Our history is our founder:

 Most folks would assume that an inventor of fitness and sports devices would be at least athletic, not this guy.  Ten years ago Craig Wise (now 55) was designing new houses for builders and buyers. He had never intended to designed any fitness equipment, he had never even regularly used any before.

He was born with knees that hinged about 10 degrees off of being straight. This prevented him from walking until 3 and he never ran as a child. He says he "waddled" his way into becoming an obese child. 

He thinned out by Junior High School and a friend made him practice a normal looking stride which became natural by high school but he still could not run. His chubbiness returned in his senior year and pushing 240 pounds. That was when his knees began to fall apart, requiring casts as if he had a broken leg.

By age 27 his knees had come apart about a half a dozen times. The last time, at t27, happened as he simply turned while just standing still. 

The doctors told him that because his knees were "so weak", he needed to wear knee braces to prevent them from continually coming apart. But instead of going for the fitting, he limped over to the towering football stadium at the Ohio State University and climbed all the way to the top. Then he did it again the next day, then every other day. 

After a few weeks he was reaching the top 2 or 3 times per visit and after about a month he began skipping over some steps. A few months later he was actually running all the way to the top skipping 2 steps at a time.  For the first time in his life at age 27, he discovered he could also actually run on flat land. To this day almost 30 years later and his knees have never again come apart, and he runs 4 times a month, but for only 100 yards.  

However constant knee pain, and a general dislike for any exercise back then reduced his trips to the OS "Shu" from every other day, to  getting his exercise about twice a month. 

His knees and heart were now both far stronger but at 35 his neck suddenly looked like a sack of potatoes. He had multiple strains of advanced (stage 3B) Hodgkin's Lymphoma, which is a cancer of the body's immune system.  He was told he could have already had it for ten years.

It was found throughout his body so they explained his only chance was taking 12 bimonthly doses of a chemotherapy so corrosive a 1/8 drop burns skin on contact.

The first dose made him feel so sick and weak he could barley move. About a week later he still felt sick but he made his way back and climbed the Shu again.  Afterward he felt well for the first time in over a month, and he stayed that way for the rest of the day. 

However the next morning he was again sick and weak all over again.  Several days later he again climbed the stadium trying to stay strong and again he felt great afterward for the rest of the day. After pondering this he felt that by making his heart work vigorously sort of overrode his sickness. He proved this to himself as he began climbing it every day.

Several days before his first doctor's appointment after chemo treatment started, he was in a church praying by himself about his condition, he said to God "If you cure this I will try to make the world better".

As soon as he said "Amen" he felt a head rush like he got up too fast, but he did not move.  He then reached up to grope his neck, which he had been constantly doing for over a month, and those big lumps were gone.

The doctors could not find another trace of his cancer, that was all through him just days before. The tumors were not just dead they could find any.

The only sign of the cancer left were all the scars from exploratory surgeries and procedures. They had even split him like a pig and removed part of his liver and his spleen which was entirely fibrous cancer.   

Being somewhat hard headed he decided he would not take the third treatment (of 12) even though the doctors said he should must complete the prescription.   It took his RN wife threatening to leave him that kept him showing up every other week.

But soon his knees were in constant throbbing pain from all the steps so he began to look to other methods to keep his body and heart strong. He tried all the cardio devices he could find and both wet and dry aerobics at the clubs  but they were either too weak on his body or they still blasted his knees, so he kept searching for what did not yet exist. 

About this same time he began selling homes for a large builder, and he out sold everyone else in his division so he earned his own custom home neighborhood in the hot selling  community in the upscale Columbus suburb of Dublin where the Memorial Golf Tournament is held annually.

He learned to efficiently customize new home plans you must do it without altering structural forces or the whole plan would need to be reengineered, adding many thousands to the cost to build.

 To do this he became an on the job apprentice of the structural engineers and then became very efficient at completely changing floor plans in the eyes of  buyers, but not in the eyes of the engineers.

One day as he was pondering leverage forces on his body and he realized that the problem with modern mobility/cardio exercises is that they all make primary levers at the knee (or elbow) joints not the hips where the body's biggest strongest muscles apply their force. 

He realized levering knees instead of hips is why people with disabled legs have no strong cardio exercises.  They could have no problems with their big body muscles and hearts, other then their legs could not be used to deeply exercise them.  The needed bionic legs, at least to get exercise.

 He envisioned a bionic device that could allow his hips to become full 2-way levers, and he did this by first stabilizing and bracing his knees and lower legs.  He sees bionic devices more like shoes or gloves for other parts of the body, not nuclear powered eyeballs.  From his time doing water aerobics he realized that water offers the perfect environment to load constant smooth resistance every direction the body can move. However the human body does not have the natural means to load much water, so it could not be used for big muscle building.

   Craig Wise   Summer 2008 

    First Level 16 Prototype

before he developed  

                                                                      RAMBOS power swim 

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                                                    Click for Craig in RAMBOS™

                                                      And in this basic Install Video                                                                

That is when he began building prototypes to load and lever water with the core, instead of the knees and elbows.  

After about 4 more years and 18 prototypes he finally had a fine working version of a very gentle low effort device that could be fitted to nearly any disabled person . 

He had attorneys do patent searches and they found not a single device that  fully resists just the hip's running motion either dry or wet, had never been seen before, so he filed utility patents for this, and then formed High Efficiency Fitness Company.

But getting these LOBOS to disabled people was quite a chore. He did not have a pool and had tested all his prototypes at a almost unknown indoor pool the city operates.

He had set up countless demonstrations only to have them canceled by the powers in control. After over a year of this several schools finally began using them on athletes, and they "Loved" them.  But this design was not enabling athletes to thrash their big drive muscles.  Realizing that he would not get mush help with a disabled fitness device, So designed a new version that isolates he core thrust power so he then had 2 versions, One that is greatly empowering for people who can do exercise, and another for those who need to push exercise to its limits.

In March of 2010, at 24 prototype levels, RAMBOS had become a fully viable, massively empowering prototype for almost anyone, because he gave it the ability to be used either gently or thrashed.