Getting To Know Our Equipment.

Isophit MSK, one of Restorative Fitness’s pride and joys when it comes to Isometric exercises.

Isophit MSK, one of Restorative Fitness’s pride and joys! Aside from one of the big three major sports teams in town, we are the only exercise providers to even have this machine. This small but mighty piece of equipment can deliver up to 600 pounds of resistance. Using patent pending force matching technology, fancy way of saying, you want to make it easy, push/pull as light as you can, want to make it a super tough and challenging exercise, give it all you got! It’ll handle it!! Where does the MSK fit in with Restorative Fitness’s programming? Answer, it can honestly be used in every aspect of a program, but when I lean on the MSK the most is getting a client from doing table work for MAT and transitioning them to strength training. In my opinion this is where this equipment shines! It is not an intimidating piece of machinery, feels solid, and it can change from one exercise to another with very little effort. From a nerdy science side of things, in exercise, there are three types of contractions a muscle can produce. Concentric(muscle shortening), eccentric(muscle lengthening), and isometric (muscle maintains a contraction in a steady state). When starting a client with little to no experience, we want exercise to be as predictable as possible/least amount of stress/injury possibility. The goal, especially in the beginning with a new client, is to not hurt them. Secondly, we want to help them get a better sense of their body, how a muscle should feel when it is contracting. Educating a client on what a muscle contraction should feel like so if anything doesn’t feel like it should, they then know when to communicate that to us so we can use that information to either stop the exercise, or allows us to cue a client to perform the exercise differently to elicit the outcome we are trying to achieve. So the MSK is a vital part of the onboarding process here at Restorative Fitness.