Customer rating: an absolute recommendation
Today we want to let our customers have their say. After all, it is our customers for whom we work every day in order to offer them what we believe to be the best training equipment. All the better when our customers see it the same way and are as enthusiastic about one of our products as Holger is. And now the unadulterated opinion of our customer Holger, who reports on his experiences with our aeroSling ELITE Plus.
Summary
The aeroSling ELITE Plus receives an absolute purchase recommendation from me. This recommendation is without restrictions. The recommendation also applies explicitly to all age and weight groups!
Notes:
You have to train with it regularly to have an effect. By the way, this applies to every training device in the world.
The Sling Trainer is a professional device that may need some practice!
There is a weight approval of the manufacturer. If the own body weight should be above that, the Sling Trainer is in my opinion still a buy recommendation, however under the restriction that the effective load does not exceed this limit (this is however quite simply possible by an appropriate exercise execution).
Product (Quality, Functionality, etc.)
I’ll be brief here. I have been training with the aeroSling ELITE Plus for 2 months. Conclusion: The product is beyond all doubt in terms of quality and functionality! Somebody put serious thoughts in its design and didn’t save any money anywhere. A companion for life.
Why do I like the Sling Trainer so much (motivation, effect, etc.)?
First of all some information about myself: I am now over 50 years old. Sport was my constant companion. With 5 years I started with swimming training (not so great). From 8 to 18 years I was an (artistic) gymnast. After that I always did something regularly until now. At the moment I’m pretty fit (it’s amazing what you can achieve if you stick to it). But I’m certainly not a “sports junkie”. I don’t do a marathon, a triathlon or 4,000 km on my bike. So I am “normal”. But: I can (still) do 20 decent push-ups.
Why Strength Training?
Strength training is not my hobby. But I have found that strength training is good in every way (no pain, good body feeling, etc.). Strength training is therefore necessary and good! (There is also a lot of information on the net. [or in the aerobis Blog; the Editor ;) ] ) The problem is: You have to do it. And: As a rule, you don’t have unlimited time to do it.
My “Strength Training Career”
Up to the age of 18 I did not do any (explicit) strength training at all. After that I thought that hitting the gym twice a week was the right thing to do. 5 years ago I gave up the gym and trained only with my own body weight. Since then I only do strength training “with myself” (by the way, without any appreciable losses, but rather the opposite).
My Sling Trainer Career
2 years ago I bought a Sling Trainer of a well-known German supermarket company for really very little money. Up to now my training with my own body weight was not bad. But with a sling trainer I got a lot more out of it.
Now for the aeroSling ELITE Plus
As already said: I consider strength training to be a) meaningful and b) necessary in every respect. But I have (relatively) little time for it and don’t want to invest much time either.
I train in about 4 x 30 minutes. There’s nothing more I can do regularly. In my experience this is also the measure of what you can keep up.
What do I do with this limited time (we are all working and have other hobbies)? The following order applies to me:
- Gym (not bad at all)
- Training with own body weight (definitely better!)
- Training with own body weight and one (any) sling trainer (even better)
- Training with own body weight and the aerobis aeroSling ELITE Plus – the BOMB!
Why the BOMB? What can the aerobis Sling Trainer do that others can’t? What is so special about it?
I get the most out of the time I spend on strength training. It couldn’t be more efficient! So we get a lot for the money here.
The unique effect of the aerobis Sling Trainer here is the flexible suspension, i.e. the pulley. This makes it impossible to train “one-sided”. Each of us has a stronger and a weaker leg, arm, etc. For the normal mortal it is usually difficult to train both – the strong and the weak side – equally. Unfortunately, it is the weak sides that cause the problems. The aerobis Sling Trainer forces you to always train the same side equally.
The sling trainer automatically trains the so-called deeper muscles. Many people know the big muscles. But for the (especially painless) functioning of our body there are many other smaller (but not unimportant) muscles. And these are usually difficult to train in the gym.
In a nutshell: If you fall in winter, big muscles are of no use if you cannot coordinate them. But the sling trainer will inevitably ensure that you can coordinate and use your muscles, however small or large they may be.
