AlterG M300 Trainer Takes the Strain Off Fragile Joints
Being able to drop half your body weight for a run can take quite a bit of strain off your joints. People recovering from surgery or injuries can use the AlterG (Fremont, California) treadmill to do just that and get a good workout for their lower extremities muscles.
Zero-Gravity Treadmill: Like Running in Space
Everyone knows you don’t need a treadmill in space, right? You just find a free section of the cylindrical wall of your spaceship and run around that, 2001-style. But when you get back to Earth, you need to exercise your atrophied muscles and get the blood pumping again. But how do you stand up on those weak and skinny legs? An anti-gravity treadmill, that’s how. And it isn’t just astronauts that can’t bear their own weight: injured athletes and accident victims also need to regain strength slowly. The answer is the AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill M310, a newer, cheaper version of the company’s $70,000 machines.
Anti-Gravity Treadmill Almost Like Exercising on Mars
Want to get some exercise done in microgravity? Unless you travel to the International Space Station, exercise in a pool, or mount up on the pricy AlterG Anti-Gravity Treadmill, that was an impossibility until now. Expanding beyond the market of the super-rich and cash-awash pro sports teams, now AlterG will sell an anti-gravity treadmill for the merely rich, offering the $24,500 AlterG M300 for sale next month.
Lower price brings antigravity treadmill down to earth
We got our first close look at the AlterG antigravity treadmill at a health expo in San Francisco earlier this year, and at the time, the price was floating up there somewhere near the space station. But we’ve good news for those who like the idea of running like an astronaut: Fremont, Calif.-based AlterG on Monday plans to announce a more affordable model, the AlterG M300. The two treadmills in the M300 series deliver the same antigravity technology as AlterG’s pricey $75,000 P200 series, but at a third of the cost–$24,500 to $27,000.
The G-Trainer: it’s like running on the moon
Ever wonder what it would feel like to weigh 20 pounds less? Well, there’s a device at CU in Boulder that can give you that feeling. However, that’s not what it’s really meant to do.
Running slows aging and postpones disability, study finds
“Regular running slows the effects of aging, according to a new study from the [Stanford] School of Medicine that tracked 500 older runners for more than 20 years. Elderly runners have fewer disabilities, a longer span of active life and are half as likely as nonrunners to die early deaths, the research found.”
Anti-Gravity Treadmill Aids Recovery
What if you could defy gravity and recover from an injury at the same time? Karen Hayes is zipped in and ready to become almost weightless. “It’s like someone is holding you up,” said patient Karen Hayes. Becky Robinson, a physical therapist recommended Hayes use the g-trainer to gain strength while recovering from her second knee surgery. The G-Trainer allows her to exercise without putting too much stress on her unstable knee.
Cutting Edge Training Tool Helps Baylor 4x400m Relay Team Run Down 4th Straight National Title
Back in February, just days after clocking the fastest indoor 4×400 meter relay time in the world, Baylor’s Quentin Iglehart-Summers was diagnosed with a stress fracture in his 4th metatarsal. The BU All-American was ordered to stay off the foot for 4-to-6 weeks. Had it not been for the Alter-G anti-gravity treadmill, Iglehart-Summers may not have been back at 100-percent in enough time to anchor the Bears’ National Championship 4×400 meter relay at the NCAA outdoor championships.
Weight-less workout helps with injuries
There is a new treadmill being tested that could help people recovering from knee and joint surgery. A Bay Area medical center is experimenting with a model that actually controls your body weight while you’re using it. Finishing the San Francisco Marathon was a moment of ecstasy for Claire Conely, followed by months of agony. “Somewhere in that stretch I hurt my knee, but with the adrenaline I didn’t realize what happened. Just felt pain, but didn’t want to stop,” said Conely.
Space-age training may get Paula Radcliffe to the Olympics
When Paula Radcliffe was diagnosed with a stress fracture at the top of her left leg two weeks ago, doctors warned her that she had virtually no hope of being fit again in time for the Beijing Olympics. But the marathon world record-holder will defy medical opinion to carry on training for the big race on August 17, using an “anti-gravity” treadmill originally developed by Nasa to help astronauts exercise in space.
