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WHY THE PERSONAL GYM®
WORKS
The Personal Gym®
gives you the ability to work all the major muscle groups in the body, as
well as a variety of key stabilizing muscles important for movement of the
extremities and trunk. It
uses a revolutionary, new, resistance-training band that was especially
designed for the Personal Gym®
to build, tone and develop muscle tissue.
Dura-Band
Therapy Bands are a progressive-resistance, latex exercise-band system,
which allows the user to increase resistance progressively in a safe,
effective manner.
Dura-Band
works on the same principle as free weights or machine exercise -- the
Overload Principle. To
increase muscle strength, resistance is needed to “challenge” the
muscle. In order to continue
to improve strength, one needs to continue to provide higher and higher
levels of resistance. Increased
strength results as the muscle accommodates to the new level of resistance
But Dura-Band™
is unlike free weights in two distinct ways.
First, because its length is adjustable, the resistance within the
same band can be varied. With
free weights, the poundage of the weight being used can’t be varied
except by changing weights. With
Dura-Band
resistance may also be changed by selecting from four colors of bands that
coincide with varying levels of resistance.
A longer length creates less resistance; a shorter length, more
resistance.
Second, Dura-Band
attaches to the Personal Gym®
at the appropriate fixed point of resistance that insures the exercise is being performed by utilizing sound
biomechanical principles throughout the entire exercise.
With free weights, there is no fixed point of resistance, so
momentum can cause the weight to shift or to load the joint abnormally,
which can then lead to injury.
With
Dura-Band
and the Personal Gym®,
exercises are designed for the user to safely control the progressive
resistance and angle of the exercise throughout the entire range of
motion. The intent of rehabilitative and strengthening exercises is
to provide resistance on the appropriate muscle and not injure other
structures or tissues in the joint such as ligaments, bursae or tendons.
The
Personal Gym®
and Dura-Band
combine to make the perfect 'one-two' combination to meet your
health-related exercise needs.
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