Price
Many may think that the price is “worth reconsidering”. Here are some considerations:
- The product is worth its money in every respect! (lifetime, function, etc.)
- It becomes a faithful companion for years because of these qualities (I always have my sling trainer with me and feel good with it).
- The (supposed) market leader is not cheaper either.
- A monthly fee at the gym is at least 10-30 âŹ!
- If you train with this great equipment, you will never again need a gym as an “average Joe”. So you’ll have your output back in no time at all.
Result:
For me, the aerobis aeroSling ELITE Plus is the BEST. It is a super training tool! Not less, but not more! If you don’t use it regularly, it only makes as much sense as a drill in the basement. But if you use it correctly, you get the best you can get out of strength training.
To whom is still not sure:
- strength training is important (to a moderate/sensible extent) for EVERYONE!
- Forget the gym!
- Train with your own body weight! Get expert advice!
- Keep going! An effect only occurs after a certain time (which may be a long time for you). But it is worth it!
- Purchase a Sling Trainer. Even a cheap one at first. Practice with it, gain experience.
- If you have managed all this – purchase an aerobis Sling Trainer. You will experience a miracle!
Sport with sense and feeling
A plea for a bold change of perspective
No doubt, our body is capable of many things. We can see that in the performances of Tour de France cyclists, Ironman finishers or mountain climbers. Looking at professional athletes or ambitious hobby athletes like these can motivate us in our own training workload. However, it can also make us go beyond the current limit of our bodyâs performance and motivation. You can often see that in the posture and faces of hobby athletes. Whether itâs a jogger or a road racer in the hot summer sun, or gym rats in the hottest days of summer in the sweaty course room or on the cross trainer.
What motivates ambitious sportsmen to accomplish enormous bodily workloads? What makes hobby athletes go beyond what their own motivation? Why can you trust yourself more than heart rate watches, tracking apps, and step counters? How can sport become more fulfilling and fun instead of only being strenuous? And how can you bring more sense and feeling in your movement program with outdoor training like Functional Training? Youâll get the answers here.
Iâm not a machineâŚ
Iâm a human being made from flesh and blood. In his song released in 2016, Tim Bendzko sings about the monotony of functioning. This monotony reigns over many an athlete: rigid training plans that demand to be followed; a dietary change to the next big super food for more power and less body fat; steadily increasing weights and resistances regardless of muscle pain or fatigue; a mindless process of training with one eye on the step counter and MP3 player while your thoughts are concentrated on your dinner.
If you also feel like this, then youâre not alone. This is the frustrating reality in almost all gyms worldwide, every day. And more: this is a mindless, qualitative inferior, and ineffective way to train. But donât feel too bad. Iâve been the same for years.
We can observe this development in many social areas, sport is just one of them. The performance society finds its way to the playgroup: which child can do x first? Early intervention in kindergarten, followed by a rigid school program and university or apprenticeship. Burnout, more serious illnesses in younger and younger years or a lack of perspective round out this picture. Functioning as little gears without questioning anything? Or breaking free like Tim Bendzko in the video to the aforementioned song?
Go push yourself
Udo BĂślts pushed his then-team captain Jan Ullrich to the Tour de France victory in 1997 with the legendary exclamation âtorture yourself, you sodâ. Functioning is the first priority in professional sports as well. But why?
In order to understand this, we need to extend the notion of the human being as a purely physical body with ongoing biochemical processes with his/her thoughts and feelings as well as with his/her intellectuality. These aspects might already be touched by sport psychology and mental training for athletes. Simplonik as a science of simplicity deduces it from natural laws.
Everything starts when we are conceived and born as a child. At some point, whether itâs in our motherâs womb or as a baby or in kindergarten, we experience not being accepted as who we are. Maybe it was just because we were crying when the grown-ups had to be focused on something else because they were stressed. Nevertheless, this experience seems threatening. After all, we need a community in order to survive – especially as a child. Now, we start looking for ways to assure recognition. We think the community likes us when we function like they expect us to.
