What is an anti-gravity treadmill?
An anti-gravity treadmill is similar to a standard treadmill that’s enclosed by a surrounding skirt. The Alter-G™, designed by NASA, allows air pressure to inflate the skirt into a bubble, making the treadmill resemble a bumper car on steroids. Air pressure inside the bubble skirt can be increased or decreased to counter the weight of the runner to varying degrees. The effect is like running in lower gravity, extremely beneficial for professional training, medical rehabilitation, and many other applications. The Alter-G anti-gravity treadmill does not limit mobility or cause discomfort. A user slips neoprene shorts over their clothing and then zips the shorts into the ring of the skirt, creating an airtight seal near the waist. Once inflated, the user maintains full ability to move, walk and run in a normal fashion within the bubble. A digital panel attached to an exterior frame serves as the control center. The anti-gravity treadmill can reduce body weight all the way down to just 20%
The best part about technology is that the user is free to wallk, jogging or running with a full range of movement in both the upper and lower body. And the design of the enclosure is such that the user feels very little strength to hold their weight. It will probably cost a fortune, but a device like this should find a home in many medical facilities and gymnasiums (I hope) in the near future. Of course, Anti-Gravity Treadmills has the potential to be a valuable tool for the wounded and elderly, but it would be an exceptional tool for those who are simply fat and shape up and moving. Alter-G appears to have been praising his G-Trainer “anti-gravity treadmill for some time now, but it seems that it is now a much closer to finding itself under your feet a day as has now been approved as a medical device by the FDA. In cases where it did not appear on your radar, the device itself makes use of a specialized air pressure regulatory system to reduce individuals effective body weight by alm
