We developed the SoloStrength FUSE and the bodyweight exercises for simple and fast exercise that is suitable and works great for every type of person.
From professional athletes, to beginners and home bodies seeking safe weight loss, the SoloStrength Lifestyle Program results in energy, strength, all over body toning, and flexibility with safe, easy to learn and use, lowest level impact possible. For those that are short on time, freedom to leave the house to attend classes or gyms, or those that would rather just have maximum fitness benefits in the least time – so you can get out and enjoy all the other fun activities in life with your friends and family, the SoloStrength bodyweight exercise and stretching system is for you. Developed by professionals with families, we understand your needs, what works, and how great it is to feel fit, and see your entire family enjoy the SoloStrength home gym all in one fitness solution. No matter what your fitness level, use it today, use it for life. Live strong with SoloStrength. Triumph over the challenges of modern living and keeping fit. We know you will be satisfied, and guarantee it with a free trial for 30 days. For more information visit our website for shipping locations and availability.
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By Paul Rogers, About.com
Updated: October 31, 2008
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Pull-up in progress
Photo (c) Paul Rogers and Cooloola FitnessUsing the weight of your own body to create resistance was one of the earliest forms of strength training. It's easy to learn, effective, and you can do it just about anywhere.
Although you can get quite inventive, the following exercises are the primary bodyweight exercises and how to do them. It's a somewhat fine distinction, but the core resistance bodyweight exercises are not the same as calisthenics, stretching, plyometrics or most yoga exercises (in my opinion anyway), although they may include elements of all these disciplines.
The exercises form the core of any bodyweight workout program. Many others are variations and trivial modifications.
Variations include resting knees on the floor, using a wide or narrow hand position and using one arm to perform the push-up motion (for the tough guys and girls).
Options include a variety of arm positions -- at the sides, straight out in front, raised at each side, crossed at the chest or straight up overhead. Try them all, as each arm position provides a slightly different emphasis and perhaps level of difficulty. For example, the arms raised at the sides provides better balance and stability than arms crossed at the chest.
Other more advanced options include the backward lunge and the 45-degree angle side lunge.
Do as many as you can in a minute, then see if you have anything left for another set.
Pull-ups are demonstrated in this article6. It's a difficult exercise for many people, especially women. While pull-ups or chin-ups are a good example of a bodyweight exercise, you may not have a pull-up bar at home or anywhere convenient. Most gyms have a pull-up bar, and you can improvise at home or away with a beam or bar meant for other things. Make sure it's solid and secure.
These six bodyweight exercises are all you need to build good strength and muscle in a fitness program. Don't forget that you can use most of them at just about any time and any place.
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We recently had an installation at the beautiful Langley Rec Centre, which otherwise was primarily Technogym equipment otherwise. We love Technogym equipment, and think our products well compliment each other. We hope to work with them one day to help us reach our international market that is very challenging as a smaller company right now! This isn't the first time we have come across Technogym equipment in facilities where we have installed our SoloStrength FUSE bodyweight circuit training and fitness exercise system. Trainers LOVE it, they can do most of the work they want to do with clients on our system alone, and keeps their activity client centered rather than running around between stations. We get fantastic feedback by trainers and home users alike, and we appreciate it all! Thankyou! Below is a photo of one of the trainers getting familiar with their new piece, she was SO excited. Now I love SoloStrength, because I know what can be done with it, and how a person feels using it, but to see others as excited as I am (and even more sometimes!), is really wonderful and encouraging. Thank you for your orders, support, keep the use ideas rolling in and all feedback is appreciated! We have made some small modifications on our Gen.2 version which we are taking orders on now! Put the best all in one bodyweight exercise and bodyweight fitness system on your list today! visit us at www.solostrength.com to put in your order or call 604.818.6225 with any questions!
| Here at elements living, we love taking our work home with us…mostly because our work is creating a healthy, fit lifestyle! And if you’re like us, then you’re definitely taking your fitness outside of the gym, too. (No, we’re not talking about those sweaty yoga mats!) But how many times have you tripped over that rowing machine on your way to the bathroom? Do you even remember how to work the contraption you bought on QVC last month? Toss it. For a home fitness machine that’s easy on the eyes and easily fits into your home or studio (not to mention also packs a fitness wallop), SoloStrength’s FUSE is the way to go. Designed by award-winning industrial designer Paul Conder and consisting of a platform, support bar, and “Solo Comfort Grip Bar”, the FUSE breaks your fitness routine down to an almost Zen simplicity: by adjusting the grip bar and changing your exercise position, you can create a variety of movements that work almost every single muscle group. Programs only take about 20 minutes and are suitable for novice to expert levels. In fact, the whole family can use the FUSE for an all-in-one system to strengthen and tone muscles. As the company motto states: “One Life, One Body, One Bar. It’s all you need.” Does it get any simpler than that? Find out more at www.SoloStrength.com | |
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REALIZING YOUR OWN STRENGTH HAS NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD!
