The BLAST! Advantage

Unconstrained by weights, the BLAST! System utilizes a computer-controlled motor-drive and an intuitive real-time feedback display to vary the training resistance dynamically across the range-of-motion.  BLAST! creates resistance profiles to match each user’s unique strength curve and then automatically elevates these profiles during the stronger eccentric phase to more optimally overload the muscle.


BLAST! Benefits

Accelerated Strength and Power Gains

BLAST! characterizes each user’s unique strength curve and then tailors the resistance profile to provide the appropriate level of overloading everywhere across the range-of-motion.  Combined with elevated-load eccentric training, this leads to greater muscle hypertrophy and accelerated gains in strength and power.

Increased Protection from Injury

Elevated-load eccentric training has been shown not only to significantly increase strength, but also to have an injury protection effect on muscle.  Long associated with injury and Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS), chronic eccentric training is now known to promote structural changes within muscle that help protect it from injury while also reducing the incidence of DOMS.  There is no better or safer way to incorporate negatives into a training regimen.

Improved Force Control and Steadiness

It’s not just about raw strength and power.  Most activities in sports and daily life require the controlled application of strength and power.  The BLAST! System’s unique display of target training bands overlaid with real-time visual force feedback promotes a degree of force control and steadiness not found in traditional strength training.


Safety

High-intensity strength training doesn’t get any safer than with BLAST!.  Some of its many safety features include:
  • No risk of falling weights
  • No spotter required for negatives
  • Non-impact exercise
  • Footplate only moves in response to the user’s triggering force
  • Automatic knee-lock prevention.

BLAST! vs. Weights


The BLAST! training resistance matches each user’s unique strength curve - even in the stronger eccentric phase of the repetition.  In contrast the resistance provided by weights is virtually unchanged across the range-of-motion, providing little challenge over much of the repetition.