Motivation and Health in Group Fitness with T-BOW®
- T-BOW TRAINING AND THERAPY
- Apr 13, 2022
- 6 min read
Updated: Aug 16
by Madelein Perk, Ivan Farré-Sánchez, Diana Serena, Varvara Solomonidou, Marcelo Lasso, Debbie Kneale, Angel Peruyera-Rubio, Adrienn Banhegyi, Hugo Pérez-Vivas and Melissa Renner
While one's own motivation to participate in a group fitness session is essential, providing health benefits and personal enjoyment, the instructor leading the session is also important, along with their personal and technical quality, the session design, and their experience and willingness to apply personalized resources, while acknowledging the obvious limitations this entails in a group session.
T-BOW® Resources for Differential Motivation and Health in Group Fitness
To optimize training with a high level of motivation and health among participants in a group fitness session, the T-BOW®
has two extraordinarily distinctive features:
a. its multifunctionality
b. its technical and scientific development
a) The multifunctionality of the T-BOW®
a.1. Useful on both sides, promoting unique training for static and dynamic balance (unstable concave position), supports, strength-toning and mobility of the trunk (stable convex position), conditional factors of strength and endurance, unilateral and balanced reinforcement for a healthy back, reactivity for stable joints and very fine postural adjustment in any situation (unstable and stable positions). Expanding the training alternatives with the double T-BOW® (concave-concave and convex-convex).
a.2. The T-Bands, designed specifically for the T-BOW®, can be conveniently and effectively attached to any of the six side holes, extending their useful life. This allows for a wide range of postural, toning, resistance, and coordination-balance training. Color-coded single and double bands make quick changes easy.
a.3. Combinable for effective training with other fixed and mobile materials (dumbbells, bars, discs, kettlebells, medicine balls, elastic bands, balls, pikes, ropes, TMR Russian belt and fitness machines).
a.4. Highly precise and rapid adjustments to all postures and movements (thanks to the T-BOW®'s high elasticity, single axis of imbalance, and reduced weight), both in stable and unstable positions, allow for exercise challenges ranging from very simple to very complex, accessible to all types of individuals, even those with greater motor and postural difficulties. Obviously, if the practice takes place on the hard, reactive floors typical of group fitness rooms, it is possible to selectively combine group training on other outdoor surfaces with different levels of reactivity and applicability.
Fine Postural Adjustment
The T-BOW®'s design, reactivity, lightweight, and single axis of instability promote rapid and precise postural adjustments, optimizing:
* Quick postural adjustment and transitions.
- On concavity, convexity and narrow edges / in stable and unstable situations.
- Barefoot and with sport shoes; and with socks on the wooden version.
* Deep joint stabilization & high responsiveness.
* Balance challenges for a wide range of users.
* Balance and coordination applicable to all kinds of daily and sport activities.
a.5. Effective support with sport shoes, bare feet, and socks (wood T-BOW® version) allows for a significant enhancement of the foot's kinesthetic-tactile sensitivity.
a.6. An extraordinary variety of reactive and cushioned supports, both on the convex surface in stable positions (single T-BOW®) and unstable positions (double T-BOW®), and on the concave surface in unstable positions (single and double T-BOW®); highlighting the support situations on the lateral edges of the T-BOW® (unstable position), which enhances bilateral control of foot support, optimizing segmental independence and functional integration of all the muscles along the longitudinal axis of the leg.
Therapeutic Benefits of T-BOW® Lateral Swinging
With rapid and precise movement adjustments!!
Placing the feet on the narrow edges of the T-BOW® requires bilateral ankle control, promoting leg verticality and excellent segmental independence.
Active knee movement outward enhances the valuable training of the functional screw connection of the entire leg's longitudinal axis, in spiral dynamics, which is extremely beneficial by providing deep and fine stabilization of the foot, knee and hip joints, basis for a strong spinal foundation.
a.7. Highly differentiated options for trunk mobility and muscle toning, thanks to the curvature of the T-BOW®, which allows for highly sensitive anatomical support of the spine and a greater range of trunk motion (compared to a flat surface), with the ability to support the hip at different heights of the arch and segmentally move the trunk and hip, both in prone, supine, and lateral positions.
