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If there aren't enough iPods, magazines, or venom-filled reality shows to make you enjoy doing cardio, today's deal gives you all the fitness training you'll need in a mere 20 minutes a week. Through a high-intensity, super-slow lifting routine, you'll push your muscles to the limit while increasing your metabolism and strength. With today's Groupon, $75 gets you an introduction and three workouts at Citywide SuperSlow, a $231 value. Your hour-long introductory class will give you all the information you need to understand how the program works (a $60 value); then, you'll get three one-on-one sessions with a personal trainer, which will last 20 super-slow minutes each (a $57 value each).
Centrally located at 1901 N. Clybourn, SuperSlow will whip your bod into shape with a challenging yet brief workout that's so intense you only need to do it once a week. Even the fittest of Citywide trainers don't allow themselves to do this workout more than twice a week. By spending 10 seconds to lift and 10 seconds to lower each weight, you prevent your body from building momentum, working each muscle to its full capacity.
To keep you in perfect form, each of Citywide SuperSlow's certified trainers will watch you with the sharp eyes of predatory birds and will use their own human eyes to convey soulful motivation while their extra rabbit eye keeps track of the time. You will never be left unattended, and your trainers will meticulously chart your progress.
You'll leave Citywide SuperSlow trembling with muscles the consistency of pudding, but after just a few sessions, you'll feel stronger. The energy boost you get from working out can help increase your productivity at work, and with all the time you'll save on everyday cardio routines, you'll finally have time to edit the independent film you shot in the summer of 2002.
Reviews
GQ, Elle, and Vogue have featured Citywide SuperSlow. Locally, Centerstage Chicago, Chicago Social, the Chicago Tribune, and Time Out Chicago have featured the workout:
- In addition to being a quick, intense workout that you only do once or twice a week, no other training or cardio is needed. – Maya Henderson, Centerstage Chicago
- After four weeks of training, there is a visible difference in the shape of our bum (a bit more perky), core muscles are flat and the beginning of a six-pack is visible. But mostly we just feel better–we have more energy and just feel tighter and stronger. – Amalie Drury, Korey Karnes, Jaydine Sayer, and Kate Templin, Chicago Social
- The routine may sound like a blip on the fitness-fad radar, but it's been around for more than 20 years and has scientific support. – Liz Plosser, Time Out Chicago
The Fine Print
Promotional value expires May 6, 2010. Amount paid never expires. Limit 1 per person. May purchase multiple as gifts. By appointment only. Not valid with other offers. Merchant is solely responsible to purchasers for the care and quality of the advertised goods and services.
About Citywide Superslow
It’s fitting that Citywide Superslow’s strength training programs, which were featured on WGN9 Morning News, take place in a former furniture factory—where carpenters once shaped wood into sturdy tables and chairs, certified trainers now shape lax forms into chiseled bodies. Each workout uses specialized MED-X equipment, and emphasizes slow, frictionless movement and heavy weights to push muscles to their limit. Clients take typically 10 seconds to lift the weight and 10 seconds to lower it, working muscles to the point of fatigue but keeping them from giving letters of resignation. The experienced staff is proof of the results that can be achieved from the regimen, keep in strong physical shape in the minimal amount of time. Trainers remain on hand to offer recommendations on technique, and offer advice on diet plans that help facilitate recovery and digestive health.Trainers actually advocate only 20 minutes once, never more than twice a week. Think about that! Get in great shape in less than 3 hours a month. What's your time worth?