Want to be able to sing louder and longer, perform more intensely, and do it all again the next day? You need to get fit – FlowFit®!

"This system is perfect for singers, speakers and musicians because it improves cardio vascular strength - thus improving breath support and overall stamina - and it increases flexibility and dexterity, which are crucial qualities for live performance. If you're a professional singer or musician, you already know how important it is to perform at your best. Musicians and singers ARE athletes. It takes tremendous physical resources to be able to move around, perform like a rock star, and belt it out for hours on end. FlowFit® helps to build your "Live Stamina" so that you'll be able to sustain incredible performances from the beginning of the show to the end. FlowFit® also tones the body. Making it to the top of the music business requires a lot of talent and perseverance, and let's face it, it also helps to have "the look." FlowFit® will sculpt your body and give you that "look." You ARE your instrument, especially if you are a singer. Let us help you build the best instrument that you can be!" -Jamie Vendera


What is FlowFit®

FlowFit® is a specific Circular Strength Training®program designed to be done in 14-18 minutes, 3 to 4 times per week – providing optimum health and fitness on the hurry up for busy people. The program contains 4 incrementally sophisticating progressions, so as your movement gets better it gets more challenging. It’s accessible to anyone, regardless of beginning physical condition.

Apart from the obvious benefits of melting fat and shredding muscle, FlowFit® was carefully and specifically designed to tap into the body’s Neuroimmunoendocrine (NIE) response. WTF is that, you’re probably asking!

You’ve heard of the “runner’s high”, right? Of “second wind”? It happens when the body hits a point of Circulo-respiratory distress (CRD), a fancy name for that gasping, heartpounding, sweating, think-I’m-gonna-die point where most people quit. If you push through that barrier you’ll experience an “upshift” where your body kicks into next gear (there are more than just two) and everything is suddenly cruising.

That upshift has tremendous health benefits, including the stimulation of the immune system. Because the immune, endocrine and nervous systems are interrelated, an adaptation in one is reflected in the other two. Do this over time and your health and vitality will soar. You can’t have “Vocal Power” if your lungs are a mess or if your body is weak and sickly. On the other hand, if you learn to channel the power of your entire body and express that through your voice, as renowned vocal coach Jaime Vendera instructs his students to do, the results are astounding. You’ll be able to sing louder and longer, perform more intensely, and do it all again the next day.

One of the most brilliant things about FlowFit® is how easily it allows you to tap into this NIE response. Runners have to run for increasingly long times to access it. Other activities, like cycling or high rep weight training, can access it too, but at the same time the repetitive motion in limited ranges create other unwanted adaptations in the body – such as chains of tension linked to those movements and/or repetitive strain injuries.

FlowFit® was designed to move the body through all Six Degrees of Freedom (heaving, swaying, surging, pitching, yawing and rolling). Moving through all of these degrees prevents repetitive stress, and it naturally compensates for any specific conditioning that you’ve experienced throughout your day - including hunching over a desk or a guitar!. You hit the NIE response in a healthy way, and you hit it sooner than with other activities because moving through all six degrees at that pace is HARDCORE! What other workout would satisfy a Metalhead?

If you want to maximize your health and minimize your exercise time you only need to punch through that membrane into “second gear.” For the average person doing FlowFit® this happens at between 14 and 18 minutes, sometimes sooner depending on the level of deconditioning. Once you upshift, you’re done for the day!

Raise Your Voice may be the most comprehensive vocal training system ever developed. Described as “the owner’s manual for your voice”, it’s packed to the bindings with vocal development exercises, recovery methods for when you’ve pushed things too far, techniques for building a platform of health, and Jaime’s industry-respected techniques for developing vocal strength and for preserving the voice. The book also features a section on Circular Strength Training written by RMAX Faculty Coach and travel writer / explorer Ryan Murdock. RMAX International is pleased to endorse Jaime Vendera and his voice training system.

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FlowFit® is the ideal conditioning program for singers. Glass-shattering vocal coach Jaime Vendera swears by it, and Metal God and Gracie Jiu-Jitsu athlete Nitro Jim Gillette makes it a staple of his daily sadistic routine.

Once you’ve recovered your overall health, sculpted a rock god’s body and built your performance stamina with FlowFit®, you’ll be ready to lock down your core and take your breath support mechanism to dramatic new heights with Be Breathed.

What is Be Breathed?

To perform at your best, your breathing must be integrated. Be Breathed is a foundational program for training total breath integration and core strength through a full range of motion.

You’ll learn to use your body as a bellows as you seamlessly integrate your breathing, structure and movement – “being breathed” in the most effortless way possible. You’ll bring new meaning to the term “washboard abs” by throttling your core with just ten repetitions, and you’ll never waste your time with sit-ups or crunches again. And you’ll learn the trademark CST method of Perpetual Exercise, which will allow you to squeeze in a few reps while driving your car, watching TV, or sitting in the green room.

So what does this mean for singers and musicians?

 
  • Be Breathed is the system for developing the breath support mechanism.
  • Be Breathed strengthens the abdominals, intercostals, and back muscles -- all of which are crucial to the development of breath support and powerful vocal delivery
  • Be Breathed helps singers to develop a concise breathing pattern, thus minimizing breath pressure and vocal stress during singing
  • Be Breathed relaxes the mind and body. Continual practice of the program will allow you to take that relaxation to the stage, clearing your mind of performance anxiety and minimizing bodily tension for better live performance and vocal stamina

Like FlowFit®, the Be Breathed program is structured incrementally. It’s accessible to beginners but it’s also capable of kicking the ass of the most elite athlete. As Jaime Vendera is so fond of saying, singers and musicians are athletes too -- but they don’t have the luxury of all day training sessions. If you want to get your abs on in less than 10 minutes per day, this program is for you.


"I am a big fan of both cardio and yoga. My lifestlye keeps me busy and constantly on the go and I needed a system that could combine both and allow me to do it in less time. FlowFit® IS that system; allowing me to stretch and strengthen my body while working up a sweat and providing a great cardio vascular workout...in ONLY 14-18 minutes!!! If you are a singer, then you ARE your instrument, so it's time to start treating yourself like one. Get FlowFit® and develop the best instrument you can be!!!" -Jaime Vendera

 

"I am Meatwhistle - hear me growl.
I use CST and I'm on the prowl.
Flow-Fit is the best you can get.
Or my name isn't Jim Gillette.
I recommend it to all - even the swine.
Only takes 15 minutes of your time.
Sonnon and Murdock - admittedly strange.
This aint your average Home on the Range.
CST is the best - I clean my teeth with Crest.
Glad I finally got all that off my chest.
Long live CST". -Jim Gillette


What Is Circular Strength Training®?

Created by world renowned Coach Scott Sonnon and further developed by his elite Faculty Coaching Staff, CST is the cutting edge of health, fitness and sports performance enhancement. It’s unique among fitness systems in offering a complete “health-first” approach. Other systems place Function (attributes like strength, endurance or speed) first, valuing those things over and often at the expense of health. Many people value Physique first and are willing to do anything, including practices like shooting steroids or crash dieting that will damage their long term health, all for the instant reward of a magazine cover physique. That may work in the short term, but the short term can be shorter than you think…

Everything in CST builds off of and leads back to this health-first approach. As a result, CST will get you to the Function and Physique that you seek faster, and it’ll keep you there longer - without compromising your health and longevity. The rock mantra of burn bright and die young was put out there by record producers who are living off your royalties! Don’t buy their empty hype. Outlive the bastards, and outperform them!