Med-Fit Systems, the manufacturer of Nautilus® commercial products, has introduced a revolutionary new functional training system, the XPLOAD Zone™.
The XPLOAD Zone™ was designed modularly, to be fully customizable to users’ needs in terms of space, color and activity requirements. The sturdy truss, with integrated monkey bars, attachment points and a variety of options, such as pull-up and dip bars, Olympic bar attachment and heavy bag attachment, can be custom designed either with or without Nautilus’ patent-pending EVO® functional pulley stations. The pulley options shrink the footprint by 33 percent, versus competitor functional training models, and provide weight increments of 2.5 pounds per handle to accommodate any exerciser. Additionally, 10-inch units with Nautilus® Commercial functional trainers on both ends, as pictured above, can accommodate up to 10 users at one time.
The XPLOAD Zone™ provides a heavy-duty, stable truss, with a typical starting truss length of just 5 inches, and is expandable in 20-inch, 40-inch and 60-inch increments. The frame carries an aggressive lifetime warranty. This lean, modular, inexpensive solution is ideal for any fitness facility, large or small, including fitness clubs, YMCAs, personal training studios, military, fire and police departments, martial arts training centers, rehabilitation facilities, hospitality and multi-housing, high schools and colleges and any fitness center looking to maximize space for group training.
During his tenure as president of the commercial division at Nautilus®, Jim Teatum was highly successful in developing programming and ready-made marketing that was easy for fitness facilities to synchronize with their Nautilus® equipment. Today, Teatum is consulting privately with Med-Fit Systems and they have together developed the same “plug and play” type of programming for use with XPLOAD Zone™ equipment.
“As functional training is a trend that is persisting and the investment per square foot is significantly lower than traditional equipment, more and more gyms are finding space for dedicated functional training areas,” said Teatum. “They are using these areas and functional training equipment to boost small group exercise classes and personal training. Functional training facilities can often command a higher membership fee than many traditionally equipped gyms. For example, CrossFit. Gym operators are looking for packaged functional training solutions. Med-Fit Systems has provided exactly what they need in the footprint-conscious XPLOAD Zone™ and its corresponding programming.”
The functional training exercise regimen appeals strongly to the conditioned 18- to 34-year-old member market. Today’s younger member does not necessarily buy into the sanitized box gym of their parents’ generation. CrossFit, boot camps and P90X have all been instrumental in driving growth in functional training. However, Med-Fit Systems’ CEO, Dean Sbragia, relates that the company was born as a medical fitness equipment distributor, and then expanded into other markets, and therefore recognizes the need for compact functional training equipment and programming in a variety of sectors, like rehabilitation and smaller fitness studios like martial arts. Hence, the fully customizable XPLOAD Zone™ was designed.
