Exercise Physiology
Training Modalities
Vibration Platform
Whole-body vibration can offer some fitness and health benefits, but it’s not clear if it’s as good for you as regular exercise. With whole-body vibration, you stand, sit or lie on a machine with a vibrating platform. As the machine vibrates, it transmits energy to your body, forcing your muscles to contract and relax dozens of times each second
- Reduce back pain
- Improve strength and balance in older adults
- Reduce bone loss
- Improve lower body circulation
- Improve flexibility
- Enhance blood flow
- Reduce muscle soreness
BlazePods
Are a fitness tool designed to add variety to your fitness training. Using lights to flash in a sequence, randomly or timed format helps the participants to cognitive skills while improving fitness and health improve visual sequencing, reaction control and inhibition control. Great for all people of all ages and abilities.
- Cognitive skills
- Improves sensory information
- Fast decision-making
- Improves a person’s inhibition control
- Improves visual perception and sequencing
- Improves processing speed
- Re-action control
Weight Training
Is a type of strength training that uses weights for resistance. Weight training provides a stress to the muscles that causes them to adapt and get stronger, similar to the way aerobic conditioning strengthens your heart. Weight training can be performed with free weights, such as barbells and dumbbells. You can also increase your strength through other types of resistance exercises, such as by using your body weight or resistance bands.
- Improve muscle/tendon strength
- Improve bone density
- Increase joint strength
- Weight management
- Reduces the impact of sarcopenia
- Builds muscle
Arm Crank
Enable you to pedal with your arms on an exercise machine that resembles an inverted stationary cycle. People recovering from lower-body injuries or those who are wheelchair-bound typically use arm cranks for cardio workouts. People living with disabilities such as Down Syndrome, Prada Willi, Autism and Moya Moya use upper-body ergometers to build the strength of their arms and shoulders.
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- Improves trunk muscle activation
- Improves aerobic capacity
- Improves oxygen capacity and consumption
- Improves lung function
- Improves seated balance