Suspension Gym- A Time Tested Concept

It may seem like body weight based suspension gyms are a relatively new idea. However, acrobats, martial artists, soldiers and even sailors have been using their own body weight in conjunction with ropes, belts, straps and other variations for hundreds of years to hone their skills and keep in peak physical condition. A suspension gym is an inelastic workout strap system that you attach to a fixed anchor point, and by holding onto the suspension straps you can leverage your own bodyweight to perform functional and effective workouts that involve more muscles and produces better and faster results than any other type of exercise.

So, what makes body weight based suspension gyms so special? Here are some of the key benefits listed below.

5 Impressive Benefits To Your Overall Fitness

Suspension Gyms are versatile enough to be useful for everybody from the new-to-exercise beginner to the professional athlete.

Some of the same challenging exercises used by elite athletes can easily be made less challenging by providing support and a means for good form so beginners or even rehabilitation patients can start easy and gradually step-up resistance to build muscle and joint strength.

Simply altering the position of the feet or hands (depending on what exercise) and altering the body angle increases or decreases the amount of resistance. Moreover, narrowing ones stance can further engage the core muscles, while widening ones stance offers more stability and disengages the core area.

This degree of control allows suspension trainer users to adapt workout routines to their current fitness level and over time increase resistance to gain muscle strength, core stability, flexibility and metabolic conditioning.

Body-weight training with a suspension gym provides users the ability to perform practically hundreds of exercise with a compact and light-weight training tool, both indoors and outdoors.

Most suspension gyms are quick to setup and have designs that enable fast anchoring to any suitable overhead structure such as a solid tree branch, soccer goal crossbar, monkey bars, swing set or even a vertical structure such as a tree trunk or telephone pole. Anything sturdy enough that can support your body weight and allow unrestricted movement will do.

Suspension gyms are an ideal solution for staying fit and active while on holidays and business trips.

Basically, metabolic training is exercising at a higher intensity for a shorter period of time. This will increase the bodies metabolic rate enabling a person to burn more calories during and even after the workout.

Its a more effective way of building strength and losing weight than low intensity aerobic exercises such as jogging, stair climbers or swimming.

Suspension Gyms are great for metabolic training because they’re especially good for transitioning between exercises. Fluid transitions between movements facilitate moderate to high intensity workouts since you’re using the same piece of equipment and only changing your body position to work a different set of muscles.

The often ignored core area is a group of muscles between your hips and shoulders that stabilize your spine and pelvis. These muscles are vitally important since they provide a stable base and foundation for ones body to move and function.

Suspension Gyms, by their very nature, force the user to engage the core muscles to maintain proper technique and in some cases the movement would not be possible without core activation.

Engage your core on every exercise including suspended movements with foot cradles to build a strong and stable body.

Kids are a great example, their focus is fun and they get great exercise doing a variety of activities like swinging, climbing, running, rolling, and wrestling around the playground. Suspension Gyms have a similar inherent benefit.

There’s a vast number and variety of exercises possible with suspension gyms that virtually guarantee exercising never gets dull. As well, each and every exercise can be adjusted to fit the fitness level of any exerciser from beginner to elite athlete simply by adjusting ones body angle to lessen or increase resistance.

Suspension Gyms are uncomplicated yet incredibly versatile training tools that make getting or staying in shape fresh and fun! When its fresh and fun, you’re more likely to stick with it!