13 August 2011

The Helix Lateral Trainer is 'Top Gear of the Year'

Boston, MA (November 26, 2009)

The Helix has been awarded a Top Gear of the Year award from the top-fitness industry website ShapeYou.com. Prizes were awarded by a diverse panel comprised of fitness trainers, instructors, gym owners, and fitness retailers.

Introduced in 2009, the Helix Lateral Trainer has been marketed as the first true innovation to the aerobic trainer market since ellipticals were introduced in the 1990's. Nearly every single aerobic trainer on the market, including those ubiquitous ellipticals (think treadmills, steppers, bikes and rowers), work the body in a front-to-back motion, providing an aerobic benefit with muscle toning benefits limited primarily to the front and back of the legs.

By contrast, the Helix's patented sideways "figure 8" motion delivers the same cardiovascular benefits and works the front and back of the legs as aggressively as any of the machines listed above, but intensively targets the inner and out thighs as well. This translates to quick unprecedented glute and lower body toning results.

"The Helix has proven a huge hit with women, since it really targets the areas that many women want to work on", says Helixo President Lenny Snyderman, "Treadmill users who want real results have to do extra work to tone the parts that a treatmill misses. Wouldn't you rather do it all at the same time?"

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13 September 2009

by Tenley Woodman

Hate your thighs? Despise your butt? Bay Village resident Lenny Snyderman has a solution.

Snyderman developed the Helix, the latest machine in the war against flab.

"We see products that work the inner and outer thigh, but they are in the weight room," said Snyderman, creator of the Helix, a non-impact, lateral training machine.

"There hasn't been any innovation (in workout machines) since the early 90s" said Snyderman. "Everything works in a sagittal motion, front to back."

The Helix launched this summer and is being used at Revolution Fitness in the Back Bay, BodyScapes Fitness in Brookline and One2One BodyScapes in Wellesley and Westford.

The machine forces users into a squatting posture, isolating leg and abdominal muscles. The pedals move in a circular motion, both clockwise and counterclockwise.

Revolution Fitness began offering Helixing classes three times a week earlier this month. Derek Christensen, founder of Revolution Fitness, said the 30-minute workout designed around the machine's cardio and strength training uses has become so popular members need to sign up for it in advance.

Gym regular Rachel Sternstein, 31, has incorporated the Helixing class into her workout routine.

"I'm four-months pregnant and I'm still doing it. It's not jarring." said Sternstein, who lives in the Back Bay. "It's difficult, but it's only 30 minutes."

I tried the class and my legs felt like lead after the first five minutes. This workout is not for weekend warriors.

Snyderman estimates a Helix workout burns 600-800 calories per hour.

"I like it because, especially for women, it lifts your butt," Sternstein said.

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13 January 2010

We've heard it called the machine that "kicks your butt," but after seeing its high-immediate results land unusually shapely fan base), we're ready to call it the "cure for the common butt."

The Helix, a lateral trainer created by Boston fitness guru Lenny Snyderman (it took him close to a decade to create and bring it to market), is arguably the piece that's been missing from the cardio machine spectrum for women. It addresses those problem areas we've been specifically, uh, blessed with - namely, inner and outer thighs - via pedals that rotate sideways, both clockwise and counterclockwise. "You can do surfing and leg pump moves that isolate the outside of the thighs and saddlebags," says Mike D'Angelo, head trainer at Revolutions Fitness - the first gym in town to position the machine as the centerpiece of a new spinning style class. "Or you can use it to do squats for your glutes and core. Or instead, sprints for some serious cardio. The point is, it builds your strength and firms muscle in real trouble areas, but then it also does double duty by adding a cardio element that burns fat and helps reveal those muscles. So the results we're seeing are incredible."

The classes' crowds (and their backsides) are tough to contest. The new three-times-weekly classes at Revolution Fitness are constantly packed and every last one of their participants seems unfathomably fit. Meanwhile, the machines themselves are selling out as fast as they come off the assembly line. "This is the kind of solution that comes along only every so often," says D'Angelo. "And it's the kind that can make a considerable difference in the human body."

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13 January 2011

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