THE OLYMPIC EFFECT
Technogym’s Science & Research Behind the Training of Olympic Athletes
For over two decades, Technogym has provided Olympic champions with cutting-edge fitness equipment. By integrating insights from top athletes and scientific research from the Technogym Lab, the brand ensures optimal performance and precise training solutions for elite competition.
For over twenty years now, Technogym has cultivated a robust relationship with the Olympic Games and the athletes who compete on the world’s largest sporting stage. As the official supplier of fitness equipment for 9 editions of the Games – Paris 2024 after Sydney 2000, Athens 2004, Turin 2006, Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016, Pyeongchang 2018 and Tokyo 2020 – Technogym has played an integral role in supporting the training regimes of elite athletes worldwide.
This relationship between the brand and global sporting champions is mutual, considering that Technogym acquires precious feedback and specialistic insight from the athletes’ experience on the equipment: this exchange allows Technogym to continuously improve and innovate their products based on real-world usage and expert opinions, with an always deeper understanding of the specific needs and preferences within the competitive sports community.
This is how Technogym’s cutting-edge equipment and groundbreaking digital features have become synonymous with optimizing athletic performance, enabling Olympians to push their limits and keep striving towards gold medals. Through this partnership, Technogym continues to demonstrate its commitment to fostering athletic achievement and promoting a culture of health and fitness globally.
At the Technogym Lab – the beating heart of the Technogym’s medical-scientific research – physiology and biomechanics are applied to sports performance. Led by a scientific team supported by athletes themselves, doctors, universities and international researchers, the Technogym Lab is the perfect technological synthesis of the brand’s over thirty years’ experience in the development of equipment and digital solutions for fitness, sports performance and rehabilitation.
TOP GEAR BEHIND TOP SUCCESSES
Technogym is able to fulfill the needs linked to all Olympic disciplines (both for team and individual sports), muscle groups, physical conditions, and training types, whether it’s strength training, cardiovascular conditioning, flexibility, rehabilitation, high-intensity interval training, endurance building, or sport-specific workouts.
Skillrun – part of Skill Line, the range of products by Technogym for cardio and strength training which provides users with the absolute best biomechanics – enable a precise and goal-oriented analysis of running style and highlights any asymmetries, in both upper and lower limbs. In addition to the running function, Skillrun comes with the sled function and parachute function as well. If the first one is used by professionals to develop sprint power (power being a product of strength and speed), the second one to work endurance.
Another component of Skill Line – Skillmill, the non-motorized curved treadmill – allows users to work on stamina and power through the integrated magnetic resistance (available in 11 levels), while delivering the maximum activation of glutes and hamstrings. Speed and metabolic rate are also boosted by alternating between resistance-free running and sled pushing against resistance.
Skillup – still from Skill Line – is the only upper body ergometer switching between cardio and power training modes in one workout. In addition to aerobic workout, magnetic resistance increases intensity for power-building and functional exercises. Skillup is designed to train all the upper muscle groups in particular, by simulating the athletic gesture of cross-country skiing.
With regards to cycling, Technogym provides professional cyclists with top-notch products, born from a technical analysis of strength tests, anaerobic/lactate threshold tests and autonomic nervous system tests. This process allows an accurate to create equipment that supports performance evaluation and physiological assessment of the functional status. From a biomechanical perspective, Technogym Ride represents the first smart bike coming with a real gearbox and offering an incredibly realistic feeling of outdoor cycling, with a very fast reaction time (from 0 to 1000 watts in 0.5 seconds).
Thanks to AI, the Biostrength range of strength products adapts and guides users, ensuring up to 30% better results in the same amount of time. The spearhead of Biostrength offering lays its precise tracking functionality, versatility, and adaptability and 6 different types of resistance (isotonic, no inertia, eccentric overload, eccentric reduction, viscous, elastic).
Based on the unique Biostrength technology, Biostrength REV was developed specifically for the performance and health market. The Biostrength REV line makes up the ultimate way to test and train athletes with millimeter precision. The brand-new pieces of equipment (Adjustable Pulley REV, Leg Press REV, and Leg Extension REV) come with the 6 different types of resistance and add a specific focus on precision training.
The sensors placed on the equipment allow the necessary information and data to be gathered to reach the goal in the most effective way possible. All REV equipment allows unilateral training and differentiates between right and left limb data, providing precise and specific insight.
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