International Space Station / NASA Uses Rotary Inertia of a Flywheel to Generate Resistance For Exercise In Zero Gravity

Much to the delight of Heart Rate Inc., manufacturers of the VersaPulley & VersaRower, which uses ‘rotating flywheel resistance technology’ is presently being used on board the International Space Station as part of NASA’s fitness training and maintenance program.

Costa Mesa, CA (PRWEB) November 7, 2009

Inventor and owner’s Richard and Dan Charnitski of Heart Rate Inc. (VersaClimber), Costa Mesa, CA demonstrated the advantage of a Flywheel Exercise Device to NASA in 1996 at the Johnson’s Space Center in Houston, Texas. The goal was to introduce their new “gravity free” resistance exercise technology to NASA to help maintain fitness and counteract muscle degradation, bone loss, and impairment of muscle function of Astronauts while in a weightless environment.

The device was based on the principle of rotary inertia, where resistance is generated by accelerating the rotation of a flywheel during a concentric muscle contraction. Then resistance is generated while decelerating the flywheel rotation during the eccentric muscle contraction. This provides 100 percent compliant dynamic resistance during the entire exercise movement making it more efficient than conventional exercise devices. Work hard and it resists hard, work easy and it resists easy.

Much to the delight of Heart Rate Inc., ‘rotating flywheel resistance technology’ is presently being used on board the International Space Station as part of NASA’s fitness training and maintenance program.
When asked about NASA using the technology this is what inventor Dick Charnitski had to say:

“We are very excited to learn that the same spinning flywheel inertial resistance technology we introduced to NASA some 13 years ago is now part of the International Space Station fitness program. It confirms what I knew all along that this type of rotary inertial resistance that worked so well on earth also had an application in Space.”

Rotating Flywheel Generated Resistance
Flywheel Resistance is based on Newton’s Second Law of Physics, applied to rotary inertia, where Force equals Mass times Velocity Squared or F=MV2 The resistance mechanism functions on the basic principle of Rotary Inertia where all the concentric contraction energy to initiate flywheel movement is stored, then released throughout the eccentric contraction, providing a fully compliant user defined speed, force and range of motion.

The VersaPulley designed and developed by Heart Rate Inc. incorporates rotating flywheel resistance technology’ used by sports trainers, professional athletes, coaches, military and clubs world wide. It offers an unlimited variety of functional training movements at user selected speed, force and range of motion. The VersaRower is a unique rowing exercise in that resistance developed to rotate the flywheel during the pull stroke has to be resisted to decelerate the flywheel during the second half of the rowing cycle thereby loading muscles during the entire exercise movement.

Spinning Fly Wheel Training Benefits
A single pull automatically generates resistance between 4 and 600 pounds, at any user defined speed, force and range of motion, with no machine adjustments which makes it superior to weight stacks, plates, hydraulic, air, elastic bands or electrical devices. The resistance generated from the spinning flywheel produces 100 percent compliant resistance, providing fast acceleration & deceleration training, while keeping the muscles maximally loaded during the eccentric and concentric phases.

Heart Rate Inc. manufactures the VersaClimber along with their Patented VersaPulley and VersaRower which uses rotary inertial resistance technology and a Heart Rate Monitor using NASA Patented Sensor technology.

For more information please Visit http://www.versaclimber.com/VP_sport.htm or call Heart Rate Inc. at 714-850-9716

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