GYROTONIC®/GYROKINESIS® exercise methodology is a system of exercises based upon expansion and elongation of a muscle rather then a contractions. In laymen’s terms; if you pick up dumbbell and perform a typical bicep curl your muscle (biceps brachii) will contract or shorten to perform this task. Just pick up any item around your house and watch the muscle contract and shorten.

Now let’s look at a different way.

Imagine you dropped something behind a long, heavy, immobile desk. It not only fell behind, but is caught on the backside. Now imagine that you can not reach it from the side or top, your only hope is to reach under and somehow get your forearm and hand up high enough to reach it. You reach so far that you feel the muscles lengthen and stretch, yet you still reach more (not painful though). As you reach around you may notice that your arm is in the same position as the bicep curl you did in the first paragraph, but as you are stretching your body the muscles have not shortened, rather they lengthen. Another way of imagining this is to remember what it feels like when you stretch in bed in the morning. Your whole body expands with strength (remember accidentally knocking that alarm clock over). This is the strength of expansion. This is GYROTONIC® exercise.

When you are ready learn more about GYROKINESIS® and GYROTONIC® at Avatar or contact Avatar directly info@avatartrainingstudio.com to set up your first session and ‘move beyond’ your traditional exercise.