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core & balance training


New core and balance trainers on the market


ORBIT Recently launched by Balanced Body, Orbit provides a ‘total body workout’, improving strength, flexibility and balance. An ergonomically designed core training device, the Orbit is a padded board with four casters underneath, which allows the device to glide in any direction. The Orbit exercises – which can be done sitting, lying, kneeling or standing – include both circular and linear movements and range from beginner to complex. The core workout is enhanced, according to Balanced Body, because the user’s abdominal muscles are always engaged.


STEP 360 The Step360 Pro was officially launched at IHRSA in March. Developed by US company SPRI, the product comprises a platform resting on dual inflatable air chambers. Said to deliver ‘a balance challenge that stimulates the muscles and nervous system’, it aims to combine the benefits of the Step, Core Board and BOSU Balance Trainer for cardio, strength, flexibility and balance.


Core workout: Orbit, recently launched by Balanced Body, keeps the abs engaged throughout


“Balance is the necessary foundation


for enhancing the overall performance of sport, exercise and rehabilitative activities,” says Adam Zwyer, director of marketing and operations for SPRI. The idea for the Step360 Pro came


from personal trainer John Cole, who made the fi rst prototype from motorcycle tubes and a piece of wood cut into a circle. “I love anything to do with balance and needed to fi nd a balance training tool that would work for rehabilitation and beginners as well as ‘super-human’ athletes,” he explains. The Step360 Pro will be available in the UK from September.


IMOOVE “Imoove is the first piece of equipment that can work the entire body, stimulating more than 90 per cent of the muscular mass at once,” says Davy Luneau, development and projects follow-up for French company Allcare Innovations. Designed by a team of osteopaths,


Step360 is essentially an unstable step, using an infl atable base


physiotherapists and fi tness experts, Imoove features a motorised elliptical training platform that puts the whole body into a three-dimensional, spiral, non-linear movement. The main aim, says Luneau, is to


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Instability: Imoove’s motorised elliptical platform stimulates deeper muscle recruitment


“Balance and proprioception are the basis for all movements. We need good balance, movement and postural control in our daily lives. Imoove uses the instability system of training, which means that muscle recruitment is deeper and proprioception is activated.” Following interest at FIBO, Luneau


expects Imoove to launch in the UK soon.


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