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Accentuating the negative


motion in exercise maximises strength gains


The 3-1-5 ‘super club’ offers 200 stations, including 56 X-Force pieces, and is also a show site for Star Trac CV equipment


once a week and abide by a simple calorie controlled diet. The average weight loss was 2.4 stone in just six weeks.” The drawback for other clubs wanting


to get in on the action is that 3-1-5 has the exclusive UK rights to X-Force: the only way for other operators to gain access to the equipment is by becoming an X-Force partner through a new licence programme launched last month. Even then, the programme will focus on independents rather than multi-site chains, giving compatible new start-ups, established fi tness facilities and even small personal training studios the opportunity to offer and profi t from X-Force’s results-driven programme.


Building a ‘super club’ The name 3-1-5 derives from the X-Force training concept, where the protocol is ‘lift for three, pause for one, lower for five’. Yet even though the machines will undoubtedly give 3-1-5 Lancaster the ‘X-factor’ in terms of


June 2014 © Cybertrek 2014 The X-Force factor


machines, when you push out 100kg you get back 100kg. With X-Force, when you push out 100kg (the positive phase), the weight stack moves through a 45-degree angle. At the top of the lift, the stack reverts to the vertical and automatically adds 40 per cent to the load, so the user is lowering 140kg in the negative phase. “The muscle is 70 per cent stronger


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in the negative phase when compared to the positive, so we could add 70 per cent more load to the lowering phase. But to stay within safe parameters and ensure anyone can use X-Force machines, we’re sticking to a 40 per cent load gain.”


o how does X-Force work? Thornton explains: “With conventional resistance


Since its launch in 2012, there


are now facilities offering the trademarked X-Force concept in 14 different countries, including the US, Australia and Switzerland. Established US facilities are


seeing some impressive results. The Gainesville Health & Fitness Club – the club at the centre of what was voted the healthiest community in the US – currently has 500 people on a waiting list for the 3-1-5 Weight Management Programme centred around X-Force. Meanwhile the Mainline Health


& Fitness club in Pennsylvania, operated by industry veteran Roger Schwab, has generated an uplift of US$1.7m in PT revenue through its X-Force PT Room alone.


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