With this procedures like these we learn many truths and belief systems in our lifetime. Example: âOnly when you are fast and strong youâre worth somethingâ. âYou can only make something of yourself if you assert yourselfâ. âI am only proud of you when jump from the 5 m diving boardâ. Our individual belief systems are our world view and shape our ambition. Ambition for performance and adaptation which â so we hope â brings attention.
The described process can be found in every human. If we donât understand it, it can become a tragic incentive for never-satisfying strain. Personal records can be achieved in this way but always with the lingering doubt whether they are already good enough or not. Or could it also have been even better? Thus, you torture yourself with lifting ever-increasing weights, climbing higher and higher mountains, always running faster and further. At some point, you donât even fit through the door with your mountains of muscle. But: a real sense of accomplishment can never be achieved. Instead, the euphoria over a newly accomplished goal is quickly followed by inner emptiness. And the automatic circle of searching for a new goal leads to the compulsion to accomplish new, often even higher, workloads.
I am a human being made of flesh and blood
The recent developments show that you listen more to the heart rate watches, step counters, and rules of thumb of trendy guidelines than your inner voice. You donât feel like jogging any further but you have only burned 400 calories yet? Then keep going. You have been doing bench pressing with 110 kg for the last three weeks, so not itâs time for 10 kg more. Even though shoulder is acting up for weeks now. Do you think this has nothing to do with your needs, your inner voice and your feelings towards training?
The secret is balance: active and restorative phases should be in balance throughout the day. In the wild, activity has almost always to do with fight or flight and is a mechanism to secure survival. It goes hand in hand with stress. Muscles are contracted for powerful movements. Once survival is guaranteed the organism changes back to relaxation and restoration.
Responsible for controlling this balance are the complementary forces, the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. Life, and with it your movement program and sport, becomes involuntarily difficult as soon as activity predominates.
No question: strenuous movements like in training or sport can be accounted to activity. And still, there is an intuitive performance and passion limit. This limit communicates via feelings at first. No motivation, a desire for something different, boredom, or the need for fresh air are only a few examples how our body communicates with us. If we choose to ignore these feelings â and rather listen to our fitness gadgets â our body will change to other signals like muscles acting up, pain or lack of energy. Psyche and body go hand in hand.
Learn the art of movement
With the derivation of motivation for sport in mind, we can understand the true sense of movement: no matter which movement or sport you choose, the true sense only unfolds as soon as you concentrate your focus and feeling on the doing. You are suddenly free from thoughts about what could happen. You only feel true focus on the moment. Your search for recognition moves into the background. Your body is in action and yet relaxed and sensible. Your feelings are open and free.
Letâs take an example to clarify this: if e.g. you go up a steep mountain you can either take a sniveling look up at the mountain top and then at your heart rate watch. Or you are so caught up in the action and the moment that you are fully concentrated on every single step. The next step is always the most important one.
How can we accomplish this in our movement or sport program? Human beings have five senses. By using them we experience the world. This sounds simple enough and is clear to most people. However, there are impressive example from the gym where we donât understand this: we spend most of our day inside and for our workouts we go inside as well. Temperatures are almost always nice, we have mastered the art of steady lighting conditions 24 hours a day, and sounds â sometimes even noises â are always present. If the music ng from the gymâs sound system isnât enough we add music from our MP3 players. Thus, we can divert ourselves from the monotony of our training program by selecting another song every three minutes. This sensory overload is strenuous, our nervous system reacts stressed. The sympathetic nervous system is activated.
If we go out into nature and achieve tranquility to appreciate it, however, we experience a bandwidth of seemingly endless sensory perception. And we experience it on a level that is natural and processible for us human beings. The wind in our hair, in our face, and on our skin, the countless color nuances of leaves or the stillness in which we recognize a multitude of bird voices, crickets, and the rain hitting puddles and leaves. Your own life starts to have enormous depth. We live and feel reconnected to nature.
