- How can personal training clients experience results so quickly from 30-minute workouts with the GRAVITY SYSTEM?
- There are several reasons. Each exercise on the Gravity Training System offers a constant resistance in combination to create a comprehensive effect for defining and strengthening in a short time span. The dynamic pulley system, an incline that's adjustable so the clients can pull a specific percentage of body weight and the rolling glide board encourages the body to move naturally and synergistically. This challenges multiple muscle groups at the same time for an effective, quick full body workout. Participants find it easy to fit a 30-minute workout into a busy schedule. The quick, noticeable results promote customer satisfaction.
- Does the GTS improve functional training?
- Functional exercise is the best way to train for improved functional performance and strength. It recreates real life movements in real life positions which prepare clients for the day-to-day activities of daily living. The GTS allows functional partial weight bearing exercise; it lays a foundation for sport specific training and improved overall performance and agility. Functional exercise emphasizes natural movement patterns so clients can move objects, including their own body, through space easily and quickly. The Gravity training system is designed to improve functional exercise.
- What are some of the main features that make GTS different from other equipment?
- The Gravity Training System features a rolling glide board that fully supports the spine, a dynamic unilateral-bilateral pulley system that encourages movement in all three planes, full joint range of motion and resistance from 5% to 59% of body weight. With the Gravity pulley system, resistance remains constant throughout the full range of motion. The eight calibrated resistance levels also make it easy for participants to find a workout suitable to their fitness level.
- Does the GRAVITY SYSTEM work the core in virtually every exercise?
- Yes. Exercises done on the GTS works the core muscles thanks to the dynamic instability initiated by the rolling glide board. Exercising on the rolling glide board recruits the muscles of the core in order to stabilize the trunk during most of the upper body exercises. Clients gain overall core strength, even when their focus is on a specific muscle group.
- Why is training the core muscle so important?
- Training the core muscles is important because without a strong core, you are more at risk of injuries. Clients should focus on a well balanced workout combining strength training and functional exercises, such as GTS, that creates an unstable environment.
- How does the GRAVITY SYSTEM minimize the risk of injury during exercise?
- With most single station machines and free weights, compressive forces occur to the spine and extremities. The GRAVITY SYSTEM is different. Utilization of the angled glide board reduces compressive forces to the spine during resistance exercise. Use of the dynamic pulley system reduces compressive forces to the shoulders and arms during resistance exercise. The back is fully supported on the glide board, creating a safe low impact environment for the spine, even during abdominal exercises and plyometrics.
- How can the GRAVITY SYSTEM be adaptable to personal training?
- Trainers provide focused attention to two or three clients at a time while each on a Gravity machine. This semi-private or small group instruction offers cost-savings to clients while still getting individual attention.
- Can the GRAVITY SYSTEM be adaptable to post-rehab?
- Yes, exercises on the GTS provides partial weight bearing and progressive weight-bearing closed-chain exercise which is especially applicable to post-rehab clientele.
- How does the GRAVITY SYSTEM fit in with the idea of "train the way you want to gain?
- The GRAVITY SYSTEM offers programming in a variety of disciplines. For clients who want to be fast, they can train fast. If they want more agility, they can train for agility. If they want to achieve more explosive movement, they can do explosive training. A major benefit of GTS is that it allows for a multitude of training modes: fast, slow, limited range of motion, full range of motion, deliberate motions or explosive motions, etc. GTS can be used for a wide range of exercise specific programs. Such as weight loss and weight gain.
- Why is the GRAVITY SYSTEM unlike other methods and systems?
- With the GRAVITY SYSTEM, one versatile piece of equipment, GTS, engages all five components of exercise: functional core, muscular endurance, cardio endurance, muscular strength and flexibility. Clients of any age and fitness level work every major muscle group in a functional manner. GTS provides calibrated resistance so members can easily chart their progress. The pull of gravity provides a constant resistance that doesn't vary from beginning to middle to end range of motion. And the dynamic pulley system allows the user to create the most functional movement pattern imaginable.
- What is Incline Resistance Training?
- Incline Resistance Training on Gravity GTS provides a workout and results that cannot be achieved on any other piece of equipment. Quite literally, participants use their body weight as resistance against the pull of gravity. The process of this activity, this controlled movement of the body through the gravitational force on a free rolling glide board, encourages an unrestricted free flow of multi-plane movement that recruits multiple muscle groups synergistically while working the core stabilizers. Over 300 biomechanically correct exercises make it the most versatile piece of fitness equipment offering fresh and challenging training sessions.
- What are some advantages of functional exercise within the GRAVITY SYSTEM?
- In the GRAVITY SYSTEM, muscles are worked as they are used in life both in terms of lever load and movement. Exercise on GTS accommodates full joint range of motion in all three functional planes.
Functional exercise on GTS is based on natural movement patterns and proper biomechanics. When the human body becomes the weight "on a rolling incline surface" it is free to move in any plane of motion. Functional, multi-plane exercises permit the targeting of specific fitness objectives.
Also, unrestricted body positioning invites exercise variations while GTS adjustable pulleys and squat stand features encourage proper force angles and movement patterns.
The muscle adaptation facilitated during exercise on GTS replicates that occurring in natural movement. This in turn improves functional performance. What this means to clients is that their fitness level and sports performance improve.
Cardinal Planes of Motion
Sagittal - front to back
Frontal - side-to-side
Transverse - rotating
Very few human activities involve movement through a single cardinal plane. Most human activity involves movement through all three planes of motion simultaneously. Exercise on GTS allows you train in all three planes of motion simultaneously, which prepares the body for optimal human performance. Because of the importance of exercise specificity, any exercise program should include multi-plane exercise as a major component of the overall program.
