SHOW REVIEW
Visitors were able to view new product launches, as well as enjoying a host of demonstrations and speakers at the show
the machine’s total body workouts give movement in three planes (front to back, side-to-side and rotational) for customised, functional exercise that builds stamina, muscular endurance, co-ordination and balance.
PRECOR – Discovery Series Selectorised Line This range encompasses 19 machines that combine commercial robustness and reliability with new design elements to ensure it’s as approachable and intuitive as possible for exercisers who are new to strength training, while also providing a fulfilling experience for those who are more accustomed to using strength equipment.
RE:CREATION FITNESS – Nexersys The Nexersys mixes martial arts training with a high-intensity interval cross-training programme. Providing an interactive workout with ‘exergaming’ capabilities, it offers an online interactive platform with multi-player modes, allowing users to compete with friends and family.
RELAY FITNESS – Evo Fitness Bike This new-look indoor cycle leans on its axis to offer an experience that refl ects real cycling. This also ensures it offers core as well as cardio workouts.
RUNNING UNLIMITED – Zone The world’s fi rst personal running dome – a large concave screen that sits in front of a treadmill – transforms indoor running into a global outdoor adventure. Delivering a multi-sensory, lifelike experience using the latest technology, users feel as though they are running in some of the world’s most inspirational destinations – from the Tanzanian Serengeti to Australia’s Outback.
PHYSICAL COMPANY – Physical EX:CEL This new service from Physical Company packages equipment and programming together, ensuring those using equipment – such as BOSU, The Human Trainer, freeFORM, kettlebells and medicine balls – are kept up-to-date with the latest training methods via an online education platform. Physical EX:CEL delivers constantly evolving, REPs-accredited programming with online theory content, video uploads and multiple choice worksheets.
SAQ – AeroFloor This air-filled mat reduces impact to the joints when exercising, allowing for both rehab programming and high-intensity endurance workouts (see p72).
Health & Fitness: A key zone at LIW
SPORTSART FITNESS – Green System SportsArt Fitness’s revolutionary new Green System features a pod of CV equipment attached to an inverter to
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harness human-generated power from exercisers, feeding this back into the power grid as usable energy. This is claimed to be the fi rst ‘plug and play’ solution of its kind, allowing health club owners to offset power costs by freely harnessing human energy. Calculations based on a typical health club that replaces all its ellipticals and cycles with SportsArt’s Green System suggest there could be annual savings of £1,500– £2,000 on electricity bills.
TECHNOGYM – mywellness cloud Technogym’s online Wellness platform provides businesses and end users with a complete Wellness solution: mywellness cloud. This offers a range of new business applications to create an Wellness eco- system around a facility, from personalised programme design and member challenges to club management tools.
TORQ-KING Looking like dumbbells, in fact Torq-King are rollers for the hands or feet, which roll in any direction. They deliver a full body functional fi tness workout for all levels, with an almost limitless range of movements (see p72).
SPOTTED!
• James Cracknell and Dani King checking out the new products on
the Matrix stand
• Christine Ohuruogu displaying her medal on the Technogym stand
• Greg Searle and Gail Emms trying the range on the Precor stand
• Beth Tweddle talking about Total Gymnastics at LIW Live
• Frank Bruno signing autographs on the TKO stand
November/December 2012 © cybertrek 2012
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