We can implement our sport program into this state of being one with nature and the environment. The flexibility of Functional Training with its light and simple equipment or endurance sports make us independent from exterior conditions like opening hours and allow us to train as we feel like in the moment. And when your body demands for a break in the middle of it: grant it one. By accepting your individual performance limit and feeling your desire for movement at maybe completely different hours than normally, you can reach a new fulfilling movement program after some time of reorientation. Sport then becomes a game more and more. Though strenuous in the moment but fulfilling since you donât think about anything else. Have fun rediscovering your nature.
Top 10 aeroSling advanced exercises
Pedro is an aerobis Hardcore-Fan from Brasil. He even visited us here in Cologne. In his home, Rio de Janeiro, he is a well known Personal Trainer and also runs MotirĂľ Crossfit, a very cool CrossFit gym. Pedro is extremely creative with his exercises and regularly surprises even Elmar (the guy that builds all aerobis equipment) with new variations. Take it away, Pedro:
When we consider every functional training methodology aimed at strength workouts (excluding a specific rehabilitation), there isnât a more accessible, versatile and mobile tool in existence than suspension systems. Through all these years, we can see the evolution of these systems firstly with ropes, rings, static suspension devices and nowadays their evolution with pulleys, carabiners and accessories that provide us with a major challenge in patterns of movement that are different to simple rows, push ups or plank positions.
The aeroSling Dynamic Suspension Trainer and its accessories, developed by aerobis, are the best solutions in this segment. For those who are using the aeroSling Dynamic Suspension Trainer and have tried the possible exercises of this tool or wish to challenge their athletes and clients with advanced exercises: here are my TOP 10 advanced exercises with the aeroSling.
10) PowerPress – Hold the handles with arms extended in front of your shoulders. Bend one arm and bring the elbow back close along side your body. Follow the hand back with your eyes. You can use the aeroSling PowerSpring or Vest to increase the difficulty.
9) Swimmer – When your PowerPress is consistent, you can start trying these movements. Itâs necessary to maintain the body in a straight line for a good position during the arm circles With elbows semi-flexed during the high level and completely extended at a lower level, you must use a range of slowly executed motions of the arms. To increase the intensity of the exercise, try leaning your body a little more.
8) Partner Sling Chop – Diagonal patterns of movement are essential to maintain the health of our core which is mostly composed of anatomically transverse muscles. This exercise requires movement concentrically in the descending phase and movement eccentrically in the ascending phase. Keep your knees semi-flexed and spine neutral by trying to keep your elbows well extended from beginning to end near the distal knee. Fight the descent of the movement and resist on the rise.
7) Canoe Paddle Rowstick (Single Connect) – This exercise is a huge challenge when itâs done with heavy counter-weights and the use of a kettlebell is advised. Men must use 20-24kg and women 12-16kg. Try to do this exercise with as large a range of motions as possible and very slowly for the kettlebell not to swing. Let it burn!
6) HandStand Pushup with Flex Handle XL- This movement involves strength and stability of shoulders and core to maintain the mid-line of the body in a straight position during the exercise. Anyone can do it, therefore beginners must use the Flex Handle XL at hip level until properly adapted to reverse position. By the way, advanced slingers can use the Flex Handle XL on both feet or a single foot.
5) Push up Rowstick Single Connect -This exercise is very difficult because your body is supported in just one point. Start in a standing position with the base of your feet wide open. The trunk anti-rotator muscles are called on in this independent unilateral push-up movement. As time passes, increase the inclination of the body a little more.
4) Sling Jump and Single Leg Variation with Flex Handle XL : With the Flex Handle XL at hip level, find the required height of the aeroSling Dynamic Suspension Trainer so that its initial position is both hands and feet firmly planted on the floor (for support). You should jump diagonally and not upwards. After a few tries you’ll be flying just like Superman. It’s a very intense workout because the angle is different to a vertical jump. Your back will burn trying to keep the neutral position as will your legs trying to maintain jump height.
3) Squat Core Rotation Rowstick Single Connect– They are two conjugated exercises. In this movement you must squat with the arms extended and at the moment of the ascent in the full extension of the knees and hip, you must execute the rotation of the body using the Rowstick above the head.
