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For maximum performance

Weight training helps you to improve your sporting performance.

The basis for your sport

Many sportspeople concentrate on developing the muscles that determine performance. In doing so, they neglect other muscular areas and underestimate the importance of complementary muscle training.

Complementary muscle training can make an important contribution to optimising sporting performance. It aims to develop strength, stability and mobility in areas that are less emphasised in the sporting discipline. This helps to reduce the risk of injury and improve sporting performance.

The fact is, complementary strength training to develop the target and auxiliary musculature is a must for any ambitious sportsperson. With 2 x 30 minutes per week, Kieser Training offers sportspeople effective training.

 

Exploiting performance potential

Intensive strength training is essential for improving performance in your sport: the stimulus of intensive training allows nerves and muscle fibres to interact better and increases muscle mass by producing more muscle protein and storing it in the fibres. This increases strength and resistance to fatigue. You become more efficient and you protect yourself against drops in performance, for example at the end of competitions.

In addition, weight training makes the musculotendinous units more rigid. During cyclical movements such as running, this allows you to store more energy when braking your stride. The effects are pleasing: Better pushing power and economy of movement.

Die Aufnahme zeigt eine Person, die ihre Sportschuhe zubindet.

Mit Krafttraining werden Sie leistungsfähiger.

 

Preventing injuries

Die Aufnahme zeigt eine Joggerin. Sie steht auf einer Strasse, beugt sich nach vorne und hält ihre Hände auf das rechte Knie.

Trainierte Muskeln schützen vor Sportverletzungen.

Overload syndromes, injuries and pain are often synonymous with the end of the season and are a horror for any sportsperson. Strength training helps prevent them: It has been proven that two out of three sports injuries and half of overload syndromes can be avoided. Strong muscles on all sides act like a protective corset.

The muscles of the trunk, in particular the back extensors, stabilise the spine and protect its structures against overload, premature wear and tear and pain. Strength training is also very beneficial for the joints: they regain greater muscular stability, and training over the full range of movement can even increase mobility.

In the longer term, strength training also improves bone strength.

 

Offsetting imbalances

Many people suffer from muscular imbalances as a result of one-sided stress in sport or everyday life. By this we mean imbalances in muscle strength. This often results in poor posture and pain. Kieser training has a balancing effect here.

The aim of the training is not only to train all the important muscles and muscle groups, but also to strengthen the flexor and extensor muscles in a balanced way. Thanks to the machines, this is also done within the individually possible range of movement.

In this way, athletes avoid or correct muscular imbalances and protect themselves from bad posture and pain.

Die Grafik zeigt die Silhouette eines Mannes. Seine Schulter sind auf die linke Seite geneigt. Ein Balken ist über die Schultern gelegt und verdeutlicht die geneigte Position.

Beugen Sie mit Kieser Training Fehlhaltungen vor.

 

Increase cardiovascular fitness

Die Aufnahme zeigt einen Kunden, der an der Trainingmaschine H1 von Kieser Training trainiert.

Mit Krafttraining unterstützten Sie Ihre Ausdauer.

American and British scientists have reached a clear conclusion: high-intensity strength training to the point of momentary muscle exhaustion significantly improves cardiovascular fitness. In a review published in the Journal of Exercise Physiology-online, they explain: ‘The acute metabolic and molecular responses to strength training to the point of momentary muscle exhaustion are no different from those to traditional endurance training’. Longer-term reactions observed include an increase in mitochondrial enzymes, multiplication of mitochondria, transformation of the phenotype of IIx muscle fibres into IIa and vascular remodelling, including capillarisation. All these factors contribute to an increase in endurance.

 

Reinforcing ankles

The movement of our feet takes place at the ankle joints. These must be able to withstand high loads, because they don't just support our body weight: even when walking normally, the load is up to seven times greater. Sudden stops, rapid changes of direction and jumps, as in intensive running sports such as football, tennis, handball or jogging, increase the load even further.
 

With the B3 and B4 foot machines, you can train the ankle muscles in a targeted way. Combined with training of the calf muscles and the front of the tibia, they stabilise your feet and give them support. Training muscles in isolation clearly reduces the risk of injury.

Die Aufnahme zeigt die Füsse eines Kunden der an der Fussmaschine B3/B4 von Kieser Training trainiert.

Stärken Sie an den Fußmaschinen B3 und B4 die Muskeln des Sprunggelenks.