The Performance Center will focus rehabilitation as well as performance training in a private setting within The Aspen Club and Spa. We will offer various devices designed to improve stability, endurance, agility and strength including:
• Vibro-Gym
• Functional Trainer
• VO2 Max and Fitness Performance Testing
• Gait Analysis
• Alignment assessment & Orthotics
• Alter G Treadmill
Amanda Boxtel is one of the first to try out the Alter G anti-gravity treadmill. Read what she has to say about her experience:
“Today I walked on my legs for thirty minutes in the most normal unrestricted gait for the first time in seventeen years of paralysis! No, I didn’t even use my leg braces. Imagine being a NASA astronaut suspended in a pressure regulated device that defies gravity. Today was my third day on the Aspen Club & Spa’s newest toy, the Alter-G, an anti-gravity treadmill. With the help of my trainer, Mark Alderdice, and my friend Zander, I threaded my legs into a pair of customized neorene compression shorts and wormed my way into the machine. Mark zipped the skirt-like extension at my waist to the ballooned frame and I wiggled my legs into position.”
“Words can’t even describe my sensation of standing tall in my five foot seven frame on my own two legs while walking in a true heel-toe-bend-knee-swing-forward motion. As I marched onward consciously focusing on planting one foot in front of the other, I stretched my memory back to when I was a teenager recalling the days when my legs ached after ballet or running hard. Today my legs ached…and they are still aching and tingling as I sit at my computer this afternoon. I have longed to feel my leg muscles ache since that fateful ski accident that rendered me a paraplegic seventeen years ago.”
“While the idea of unweighting isn’t new, the Alter-G is apparently the first company (www.alter-g.com) to use a pressurized bubble that provides a counterforce to a person’s bodyweight, reducing the effective weight on the treadmill surface. In essence, the machine gave me unrestricted mobility to maintain my normal body position and a somewhat normal gait.”