2) Negative Sit up with Flex Handle XL- Here we have the evolution of the GHD-Sit-up. Firstly, we donât need a GHD. Secondly, you can do it with a foot on a tree or wall. Thirdly, you donât feel like your body is trapped or divided in two parts much. Start the movement with little degrees until you feel confortable to let the body fall completely.
1) Vertical Row – The aeroSling Dynamic Suspension Trainer must be high anchored in this movement. You should start in the sitting position on the floor with your elbows extended. Row in a vertical line letting your elbows align with the trunk until your body is fully suspended. Was it easy? Use unilateral row to increase difficulty.
Each exercise can be more difficult depending on your level. By the way, do you know any advanced exercises with the aeroSling Dynamic Suspension Trainer? Please share them with us!
Outdoor fitness for TuS Lintorf
Satisfied customers are a figurehead for us. Thatâs why I thought Iâd create the occasional post with customer feedback. We wouldnât want to be the only ones knowing of it, when itâs interesting for you, too.
Dear aerobis team
Here is some feedback from Ratingen Lintorf. We continue to be happy with your products and our customers gladly use our Functional Training Area including your equipment at every opportunity. Good job and thank you very much!
aerobis designed and installed the outdoor area according to the customerâs requirements. The frame in use is the outdoor version of our verso360 system and can be used outside all year round.
Here are a few words taken from a local newspaper:
By installing an Outdoor Functional Training Area in front of their studio last year the health center showed courage to execute innovations and jumped on the bandwagon of a current trend. This modern âplayground for fitness fansâ is unique both in Lintorf and its surrounding area. In dry weather, members of TuSfit now get the opportunity to use a range of high-quality equipment for functional training by first-class outfitter ‘aerobis’. In addition to the usual sling trainers, bags, and battle ropes the revvll rope trainer which allows pulling, pushing, and rotating in all directions) and rowsticks provide an unforgettable and for those who like, even high-intensity functional training.
While exercising, members are being coached by the clubâs staff that has been trained specifically for this purpose. âThe âGesundheitszentrum auf der Brandsheide 30â keeps up to date with this new offer to their members and establishes the Outdoor Functional Training Area as a fitness trend in Lintorf after JumpFit and deepWORKâ˘â, says Alexander Kraus, member of the board of directors. Starting in May, members of TuSfit will be able to use the Outdoor Functional Training Area for training in small groups or integrate exercises into their training schedules after instruction.
Slingtrainer Travel Buddy
When you’re on the road, you surely know this common problem: There is no gym in the area, the fitness equipment in the hotel is in bad shape, and your dumbbells are too heavy for your luggage. The aeroSling dynamic sling trainer solves this problem and is perfect for your whole body training in a hotel room. With only 450 grams it is a lightweight and can be stowed even in the hand luggage. We will introduce you to three basic exercises, which you can easily imitate.
Let´s start with the setup: In the hotel room you attach the aeroSling at the door. For this you simply use the door anchor, which is included with the aeroSling. If it is more comfortable for you and you still have enough space in the luggage, you can also place a training mat in front of the door.
The Plank – Give your core muscles something to do.
The classic plank is an exercise to improve the overall body tension as well as your stabilization. Especially the abdominal muscles are required doing this exercise. Execution: Position yourself as you would doing pushups, but do not prop up on your hands, but on the forearms. The head is in extension to the spine and you gaze downwards. During the exercise you have your feet in the loops of the aeroSling. Head, back, lower back and feet form a line. The exercise is held for about 30-45 seconds.
Narrow rows – Strengthens the back after a long day of work
Narrow rows are an exercise for the upper back muscles, right between the shoulder blades.
Execution: Stand with feet hip-distance apart, the view directed towards the aeroSling. Now grasp the loops and slightly lift the tips of the toes. At the starting position, it is important that your arms remain fully straightened and your shoulders are down. Now the hands are drawn to the body by pulling the shoulder blades together and the elbows being guided backwards in an angled position.
Tip: Hand, elbow and forearm form a line. Repeat this about 10-15 times.
