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SpineGym
in numbers
Four minutes
Timo Heino recommends
a four-minute workout in
the morning, which will
straighten your posture
more effectively than an
hour at the gym
SpineGym lets you perform efficient exercise
routines in your living room, strengthening
your back and improving your core muscles
Did you know that 95% of all lower back pain
can be prevented with the correct exercise for
the abdominal and back muscles?
While that may seem like a simple solution to
a common problem, in reality it’s not that easy.
Routines such as yoga or planking require a lot
of floor space and time: two things we often
have little of to spare.
It was this problem that led Fredrik Serlachius
and Timo Heino to develop SpineGym, a
vertical workout tool that improves posture and
strengthens your core muscles. Internationally
patented, SpineGym trains your muscles from
a standing position – the most efficient way to
improve them, according to physiotherapists.
“People do a lot of planking or similar kinds of
floor exercises, but if you train your core-muscles
to react in those positions, then once you are
standing up and lift something, you might hurt
your back as the core-muscles don’t react quickly
enough,” explains head developer Timo Heino. “If
you train them standing up, the reaction time of
the core muscles is much quicker.”
SpineGym comes highly recommended by
physiotherapists, and not just because of its
effectiveness. “Physiotherapists were finding
that many people in the past were too lazy to
follow their rehabilitation programmes,” says
Timo. “But with SpineGym this is not the case, as
it’s so easy to set it up and get going.”
Many people use SpineGym during their
break at work, or while they watch TV at home.
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