Vertical LOBOS™ in Life Jacket

Swinging Horizontal core mobility Effort

 forward and reverse directions outer extremities not loaded

Resistance Fully Opposing Hip Running Motion

Forces travel against Body Oars™ not up and down leg bones as with dry cardio exercise methods

• High effort is not required to still load massive resistance against core muscle contractions

• World's only high powered, core or cardio workout that does not require the ability to walk, swim stand or even sit to still allow massive core exertion/cardio exercise.

• Almost no joint and spinal compression because forces are against the LOBOS instead of driven up and down leg bones

• Hips are fully levered, knees are braced and protected

• Body Weight is not compressing joints and spine.

• Greatest mechanical stress happens at the hips, however without forces weight and gravity compressing hip stress is very light.

• Without compression no skeletal wear

• Massive core muscle builder with gentle effort

• Weight looser for the overweight

• All motion resisted like running forward and reverse at same time

• Painless during use

• Done in Life Jacket so user need not know how to swim

• Extreme core muscle exertion

• Can fully load  opposing core mobility muscles

• Cardio strengthener  

• Session time 15-20 minutes  

• LOBOS require very small pool areas, so small will work in many hot tubs. In a lap pool could have 5-10 users per lane, instead of one swimmer.

• Almost impossible to cause injury (beyond muscle cell failure which heals muscles stronger) if used properly.

• Always check with doctors first. focus on heart and abdominal strength issues. Be sure to discuss abdominal hernias, either existing or previously repaired as well as any past abdominal surgeries (or any others) that may have left core muscles too structurally weak for full loading.

• An 8 lane pool only serves 8 swimmers well at one time. Body Oars could allow 80 people to do  full body  muscle cardio workout in that pool in 15 minutes.

Swimming

Outer and inner extremities swinging fighting most resistance with knee and elbow stress but very light compression as joints are not also loading body weight

Resistance mostly opposing elbow and knee hinging

Resistance moves against extremities +++++

• Meant to travel through water with least resistance.

• Still stressful to extremity joints and rotator cuff but with out deep compression.

• very little core motion exertion or range

• Knees and elbows still primary lever, working hardest.

• Greatest Mechanical stress happens at the rotator cuff.

• Far less joint and disk wear then dry cardio exercises

• Weight looser if done long enough with enough exertion

• Half of upper body motion not resisted (arms move forward in the air)

• Must be a swimmer to swim (know how have no fear)

• Most people do not swim.

• Much better cardio exercise than any with body weight also supported by legs.

• Session time 15-60 minutes

• Requires large pool area to swim laps.

Swimming has long been considered "the best exercise" and that is because it has much less compression then old school dry cardio exercise methods. However for average to weakened people swimming offers almost no core muscle exertion or  core contraction opposition so it will not and cannot great strengthen the body core. Olympic caliber swimmers are able to get core involvement but nothing near what is possible using Body Oars. 

 The biggest problem for muscle strengthening from swimming, beyond not fully opposing any large muscle groups is when having 2 joints on each extremity moving, much resistance force escapes back to the water before opposing contractions.

To explain that imagine your are rowing a boat with oars that bend around the center of the shaft. They will not allow great exertion because the oars bend instead to yield to the resistance.  Not only will you not be able to apply full exertion the paddles will not be able to deliver full force.