Ahhh. Another chapter in the annals of fitness for the person who just doesn't have the brains or willpower to train like a real man or woman. Everything must be a gimmick or a game. As soon as the novelty wears off and millions have been fleeced, they move on to the next generation of fraud fitness.
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Wow. One of the comments from the story, "where can I get one of these for my bedroom?" lol
On a more serious note, it seems like these would actually be more dangerous than anything else in the gym. All it would take is one person to try that little flying move, have a hand slip, and land on their head before the program is all over.
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I don't think it would be a whole workout, but it would keep me entertained to swing across a room tarzen like.
Unless things have changed a lot since I was a kid, pretty much every playground has something on it that you can go swing around on A lot even have rings and bars so you can be 'tarzan' like.
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Unless things have changed a lot since I was a kid, pretty much every playground has something on it that you can go swing around on A lot even have rings and bars so you can be 'tarzan' like.
Remember that this method of swinging allows women to 'elongate their muscles'.
I think y'all are being a little harsh for this contraption - if you actually look at it closer and see what the exercise demos are doing it seems like it is just a TRX/JungleGym type system, suspending from the ceiling rather than a wall or tree - and it provides for securing a bar between the handles (which TRX will do with you securing a golf club with your hands). Not a home flying trapeze.
Yes it looks similar to TRX, but I suspect it become politically incorrect around these parts when they stopped using it for push-ups, squats, rows and other resistance moves and turned it into a flying trapeze game.
Appearances are a lot. Their workout may be kick ass and hard, but that remains to be seen.
We all need to realize that we all have different goals, not everyone is a bodybuilder, not everyone is a figure athlete, not everyone is a power lifter, an olympic lifter, an athelete of any type.
Despite this I think we all agree that women shouldn't be relegated to pink dumb bells, tricep kickbacks and endless cardio. This seems, and I stress, seems, since none of us have done it, play towards those ideals, not the ideals of an actual resistance training program.
Just my 2 cents.
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after seeing this advertisement clip I went on youtube and looked at some of the longer pieces - they seem to do most of the expected TRX-style exercises, including making use of the bar for things like presses and rows and a minimum of running around jumping nonsense - but it does show that it will support your weight but be rather unstable (like a suspended pullup bar). I guess their point is how to use it for group exercise - which means music and dance moves are going to be incorporated because that is what seems to sell - but what they actually are doing lin the body of the workout looks like normal TRX movements to me. At least in the vids I looked at briefly.
I actually started this thread with more of a light hearted intent; hence the usage of the . My perspective on this thing is what revolutionary thing has this joint venture with Reebok and Cirque du Soleil created for the fitness industry? We have had rings, blast straps, the TRX and there has been a ton of information provided on how to incorporate these things into ones fitness goals. To me, there's nothing better than Inverted Rows with feet on a bench using the TRX (or blast straps) for a healthy scapula. I just didn't see the video promoting that type of usage. So at the end of the day, there is nothing revolutionary about this product and it's just another way for a company to bullshit the public. Mahler summed it up nicely in his first post.
I know you were being lighthearted as am I - but I thought I'd just point out what it really was and what they are really doing with it and that it wasn't in the same class as the $14K 4 minutes a day contraption.
Like just in case someone's SO came home and said she'd done this really fun new Reebok class at the gym you'd know that in reality a lot of time was spent with feet in the loops doing the reverse plank hamstring curls and pushups with a pike and not flying around hanging from a bar.
Another Reebok Contraption
A lot even have rings and bars so you can be 'tarzan' like.
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