A new CU-Boulder study of led by Associate Professor Rodger Kram, shows the machine significantly reduced impacts on muscles and joints of study subjects.
Known as the "G-Trainer," a space-age, low-gravity training machine is found to significantly reduce impacts on muscles and joints of study subjects. This low-gravity training machine, used by several 2008 Olympic runners, showed that it reduced impacts on muscles and joints by nearly half.
The machine which consists of a treadmill surrounded by an inflatable plastic chamber that encases the lower body of the runner
Air that is pumped into the chamber increases the pressure and effectively reduces the weight of runners, who are sealed in the machine at the waist in a donut-shaped device with a special zipper and "literally lifted up by their padded neoprene shorts.
Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080730140934.htm
Known as the "G-Trainer," a space-age, low-gravity training machine is found to significantly reduce impacts on muscles and joints of study subjects. This low-gravity training machine, used by several 2008 Olympic runners, showed that it reduced impacts on muscles and joints by nearly half.
The machine which consists of a treadmill surrounded by an inflatable plastic chamber that encases the lower body of the runner
Air that is pumped into the chamber increases the pressure and effectively reduces the weight of runners, who are sealed in the machine at the waist in a donut-shaped device with a special zipper and "literally lifted up by their padded neoprene shorts.
Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080730140934.htm
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