Upper Body Oars™   (UBOS™)  

      Video footage - Upper Body Oars Prototype

 With only the upper arms wrapped UBOS greatly reinforce arm bones and joints allowing the body core muscles to work much harder then what the arms could ever allow without this reinforcement.  By wrapping both the upper and forearms the arms are almost entirely bypassed allowing the core muscles to apply all the force they alone can muster.

However because the hands wrists and elbows are not being stressed there is almost no pain during the exercises, so it is extremely easy to overwork and injure core muscle systems so we cannot allow both wraps to be used, or allow high effort to be applied without a physical trainer certified in Body Oars present and instructing.

 

UBOS are only currently available for use in Columbus Ohio as only several people are qualified enough to train, and Columbus is where they are.  However we have one of California's greatest trainers getting ready.

 

Prototype shown

The production version has other features we cannot reveal yet

 

Below are just a few of the hundreds of massive core overloading exercises possable with UBOS

     

 Mid Chest and Back full range Power Press

 

   

Lower Chest and Upper Back full range Power Press

 

 

Slugger Press  - Hands lock on to opposing oar handles which stabilizes upper body motionless which drives motion resistance against waist rotation.

 

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Golfer Press (Hands still locked on opposing oar handles)

 

 

Triceps blasting arm curls - Here body is locked in isometric tension as only elbows are allowed to move.

Notice only forearms are wrapped to the UBOS.

 

 

Cardio arm Curls!  - This is advanced exercise because it requires paddles sized to allow both strong leg drive and arm curls to be difficult, simultaneously. If the paddles are too large the hips do not do powerful work as they wait for biceps to catch up. Too small of paddles and the hips do most of the work.  The correctly sized paddle and many muscles work very hard. This method also requires shoes that completely prevent feet from sliding on pool floor.

   

 

 

The Power Jack. Floatation on the back doing the old jumping jack motion with UBOS

results in massive side lat and shoulder muscle and strength. Below is the back this exercise built. (Craig in photo)

 

Body Oar test mules THE PADDLEMEN - Kris and Craig 

 

Kris (47) on the left was a Football star at Columbus's Westland High School 30 years ago. A year ago he was worn down pudgy and he looked old. Today he averages about 20 minutes a day using upper and lower body oars, which rapidly "recalled" much the muscle definition he had when he was 18.

 

Kris and Craig both use Upper and Lower Body Oars, but quite differently. Kris prefers to use both uppers and lowers at the same time in deep water without applying any full effort.

Free floating in a Life Jacket is so pleasant that he prefers to "meditate" a relaxing full range social  version (carry on a conversation) for about an hour 3 times a week. He calls his unofficial style 'Opposed Body In Motion"

 

Craig (55) was mobility disabled structural engineer (home builder) until he began designing exercise devices to bypass or reinforce his extremities. He never wanted to do exercise, and today he only averages only about 12 minutes a day, 11 of which are in Body Oars.

 

Craig never uses UBOS and LOBOS at the same time, instead he does high exertion versions that isolate large core muscle groups separately. Either way both guys are in by far the best condition of their lives and both have energy they almost can't believe. Craig's muscle were mostly built up using Body Oars, Kris' muscles were mostly restored by using Body Oars.

 

Kris is disciplined enough to only apply very gentle effort when loading uncommon rotator cuff angles. He says he has never pulled anything.

 

However Craig suffered through 6 of these "Pulls" during early development of UBOS prototypes. After he had a powerful viable UBOS design, he did not use them for 4 years. He only started using his UBOS prototypes again in May of 2010, after realizing that someone offering the greatest fitness devices on earth should at least look the part. This untouched photo showing Crag's back was taken on Sept 3td, 2010.

 

This other Photo came from Columbus Business First Magazine July 27, 2009, he had been continually using LOBOS, but not UBOS. Look at his upper body difference since starting using only the UBOS exercises shown above.        Link to that article  

 

Craig was not an athletic person looking for new exercise methods, he got into prototyping Body Oars after fighting advanced cancer with knees too weak to do the stout core mobility/cardio exercise, which people need to help survive chemotherapy. 

 

Only the exercises pictured on this page are even deemed safe at this time because they all only oppose large upper body muscles groups in direct alignment. UBOS can theoretically oppose about 360°X  200° of angles, equaling thousands of different upper body core loading exercises. Far more load angles then are possible with free weights.

 

The reason we do not want users even trying other UBOS motions, "free style", is most of these shoulder angles have never opposed by more then a few pounds of resistance before. Suddenly plowing 10-100s of pounds of drag against their contractions can cause "Muscle Pulls".

 

We do not want Body Oars to ever injure users. As of this time the only injuries ever from LOBOS came from mobility disabled people who agreed to not use them longer then 15 minutes and then four of these people went for an hour.  Later that that evening their cores turned black and blue and the pain was to much to bare.

 

All four readily admitted they went way over and all got back to using LOBOS once they could.

 

Sorry, we must be so restrictive about RAMBOS and UBOS for now but we did not design Body Oars to harm anyone, and we do not want this to happen again.      Questions - Contact Us