Deep Squats â As compensation to sitting for long periods of time on business trips
Deep squats train the upper and lower thighs as well as the buttocks.
Execution: Stand with your feet hip-wide apart and grab the loops of the aeroSling. Your arms remain long and straightened throughout the exercise. The shoulders hang loose. From this starting position you now bend your knees. The back remains straight. When your hips are below your knees, you press yourself back up into standing. The knees always remain slightly bend and are not fully straightened. Repeat the exercise about 10-15 times.
Still gas in the tank? Simply repeat the whole set. With this simple set of exercises, you can keep yourself fit in the hotel room and burn off your energy. We hope your next business trip will be a success; from a business and workout point of view.
Why you should train with a sandbag
What you can accomplish with the help of sandbag training:
- Increase core strength!
- Strengthen the whole body!
- Stop climate change… NOT!
Seriously: sandbag training leads a miserable existence in the shadows of functional training. Completely unjustly! This piece of equipment and all of its possibilities offer great advantages for your training!
Ultimately, there are only a few training tools that allow you to design a full body training over weeks and even months without getting boring or neglecting an aspect. And the Sandbag, ladies and gentlemen, is one of the few.
Creating more impulses with instability
Sandbag training is characterized by its instable training weight which moves differently inside the sandbag in every movement. The inter- and intra-muscular coordination (the interplay between single muscle fibers and even whole muscle groups) is improved and the whole organism gets challenged more than when using a fixed weight like a barbell. A study has researched the influence of your own position and stability on neuromuscular training effects. It came to the finding that the exercises that had the highest demands in stability created the highest neuromuscular effects even though the maximum strength was the lowest of all compared exercise versions. This shows that it is not the biggest weight that produces the biggest impulses and that the instability of the training weight has a huge influence on the training effect.
Additionally, you can find several handle variations on a sandbag that each create different impulses. And when you disregard the handles and grab the sandbag by its ‘body’ you will have another option that not only trains your grip strength but is also very close to everyday life challenges. Since in your daily chores there aren’t any perfectly formed objects that you have to carry but shopping bags, your kids or the basket with dirty clothes.
Adjusting sandbag training
Back to the original topic: when you are planning your sandbag training you have to consider the following aspects:
- I can use the sandbag for pushing, pulling, and rotating movements.
- I can use it like a barbell or implement it as a ballistic tool like a kettlebell.
- I can scale every exercise even without adjusting the weight of the sandbag.
Generally, there is one guiding principle: you are training fucntionally when you train holistically. Thus, your training plan should consist in equal parts of pushing, pulling, and rotating movements. For example, you can combine bend over rows (pulling), front squats (pushing), and planks with outside pull (anti-rotational). All these exercises can be done with one sandbag. And before I add more sand to the sandbag I would adjust other parameters. I can make exercises more challenging simply by changing my position:
I can do the bend over rows on one leg, for example. The same goes for front squats or you can hold the sandbag over your head. And the plank with outside pull can be varied with different directions from and to I pull or push the sandbag, and I can even combine it with crawling.
Depending on the exercise we can also add a certain dynamic for ballistic exercises. If you take rotational lunges, for example, I can speed up the movement and swing the sandbag from side to side, lifting the sandbag up in front of me, actively slowing it down, and accelerating it again.
This leads us to the second aspect I have mentioned before: making exercises more dynamic. The result is that the demands on your core strength grow and you can create a greater training effect on your core and back musculature.
And I can do all of this in one and the same workout. So you also have maximum flexibility.
Turn your sandbag into an aquabag
If all of these adjustments are still not enough I have also the option to fill my Sandbag with water instead of sand. You can turn your aerobis Sandbag into an aquabag at any time.
Whether you train with sand or water, Sandbag training challenges your whole body. I can do exercises for my legs but I generally always incorporate my upper body. The same goes for exercises that focus on my shoulders or arms, the core is always involved. Especially when space is a factor and I don’t want to spend a fortune on equipment, I should take a closer look at the advantages of sandbags. As I said before, the sandbag is a versatile tool that gives you plenty of options.
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