Product innovation
Pulling your weight with the Versapulley
New from Versaclimber comes the Versapulley series, a range of weightless exercise equipment, designed for use in gyms and health clubs.
Intended for use by anybody from professional athletes to novices and even children, the machine utilises inertial technology to automatically produce resistance from five to 500lbs (2.3 to 226.8kg) with no machine adjustments.
Users take hold of a rope, which they then pull away from the machine in any direction, using any one of a series of handle or belt attachments. This then triggers the resistance, which builds strength and conditions muscle in the user.
Thanks to its patented MV² technology, the forces involved are entirely user-defined, meaning that the harder the rope is pulled, the harder the machine pulls it back when the rope retracts, working additional muscle groups, claimed to make workouts twice as efficient. This design means that the machine does not requires any tricky adjustments to its settings between uses by different clients, giving the Versapulley a user-friendly feel.
The design is said to offer explosive force resistance across all planes of motion without the use of weights, so the range of exercises offered by the machine is only limited by the user’s imagination.
Added attachments mean that the Versapulley can train almost any part of the body, and can provide a range of exercises claimed to accurately simulate the multi-directional forces found in all sports. The extra handles and straps included simply clip onto the end of the rope to offer customisable workouts.
In addition to the standard Versapulley, there is also the Versapulley Portable, which packs the same technology into a 50cm high package, along with a wall mounted version understood to be perfect for either the home or gym, as it requires a minimal amount of space.
The Versapulley is already being used by the likes of world number one tennis player Rafael Nadal and the Spanish football team Sevilla.