Why Should I Buy A Kratos Flywheel Machine?
Eccentric Muscle Strengthening
What does “Concentric phase” and “Eccentric phase” mean? :
The Concentric phase is when the muscle shortens, or contracts and the Eccentric phase is when the muscle lengthens or extends. When lifting traditional weights mostly concentric loading occurs and the eccentric phase is hard to load manually. Flywheel training adds this overlooked
component, allowing you to strengthen your muscles in both directions with one
rep.
Increased Muscle Size
By adding the Eccentric phase to your workouts, you can increase muscle strength more effectively than concentric exercises. This is because when muscles lengthen, fibers in the muscle split more than they do during concentric exercise. As more fibers split, the body works to rebuild them,
resulting in bigger muscles.
Velocity Based Training
Using quick change flywheels you can easily change up the resistance for your targeted strength goals. you can have fewer slow, high resistance reps, or rapid lower resistance reps. These rapid movements are great for burnout reps, allowing you to safely go until you cannot muster one more rep.
Freedom of Movment
No addon cables necessary. All our products come with a generous amount of strap, allowing for movements a great distance away from the source of resistance. This also allows for a variety of force vectors for unique muscle loading applications. The swiveling nature of our vertical post adapters allow for lateral moments mid rep.
You can also remove the flywheel and use the machine for isometric strengthening. Just adjust the strap the desired height and pull as hard as you can, The machine can take this load no problem!
Safer than Weights
Because the force involved is the kinetic energy of the flywheel, there is no risk of the inherent potential energy associated with free weights. You do not have to worry about dropping weights or overexerting yourself, the only resistance provided is that which you generate yourself during the rep.
Flywheels are an excellent choice for rehabilitation after an injury, and are also very safe for younger athletes.
Resistance 1 to 900 lbs
With the use of stackable flywheels, our machines can handle up to 900 lbs of resistance... If you can generate it.... The capacity of the equipment is limited only by the strap materials tensile strength.
Compact and Versatile Design
The footprint of Kratos products is quite small compared to the equivalent number of machines and free weights required for the same workouts. Check out our movement library for examples.
What Is Flywheel Training?
Kurt Explains the difference between traditional weight lifting and inertia based training, while pointing out some of the benefits resulting from eccentric muscle loading.
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How Does the Resistance work?
Where does the resistance (inertial force) come from?
Inertia is a linear mass attribute that describes how well an item opposes a change in movement. The moment of inertia of a disc along an axis perpendicular to it and passing through its centre equals ½ * M * R^2, where M is the mass of the disc and R is the radius of the disc.
To put it simply, the harder you pull the faster you accelerate the wheel, wheels with more inertia (larger diameter and or more mass) take more force from you to accelerate.
How do the wheels work?
The Inertia of the flywheel is what creates the resistance against the user of the Quest line of products. Flywheels are completely interchangeable between product models. Flywheels are sold in a variety of sizes to accommodate different resistance ranges. Flywheels can be combined to allow more resistance options, or to increase resistance beyond the use of a singe XL wheel.
Use the top range force equivalence for each flywheel below as a reference when selecting flywheels.
XS (15 lbs), Inertia .0038 KG*m^2
S (30 lbs) , Inertia .0075 KG*m^2
M (60 lbs), Inertia .0149 KG*m^2
L (120 lbs), Inertia .0297 KG*m^2
XL (250 lbs), Inertia .0616 KG*m^2
Actual resistance is created by the user and will be variable based on the velocity of your movements. However these values can be used as a guide to help select the range of flywheels necessary for your strengthening goals. When adding multiple plates you can add the pounds equivalents together to get an idea of how much resistance will be needed to accelerate the stack at about 1.5 m/s.
Most Users will not need more that a XL and a L wheel, this combo is about 370 Lbs of resistance. Multiple XL wheels require a very large amount of force to accelerate at a normal movement speed.
Strengthen Muscles in both directions!
The Quest Series of Flywheel trainers are designed to provide the user with Concentric, Eccentric and 'Isometric resistance all in one very versatile machine.
'Isometric resistance is achieved by setting the strap length and pulling on the strap with the shaft at top dead center.
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full body workout In A Space Saving Footprint
The Kratos Quest Station is the first vertical and horizontal flywheel training system on the market. Made in the heart of the Pacific Northwest, Kratos Fly Fitness is proud to be the fitness system as limitless as you are.
The KRATOS Advantage
Limitless Resistance
Flywheel Training enables you to train as light or heavy as you want by auto-adjusting to all levels of strength, whether you are a beginner or seasoned athlete.
Freedom of Movement
Quest devices offer more than 40+ different exercises. Strengthen new ranges of motion and train your entire body with only one piece of equipment.
Train Anywhere
The Quest Compact and Portable are portable enough to bring with you wherever you go. Turn the world into your gym and never miss a session again.
Flywheel Training Course Intro
Hear Tim Caron's Introduction to his upcoming course on the implementation of flywheel training. Stay tuned for more... Grab a flywheel machine today so you can follow along!
Notable Reviews
"Different than anything we've done before! The Kratos Flywheel is a great option because of it's ability to work both horizontally & vertically all in the same unit."
"This Freaking
Machine Is
Awesome."
"A significant leap forward in flywheel technology"
"Our Athletes love Kratos! Their design allows for endless movement options and enables strength gains in areas that we typically avoid due to risk of injury."
"Less Risk of Injury. The reason why flywheels? Cause it's easier to coach! They have less risk of injury than having a barbell on their backs."
"impressive overall build quality "
The Kratos allows you to manage appropriate work based on where you are at.