![]() ![]() The wall panels slide down as you climb up. What it looks like: It’s easy to picture the vertical treadmill - just think of a climbing wall with a treadbelt gliding around rollers located on the top and bottom. It’s basically a self-powered tread wall and you may have seen one at a large sporting goods store or in a health club. You’ve seen Spiderman do it in movies, but can you physically run up a shear wall? Yes, now you can using a $10,000 device known as a vertical treadmill. In this way, athletes and astronauts can train longer without fatiguing, as well as work more efficiently in rehab without fear of re-injuring the body part. As the user runs normally on the treadmill, the low-gravity chamber effectively cuts the body’s weight in half, thereby lessening the impact on the back, knees, and joints. The device offers a very comfortable environment and feels a lot like running in water – or bouncing in zero gravity on the moon or inside the space station. ![]() Once the system pumps air into the air-tight tent, the air pressure lifts up on the runner creating a zero gravity treadmill environment. The runner is zipped inside the chamber from the waist down, like a kayaker’s spray skirt while the upper body remains outside the bubble. The pressured treadmill is a large inflatable plastic bubble that encases the lower half of a runner’s body while the person stands on a treadmill located inside the bubble. It worked so effectively in fact that world class runners and Olympians began incorporating anti-gravity into their training using this innovative machine. ![]() But it’s also been tried and praised recently by professional athletes who needed high tech rehab after going down with sports injuries. Pressurized Treadmill (or Anti Gravity Treadmill)īuilt by Alter-G Inc., of Menlo Park, Calif., the G-Trainer was created to help astronauts maintain fitness while living and working in the near zero gravity of space. Along with this remarkable device, which was developed using NASA technology, take a look at the elite equipment of today including: the pressurized treadmill, the vertical treadmill, and even NASA’s futuristic horizontal treadmill. The zero gravity treadmill is becoming a common sight in nearly every rehab center of every professional sports team in North America. ![]()
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