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Training and Conditioning
Elite athletes and weekend joggers alike are always looking for technological advancements to help them run farther, faster. The G-Trainer is being adopted by athletic trainers, conditioning specialists, and exercise facilities to augment training and conditioning routines, enhance performance, and provide the most advanced option in reduced-impact exercise.
The G-trainer is the perfect tool for overspeed training. As the individual decreases their weight they're able to increase their speed beyond what they could normally do at full weight. They are able to run at a faster turnover rate increasing their body's familiarity with higher speeds. The muscle memory from these increased speed sessions increases the overall speed potential of the individual when at full body weight. The G-Trainer's broad variable range for weight, speed, and incline allows people to customize their workout session to their specific needs.
Long distance runners can only run so many miles before the stress of impact takes its toll on their bodies. When they push their limits running outdoors or on conventional treadmills, the risk of stress fractures and other common running injuries significantly increases. G-Trainer users are able to increase their training volume (reportedly up to as much as 40%) by spending some of their training time running at reduced body weight.
Because the G-Trainer allows for a full range of motion, runners can experience a full stride, as they would on a track, with no upper-body restrictions. More miles means better conditioning with fewer impact-related injuries.
Traditional methods of unweighting—harness systems that restrict the upper body and pools with water resistance that creates drag on the limbs—interfere with gait mechanics. The G-Trainer is the first unweighting system to provide a nearly unencumbered running experience. This is particularly true for late stance phase mechanics when the hamstrings are acting as decelerators. Water resistance in a pool causes viscous drag which interferes with the free swing phase, but the G-Trainer provides unrestricted forward movement of the limb. The hamstrings are activated in their normal motor pattern, decelerating the leg and foot in preparation for heel strike.
The G-Trainer offers extended variable options. Adding reduction of body weight to traditional treadmill variables of speed, distance, and incline allows for more effective and sport specific interval training programs.
Many runners utilize the practice of recovery runs for a number of reasons, such as improving blood flow to muscles that have microcellular tears from intensive training. After periods of intensive training, the G-Trainer offers productive recovery runs because the reduced impact on the body allows the athlete to run longer and faster than traditional recovery runs on hard surfaces at a slower pace. The individual experiences a stronger cardiovascular workout while their muscles are healing.
Conditioning Specialists are finding that athletes are seriously benefiting in the area of "regeneration" on the G-trainer. Athletes with intense training regimens have to deal with tired legs. With the G-Trainer, they're able to keep up high-quality workouts simply by reducing body weight percentage. The athlete is able to maintain scheduled workouts, regardless of energy state, without the wear and tear they'd get on a traditional treadmill or on the court or field.
With the G-Trainer's extended variable options and ability to adjust settings while in use, athletes can tailor warm up sessions to their specific needs. Individuals can warm up by walking downhill or at an incline. Lowering effective body weight means they're able to warm up without jarring cold muscles and joints.
The importance of a proper cool down is well-known to any type of athlete. In the G-Trainer, a person can start their cool down at an active speed and/or incline by reducing their body weight then slow down and decrease incline while increasing body weight. This means the individual can cool down at a steady pace with normal body movement even when they're tired after a hard workout.
Control of body weight also provides a means for interval overload training (interval training) in which you achieve a fast speed while at reduced weight and then introduce body weight briefly to overload the musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems. Interval training is the most rapid method of achieving performance gains and the ability to tailor and optimize the interval profiles determines the ultimate limit of performance. In the past, this type of training was difficult at best. The G-Trainer provides access to this time tested training.
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