Classic Nautilus Fitness Geelong

                           Distinction between exercise and recreation                    To most people, exercise is so general a concept that they often consider it to be almost anything, such as walking the dog, weeding the garden, going to the lake for a boat ride, playing a set of tennis, or fishing. Obviously, many people confuse proper exercise with recreational activities.                                                                                          

Exercise, however, is not so general, but very specific, it requires intense effort – but it results in physiologic adjustments or adaptations that make for an improvement in your body's strength, endurance, flexibility, and leanness that will contribute to any skill, sport, vocation, or recreation. Recreation, while it can be demanding physically, typically is not, with the result that there is seldom – if ever – any pronounced change or improvement in one’s level of total fitness.                                       Again, to quote Dr. Darden               

Once the differences between exercise and recreation were unraveled, Nautilus went several steps further by designing exercise machines that provided the highest quality resistance. That’s why Nautilus provides the most demanding, but also the most productive form of exercise.                

  Compound Leg Press                                Duo Leg Press                                             Ab1                                                                  

                                          Nautilus First Generation Compound Leg Press:

"Everybody  that uses the compound leg press walks away extremely impressed. Its like climbing a mountain with a car strapped to your back"                                                                                          Arthur Jones quote    

The compound leg press was designed to address the humans body weak link and then use this to ones advantage. The weak link in a squat is your lower back. Therefore while squatting your lower back will give way stopping you from working your much stronger leg muscles to the maximum. Jones also stated that the squat was indirect. There was no actual leg muscles stimulated during the entire range of a squat.  

                "A squat is not a direct exercise in any part of the movement" Dr Darden 

 What is meant by the above is that when a persons does squat, the weight of the barbell is comprising the spine. The spine and lower back are under strain due to compression of the weight above, the spine and lower back are getting all the direct stimulation. And when squatting in this fashion the pelvis is pushed backwards and the spine flexes and dip forwards to try to keep a centre of balance.

                "A squat is a worthless exercise as it does not strengthen your lower back"    Arthur Jones

What Arthur Jones meant by the above is training using a squat does not help you build up strength in your lower back. Squatting just makes it worse and will make your lower back more prone to injury when lifting. 

The compound leg press is designed to remove the lower back weak link from the exercise. The Nautilus leg extension provides more than 130 degrees of balance, direct variable resistance. When compared to a standard gym leg extension they only provide less then 90 degrees, resistance is  upwards / down wards and unbalanced strength curves. This is just a short list of the flaws of standard gym equipment.    

The compound leg press is designed to be used using the pre exhausted system that is advocated according to Arthur Jones. The leg extension is a pure isolation exercise for the quadriceps muscles. This is a full range leg extension, which helps to keep muscles flexible and prevents injury when used regularly. Once leg extension is complete at this point in time the lower back, hips, hamstring muscles are temporally stronger then the very powerful leg muscles. Now you have a mechanical advantage over the quadriceps muscles and can work them to a new level never experienced before.           

                                      Nautilus Duo Leg Press 2nd Generation:

The Duo Leg press is in a league of it is own when it comes to leg presses. It has a negative cam.   With a negative cam the weight doubles each time you straighten one leg. And your muscles have to work concentrically and eccentrically to maintain a constant  balance. Plus you are also using the concentric strength of one leg against the eccentric strength of the other leg. While at the same time pushing one leg straight with a weight that doubles. This type of training truly works all your leg muscles and all the different strength profiles your muscles posses.

The Nautilus Duo leg press can be used in four different ways. Such as infimetric, Akinetic and duo poly. You might be saying, what's all that, I have never heard of these types of exercises. Arthur Jones was light years ahead when it can to effective training protocols. The last methods are advance training and will take your fitness to a new level which you never thought possible.                         

                                      Nautilus Ab1: First and Second Generation

The famous and extremely rare Ab1 clam crunch. This is without doubt are best 2 abdominal machine ever made. Classic Nautilus has both versions that where made and the entire abdominal range. The Clam crunch works 100% the rectus abdominal muscles, its a pure isolation exercise for the abdominals. There are no other muscle groups employed in the movement. Because the crunch is done by elevating the seat and by brining elbows and knees together so the meet in the middle line. This crunch type of exercise totally removes the hip flexors muscles from been activated and over powering the rectus abdominals. When people think of abdominal exercise they usually use unproductive exercises that actually do not work the rectus muscles at all. For example people do thousands of leg raises, abdominal crunches on a decline bench, on the floor or fit ball, medicine ball sit up etc. All these exercises only work the the hip flexors, the lower section of the rectus muscle. But all these exercise are all done in the wrong anatomically position, and they all lack rotary, and direct stimulation of the rectus abdominal muscle.