FAQ
What is the FREESTYLERTM?
The FREESTYLERTM is a modern exercise platform that makes very different and interesting workouts possible. The FREESTYLERTM has been extensively studied and researched for over 3 years and integrates the latest scientific achievements. The result is a highly methodical, systematic and logical exercise system.
Why the device was named FREESTYLERTM?
Everyday natural motion demands movement in all directions. Exercises that force us to make simple movements are less effective and less useful. Because this device enables completely free and natural movements on all levels, we named it the FREESTYLERTM.
By whom was the FREESTYLERTM developed?
The FREESTYLERTM was designed by experts in the field of sports training who know how much, when, and with what means it is necessary to train in order to achieve desired results in the shortest possible time span.
What are the benefits of the FREESTYLERTM ?
Three dimensional natural and functional multi axis movements Different types of muscular contraction Synchronized whole body workout Continuous exercise flow (body flow) Assured muscle balance Maximum range of motion Proprioceptive workout Visualization techniques Elastic resistance with no inertia Simple, safe and efficient routines Endless exercise and future workout possibilities Increased muscular inervation Enabled progressive resistance Increased peripheral blood flow Optimal elongation range
Concerning future workout possibilities, what are the advantages of the FREESTYLERTM?
The FREESTYLERTM exercise system is intended for all fitness levels, from beginner to advanced. It provides the whole solution for a fitness centre whether the customers want to tighten their bodies, loose weight efficiently, or just prepare for their favourite sport. The FREESTYLERTM development team is also preparing additional workouts to add to existing ones in order to meet the specific demands of group workout clients. New workouts will be developed using extensive customer satisfaction feedback and suggestions from freestyler instructors all over the world.
Which exercises and programs can you apply on the FREESTYLERTM?
The FREESTYLERTM can be used in existing sport training regimes, in pre-choreographed group fitness to music, in advanced rehabilitation after an injury, and in enhancing the benefits of Pilates techniques. Last but not least, as the smallest home gym in the world, it provides countless exercise options. Why do I find this exercise system so unique? This exercise system is unique because it combines progressive resistance with multi-axis movements to simulate natural human movements.
What makes the FREESTYLERTM system so successful?
There are many advantageous features of the exercise system on the FREESTYLERTM including its practical value and mobility, the utmost safety of the FUNCTIONAL DYNAMICSTM system, its accessible price and, above all, its effectiveness.
What is the contribution to health benefits when considering FREESTYLERTM group workout?
Regular exercise has many benefits including better physical and mental health, improved quality of life and a fit-looking body. Using resistance tubing as part of your exercise routine will help you realize a variety of health benefits (lose weight, increase strength, flexibility, eliminate back pain, improve endurance, increase functionality, fight with osteoporosis and overall wellness and wellbeing ) some of which are specific to the workout provided by exercise tubing. All in all, it is all about the addiction to a healthy lifestyle. This is the main goal of the Freestyler group workout exercise system.
Were the scientific researches made in order to ratify all the advantages and benefits of the FREESTYLERTM ?
It has been studied and researched extensively for over 3 years, and its design integrates the latest scientific achievements. The result is a highly methodical, systematic and logical exercise technique. This technique has been called FUNCTIONAL DYNAMICSTM because it integrates functional multi-axis movements, elements of PNF techniques, different types of muscle contractions, proprioceptive training, synchronized whole body movements, visualization techniques, breathing techniques, and more, all combined into simple, safe and efficient workout routines. The system is used by physiotherapists, by doctors, who are recommending it for preventing various chronic diseases of the modern world, and by top athletes. It has also helped many people lose weight and shape the body.
Where can I get different programs?
Every three months the FREESTYLERTM Program Team creates a new pre-choreographed workout. They take in account the latest developments in exercise science and rely on their deep understanding of what a well-prepared workout program should be like. So you simply order the desired programs.
How do I learn all the exercises?
The choreography notes provide information that caters to a variety of learning styles. Listening to the audio-tape several times enables instructors to get a “feel for the music” (emotion, mood, style, basic structure, length, dynamics). If you are a “visual learner” you should rely more on the DVD video that comes along with the package. In this fitness theatre you verbally and visually express excellent instruction through each song.
What benefits can bring a pre choreographed group fitness to music?
With pre – choreographed routines you are not responsible for the creation of new routines so that you can channel time and energy into the other elements of successful instruction. The participants can then enjoy good music, rhythmic movement and honest sweat, the keys to successful classes.
Can the FREESTYLERTM device be used for the home gym purposes?
The Freestyler device can be used at home with all the programs as it is the smallest home gym in the world, that provides countless exercise options.
What is the advantage of the use of the FREESTYLERTM device in rehabilitation?
Because of this property (no inertia), elastic bands have proven successful in the rehabilitation of athletes with a whole spectrum of injuries, especially those of the shoulder, knee and elbow joints. Some studies which included a number of exercises using elastic resistance when dealing with injuries of the shoulder joint reported excellent rehabilitation results. The essence of FUNCTIONAL DYNAMICSTM is that with the help of elastic resistance, an injured person can engage in active and painless execution of exercises on different levels throughout the entire range of motion.