T-BOW® Arch Adapted to Natural Lordosis of the Lumbar Spine in Healthy Adults
a. Lying backwards on the T-BOW® prevents the spine from sinking and partially blocked vertebrae receive sensitive mobilizing pressure to promote the natural lumbar lordosis.
b. The T-BOW® allows for strengthening the abdominals through a greater range of motion than a flat surface while maintaining a stable natural lumbar lordosis.
c. Therapeutic segmental strengthening by lifting individual vertebral in sections while lying prone, sideways or supine.
d. Facilitator for increasing healthy levels of spinal mobility.
a.8. Possibility of training in small spaces, allowing for multiple arrangements among participants in group fitness sessions.
T-BOW® Workout Fit
T-BOW® Body Tone with T-Band
T-BOW® Balance Pump with Dumbbells
T-BOW® Power Fit
T-BOW® Postural
T-BOW® Circuit Training
T-BOW® Fit Boxing and Fit MMA
T-BOW® Yoga and Pilates
T-BOW® Recovery-Restorative
a.9. The exceptional multifunctionality of the T-BOW® allows for the design of group fitness sessions for all ages and motor levels, with countless fitness, wellness, physiotherapy, sports, motor education, and recreational applications.
a.10. The T-BOW® is extremely practical and easy to use, robust and resistant to high loads without losing functionality. It can also be stacked hygienically and stably, saving space, and can be moved stacked on a trolley—key factors in fitness studios.
b) The technical and scientific development of the T-BOW®
b.1. Exceptional quality of the group fitness training programs created by Sandra Bonacina, professor of physiotherapy and fitness at the University of Zurich. These programs, proven since 2006, are focused on fitness and holistic health, prioritizing postural education, joint stability, specific back and neck care, injury prevention, and holistic well-being.
b.2. A unique group session in the fitness and health field proposed by Sandra Bonacina, set to music, structured in a fun way, with the main idea of doing it without choreography or with very simple choreographies so that all types of people can participate. This way, both female and male audiences are integrated, as well as individuals of different ages and fitness levels. This session philosophy has been consolidated at the ASVZ Academic Sports Association Zurich (Switzerland) with different orientations.
Group Fitness with T-BOW®:
T-BOW® Workout Fit
T-BOW® Toning with T-Bands
T-BOW® Balance Pump with Dumbbells
T-BOW® Postural
T-BOW® Yoga
T-BOW® Back-Neck
T-BOW® Pilates
T-BOW® HIIT
T-BOW® Athletic-Training
T-BOW® Design your Lesson
b.3. A team of more than 50 Swiss teachers, collaborating with a team of more than 30 international professionals, all with experience in all types of fitness training and group sessions using the T-BOW®.
b.4. A team of technical and scientific advisors, specialists in the fields of health and fitness, clinical and sports biomechanics, sports training, and motor education, who develop all types of experiences and research to optimize the use of the T-BOW®; with selective collaborations with the best international experts in motor performance optimization from Sport Training Barcelona (www.sporttraining.org).
b.5. Specific injury prevention and motor rehabilitation resources with the T-BOW® developed by Gonzalo Cámara, sports and clinical physiotherapist, who collaborates with Sandra Bonacina in the creation of physiotherapy courses and research using the T-BOW®.
b.6. An extraordinary passion and motivation to offer a personalized and holistic service to anyone facing a health and/or motor performance challenge. The experience of highly specialized professionals in the fields of motor education, sports training, motor physiotherapy, yoga, movement biomechanics, exercise physiology, sports medicine, and psychology form a structure of exceptional quality where innovation and creativity have become key elements in achieving constant optimization of training with the T-BOW® in the fields of health, wellness, training, physiotherapy, yoga, sports, Pilates, group fitness, fit training, CrossFit and sports, motor education, and recreation, both in gyms, outdoors, and at home.
Sandra Bonacina, inventor of T-BOW®:
"With the T-BOW®, we have a wonderful tool for getting people moving. Movement means being alive and healthy. We feel fortunate to be able to promote health and reduce stress with high-quality programs that train all aspects of physical fitness and deep joint stability. This means that many people experience fewer back and neck problems using the T-BOW®. "It's fantastic that we can use it for all ages and groups. I'm convinced that the T-BOW® will become a worldwide benchmark for its high quality, proven over the years."
ASVZ Academic Sports Association Zurich
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