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Fitness-kit.net: Product innovation
Lauren Heath-Jones rounds up the products and services launched at FIBO 2018
Eco-Powr line transforms clubs into mini power plants, says Paul Kuo
SportsArt has developed a new range of environmentally-friendly fitness equipment that could dramatically reduce a fitness facility’s carbon footprint, as well as contributing to lower operational costs.
Named as Best Facility Innovation at the 2018 Elevate Product Innovation awards, Eco-Powr is a range of sustainable cardio fitness machines, including treadmills, bikes and elliptical machines, that feature a built-in inverter.
This harnesses the wattage that is produced by exercisers during their workouts and converts it into AC Power, before feeding it back into the grid.
The company claims that clubs with an average of 30 pieces of cardio equipment operating for eight hours a day could potentailly save more than £15,000 in utility costs by switching over to Eco-Powr.
“Every fitness club has the potential to be a mini power plant capable of creating clean power – enough to reduce the world’s carbon emissions and energy usage significantly,” said SportsArt founder Paul Kuo.
“Imagine if all the people who visit the gym each day worked out on Eco-Powr equipment – up to 74 per cent of energy spent exercising would be converted into utility-grade electricity and fed back into the power grid.”
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"Every fitness club has the potential to be a mini power plant, capable of creating clean power – enough to reduce the world’s carbon emissions and energy usage significantly" - Paul Kuo
Alan Cuthbert on AppAudio’s UK launch
Leisure Sound Solutions, an audio-visual supplier for the leisure industry, has launched a brand new, free audio app for gyms and health clubs in the UK.
Developed by MYE Entertainment, AppAudio allows users to stream music and listen to club TV audio through their smartphones by simply connecting to the club’s wifi and selecting the correct channel number.
Gym operators can integrate AppAudio into their own club apps, as well as using it as a mobile marketing platform to connect with and motivate their members.
“Leisure Sound Solutions is excited to introduce AppAudio to the UK,” says MD Alan Cuthbert. “Most operators have an app these days, so why not include ours as a tile to encourage members to open your app every time they visit.”
The app has on-board marketing functionality and promotional material built-in.
fitness-kit.net keyword: LEISURE SOUND SOLUTIONS
"Most operators have an app, so why not include ours as a tile in yours to encourage members to open your app every time they visit" - Alan Cuthbert
Technogym’s Biocircuit offers a guided circuit training workout, tailored to members’ needs
Technogym has launched BIOCIRCUIT, a new circuit training solution and method providing a personalised workout to help users achieve their goals in a short amount of time.
The guided programme delivers an engaging experience that requires no adjustments or wait time, as exercises, workload and work:rest ratio and pace have been defined and integrated into the programme.
Based on revolutionary aerospace technology, BIODRIVE is a motor controller that delivers a tailored workout. This patented technology is only found in the BIOSTRENGTH LINE. Different needs require different programmes. Only BIODRIVE can balance all phases of movement, both concentric and eccentric, to provide each user with a personal programme.
Guided workouts
BIODRIVE guarantees the ability to define different intensity profiles to meet the needs of people requiring isotonic resistance, needing to reduce inertia, or willing to use viscous resistance.
Whether users just want to complete their reps, define their routine, or be guided in a routine based on their needs, BIODRIVE ensures that the workload is constantly controlled. The equipment can also provide assistance if the user needs help completing a workout – if support is needed, BIODRIVE immediately activates the spotter function to relieve the user.
There is no need for multiple logins or time wasted setting up the equipment – after the initial login and set-up, the programme directs the user to the first station, where the equipment is already adjusted to their specific preferences. Results are automatically tracked with mywellness cloud.
Intuitive design
The BIOCIRCUIT format includes equipment with automatic setting after the first user login; consoles which display the programme to the users on each machine; flooring with markings to guide users to the next station; a dedicated pedestal, called UNITY SELF, that synchronises all equipment and shows where users start and finish their BIOCIRCUIT training experience; and an external screen connected to the UNITY SELF which provides an engaging experience, with visuals for the group.
Nerio Alessandri, Founder and President of Technogym says: “Personalisation is becoming more and more important. Our new BIOCIRCUIT TRAINING METHOD has been carefully developed to provide an effective and engaging experience that is tailored for all users, whatever their goals or needs.”
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“Personalisation is becoming more and more important. Our new training method has been developed to provide an effective, engaging experience that’s tailored for all users” - Nerio Alessandri, founder and president, Technogym
Andy Gill on Total Gym’s double win at Elevate
Functional training equipment supplier Total Gym received two awards in the 2018 Product Innovation awards at this year’s Elevate trade show.
Total Gym’s multi-use workout bench –coincidentally called Elevate Encompass – took the title of Best Innovation for Human Performance, while its Elevate Row ADJ was named Best Workout Innovation.
Elevate Encompass offers multi-plane movement and an unrestricted range of motion and is designed to work multiple muscle groups simultaneously.
Users work on an incline against gravity, allowing them to use their body weight as resistance and improve the overall productivity and functionality of the training.
Billed as being effective for both cardio and resistance training simultaneously, the Elevate Row ADJ integrates a strength training component into a traditional cardio machine, to produce a full body workout with several levels of adjustable bodyweight resistance.
The equipment is designed for multi-planar movement and includes exercises such as bicep curls and an alternating side-to-side row.
“With the innovations it brings to fitness markets around the world, Total Gym is relentless in its pursuit of innovation and the best workout experience, whilst being loyal to its customers,” says Andy Gill, founder and director of Ethics Leisure – the UK distributor for the Total Gym business.
“With more and more gyms creating functional and small group training areas, the Elevate range of equipment is perfectly positioned to complement this industry shift,” says Total Gym’s CSMO Erik Vervloet.
fitness-kit.net keyword; TOTAL GYM
"With the innovations it brings to fitness markets around the world, Total Gym is relentless in its pursuit of innovation and the best workout experience, whilst being loyal to its customers" - Andy Gill
Exxentric makes elite technology widely available with new Flywheel, says Erik Lindberg
Swedish training and gym equipment manufacturer Exxentric has launched a new product line based on its flywheel training solution.
The range features two new products, the kPulley and the kBox4 Active, as well as updated versions of two of its existing products, the kBox4 Lite and the kBox4 Pro.
Optimised for horizontal movement, the kPulley offers flywheel training for rotational and pull exercises, as well as core and lower limb exercises. It features a versatile, wall-mounted design that can be easily adjusted to accommodate different types of exercise, and is equipped with Kmeter – Exxentric’s app-based feedback system.
The kBox4 Active is billed as an entry-level device for flywheel training, and is designed for group classes and at-home use. It features a steel chassis capable of holding two flywheels and offers a range of exercises for users at all levels.
“We’ve always had a close relationship with the users at Exxentric, which has again led to greatly improved spec,” says Exxentric’s CEO Erik Lindberg. “Technology that once used to be deployed only by elite professionals, is now made available to a much broader audience.”
“With an abundance of research supporting the benefits of strength training, it’s satisfying to offer new smart tools and effective methods that not only help improve athletic performance but also facilitate health and fitness for the general public,” Lindberg adds.
The kPulley costs £1,540, and the kBox4 Active £1,240.
fitness-kit.net keyword: EXXENTRIC
"We’ve always had a close relationship with the users at Exxentric, which has again led to greatly improved spec" - Erik Lindberg
