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Sports-Neuromuscular Stimulation & Mirror Resistance

2013/08/16 11:44 PM / Leave a comment


Neuromuscular stimulation provides your strength, coordination, reflexes, and balance. If this system is lacking you will not have these capabilities in daily living or athletics.  
The neuromuscular stimulation and feedback loops are highly responsive to high frequency contractions which occurs during the rapid compression movements performed during cardio burst workouts. These feedback loops are referred to as Mirror Resistance.
 
Squat Run beginning position. You may want to try dropping closer to heels to increase the muscle activity. As you run in and out of the squat, try touching the foot pads when in full squat. Give yourself that extra challenge building your cardio and strength.

Squat Run beginning position. You may want to try dropping closer to your heels to increase the muscle activity. As you run or pad in and out of the squat, try touching the foot pads when in full squat. Give yourself that extra challenge building your cardio and strength.

 
The movements are characterized by rapid foot padding or alternating toe/heel compression while moving in and out of a “squat run” or crouching running position keeping the feet in contact with the foot pads of the SANDDUNE™ throughout the session .  
The SANDDUNE™’s properties feed your body’s effort  back into your body with the same force that you exert into the apparatus. It excels in improving endurance and proprioceptive functions of lateral movement, leg speed and balance because of its capability. These are crucial components of sports performance in multiple disciplines, the performing arts and fitness.
 
 
 
 

Cardio Burst Workout

2013/06/27 8:53 PM / Leave a comment


Cardio Work on the Original SANDDUNE™  for athlete or fitness buff.

 To warm up – pad slowly for 1 minute. Do not get your heart rate up. When padding, your feet should barely come off of the pads.

  1. Run for 2 minutes as fast as you can.
  2. Pad slowly for 2 minutes
  3. Run for 30 seconds as hard as you can.
  4. Pad slowly for 2 minutes.
  5. Run for 30 seconds as hard as you can
  6. Finish with a 2 minute cool down.
  7. Step off the SANDDUNE and orient yourself on level ground. Walk around for a couple of minutes.

Do this workout 3 times a week. Within a two week period you should be able to realize a doubling of your cardiovascular capacity, and an increase in quad and core strength as well. This workout is equal to 3 hours of cardio work a week. Try this instead of your run, elliptical or stair stepper segment of your workout.

SD Squat

Squat Run position. Do not arch your back and only drop as low as is comfortable in the squat position.

Aerobic Running

Upright running position. Lift your knees as high as is comfortable.

Another option for exercise

2013/03/12 9:05 AM / Leave a comment


Why are active people in their 50’s and 60’s needing knee and hip joint replacements? Could it have something to do with how we have exercised in the past and into the present? 

When you think about it, we live in a very flat world. We walk on hard surfaces. Pavement, flooring, stairs, treadmills and even elliptical trainers do not require the foot to respond in the way that walking on the uneven ground or sand does. In fact all that hard pounding on pavement actually dulls our sensory systems. We have over 90 muscles in our pelvic area, legs and feet. Walking and running on hard, unforgiving surfaces cause the smaller, more sensitive muscles to guard against injury. They protect themselves by no longer participating when we walk. The result is that we use the same large muscles in our legs and buttocks in walking, running, biking and sports over and over. Eventually those overused muscles get stiff and sore, limiting movement in the joints.  The result is that we are wearing out the joints of our legs early in our aging process. The SANDDUNE™ offers the option to “train” on a surface that is “easy”  on the joints, muscles and tendons.