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Weight Training Equipment: From The Beginning

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As we continue moving toward the the future, each year brings in new technology, new ways and methods of doing everyday tasks. We have navigation systems, such as GPS installed in our newest vehicles as well as portable hand held devices. Ipods that can hold hundreds of songs and different media, cell phones capable of accessing the internet as well as media storage . There are computerized fish finders , laser levels and total stations used for construction. It seems we just want to do things easier, eliminate the hard work and simplify.

But one of the few things that doesn’t get much easier is weight training. No matter how much technology is developed into fitness equipment, the intensity of lifting and working the muscles will always be required to stimulate muscle growth.

Although the design of free weights has not changed much since the 60′s and 70′s, there has been better development on most larger scale weight training equipment today.

At weighttrainingequipmenttoday.com , we are going to explore some of the newest weight training equipment developed today as well as compare it with past training equipment that has been apart of this intense athletic sport. For now in this post we go into the past.

Earlier Days Of Weight Training Equipment

Lets look at days gone by. The days of world renowned Arthur Jones. Well known for his place in the world of body building and developer of HIT (High Intensity Training), he changed and turned around what the norm of bodybuilding was during the late 60″s and 70′s with the body building system he developed as HIT. Arthur was also the founder of MED X rehabilitation equipment, which has become the most technological advanced medical rehabilitation fitness equipment today. Here is a brief focus on his accomplishments as inventor of nautilus equipment.

The very first idea of the Nautilus machine was already in the mind of Arthur Jones as far back as the 60″s but he had spent 20 years building his own machines. Building and selling them was never his idea but he often demonstrated their superiority over many barbell and dumbbell exercises. The first Nautilus machine he built along with Larry Gilmore, body builder and friend, was called the BLUE MONSTER and was revealed at the AAU (Amature Athletic Union), Mr. America Contest in June of 1970.

Arthur Jones’ First Weight training Equipment Design Concept

This innovative piece of nautilus weight training equipment derives it name from the sea dwelling mollusk whose shell is in the shape of a logarithmic spiral. The cam around which the chain is wrapped is in this logarithmic shape. The chains are then connected to a set of weights that can be adjusted to different resistances according to ones ability. The Blue Monster was a combination of four machines, all connected in a 15- foot-long apparatus and painted blue.

Below is an image of Arthur Jone’s BLUE MONSTER, the new dawn of the weight training equipment had begun.

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