The Alter-G. This is a creation of NASA. It is a treadmill with a pressurized sealed lower half. It allows the runner to displace their body weight, for 20%, 60%, or whatever dialed. Imagine , you could use his and run while injured. The New England Runner Magazine just published an article on this. This is fantastic. Is it well known in other areas before New England?
so how was it living under the rock?
NASA had nothing to do with this. It was created by a couple of Stanford grads.
In the know... wrote:
NASA had nothing to do with this. It was created by a couple of Stanford grads.
http://www.alter-g.com/alterg/ed.aspx
The technology originally came out of NASA. They were trying to make people heavier, not lighter...to protect bone density.
A stanford grad was the guy behind the engineering, but a Cal grad was behind the sales.
they should call it the Alter - 75G's
i ran on one of these for weeks when injured. in my opinion, it is nothing more than another gimic, not to mention you sweat...a lot, an it hurts your balls. when i finally got back actually running i was so out of shape despite putting in about 70-80 a week on this thing. no one, no one should waste your $$ on one of these!
I've never used it, and you may be right, but I was talking to a guy just earlier tonight who was touting its benefits. It seems awful pricey to me.
I tried it once the Adidas track classic for a demonstration. The guy helping out set it to 4:20 mile pace and said "see it doesn't feel like you are running that fast does it." I said "what the f*** are you talking about it feels like im running 4:20 pace." haha it didnt do anything.
In the know... wrote:
NASA had nothing to do with this. It was created by a couple of Stanford grads.
http://www.alter-g.com/alterg/ed.aspx
"The anti-gravity technology behind the G-Trainer was originally developed at NASA. Air pressure is used to accomplish unweighting allowing individuals to set body weight as low as 20% in 1% increments."
that's from the website you linked to.
I wouldn't believe anything from that website.