According to different sports, where can be the device used most commonly?
Dance classes are using the device during their trainings, several tennis and golf players to achieve the balance between left and right side of the body. It is also very much used by those who train martial arts, in order to achieve better muscle balance and strong deep core muscles.
Which sports can use the benefits of the FREESTYLERTM ?
All the sports can use the benefits of the device, as it enables a great variety of exercise possibilities
Can we use the FREESTYLERTM for Pilates trainings?
The FREESTYLERTM’s unique system of rollers and elastic tubing provides numerous additional benefits, the added resistance in Pilates workouts, which also focuses on increased lung capacity and blood circulation through deep, healthy breathing. Strength and flexibility, particularly of the abdomen and back muscles, and coordination - both muscular and mental - are the key components in an effective FREESTYLERTM Pilates program.
Can we compare the FREESTYLERTM device to Pilates reformer?
The FREESTYLERTM is comparable to Pilates reformer, as it offers the additional and progressive resistance. Allowing us to execute all the Pilates exercises on a higher, advanced level and simultaneously bringing us a greater challenge at all times.
Where do I get all the information and material to look over all the exercise possibilities?
There is an exhaustive variety of exercises recorded on DVD's. Different programs embracing endless exercise possibilities, offering a great range of exercises.
What is FUNCTIONAL DYNAMICSTM system?
Functional training has its origins in rehabilitation and it mainly involves weight-bearing activities targeted at core muscles of the abdomen and lower back. Functional training attempts to adapt or develop exercises that allow individuals to perform the activities of daily life more easily and without injuries.
What are the characteristics of functional training?
Everyday natural motion demands movement in all directions. Exercises that force us to make one-joint single-axis movements are simply less effective and less useful and can sometimes cause stress on involved joints. In contrast, the FREESTYLERTM allows exercising using natural body movements.
What are the benefits that functional training offers?
Functional training leads to better muscular balance and joint stability, possibly reducing the number of injuries sustained and improving an individual’s performance in a sport. These benefits may arise from the use of training that emphasizes the body’s natural ability to move in three anatomical planes of motion. In comparison, though machines can often be safer to use, they restrict movement to a single plane of motion, which is an unnatural form of movement for the body and may potentially lead to faulty movement patterns or injury.
Can you explain three dimensional natural and functional multi axis movements?
Everyday natural motion demands movement in all directions. Exercises that force us to make one-joint single-axis movements are simply less effective and less useful and can sometimes cause stress on involved joints. In contrast, the FREESTYLERTM allows exercising using natural body movements.
What is proprioceptive workout?
The basic principles of PNF (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation) may be summarized as the use of spiral and the use of spiral and diagonal movement patterns, recruitment of all movement components (e.g. flexion-extension), movement free of pain but not free of effort, comfortable full-range movement, application of maximal resistance throughout the range of non-ballistic movement, use of resistance to promote overflow (irradiation) of muscle activity, and use of multiple joint and muscle action.
What are the benefits of different type of muscular contraction?
Physical exercise science has come to an agreement that exercising in eccentric conditions is more effective than exercising in concentric conditions only. An advantageous characteristic of elastic resistance is the balance between these two ways of exercising. With this method the amount of training in eccentric conditions can continually increase toward the end of rehabilitation or during advanced training. A more effective eccentric component has been proven as a specific feature of controlled exercising on the FREESTYLERTM.
Do I work out the whole body in order to assure well balanced muscles?
All choreographies in the FREESTYLERTM exercise system are developed in a way which assures balanced muscle strength in the lateral (left right) plane, agonist – antagonist muscle balance, which is balance between working muscle and muscle on the opposite side of the joint, and also a balance between upper and lower parts of the body.
What is the importance of visualization techniques?
The great advantage of visualization is that by merely imagining the action, the same neuron firing occurs as if we had actually performed the act. It also gives an instructor a supreme methodological tool for enhancing the technique of those who attend one of three group workout classes.
Which target population is likely to use the FREESTYLERTM device?
Everybody can use the FREESTYLERTM, trained or untrained, men, women, seniors, children, those dealing with osteoporosis, pregnant women, dancers, sport trainers, physiotherapists etc.
What about the exercising possibilities? Can you choose the suitable resistance and exercises?
There is a great variety of exercises and different programs to suit every need of an individual. Appropriate selection of elastic tubings allows everybody to workout on the FREESTYLERTM, beginner or a great athlete.
What other health benefits you get with the FREESTYLERTM?
• General wellness health benefits,
• greater strength and functionality benefits,
• increased flexibility,
• psychological benefits and stress management,
• improved intermuscular and intramuscular coordination
• increased ability to respond • reduced risk of injury and falling
• improved posture and motion sequences
• training everyday functions and sport-specific motion sequences while making increased demands on muscles
• elimination of functional muscle contractures
• dynamic and goal-oriented strength training
• recovery of physiological toe and foot functions
• improving venous return flow.
