Workout Definitions

Training Sessions Explained

Gym Jones

Here is the basic workout terminology we use here at Gym Jones. This information is essential in understanding how we write workouts, compose programs, and essential in preparing you for our seminars. It will also be helpful in understanding the "Today In ...

VO2 Max

Gym Jones

The idea or concept of “maximal oxygen uptake”, or VO2 max, has existed for almost 100 years. In 1923, A.V. Hill and a colleague, carefully measured the oxygen consumption of an exercising subject while he ran around an 85-m grass track(1). It&...

To Hell and Back

Jake Hutchinson

I believe this to be true.  I learned it long before I walked through the doors of Gym Jones®.  It was fundamental to how I was raised; it was reinforced by the Marine Corps and a career in dangerous mountains scenarios.  In a previous l...