Benefits of inversion boots

Inversion boots have many health benefits for athletes. Among them are:

• relieving muscle stress;
• reducing the risk of thrombosis;
• elimination of headaches;
• improved blood circulation;
• posture correction;
• spine stretching;
• increasing joint flexibility;
• improved muscle tone;
• oxygen enrichment of the brain;
• cleansing the lymphatic system;
• reducing the risk of flattening of intervertebral discs;
• normalization of sleep.

Is it possible to increase your height using gravity boots?

Over time, any person's height can begin to decrease. To prevent this process, gravity boots can help the athlete.

How does this happen? Using boots, the athlete is suspended upside down. This body position stimulates the natural stretching of compressed cells. Therefore, the length of muscles and joints increases.

With the help of such exercises with inversion boots, you can not only prevent a decrease in height, but also increase it by several centimeters.

Benefits of shoes

It is known that exercises performed with gravity boots for the horizontal bar have a beneficial effect on human health. Doctors say that using such shoes has many advantages. Regular exercise promotes blood flow from the lower extremities. There is also a decrease in back pain.

The benefits of gravity boots are beyond doubt. With the help of leather pads, you can correct the posture of a teenager or an adult, and correct pathologies such as scoliosis or osteochondrosis. Frequent exercise in shoes helps relieve stress, maintain youth and activity of the body.

Interestingly, neurologists recommend training with this accessory to their patients to get rid of constant headaches. The therapeutic effect occurs due to the fact that during muscle relaxation, the human brain is saturated with oxygen. However, to do this, you need to perform the exercises not just once, but systematically, then you can get a guaranteed result.

When a healthy person spends a lot of time upside down, this position helps to significantly increase blood circulation; At the same time, the work of the lymphatic system is activated. As a result, the athlete’s metabolism improves and muscles become stronger. If you exercise regularly, you can even easily lose a few kilograms, which is why anti-gravity shoes are very popular among girls who are losing weight.

The relaxing effect that shoes have helps straighten muscles and stretch the spine, so training with this accessory is a great option for those who want to increase their height a little. It is known that some record holders managed to become as much as 15 millimeters taller.

Surprisingly, hanging on the bar in sports boots, hooked on the horizontal bar with hooks, is an excellent remedy for insomnia. This is explained simply: deep muscle relaxation helps relieve stress and, as a result, quality rest at night. If you do exercises in the fresh air, the benefits will double. Yoga classes have approximately the same calming effect.

Leather pads can help correct posture for a teenager or an adult. Allow you to perform exercises that have a beneficial effect on human health.

Contraindications

Contraindications to training with inversion boots:

• the athlete's weight is more than 130 kg;
• pregnancy;
• the athlete's height is more than 198 cm;
• eye pathologies;
• acute form of radiculitis;
• blood pressure disorders;
• spinal injuries;
• dysfunction of the cardiovascular system;
• joint inflammation.

Before training with either inversion boots or any other sports equipment, we recommend consulting with your doctor. This way you will not harm your own health and will be confident in the positive results of the exercises.

School of Practical Myology L. Rozlomiya

Pros and cons of stretching the body and limbs.

I'll start with the positives. Stretching is a worthwhile thing! They are physiological and the body desperately needs them, I emphasize, especially a healthy body. You have the right to ask, why only a healthy body needs stretching, but a sick body, it turns out, does not need them? Bravo! You asked a very professional question. Look, which of us humans stretches the most? That's right, these are our children! On one condition - if they are healthy. When a child is sick, he does not stretch.

Literally everyone stretches, stretches, stretches, both people and animals. I saw cats stretching. The cat sleeps, sleeps, then wakes up, gets up, stretches, bends his back in an arc, then, putting his paws forward and sticking out his butt, makes another stretching effort, after which he lies down again and sleeps further. Was he tired from sleep, or did he sleep in a tense state of his body? No! He relaxed so much in his sleep that his muscles stopped receiving normal blood supply. To restore blood flow through the vessels and stimulate the muscles, he performs these stretches.

I also saw how elephants, cows, and poultry stretch; this is especially beautiful for roosters, when they, showing off the coloring of their feathers, stretch out their wing and paw of the same name, showing the beauty of the wing in stretching. I saw how fish stretch using plant stems for this.

This only means that stretching is not only physiological, but also useful, since stretching temporarily narrows the lumen of blood vessels, increasing the speed of blood flow and thereby eliminating temporary hypoxia.

Now, when do we lose that intuitive feeling of needing to stretch? Since childhood . Let me give you my own example: when I stretched, my parents instilled in me that doing this was not cultural. True, this happened more often at the table, maybe this is why I remember these prohibitions. Frequent twitches: don't spin, don't twirl, don't swing your legs, don't stretch, lead to the fact that we, learning these lessons of education, lose the ability to carry out physiological and intuitive messages. Then we ask ourselves when the time came when we began to lose such an important property for us - intuition.

