Boltcut Blog
How Many Calories Can You Burn While Using A Pilates Reformer?
Pilates is immensely popular for toning, improving posture, and building lean muscle mass as a low-impact exercise. For decades, regardless of age and fitness level, men and women have benefited from Pilates to maintain a healthy weight. Yet, the consensus...
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Does Rowing Help With Weight Loss?
Rowing for weight loss is not only a fast way to burn fat, but it’s also fun. As a full-body workout, rowing is a fun exercise that can help burn calories without overly stressing your joints or t...
Pilates vs. Weight Training: Which Is Best For Weight Loss, Muscle Building, and More
Pilates and weight training are both different forms of strength training. The end goal might be the same, but these workouts take entirely different approaches to offer health benefits. Strength t...
Low Impact Strength Training: The Complete Guide With Workouts
Great strength training results don't always depend on lifting heavy weights or high-intensity training. You can get the same benefits without putting too much pressure on your tendons and joints. ...
IS ROWING GOOD FOR YOUR BACK? TIPS TO AVOID BACK INJURY WHILE ROWING
Rowing, whether performed indoors using a rowing machine or outdoors with activities such as boating, is considered to be an excellent cardio workout for the entire body. It is also considered a gr...
Benefits of LIT
8 ROWING MACHINE BENEFITS AND HOW TO USE IT
Rowing is a great full-body workout, and you don’t have to be an athlete to reap its benefits. It is one of the most engaging upper and lower body workouts. If you are unaware of the rowing machine...
SIX STEPS FOR ASSEMBLING YOUR LIT STRENGTH MACHINE IN LESS THAN 10 MINUTES
Known for its unparalled effectiveness and efficiency, Low Impact Training delivers results without injuries and in a timeframe that suits any schedule. Even our delivery and assembly process lives...
Fitness / Health
LEARN HOW MANY CALORIES YOU BURN WHILE ROWING WITH LIT
Don’t get it twisted! Low Impact does not mean low intensity! One of the most common questions we get at LIT is whether rowing is an activity that can torch those calories in the same way higher im...
Fitness / Health
FIVE REASONS WHY THE LIT STRENGTH MACHINE IS THE IDEAL PILATES REFORMER
Low Impact Training (LIT™) and the LIT Strength Machine™ are now delivering the world’s only ROW x REFORM workout!Did you know that the LIT Strength Machine seamlessly transforms from a rower and r...
WEIGHTS ARE NOT THE WAY: WHY LIT’S STRENGTH TRAINING REVOLUTION WILL HAVE YOU TRADING YOUR WEIGHTS FOR BANDS
Strength training doesn’t have to mean weight training.This is the mantra at LIT — and it’s not only a shared belief of members of the Boltcult, but it is the evidence-based heart and soul of our L...
BUILDING THE BOLTCULT: THE STORY OF LIT
AN INTERVIEW WITH CO-CEOS AND CO-FOUNDERS, JUSTIN AND TAYLOR NORRIS
LIT Co-CEO and Co-Founder Justin Norris often speak about the life-threatening accident that led to LIT, but our members have ...
HOW TO PROPERLY USE A ROWING MACHINE
Rowing is all the rage — and that’s no exception within the LIT community.This low-impact, cardio exercise can work the majority of your muscles without putting undue stress on joints or increasing...
LIT METHOD ANNOUNCES FRANCHISE OPPORTUNITY, A FIRST OF ITS KIND HYBRID DIGITAL & PHYSICAL EXPERIENCE DESIGNED TO REIMAGINE THE FUTURE OF FITNESS
Backed by Marcy Venture Partners and Five-Time MLB All-Star Adrian Gonzalez, Creators of Low Impact Training (LIT™) Aims to Award 100 Franchise Units in First 12 Months
LIT Metho...
WHY THE LIT STRENGTH MACHINE IS THE ULTIMATE PILATES REFORMER
The LIT Strength Machine™ is the first of its kind — the only machine in the world to function as a rower, Pilates reformer, and strength trainer.Water rowing and reformer Pilates are two of the mo...
HOW LONG SHOULD YOU ROW?: WHAT TO DO FOR EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE INDOOR ROWING WORKOUTS
In the last few years, we’ve seen a renewed curiosity about indoor rowing. Whether it’s because you aren’t a fan of traditional exercises such as running or weights, you’re looking for a different...
Fitness / Health
Rowing Machine Workouts for Muscle Building: LIT’S 10 SIGNATURE ROWING VARIATIONS THAT WILL HELP YOU BUILD MUSCLE
By Justin Norris, Founder + Co-CEO, LIT Method The thing about muscle tears is that they are exactly what they sound like. A separation.A split.A disconnect.A betrayal of the body’s score.In high s...
LIT Team
INSTRUCTING FROM INJURY
How BoltCult favorite Tiffany Wolff, uses the LIT Strength Machine and personal pain to empower others.In a recent sit down, we caught up with LIT’s veteran instructor and resident Pilates powerhou...
About LIT
SAFETY FIRST: THE LIT STRENGTH MACHINE'S SAFETY FEATURES
Undoubtedly, the pandemic has revealed shortcomings in our society. One area where that remains truer today than ever before is in meeting evolving consumer needs in product design and function. No...
About LIT
FITNESS AND FINANCE: IS YOUR LIT STRENGTH MACHINE TAX DEDUCTIBLE?
A variety of medical conditions, including chronic pain, consistently plague the everyday lives of Americans. Dr. Robert Jason Yong, the author of a new National Health Interview Survey study says ...
Fitness / Health
WHAT IS PREHAB?
Human beings are, by nature, reactive.Often when it comes to our own health and well-being, we are accustomed to putting ourselves on the back burner. We tend to deal with things once they’ve alrea...
Fitness / Health
WHY THE LIT STRENGTH MACHINE?
When our founders began prototyping the LIT Strength Machine in early 2018, they had already had years of rowing under their belt.Having both experienced a series of debilitating injuries, Justin a...
Fitness / Health
LIT METHOD, THE LEADER IN LOW IMPACT FITNESS, ANNOUNCES KEY INVESTMENT
The Innovative Company Behind the Patent Pending LIT Strength Machine™,An All-In-One Rower, Pilates Reformer, and Resistance Training System,Secures Funding from Notable Venture Capitalist Firm and...
Fitness / Health
WHY RESISTANCE BANDS ARE BETTER THAN WEIGHTS
There’s a pervasive belief — an almost ingrained ideology in the fitness community — that strength training must mean weight training. But it’s just not true. The lore around Ancient Greek athletes...
LIT Team
NOTE FROM LIT FOUNDERS JUSTIN & TAYLOR NORRIS
Welcome to our Low Impact Training Blog — the official information hub for our growing Boltcult community.Here, you’ll be able to find articles, stories, photos, and videos exploring the benefits o...
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