Active Excercise Therapy

Fitness Testing including Lactate Test
Physical fitness and the metabolism are interdependent. Testing lactate formation as a measure of physical exertion can provide important information about your personal physical fitness level. Based on the results of this test, we develop a personalized exercise program for you to increase your physical fitness in accordance with the principles of Modern Mayr Therapy. Alternating exercise with rest and recuperation is an important success factor.

Functional Muscle Testing
Through simple tests, deficits in the musculoskeletal system can be recognised in time and rectified with specific exercises. Mobility and flexibility can be assessed by conducting simple tests.

Bio-Impedance Analysis
The balance of your body’s fat, muscle and water content are important factors for assessing your weight and physical fitness.  Modern Mayr Therapy aims to reduce fat while maintaining muscle. Bioimpedance analysis monitors your exercise to ensure that your individual exercise level is effective but does not lead to exhaustion.

Muscle Training with Plate One
Plate One is a high frequency rocker. The performance of the musculature is increased to optimise the individual’s coordinative and technical capabilities.

Vitality Check
Vitality is the age- and sex-specific capacity and status of individuals taking account of the body, spirit, soul and social environment. The VIVA Vitality Check therefore addresses all these areas. It is a computer-aided examination that measures the 45 parameters of vitality.

Physical performance capacity, the functions of the senses, mental adaptability and social competence are examined in a playful but systematic manner. The biological age index provided an indication of the aggregate vitality deficiencies. Where necessary, we discuss options for improving vitality with our guests in a detailed conversation.

Heart Frequency Measurement
Life is a constant up and down, at least according to an old proverb. This is, in fact, reflected in the rhythms of our everyday life. Day – night, tension -, relaxation, Ying – Yang… We always move between opposites. Our body regulates itself between these poles, and we have also learned to cope with this stress of living. Often the question arises whether we may have pushed it beyond a healthy level.

Measuring heart frequency variability – the most important regulation function in our rhythmic system – is an objective method for assessing performance and relaxation capability. The personal reaction to stress is made visible, as is the potential for regeneration. After the measurement has been taken for a period of 24 hours, the regulation capacity over the course of the day can be assessed very well, so that targeted measures can be taken to improve vitality.

Stress-Test
Stress is a fact of modern life – everyone is stressed and we all talk about stress. But do we really know what stress is and how it affects us? Today, stress is almost a prerequisite of being successful. However, prolonged severe stress has a negative and damaging impact on health and is an underlying factor in many modern diseases.

Originally stress was a protective response to life-threatening events ensuring our survival as human beings. The flight or fight response to a shock or perceived threat ensured that certain stress hormones were released to help us run faster and fight harder. Today, our stress triggers have changed.

Today, we suffer stress due to a huge number of factors – busy working lives and pressure at work, busy home lives, juggling home, family, friends, money worries, trying to find the perfect partner. We are on a constant treadmill and cannot escape our increasing duties and responsibilities.

While the flight or fight response is no longer appropriate, we are now subject to prolonged and chronic stress according to Professor Porta from Graz University.

When faced with a situation that makes you stressed, your body releases chemicals, including cortisol, adrenaline, and noradrenalin. They invoke the 'fight or flight' feelings that help us deal with the situation. However, when you are in a situation that prevents you from fighting or escaping, such as being on an overcrowded train, these chemicals are not used and their effects are felt by the body.

A build-up of adrenaline and noradrenalin increases blood pressure, the heart rate, and the amount that you sweat. Cortisol prevents your immune system from functioning properly, as well as releasing fat and sugar into your blood stream. Stress is therefore responsible for weight gain.

Our ancestors, though subjected to extremely stressful situations, had time to recover and regenerate. In our busy modern lives, we often have no time for relaxation or regeneration – this leads to exhaustion and then BURNOUT, where everything grinds to a halt. Stress in short sharp bursts is actually a positive thing – only when it is unremitting and chronic does it become a negative factor for health.

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