Children are weaned off drinking water in a similar way. The kid asks his mother to give him water, and she tells him: “Why are you still pouring empty water? Would you like me to pour you some compote, or maybe you could drink a Pepsi-Cola?”

When the body is sick, when it has sore and tense muscles, there is no time for stretching. The thing is that at the subconscious level the body understands that these muscles cannot be stretched. The biochemistry of muscle contractions also speaks about this. Tendons have special cells - the Golgi apparatus, which, when irritated, release substances that increase muscle tone. If the muscles are healthy, then the additional tone obtained will not hinder them, and, to some extent, creates the effect of training and relief of the muscles.

However, when the muscles are sick (overstrained and shortened), then stretching their own ligaments is contraindicated. Hypertonicity is always associated and associated with a pain symptom.

Therefore, when talking about the disadvantages of stretching of any kind: volitional (when we give the command to the body and limbs to stretch), hand hangs on a horizontal bar or wall bars, hangs in special shoes, we must keep in mind the appearance of inadequate reactions from muscles and ligaments.

Purely physiologically, stretching by hanging on a horizontal bar will keep all the muscles of the body in tension. We do not feel the tension of the stretched muscles, since attention is diverted to the tension in the hands from the bar. Hanging in shoes reduces the effect of distraction from limb tension.

Indeed, in special shoes you can relax and hang out. I hung myself back in 1962, while serving in the army, having adapted a special fastening to the soles of my boots, but I didn’t experience any special sensation, rather it was just interesting. We used this hanging upside down to train the vestibular system, additionally using rocking of the whole body.

However, this type of stretching brings only general relaxation, and not any specific one (for example, on a muscle or a specific part of the spine), much less therapeutic, as boot distributors try to bring to many. I put on my shoes, hung upside down, and osteochondrosis was gone!?

Now about the main thing. Hangs of various types can be used by athletes and healthy people who do not have muscle problems. I described a similar condition in an article about yumeiho, which can be applied, but only to young people! athletes.

This type of exposure is not applicable to sick people. First, you should heal the muscles, create a friendly effect, both in the general, initial state of all muscles, and during the work (contraction and relaxation) of synergists and antagonists, and only then do stretching, and also give patients “homework” in the form of a special system 75 second stretches.

“Everything new is well forgotten old,” says the proverb. At one time there were beds with elements of hoods for arms, legs, and head. There, unlike the horizontal bar, you could actually lie down and completely relax all your muscles. Their prototypes still exist in trauma clinics for traction of damaged limbs.

I remember the time when physiotherapy rooms in clinics had a device for cervical spine traction. It was called the “Glisson loop”. Where is it now, where did it go and why did it disappear? It seemed that everything was simple to perform, did not take up space, and did not distract the medical staff. The patient sat against the wall, above him hung a block with a cord thrown over it, one end of which was attached to a special collar at the neck-head junction, and the other held a bowl on which weights were placed.

However, doctors had to refuse the “services” of this loop. The point is the complications that often accompanied this procedure. Some of the patients complained of increased pain in the muscles of the neck and shoulder girdle, some experienced exacerbations in the form of a sharp drop or increase in blood pressure, some got such headaches that even analgesics did not help, and some I simply lost consciousness during the procedure.

And all because no diagnostics were carried out to determine the physiological state of the spinal curves. Patients with excessive curvatures of the spine and those with virtually no curvatures were sent to traction, and for them this type of treatment was contraindicated. But the most important thing was that no one worked on the patient’s muscles, treated them, or prepared the body for, in principle, a good type of treatment. Why is it good? Because with the help of this loop you can stretch the contracted ligaments, since the Glisson loop made it possible to do this softly, gently, and for a long time! Remember - “Everything is medicine and everything is poison... it’s a matter of dose.”

Ligaments understand the “language” of stretching, but not rough and violent (imagine the whole body hanging on sore muscles while hanging on a horizontal bar), but physiological and strictly dosed.

I have a Finnish FINTRAC device with an electric drive for physiological traction (you can sit or on a couch), and I dream of installing it and using it to more quickly achieve the healing effect. But, unlike the Finns, who abandoned it for reasons already known to you, I, using the principles of myology of the School of Body Therapy and Myology, will treat and prepare the muscles for the procedure, making their ligaments “indifferent” to the stretching effect.

Imagine, the muscles are healed, the joints are stretched! What could be even more useful for the musculoskeletal system if not this condition of its main tissues?!

