Fitness trend: Keep your body fit in 5 minutes with Zero Training from Japan

Zero training
This trendy Japanese workout is designed to tone your body in just 5 minutes

Barre workout, piloxing, hula hoop – the fitness world is constantly producing new sports trends. They all promise one and the same thing: to boost fat burning, help you lose weight, and strengthen your muscles. Simply! A Japanese fitness trainer has now developed a method that is said to have a similar effect – but with minimal effort: “Zero Training”.

Tomomi Ishimura founded the yoga studio “Body Tone” in New York and wrote a book called “The Zero Training Method”. The Japanese recommend their comfortable workout especially to people who don’t like sports and want to start somewhere. But in principle it is suitable for all training levels. The best thing about Zero Training is that you can do it in the comfort of your own home in just five minutes.

So what exactly is zero training?

Zero Training is intended to help counteract muscle pain, train and tone the muscles and ultimately lose weight. According to Tomomi Ishimura, it is mainly due to our poor posture and our unhealthy habits (yes, that’s right: we mean hunched over working on the couch with the laptop on our lap) that our bodies sag and accumulate fat over the years. And usually exactly where we DON’T want it.

“As different parts of the body contract, they lose alignment with the zero position. Circulation and metabolism are impaired and this can lead to weight gain, wear and tear on the figure and other problems,” reveals the trainer on Instagram. With this she also explains directly what the “zero” in the name of her training method means: The goal is to restore the zero position, i.e. the ideal state of the posture.

With just five minutes of daily effort, Zero Training will achieve this zero position with gentle breathing, stretching and muscle-activating exercises. This should then be the basis for us to become more stable, healthier and lighter overall.

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Zero Training: This is how the mini workout works

To do the exercises, you should lie on your back on the floor, preferably on a yoga mat. Ideally, you have a few pillows or yoga bolsters to get your body into the correct posture. In this Instagram video, Tomomi Ishimura shows how exactly you set the zero position:

And here she shows you one of the exercises:

Tomomi Ishimura explains the other exercises in detail on her Instagram account.

Does Zero Training hold up, what does it promise?

Tomomi Ishimura claims that you can lose weight with Zero Training – and lose up to seven centimeters in waist circumference. But whether restoring this zero position really ensures that we break down fat and lose weight is scientifically questionable. Because not every body feels the same effect with a particular training method. While some spend an hour in the gym every day and hardly or not lose any weight, others do a downward dog a week and the pounds just seem to fall away. Regardless of the fact that, in addition to genetics, eating habits and other lifestyles also contribute to our fitness.

But either way, our health can benefit from better posture. We can combat back pain and other problems with our musculoskeletal system with the gentle stretching and muscle exercises of Zero Training. The breathing exercises help us to be more careful with ourselves and our bodies. This gives us a better feeling about our body – regardless of our weight.

Sources used: vogue.de, gq-magazin.de

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