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The tropical Penguin Swim/Tri Pro Sports Bench

    The coolest bench in the world keeps getting even cooler. Head to head with Vasa Trainer it’s not even close. This bench was originally designed forty years ago for Olympians and now, after it was off the market for ten years, it’s been updated to sprint into first place for functionality and sports specific development.

You can perform over 100 sports-specific exercises at full speed and maximum resistance without changing a single weight.

But what you can change is really cool! Designed with a full joint by joint, muscle by muscle, movement by movement functional circuit in mind, this sports bench originated with Doc Counsilman and Glen Henson and the MiniGym Company as an instrument for producing Olympic Swimmers. Mark Spitz was first. Janet Evans had one in her home from age six through her Olympic years. Coach Bowman (Phelps) and Coach Reese (much of the rest of the 2008 Olympic Team) both presently use the first swim benches designed in the 1970’s with all their Olympic swimmers and rising stars.

What’s new? Digital Readouts. Five-year warranties. Quick releases off the handles that allow you do put the resistance on the floor and do squats or on the wall and do pull downs, or on the front of the bench and do flutter kick or straight leg pullovers. Each motion is accommodating so you get maximum resistance based on what YOU can do at each inch of movement. You simply can’t do that with tubing. Used all over the world already (we re-released in September 2008) for all sorts of athletes, for rehab, for work testing for insurance purposes. Even Caltech is adapting it to their computers to measure upper body adaptation to power training as compared to lower body ergometers.

You can adjust the horizontal bar for your height and stroke, which makes this the first and only swim bench for all four strokes and kicks. But, when we got done making it perfect for swimmers and showing exercises for the fingers and the toes and every joint and muscle in between, which is what swimmers need, we realized we had the best fitness bench in the world by far.

Can we prove it? You bet. This video and the DVD is comes from is just the beginning. In the recent months we have built dozens of modifications, from the paddles (yes they look like and feel like swim paddles), to a chest strap for isokinetic sit-ups Russian twists, and hyper extensions. We are just a few weeks away from the first rotating bench too. But shhh. It’s a secret. It will be easy to upgrade so buy yours now.  If you don’t have a wall or a room to put it in, you’ll love the fact it has wheels and you can take off the Minigyms in less than five seconds to store them. You can also get a vertical bar for the front of the bench for pull downs, tricep pushes, hip extensions, etc. Check out the full speed whip kick (again using the world’s only adjustable horizontal bar for the exact right angle and so you don’t whip yourself in the head as with competitive models) and full speed leg curls in the video. Try that safely any other way. The  lack of eccentric contraction keeps you from getting sore too and prevents injury-- so whatever your sport you can train hard the same day you go all out building power on the bench! We could go on and on, but we want you to go on and on getting better. Buy Yours Today. we promise there is no faster way to get faster. Oh -- one more thing -- check out the accessories. You can even get a Halo add-on, 3,000 technical movies for your ipod to watch while you exercise, a Finis Mirror so you can see what you are doing and compare it to the model -- all from us. And you can start without a bench for just $295. We’re excited and so are those already using the new improved isokinetic bench.