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Extra Wide Adjusting Pulley Bar Now available for very tall swimmers

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Digital Readout on 190 Bench. Measures power, strokes, work, time

Graphing readout for every inch of each stroke or kick and Cool Coach software interface in beta Testing. Call with ideas.

Isokinetic means the resistance increases in direct proportion to your force at any given moment of the stroke. Swimming is most perfectly suited for isokinetics because the speed of the arms and legs can be mimicked exactly by our isokinetic devices. But a MAJOR advantage over any other form of exercise, even swimming, is demonstrated when we graph the power through the entire stroke instead of just giving you some average of the power. Try punching the water with all your might and see how far that gets you. or race a weight lifting champion. You need power through the entire range of motion and that’s what differentiates your best swimming and coaching. Bubbles seem to be caused by a bad stroke, but what causes a bad stroke? Most often it’s a lack of power feel (isokinetic trainig improves both) at a particular range of the stroke almost impossible to discern or maximally improve any other way. You don’t always need to graph, but graphing shows exactly where the stroke is weak and strong each inch along the way. So, if you slice on the in-sweep, turning your hand upside down, releasing the pressure on the water even just a little, you will not be strong or enduring enough to reach your potential until that particular area is strengthened. Even after identifying that weakness, exercising it in the water is very very difficult and I’m saying that having filmed thousands of stroke drills over thirty years. With isokinetics, you can simply work that range of motion and the correct resistance and angle to get dramatic improvement quickly. So with this example, you can pick up some of the reasons swimmers from Spitz to Evans to Phelps use the same isokinetics you can now get from us as they did. Specificity of force on every rep (even when you’re fatigued it’s still adapting maximally to give you the best possible use of that rep and time. Perfect speed to build those fast twitch fibers. Perfect angle -- hard to this with a kettle bell or bench press and anyone else’s swim bench. Perfect range. If you are only weak in five inches work those five inches of movement. (If you’re like me you’ve either head of yelled “keep that elbow up” a million times. But if you are too weak or fatigued to do it you will find some other way to drag yourself through the practice sets. This is why excellent practice makes perfect not just practice. With our feedback you get to know what’s working and what doesn’t. Ever missed a taper? You won’t now. You’ll nail every practice from the beginning of the season to the championships. And you can do all this in minutes a day without undue soreness or risk of injury. The graphing is new, but our isokinetics have been proven in space by NASA, by every team in the NBA with our Leaper, and by thousands of elite swimmers over forty years. May we help you get your isokinetics? We have the whole line starting with a wall unit at $295 and a swim bench for 1290. State of the art isn’t a lot more. E-mail me directly with technical questions any time at Steve@tropicalpenguin.com.