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FLEXability

Why?
Stretching your muscles is good preparation for all types of sports and fitness; it helps prevent injury for people who exercise intensely, or, on the flipside, for people whose muscles are stiff. By fitting out the stretching area in your club with equipment featuring cutting-edge technology, you’ll open new horizons for your business, relaunching an activity that has the potential for a very broad user spectrum.

The FLEXability™ Line is Anterior and Posterior, two pieces of equipment that together stretch all the body’s main muscle groups, designed to achieve maximum performance for minimum effort in every exercise.

Users can adjust FLEXability™ entirely on their own; it’s designed for total comfort, revolutionizing the stretching experience and transforming it into a pleasant new form of exercise.

Who’s it for?
Athletes who want to prevent strains and other injury and reduce the muscle tension caused by intense, targeted workouts.

For mature exercisers, who want to maintain and, where possible, improve the elasticity and flexibility of their joints and the efficiency of their muscles.

For people who want to relax with a pleasant exercise that’s non-invasive but still produces results for your physical condition.

For newcomers to physical activity, in order to increase their ability to move and help get themselves into a more active lifestyle: the more movement they’re able to do, the easier it will be to tackle all the other options available in your club.

Stretching your muscles doesn’t require specific training, and that’s even more true with FLEXability™: thanks to its Method (dynamic, innovative, and patented), the line makes it possible to gradually adjust the stretching range based on your weight, preventing any risk under any condition and for any user.

And for people who want that extra incentive?
FLEXability™ is designed for that too: thanks to an assessment and feedback system on reachable results, the equipment measures the progress of your flexibility, motivating all types of users to improve their mobility and muscle extension day after day.

Choose flexibility: with FLEXability™, traditional stretching takes on a new face, becoming a high-performance activity that’s engaging for every user segment.

Healthy Fat Loss

It is possible to achieve healthy fat loss if you follow your fat loss regime thoroughly taking all precautions. The main things that go wrong in a fat loss workout are that people sometimes stop taking enough food or even sometimes completely stop eating. But this doesn’t help; rather it damages your body.

The biggest misconception about healthy weight loss needs to be clear. It never means limiting food intake. If you do that then your body starts feeding on stored fat from muscle of your body which degrades health. Beside fat food and drink offers many important vitamins and nutrients which are necessary to run our body.

To achieve healthy fat loss you should find out a healthy weight loss regime giving primary importance to exercise and diet plan.

Exercise

Planning an exercise is one of the most important steps involved in achieving healthy fat loss. Thighs, buttocks are some of the key areas you need to focus on. Following a proper exercise and regularity in the exercise are the key to healthy weight loss. Cardiology activity is a great way to burn body fat. It also keeps your heart healthy. Overall mind-body exercises are always good to follow.

Diet Plan

Exercise alone can’t give you your desire body; you also need a good diet plan to achieve healthy weight loss. Fresh fruits and vegetables are most important than any other food for a person under fat lose regime. It is even better if you can keep on eating fruits in the morning to work off the sugar of your body throughout the day.

Many people don’t drink enough water. Drinking water is another important aspect of healthy weight loss regime. It is recommended to have six to eight glass of water per day. Leafy vegetables are a source of water. In case you don’t stick to the recommended water intake, leafy vegetables can provide you water.

Living robots powered by muscle

The robot is a dramatic example of the marriage of biotechnology with nanotechnology

Tiny robots powered by living muscle have been created by scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The devices were formed by “growing” rat cells on microscopic silicon chips, the researchers report in the journal Nature Materials.

Less than a millimetre long, the miniscule robots can move themselves without any external source of power.

The work is a dramatic example of the marriage of biotechnology with the tiny world of nanotechnology.

In nanotechnology, researchers often turn to the natural world for inspiration.

But Professor Carlo Montemagno, of the University of California, Los Angeles, turns to nature not for ideas, but for actual starting materials.

In the past he has made rotary nano-motors out of genetically engineered proteins. Now he has grown muscle tissue onto tiny robotic skeletons.

Living device

Montemano’s team used rat heart cells to create a tiny device that moves on its own when the cells contract. A second device looks like a minute pair of frog legs.

“The bones that we’re using are either a plastic or they’re silicon based,” he said. “So we make these really fine structures that mechanically have hinges that allow them to move and bend.

“And then by nano-scale manipulation of the surface chemistry, the muscle cells get the cues to say, ‘Oh! I want to attach at this point and not to attach at another point’. And so the cells assemble, then they undergo a change, so that they actually form a muscle.

“Now you have a device that has a skeleton and muscles on it to allow it to move.”

Under a microscope, you can see the tiny, two-footed “bio-bots” crawl around.

Professor Montemagno says muscles like these could be used in a host of microscopic devices – even to drive miniature electrical generators to power computer chips.

But when biological cells become attached to silicon – are they alive?

“They’re absolutely alive,” Professor Montemagno told BBC News. “I mean the cells actually grow, multiply and assemble – they form the structure themselves. So the device is alive.”

The notion is likely to disturb many who already have concerns about nanotechnology.

But for Carlo Montemagno, a professor of engineering, it makes sense to match the solutions that nature has already found through billions of years of evolution to the newest challenges in technology.