ViPR may look like a piece of lowly training equipment - just a hard rubber hollow tube - but as his name suggests, he has lots to offer: Vitality, Performance, Re-conditioning. ViPR was born in Canada but introduced to the world in England. I was lucky enough to find him on this side of the pond, too - at a small fitness warehouse in Cranston, RI, and I'm getting ready to unleash him on Cape Cod (certification process in progress)!
ViPR training is all about whole-body integration (WBI) that unites movement and strength. The loaded movement that defines the ViPR workout mimics a lot of life's daily activities - lifting, carrying, throwing, dragging, rolling, flipping... So, from tossing kids in the water during summer fun to shoveling the long driveway after a Nor'Easter - ViPR is the workout that transfers best to the normal physical demands of life. It was invented by an ice hockey coach who realized that his team was consistently losing to teams whose players did a lot of manual labor off the ice - physically demanding jobs like farming and construction - things that forced them to lift, pull, shift, throw, carry and tilt weight on all three planes of motion.
See for yourself, and get ready to fall in love with fitness all over again! This video demonstrates 10 great movements - but there are another 8,990 that have been designed for a kick ass ViPR workout!
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