Palo Alto Area Locals – Alpha Program for Strength Device Prototype
I'm a Data-Scientist/Physicist, working on a fitness device prototype (very far from my usual arena :P). If the following describes you checkout me "Long story-short" below and sigh up at PrototypeStrong.com
I'm looking for people who are: - In palo alto/mountainview/menlopark - Want to get stronger and bullet proof their bones, tendons and ligaments - not currently and maybe never involved in weight training - Understand that the program is not free (Sorry, the prototypes involve some relatively expensive industrial parts and I want to be there personally to train people for at least the first couple sessions.)
Long story short: I stumbled on a training method of Olympic lifters from the 1960s that was supposed to rapidly increase strength as well as tendon and bone density. Sounded like nonsense but a friend challenged me to try it. ("I thought your a scientist, it's easy to try..." he caught me). 2.5 months later many of my lifts had doubled! So I got a bone density scan - I'm now in the 99.95th percentile. To put that in perspective that is well above and mere human I’m likely to meet and approaching a weak baboon :P
I wanted my family to use it, especially my mom due to the bone density benefits. It's perfect as a beginner training method - less than 2 mins effort spread over a weekly 1hour session or 15 seconds a day. (I told you it sounds to good to be true.) The problem: you have to be willing to put yourself between the ground and a thousand lbs of metal…Hrm... so I engineered the weights away. Eventually it will be a connected mobile device about the size of a coke can tethered to a skateboard sans the wheels. You can see what the prototype looks like here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BP1OuOXBb62/?taken-by=macedonia384
See me "lift" over 1600 lbs:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BPxuDRvBQB3/?taken-by=macedonia384