Katy's Bone Building Results

In January 2024, Katy began her quest to strengthen her bones without medication.

She wasn't yet osteoporotic but was getting close in her hip.

Her friend Jan had told her about the great results she achieved at STRONG WOMEN ROCK so Katy decided to be proactive and not let her bones regress any further.

When she came to SWR she didn't have any workout experience.

Each week she would exert as much force as she was comfortable with while she acclimated to higher levels of effort.

After several weeks of building her confidence she rapidly began to take off and go as hard as she possibly could.

Within 8 months she was in the 1,000 LB CLUB on the leg press and said, "It takes a few minutes a week. I feel great. I can't understand why everyone isn't doing this."

In my experience, the positive changes in sense of well being and physical capacity everyone feels dominate their motivation for coming in each week while the goal of making their bones stronger becomes an afterthought.

I appreciate that since we usually have to wait several months or a few years before we can find out if all that effort was worth it.

Fortunately for Katy, she just found out the 25 minutes of effort on the viiivPRO over the past year and a half (yes you read that correctly -- 25 total minutes of exercise) paid off.

Katy experienced a 3.3% increase in SPINE BONE MINERAL DENSITY (BMD) with increases at every level:

• L1 increased 2.1%
• L2 increased 4.8%
• L3 increased 22.1%
• L4 increased 24.7%

In addition, she also had a 1.8% increase in BMD of her FEMUR NECK with a 3.4% in the BONE MINERAL CONTENT.

Now, the changes in her bones are great, but another huge benefit for Katy has been the change in her body composition.

At the beginning of October we both knew a 78 year old lady was standing on the monitor, however her metabolic age measured 41.

This is a 7 year improvement during her time at SWR. To have a ratio of 30% body fat to 70% fat free mass at 78 years old is incredible!

All of this courtesy of just a few seconds of high level effort once a week on the viiivPRO.

LIke Katy said, "I can't understand why everyone isn't doing this."

They should be.