For decades now, fitness has been an ever growing industry globally and continues to permeate many facets of life and lifestyles. The business of fitness is a multi-billion dollar annually grossing industry. The extensions of that industry include a multitude of products and services related to exercise, nutrition, wellness, anti-aging, preventive health care and a host of others. Most of these areas have foundations in science, biochemistry, anatomy and physiology, biomechanics and other related body’s of knowledge, some of which have been established for many years while others have been newer discoveries.
In regards to fitness and fitness related equipment as it pertains to strength equipment, the science behind its principles involve a long standing belief that moving a muscle group against resistance throughout a given range of motion results in an increase in the strength of that muscle(s) as an adaptive response to the specific stress provided. Historically speaking, the process has involved a linear-planed motion that usually involves a lifting and lowering phase ( concentric & eccentric muscle contraction) and has also been highly isolated in terms of the muscle(s) involved in a particular movement as well as the joint(s) involved. The reason for this is that in order to achieve a resistance for the individual to move against, all established exercises have been gravity or vector dependent in relation to the resistance provided as well as linear or single dimensionally in motion. This has created an entire set of standards and practices of fitness that have not only been established in the exercise world but have also been embraced from a rehabilitation standpoint as well.
So in effect, the industry standards have been guided or even dictated by a technology that started from simply using some item (such as a free weight barbell or dumbbell) that has a given weight against the vector of gravity and to be lifted and lowered repetitively to create the strengthening effect. Now although the there had been other extensions of this principle with the advent of pulley systems and various machines that have created the vector of resistance at various angles, the facts still remain that exercise has been linear, single-planed and isolative.
But when you take a closer look at the biomechanics of the human form, you find that human motion, be it the movements of everyday tasks or even sports are actually all integrative, multi-planed and largely rotational vs. linear. Rotational motion patterns are part of everyday movements, bending, reaching, turning, stretching. Even walking a straight line requires rotational components at the joint levels. Providing the body a method of rotating against resistance is the only way to create a more functional strength that can apply to everyday activities.
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