You're listening to Bloomberg Business Week with Carol Masser and Jason Kelly on Bloomberg Radio. Yes, getting stronger every day. This time for another edition of what we like to call here on Bloomberg Business we except for Sweat. Today it's about a new fitness concept called Shred that's got your attention. I bet here with Morris to him son, he's a song he's a freelance writer at Bloomberg Pursuits and he does join us on the phone from Brooklyn.
So tell us about this workout. I love the name shred. So what is it? Tim right, Well, thanks for having me. It's uh, yeah, it's sort of interesting. It was put together by this woman Carol and Levie who's a lifelong skier and um found that she and her friends just maybe weren't quite as ready for the season as they thought they could be. And I think there's a lot of stories out there are people who um, you know, go heavy on training their legs and think they're gonna
be ready. Then they get out there the first day of ski season on a trip. They're super excited about it. They've paid a lot of money for and then a lot of planning for and they find that before the end of the day they're pretty well spent. You can't do anymore. So, um, it's sort of trying to to hedge against that and making sure people get the most
out of their vacation. And I love this terminology that they used, Tim called eccentric strength and tell us what that is, because I think it alludes to what what you were talking about, this notion that you know, skiing uses and anybody who's been skiing after that first day of the season, regardless of how prepared you are, as you say, things hurt that you didn't really realize you had right exactly. And it's uh yeah, sort of different use of the word eccentric than maybe we're used to,
although certainly some skiers can be eccentric. Um. It really has to do with the idea of of sort of more of a negative muscle movement. And so if you think of what it feels like to hike or run or walk down a hill rather than climbing up it, and so it's a lot of kind of resisting the forces of gravity and then all of the stabilization that goes into your knees and hips to make that possible.
So there's a lot of kind of small muscles, tendings, things that need to be conditioned to allow you to really do that safely in a way that's going to minimize the chance of injury and maximize your chance of sort of having a really enjoyable day. And on top of the sorry you took the class though, what was
it like? So the class is great, and it's it's great because it uh it hits those things and in sort of um a lot of this high intensity interval training way that that you can do in other classes,
but in a very tailored way. So it's things like UM split squats and uh lunges and a lot of exercises balancing either on one leg or on knees or on both legs on a bowsuit ball which is a sort of half inflated UH ball that that creates a kind of unstable surface that that requires you to balance, because that's kind of the other part of it, UM that this workout hits in the interval component is um seeing involves a lot of core strength and a lot
of balance and things that don't involve any sort of uh, you know, squats or leg work out at all, but that really involves keeping your whole body, uh upright and even in space and having that awareness well and the other and they use this piece of equipment called skiers Edge, which I have to say they have at my gym near my house. Uh it is you get on it. It's really kind of crazy, but also really does replicate a lot of the movement of skiing right now. It does.
It does. It's one of those things. I think it's very easy to look at it and and I think that it's a little gimmicky and be kind of skeptical, but you know, it has these independent foot platforms um and as you go side to side, and actually there are different machines that vary the height at which you're sliding side to side. But it really does require you to use each foot individually and angle the knees and
hips in a way that that does mimic skiing. I mean, it's not a perfect thing, but it certainly does does the job. And it's a good cardio work out as well. It's funny though it's it's been around since, uh since the nineteen eighties, and like you say, they are they are at a bunch of gyms and things and and tend to be a little under used, but there I
think having a little bit resurgence. There is this sort of eighties thing about it that it's sort of like the if the Nordic track is on kind of this to date end of the age workout spect and this is kind of the amped up, ant up version of that. That's a great comparison. Can I just say look at the picture that's associated and forgive me for everybody on radio you have to go to Bloomberg dot com to check it out, but there's a picture and it kind of to some extent and do a little physical therapy
right now for like a neck thing. But it reminds me of like physical therapy, like some of the things that you're using to get back in shape. And that is definitely, uh, that is one of the markets where you'll see these things actually in physical therapist offices for certain types of knee and hip we have, they are actually using these more and more. And again partly it's it's because of the motion, and partly it is because
it's um, you know, it's very low impact. There's there's none it's not on a treadmill, it's not running, it's just no real joint impact in the motion. All right, it's great story. Check it out on bloomberg dot com. Timp Zone is a writer for Bloomberg Pursuits talking about shred