cortisol.

The problem with cortisol is that it increases fat storage around your stomach; there are more cortisol recepters around your belly button area, and it also creates a lot of acidity and what happens with that is your body tries to make itself more alkaline; it doesn’t like to be acidic, so it breaks down muscle, glutamine from muscles and also calcium from the bones, so it tends to change your body composition for the worst.

So it makes someone have less muscle, which ends up with more body fat. So some people can lose weight by doing hour runs, things like that, but it’s not good weight, it is not fat that is being lost, it could be potentially muscle.

This is again why we have the very expensive body composition machine which is part of the progress tracker, because that tells us exactly what someone is losing. Because, like I said, it’s very important that someone is losing body fat rather than muscle or anything like that, because we want you to become healthier as well as physically transformed.

Nathan:   So going back to what you said about cortisol being increased, I remember there was a time when I used to train for 2 hours, thinking it was going to be beneficial to me; the MLT has got a certain time limit in it, is that because we try not to affect the cortisol levels and get them too high?

Stephen:  Yes, ultimately I think I already mentioned that everyone’s under a lot more stress than they were even 20 years ago; there are a lot more stresses in our life than there were even just 20 years ago, so to add on an extra stress in the form of exercise can have negative consequences.

Because also, with cortisol comes sugar cravings and things like that, so you end up eating worse and you end up getting less healthy.

So yes, after 42 minutes I think it is off the top of my head, hormonal changes occur which aren’t beneficial to physically changing your body composition for the better. So when people are training for an hour, an hour and a half, two hours, they are just having detrimental effects on the result that they are actually wanting to achieve. So more is not necessarily better; better is better.

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Nathan:   In terms of if someone has come into the DVCC for their first session, with the modified lactic training programme would they have to work at any specific kind of different rate to somebody who has been training for a longer time to get the increase in lactic acid?

Stephen:  We specialise in training people who have actually never trained formally properly, physically in a gym or any form of environment; we are a conditioning centre, we are not like a gym, but we tend to find a lot of clients come from a non training background. DVCC_46_of_82

So it’s very important that someone doesn’t just go straight into doing the same thing that someone who has lost 50lbs and been training for 2 years does.

We build someone in very slowly, they’re not going to be expected to go at the same rate. They don’t need to - that’s the key - they don’t need to push themselves as hard, because it’s all relative. And I think there becomes a lot of misconception about these sorts of things, where it becomes, you know, people, trainers and different kinds of programmes, they tend to kind of say it’s really good “Oh, 5 people threw up today, that’s really good”, as if they are training really well.

And obviously I realise that very occasionally that happens, like half a percent of the year, but if it happens all the time, I think it’s a poor example of the type of training a person is getting because, at the end of the day, if you throw up, you can’t carry on training.

So to go off the extreme, when someone starts the modified lactic training process, they are very much built in very slowly because, like I say, we specialise in training people who haven’t had any sort of formal training, don’t currently exercise, haven’t exercised for many, many years or have never exercised properly or consistently, so everything is designed around that.

We don’t want people to become nervous around the name modified lactic training, that purely references the hormonal and the lactic acid production which is what causes the change in the clients that we have.

Nathan:   Ok, and within the modified lactic training, is there anything that you feel is especially key to what we do at the DVCC?

Stephen:  I think the whole process is particularly important, down from the order we put things in, the DVCC Metabolic Finisher, you know the signature finisher, all things like that. Everything is structured in a certain way to get the best result and I think you will see with all the before and afters, you are well aware of them all, how effective it is for people’s results.

Because the key is as well, it’s looking at the whole big picture. Some types of exercise can actually make you eat more, make you crave more sugar and end up eating more so you end up putting on body fat. It’s very important that, with the MLT, modified lactic training, the whole context is taken into consideration because we are looking at physical transformations as well, not just trying to kill someone for an hour.

We’re looking at physically transforming – it’s all part of the Real You Transformation Process, that’s the idea behind it.

Nathan:   And with the MLTs, we leave it 4 weeks before we change the phase, which I suppose is included in the MLT. Could you just explain a little bit about why we change the phase and why it is every 4 weeks?

Stephen:  Yes, sure. Basically, your body is looking to adapt; when you are exercising, what you are trying to achieve is for your body to adapt physically to that stimulus and what can happen is, if you do something the same too frequently or too continuously, your body is going to stop adapting.

So it will start off needing to adapt, it’s like a soreness, whenever anyone has done anything for the first time and they get sore. You could just go for a walk and you don’t walk 10 miles, but you suddenly walk 10 miles, you’re going to be sore. It’s that same sort of principle but your body ends up adapting.

The optimal amount of time before your body adapts is about 4 weeks; there is literature about it but we have also found this in practice, 4 weeks for people, clients wise.

However, what can happen is people can go to other extreme; they do something different every single day, and when I say different I am talking about different length of time they are working for or completely different style.