SoloStrength Lifestyle Products Corp. has combined the two most effective exercise methods: Bodyweight and Circuit Training, for maximum fitness results in a sleek and easy to use support system called the FUSE. Simplicity and versatility are the features that set us apart, and the design is inspiring both in aesthetic and functionality. Our all-in-one system provides commercial grade strength, in a small footprint ideal for any environment: Home, studio, or office. Our programs are beginner and family friendly, as much as they can be used for elite strength training and rehabilitation. Unique to our system is the ease which the supported movements adjust to the challenges of those with balance, blood pressure, or obesity. We offer top of the industry customer satisfaction options and stand behind our product 100%. Learn how our system alone, or with standard bodyweight training accessories (balls, band’s, bosu) is the most complete all-in-one system for your home or facility. Visit us online for video introductions www.solostrength.com.
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 Working out Solo Home fitness equipment key to success for some
Thursday, January 17, 2008 If this is the year you resolved to get fit, you still have 50 weeks left. It’s not too late to make a move — even if you haven’t yet started. Every day is a new day; start small and find a way. My goal is to find ways for everyone to get fit, regardless of their likelihood of getting to a gym. Home machines can make it easy for you to stay in your house; they can also make working out convenient, comprehensive and cost-effective. What Is It? It is the SoloStrength fitness system, a system that includes the Fuse — a gateway to a stronger, leaner, fitter body. Looking like a modern sculpture, the SoloStrength Fuse is basically a floating bar and a frame on a workout platform. Depending on your fitness level, you can lock the bar into position at different heights to assist you or resist you during pushups, pullups, squats, lunges and core/abdominal exercises galore. By aligning the bar appropriate to your body weight and body position, exercises can be incredibly easy or incredibly difficult. The advantage of such a system is that regardless where you start, the SoloStrength has the capacity to support and sustain each fitness improvement you make. It comes complete with fitness programs designed for the beginner, intermediate and advanced fitness acolyte. Once you are on a roll, the SoloStrength offers more than 50 advanced movements that can be completed with Solo on its own or using various common accessories such as balls, bands and light weights. When not in use, it folds up to be about 1.2 square metres. Who Would This Appeal To? If time is of the essence for your workouts or if you hate the idea of sharing sweat time with people you hardly know at gyms, you may like the SoloStrength. Small fitness centres, schools, community centres and personal trainers will find this unit appealing because it doesn’t take up much space and can do a lot. Who Would Hate It? If your fitness program and happiness lie in big bench presses, squats and dead-lifts, you’ll hate this. The Klutz Factor As long as you are capable of listening to your body and reading instructions, it will be difficult to get injured on the SoloStrength. While great for people with extensive fitness backgrounds, it also comes with an easy-to-follow, detailed instructional manual and online support for those less versed in exercise protocols. One of the SoloStrength team’s goals was to create a product usable by people with no previous knowledge of fitness. They succeeded. When I tried it, I began with 15 minutes of skipping to get into a groove. Then I did 20 repetitions of everything: an easy set of chest, a set of back, a set of legs and a set of abdominal exercises. The second time, I stepped up the degree of difficulty and backed the repetition number to 15 and did the same full body order. Set three consisted of an advanced exercise for each previously mentioned body part for 10 repetitions. Just like that, the entire workout sans the skipping was a rare 22 minutes of non-stop “exertainment” (the rare combination of exercise and entertainment). When it was over, I was breathing hard, my muscles were spent and I was sweating like a tax cheat at an audit. What Do You Need and Where Do You Find It? You need space to accommodate the size of the machine and the host of videos and manuals that are available to you as a customer at solostrength.com. The SoloStrength system is sold directly online and shipped to your door via the same website. What are the Costs? The SoloStrength lifestyle system costs $1,499; payment plans are available. It sounds expensive, but if you really use it (for exercise — not hanging laundry) for five years, it would be like having a gym in your house for which you paid a membership fee of $25 per month. Bottom Line? I’d use it. Pete Estabrooks B.PE / The Fitness Guy is a personal trainer and writer plying his trade at Probodies Health and Fitness in Calgary and virtually everywhere in the world from petesclass.com © The Calgary Herald 2008 | |||
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Bodyweight training and stretching support all on its own or add versatility with common fitness accessories such as balls, bands and bosu balls. Visit us at www.solostrength.com for more information!
