Woodway G Trainer

Alter g - Leading-edge Gravity Differential Technology

The G-Trainer anti-gravity treadmill™ enables users to reduce their effective body weight during exercise to continue training during injury recovery, outdistance conditioning limitations, and build endurance.

Applications

Training and Conditioning

Elite athletes and weekend joggers alike are always looking for
technological advancements to help them run farther, faster.
The G-Trainer is being adopted to augment training and
conditioning routines, enhance performance, and allow users to continue working out during injury recovery.

Injury Prevention

It’s always preferable to prevent injuries rather than recover from them. The G-Trainer allows individuals to increase training volume and speed while minimizing the risk of impact-related
injury and continue training regimens without pain caused by chronic injury issues.

Post Injury/Surgery Rehab

Currently, the G-Trainer is being sold and marketed solely as a training tool, but user stories have prompted us to pursue United States FDA 510(k) pre-market notification and international
medical device certifications to market the G-Trainer as a rehabilitation and therapy device.

Overspeed Training

The G-trainer is the perfect tool for overspeed training. As the individual decreases their weight they're able to increase speed beyond what they could normally do at full weight. By doing so, they are able to run at a faster turnover rate increasing their body's familiarity with higher speeds. The muscle memory from these increased speed sessions increases the overall speed potential of the individual when at full body weight. The G-Trainer's broad variable range for weight, speed and incline allows users to customize their workout sessions in accordance to specific needs.

Long Distance Training

Long distance runners can only run so many miles before the stress of impact takes its toll on their bodies. When they pushing limits running outdoors or on conventional treadmills, the risk of stress fractures and other common running injuries significantly increases. G-Trainer users are able to increase their training volume (reportedly up to as much as 40%) by spending portions of training time running at reduced body weight.

Because the G-Trainer allows for a full range of motion, runners can experience a full stride, as they would on a track, with no upper-body restrictions. More miles means better conditioning with fewer impact-related injuries.

Nike and Alter-G

In August of 2005 the first product prototype was delivered to Nike’s Oregon Project for distance runners to put it through its paces. Alberto Salazar, Oregon Project Director, was instrumental in working with Alter-G founders to provide feedback for the final G-Trainer product. Additional prototype testers included the Golden State Warriors and the Oakland Raiders. Alter-G continues to work with Alberto and his runners to understand the benefits of using the G-Trainer and improving the G-Trainer technology.

“By reducing my athletes’ effective body weight using the G-Trainer, they’ve increased their training volume as high as 25%, without increased risk of injury. This has enabled our runners to compete at their highest levels ever.”

Alberto Salazar,
Director of Nike’s Oregon Project