Zero Gravity and Vertical Treadmills - The future is here

The zero-gravity treadmill is becoming a common sight in almost every rehabilitation center of every professional sports team in North America. Along with this remarkable device, which was developed using NASA technology, check out the equipment today's elite, including: pressure on the treadmill, the treadmill also vertical and horizontal treadmill futuristic NASA.

Treadmill pressurized (or Anti Gravity Treadmill)

Built by Alter-G Inc. of Menlo Park, California, the G-Trainer was created to help astronauts maintain fitness while living and working in near-zero gravity of space. But it has also been judged and praised recently by professional athletes who need high-tech rehabilitation after going down with sports injuries. It worked so effectively, in fact, that world-class runners and Olympic Games have started to incorporate anti-gravity in their training with this innovative machine.

The treadmill under pressure is a large bubble of inflatable plastic which encloses the lower half of the body of the runner, while the person is located on a treadmill located inside the bubble. The runner is compressed within the chamber from the waist down, as a kayaker splash, while the upper body remains outside the bubble. When the air pump system in air-tight curtain, the air pressure raises the runner treadmill creating a zero gravity environment.

The device offers a very comfortable and feels a bit 'like running water - or bouncing in the absence of gravity on the moon or inside the space station. When the user performs normally on the treadmill, the lower house of gravity effectively reduces body weight in half, so as to reduce the impact on your back, knees and joints. In this way, athletes and astronauts can work longer without fatigue, as well as working more efficiently in rehabilitation without fear of re-injuring the body part.

Vertical Treadmill

Have you seen Spiderman in the movies do, but you can physically run up a wall of cut? Yes, you can now use a $ 10,000 device known as a vertical treadmill. It's basically a self-powered wall of the tread and you may have seen one in a sports store large appliances or a spa.

What looks like: It 's easy to imagine the vertical treadmill - just think of a climbing wall with a sliding treadbelt on rollers on the top and bottom. The wall panels slide down as you climb. Spidey uses micro-hooks in the fingers of her dress, but on the movable wall is provided with knobs for climbing. (Here's a video to get an idea of ​​what it is.) To make it more fun and adventurous, the wall tilts forward so you can start with an easy ascent, or tilts backwards so that you can groped difficult to maneuver a corner overhang. It also has a Polar heart rate monitor so you can check your cardio fitness.

Obviously, this is a type of futuristic "treadmill" that requires an effort of the entire body including the work on the shoulders, arms and back. Do not "get" very high because the belt is moving down while you are trying to move up. You can stay safely in a place a few meters from the ground thus eliminating the small problem that comes with real free-form rock climbing - falls to his death.

Horizontal treadmill

NASA has developed a new treadmill horizontally to help astronauts prepare for long-duration missions and lunar living at the station proposed in 2020. If you read science fiction books set in space, you are already familiar with the problems of human experience in a weightless environment, such as bone loss and muscle atrophy. Currently, the teams who live on the International Space Station should exercise daily to overcome the effects of prolonged weightlessness on the body.

What it is: Inside the Zero Gravity Locomotion Simulator Standalone, the astronaut is suspended by cables horizontally then placed next to a treadmill mounted vertically, where the feet can run and walk on walls. It 'sa bit of confusion since it is the human that is horizontal, here - but otherwise it seems that this is a vertical treadmill, besides being a zero-gravity treadmill. Simulation of weightlessness in this way allows the user to mimic the physiological effects of spacewalking astronaut as well as giving a feel for the conditions in which they meet in zero gravity in any environment.

This is a cool toy, but a major drawback: the price of these machines for fitness NASA is steep, in the neighborhood of $ 75,000.

As the treadmill in zero gravity, this horizontal model is to give the body new ways to exercise to compensate for the loss of muscle strength through a combination of aerobic and cardiovascular exercise. These machines are designed for space travelers, but also work well for athletes land ....