Sports performance

For us at Kieser, sports performance is not just about the world of elite sport. Casual golfers and weekend warriors can benefit from targeted strength training as much as athletes. Our strength and conditioning programs can help to improve your core strength, power, range of movement and postural endurance - all of which are extremely valuable to anyone looking to improve their sporting performance. 

Through high intensity resistance training, your nerves and muscle fibres work together to increase muscle mass in an efficient manner. This helps to improve your performance and stamina so you can enjoy the activities you love - for longer.

Joint strains and injuries are any athletes worst nightmare and often result in a premature end to the sporting season. Strength training helps to prevent this – it is proven that two out of three sporting injuries and half of all strain injuries can be prevented. A musculature that is strong all-round acts like a protective corset.

The core muscles, especially the spinal erectors, stabilise the spine and protect it from excessive loads, premature wear and discomfort. >>> Strength training also offers great benefits for joints, providing you once again with greater stability in your muscles and even enhancing your mobility thanks to the way the training covers the entire range of movement.

Incidentally, over the long term, strength training improves the resilience of your bones.

Many people suffer from muscular imbalances due to putting excessive loads on one side during sport or everyday activities. Muscle imbalance frequently results in poor posture and discomfort. Our strength and conditioning programs provide a balancing effect by strengthening flexors and extensors evenly.

Training aims to not only train all of the major muscles and muscle groups, but rather to always strengthen flexors and extensors in a balanced fashion. Thanks to the machines, this can be achieved by customising the scope of movement.

Accordingly, athletes can avoid or correct muscle imbalances and protect themselves from poor postures and discomfort.

British & American scientists have come to the clear conclusion that high-intensity strength training up to the point of momentary muscular failure significantly improves cardiovascular fitness. In a review published online in the Journal of Exercise Physiology, they explained that “The acute metabolic and molecular responses to resistance training to momentary muscular failure do not differ from that of traditional endurance training.” Observable longer-term reactions included an increase in mitochondrial enzymes, mitochondrial reproduction, a change in the phenotype of muscle fibres from IIx to IIa, and a reshaping of blood vessels (capillarisation). These are all factors that contribute to enhanced endurance and cardiovascular fitness.

Ankles have to support more than just our body weight because even normal walking can increase the load sevenfold. When we stop or change direction suddenly or if we leap into the air – all required in running sports such as football, netball or jogging – we need strong muscles to provide stability and a sure footing.

Our foot machines B3 and B4, combined with exercises to strengthen the calf and front shin muscles, provide stability and support for the foot. By isolating the muscles responsible for ankle stability and then training them reduces the risk of injury. Stronger muscles make it easier to control the foot during its natural rolling from side to side and consequently reduces the risk of injury.