July 20, 2007 at 12:59 am edit
I wish I had more time to commit myself to fitness more regularly. In today’s world we are all so incredibly busy with the hussle and bustle of life, It seems that keeping fit is almost a privelage.
SoloStrength however has made everyday fitness more attainable due to the fact that it takes such a short time. It doesn’t require changing endless cables, weights and moving stations entirely to work on a different muscle group. It stays in one place and you stay in one place, period. It’s quick, easy and user friendly which intreages even the not so ‘keen” on fitness individual. Every time you have a workout on it…..a very quick workout I must add, you will ask yourself why you don’t do this more often….I know I do every time!
July 20, 2007 at 2:18 am edit
Is SoloStrength the best home fitness system around? Maybe…if you like a workout that is convenient and works your whole body in a short period of time. Maybe…if you think a piece of exercise equipment should look great wherever you put it and do more than just hold your wet laundry. Maybe…if you are smart enough to realize that real exercises like chin-ups, push-ups and squats work better than most exercises out there. However, if you would prefer to spend 2 hours at the gym, doing 4 different kinds of biceps curls with one foot on a wobbly board and the other on a BOZO ball, then this is not the product for you.
July 20, 2007 at 4:00 am edit
SoloStrength has become a great addition to my clients workouts. Simple things can be deceiving but extremely effective. That’s what SoloStrength is all about. Thanks Micheal for a wonderful product!
July 20, 2007 at 5:25 am edit
The SoloStrength FUSE is truly a gym quality home fitness product. At our gym it is constantly being used by clients and trainers. I’m actually a little frustrated because I’d like to use it more but it’s always being used
July 21, 2007 at 6:01 am edit
I can’t say if the SoloStrength is the best home fitness system but I can say it holds it’s own in a fully equiped gym. The trainers and clients can’t get enough of the FUSE. It looks great. It’s smooth functioning allows for quick and easy transitions from one exercise to the next. I haven’t seen another piece of home equipment that has all the features and clean lines the SoloStrength FUSE has. In fact I’m quite frustrated because I haven’t been able to use it as much as I’d like to because it is always occupied
July 25, 2007 at 10:08 pm edit
Being a fit person, I remember the first time I jumped on the Solo thinking to myself how intense of a workout can I get from this? Once I was half way through the 15min routine that was given to me, sweat was dripping down my forehead and I couldn’t believe how great of a whole body workout I got. I really like the sleak sexy look of the Solo and the fact that you can easily tailor the Solo workout for people of any age or lifestyle.
July 26, 2007 at 6:27 am edit
Solostrength is a exciting new fitness device that allows me to gain flexiblity while targeting specific “problem areas”. It was fun to use and easy to learn the different exercises.
September 25, 2007 at 2:59 am edit
September 27,2007
I could not believe the incredible feeling that I had after a guided work out with SOLO. I used all my muscles and felt them firming. My body craved for more. I can hardly wait to get my own SOLO in my home so I can exercise every day on it. The convenience of a home based system like this is exciting and valuable to those of us who have limited extra hours in a day. As a senior I can see the value of steady daily firming exercises and steady progressive movments that I can stage based on my own tolerance and using my own weight resistance. Thank you Michael please get this product here soon.
February 26, 2008 at 8:17 pm edit
The first time I saw the SoloStrength FUSE I really liked it. The first time I used it, I fell in love with it.
Unless you’ve been asleep for the last few years, you know that bodyweight training is growing in popularity every day. One of the benefits of bodyweight training is that in most cases all you need is, well, your body. However, try doing a chin-up without a bar. And what about people who can’t do push-ups from a horizontal position or others who need support when performing squats. This is where the SoloStrength FUSE comes in. It allows everyone to enjoy the benefits of bodyweight training. As as a fitness professional, I have personally used the SoloStrength FUSE with clients in their 70s with some physical limitations as well as with clients in their 20s preparing for athletic events. It’s versatility is not always evident at first glance but, once you use it, you see the possibilities for it’s use are endless.
To compare the SoloStrength FUSE to a standard chin-up bar is like comparing a Ferrari to a little red wagon. Sure, the Ferrari and the wagon are both red with four wheels, but that doesn’t mean they’re the same. And yes you can do chin-ups on the SoloStrength FUSE or a standard chin-up bar, but the fact you can do endless variations of hundreds of exercises on the FUSE makes it obvious it’s not just a chin-up bar.
Dan
Titanium Fitness
July 22, 2008 at 4:25 pm edit
For user feedback and reviews on SoloStrength FUSE system, please visit:http://www.solostrength.com/ReadReviews.asp?intProductID=1&strPartNumber=Solo-LS3000S&strProductName=SoloStrength+Lifestyle+Package+LS3000S