The VIPR is one of the latest pieces of gym kit hitting the health and fitness industry. I've been playing around with this device for a few months now and finally this week I was lucky enough to be thrown on a VIPR master trainer course.
The VIPR really bridges the gap between cardio and resistance training, just a few movements and your heart rate shoots sky high, every muscle in your body is firing and you're covered in sweat! Think body pump and spice it up with two more planes of motion and some extra footwork!
The movements are so dynamic and multi directional it reminded me of the days growing up on a farm stacking bags of potatoes, and thats in fact exactly where founder Michol Dalcourt got the concept from... Generally the farming community in Michol's native Canada produced the top percentage of ice hockey performers due to the fact their daily tasks meant they already new how to integrate their whole body as one system, they were much stronger and more stable than the hockey players that came through traditional strength training methods (which is generally loading the body in one plane of motion and often isolated movements.
VIPR movements replicate functional tasks such as shovelling, hay bail lifting, cylinder lift, flipping, tilting, ice skaters, lunges and squats... You're basically recruiting muscle fibres throughout the entire body from the moment you pick one up!
After the training you will feel muscles in places you never knew existed, improved mobility through the foot/ankle, hip and thoracic spine....
Enjoy you workout ;-)
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