And that is just as ineffective as if you were to do the same thing for a year. The Law of Accommodation it’s called, it’s a physiological law, it has been around for many, many years;

I think the Russians found out about it. But anyway, your body has to have something to adapt to, and this is the problem with some of these programmes that are out there, because they say that being able to do something different every time is a good thing, but not if you’re actually looking to physically transform yourself. You just get good at doing nothing essentially, because your body doesn’t know what to adapt to; so the key period of time is that your body is doing - whilst you can do different exercises - the theme, the length of time you are working for, the style, the format you are training is going to same for 3-4 weeks, because then your body is able to adapt to something.

That is why we get continued good results, fat loss, physical transformations, because no-one’s body is becoming used to something and therefore it’s becoming ineffective.

It’s 100% like that, 3-4 weeks, 4 weeks really is optimal before it’s time to change, but you have to have something to adapt to. So someone who is doing something completely different every single time is not going to adapt, so it’s not great – there are other benefits to it, but physical transformation is not one of them.

Nathan:   I’m sure people out there will be wondering whether, if they’re going to start doing exercise, would it be better to do it on a 1:1 basis or why might it be beneficial to do it in a group basis exercise, like the DVCC would?

Stephen:  For most people, we’ve already spoken about it and they have done studies on this, but people respond better in a small group environment.

We talk about 1:1 type of training or different styles of training; it’s really the result that counts. And as we’ve spoken about and seen all the before and afters and all the different transformations that DVCC has on a regular basis, that’s because there’s also that culture and that environment of support. Andrew_Jurd_Before_and_afterSo if you’re just doing 1:1, you’re not getting the overall support of your peers, the other people.

That’s what environment is created at the DVCC because that’s one part of the transformation, so the Real You Transformation Process also factors in the environment, your peers, the people that are going to support you, others just like you that are trying to achieve the same thing, maybe slightly different but they are on the same journey.

And that’s part of the real you transformation process and something, as you know, we try to actually really create and stimulate. In a few weeks time we are all going and doing a really good mud run, and again we’re going to have the best team, right?

It’s going to be a great team - loads of people that have never done anything like that and have never have even considered it; before they joined the centre they wouldn’t think “I’m going to go and do a mud run”.

Because they wouldn’t want to, that’s fine; but people have then seen how much they can do, how much they can achieve, they want to do it now to challenge themselves in that next stage. So it’s that kind of environment which is super important to actually continued progress.

Nathan:   Something that we have brought into the centres, I suppose in the last year, is heart rate based personal training. Could you just explain a little bit to people listening about why that was introduced, because it is something that is quite new to the industry, I believe, in the UK?

Stephen:  It’s something we learned about a few years ago in America, we were just trying to work a way of adapting it and using it effectively; it was used particularly with athletes and America obviously have a bigger athletic population and there is a lot more money around it and much more research and things like that, but it’s a way of slightly individualising your training so that (1) you know how hard you are working, (2) we know how hard you are working, and we can make things more effective.

It’s not a case of trying to catch people out, it’s a case of – we’ve seen it and you see it on a day to day basis – how it really does stimulate more progress because you know where you are at, what you can do.

This is part of the Real You Transformation Process as well, because a lot of our limitations in what we achieve - so we’re talking physical transformations right now - is what we think we can achieve. And funnily enough I think the heart rate monitoring system actually proves what can be achieved and what we are capable of.

So that we don’t have to listen to those voices in our head saying you can’t do that or you’re tired now, you can stop, because it says right up on the screen you can carry on and, funnily enough, when you do carry on you can carry on.

Nathan:   I know a lot of clients have found it very beneficial to see their heart rates on the screen while they are training; it allows them to push themselves that bit further, but also to see the stats afterwards to see how their heart rate has performed for certain exercises; it’s super interesting.

Is there anything more that you would like to speak about before we end today, Stephen?

Stephen:  No – I think it’s something I always enjoy talking about because it’s something that’s evolved over many years, and the key with it, because it is a process that is always constantly being improved and fortunately we have a great team of everyone that is always constantly looking for improvements, looking to just make slight adjustments to get results as good as they are.

Because I’ve never seen results be as good consistently as they are now, so many people losing large amounts of body fat, which is really great to see.

Nathan:   Awesome. So just to recap, could you just go over the benefits of MLT training?

Stephen:  Sure, I think it’s just the fact that it’s a proven way of losing body fat consistently in a healthy manner that will create a more toned healthier physique.

And it’s just proven, now I think there’s enough evidence to see that it works and it’s in a very safe controlled way. Like I said - I tried to do the stats the other day - I think 80% of our clientele started as non gym goers or non worker-outers (if that’s a word).

So it’s all designed around that and to really make everyone make a physical transformation in a healthy and effective manner.

Nathan:   Awesome, Stephen, thank you very much for your time, and I hope if you’ve been listening today that you have enjoyed and it has shed some light on the MLT modified lactic training that the DVCC do. Have a great day!

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