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How to use inversion boots correctly

Before training with inversion boots, carefully read the instructions for use. To avoid injury and improve performance from boot exercises, follow these simple steps:

1. We do not recommend attaching gravity boots to bare feet. Since the equipment will rub and cause discomfort during exercise. It is better to attach inversion boots to leggings or sweatpants. Clothes should not be too loose so as not to interfere.
2. Wear your boots tightly for safety. The leg should not dangle in the sports accessory.
3. After tightening the strap, secure the boots to the bar using the hook. Athletes with a high level of physical fitness can do pull-ups with their hands and take turns holding two shoes. We advise beginners to practice on an inclined ladder for the first time. The optimal position of the feet is shoulder width apart.
4. Smoothly and without sudden movements, straighten your back to avoid injury and hang head down. After mild discomfort, the body should completely relax.
5. We advise you to initially limit the exercise time to 3-5 minutes. Afterwards, you can gradually increase the training time.
6. After completing the exercise, smoothly step off the horizontal bar, properly control your every movement.

Rating of premium models

Teeter Hang Ups B1-1001

The fourth place is occupied by a model from an American brand. They are made in Thailand and have an extended warranty.

The hook is made of durable and wear-resistant glass nylon. The composition of glass nylon contains 40%.

They have foam lining.

They have double buckles and double latching. The maximum weight they can withstand reaches 120 kg. The ankle circumference reaches 33 cm. The thickness of the lining reaches 15 mm.

The average cost per product reaches 9,200 rubles.

gravity boots Teeter Hang Ups B1-1001

Advantages:

• They have soft foam lining;
• Reliable double buckles and clasps;
• Wear-resistant fasteners.

Flaws:

• Not found.

WORKOUT X4 Comfort

In third place is a model from a Russian manufacturer. Made from genuine high quality leather.

The hooks are made of steel.

It is possible to adjust the leg circumference, the lining is made of foam.

The boots come with a pull-up band. The hook is secured securely.

Buyers are generally satisfied with the product and use it with pleasure.

The maximum weight that the product can support reaches 150 kg. The maximum leg circumference is 30 cm. The lining is 15 mm thick.

The hook diameter is 40 mm.

gravity boots WORKOUT X4 Comfort

Advantages:

• The girth width is adjustable;
• The hook is securely fastened;
• Pull-up band included;
• Soft lining.

Flaws:

• Not found.

Body Solid GIB2

Second place goes to the Body Solid GIB2 gravity boots. This is a famous brand that has gained fame all over the world. The weight of gravity boots is 3 kg.

The boots have a comfortable soft lining that provides good ankle support.

The lock is simple, but secure enough to secure the boots on the ankle.

The average cost reaches 6800 rubles.

gravity boots Body Solid GIB2

Advantages:

• Made from environmentally friendly materials;
• All metal elements are made of high-quality steel;
• Can be used by athletes;
• Suitable for medicinal purposes.

Flaws:

• Can only be delivered upon order.

PROTRAIN ASL 583-1

On the first line we have gravity boots from a famous brand. This model has metal cuffs and a hook.

Fixed on the leg with a latch. The lining is made of blue neoprene. This avoids chafing the skin.

Boot diameter 10 cm.

The maximum weight reaches 120 kg.

Suitable for professional athletes. They are mainly used for training in the gym.

The average cost is 9,200 rubles.

gravity boots PROTRAIN ASL 583-1

Advantages:

• Protection of the foot from chafing;
• Can also be used for outdoor training;
• Fixed on the leg with a clasp;
• A booklet is included for proper use.

Flaws:

• None.

Safety precautions with inversion boots

For maximum comfort and safety while training with gravity boots, we will share with you important tips:

1. Train in shoes to minimize the risk of the accessory coming off your foot.
2. Don't strain your legs. Excess tension causes fatigue during exercise.
3. If you are using inversion boots to stretch your spine, relax your entire body and extend your arms down. The absence of tension in the muscles is favorable conditions for stretching.
4. When doing abdominal exercises with boots, do not swing too much. Since the equipment may fly off the crossbar.
5. To get off the machine, pull yourself up by the strap of the gravity boot.

Focusing on all these parameters, you can easily find suitable gymnastic rings for training. And if you want to test the equipment in person, we are always ready to help you with your choice in our salon. Waiting for you!

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What are they?

Amateur and professional athletes are well aware of what anti-gravity boots are. These are not shoes in the literal sense of the word, but a type of sports equipment. They are leather cuffs that tightly clasp the ankles; they are worn over sneakers on the bare foot. This accessory is used at home or in the gym when performing physical exercises on the horizontal bar. Shoe features:

• increase in height;
• relaxation;
• getting rid of some diseases.

There are special hooks sewn on the cuffs that allow you to tightly cling to the bar while hanging. The underside is covered with a soft coating to evenly distribute weight over the foot area. With this accessory it is convenient to perform exercises upside down.

The accessory first came into fashion in the United States in the mid-1980s. Then they forgot about it for a while and remembered it already in 2006, after the publication of the famous bestseller - the novel The Da Vinci Code, in which one of the main characters wore boots. You can find these shoes among professional athletes and outdoor enthusiasts.