Did you see the footage shot at Joe Frazer's funeral several months ago?
If you did you likely noticed that Mohamed Ali is looking very frail, as he needed help to walk.
So how do former athletes give themselves a good old fashioned bone blasting workout, after they lost their mobility?
Answer; They don't.
However, according to the engineers at bodybuildinginwater.com, "The reason Ali can no longer do a good old fashioned workout has far more to do with 'old fashioned' then his ability to get a high muscle blasting workout."
"Parkinson's disease appears to hamper a brain's ability to multitask."
"Parkinson's victims seem to be able to do one motion at a time rather well. However for something that healthy people naturally assume is simple, like walking, the brain has to operate almost every extremity joint."
"While walking the brain's multitasking has more to do with maintaining the body's balance then transporting it down the road. Even the balance needed to stand still, requires considerable multitasking."
For someone in Ali's condition to get a deep workout their body needs to be artificially stabilized so balance is not on the mind. Next the motion that will be used for his exercise, in this case core running, needs to be totally isolated.
In this fixed jacket his mind should only have one motion to concentrate on, power driving just his hips through their full range running motion, as his knees and feet are stablized by the body oars.
For an existing example of reducing the tasks for Parkinson's, to create workout conditions, Michael J. Fox, also suffers from it, and he walks rather shakily. Yet in his ice skates, which many Canadians grew up using, most folks would never guess that skater has Parkinson's.
For over a decade these structural engineers have been doing something that is outside the box of today's health or fitness practices. They developed a way to trace the forces of exercises through the human body, much as they would a building. This allows them to see how and where exercises interact with bones, muscles, joints and vertebrae.
As Fox blasts around the rink, he gets to exercise his core mobility muscles and heart because of several factors.
First his ice skates brace his ankles, so his feet and ankles have fewer tasks. Secondly for someone who has skated all their life, skating requires far fewer balance adjustments then walking jerkily as his smooth speed needs far fewer balance and stability adjustments, from far fewer directions.
In Fox's case, Newton's first law allows him to do workouts on his skates, you remember "An object in motion tends to stay in motion".
"Fox is very fortunate to have grown up skating, it seems unlikely that he brain could learn this today".
In Ali's case they would float him in a life jacket, which would also be firmly tethered to keep his core motionless, providing him stability without a his mind controling balance. Next they would stabilize his knees and feet using a version of their Lower Body Oars, called LOBOS™.
With the body braced, LOBOS can isolate just his core running motions that drive the hips. This should allow him to deeply exert his hips running motion through a significently wider running range that then he ever ran on land.
The motion his brain will need to concentrate on is just his largest muscle group, which along with the LOBOS will run the work out of his core muscles.
LOBOS convert legs into big water paddles, directly driven by the core muscles. "In his condition Ali should be able to exert thousands of times more running muscle effort into LOBOS then he could on a tread mill."
Since seeing footage of Ali at Frazer's funeral, they have been sending him messages through his, and other's websites, trying to explain what their fitness engineering science could do for him. But so far they have not heard a word back.
"We have a big communications problem, first they never heard of us or this science, so trying to explain this in a 40 word email or phone message, sounds more like a scam."
"This is farther hindered because some doctors and trainers, possibly those he may check with first, treat our science like candle stick makers would have treated the light bulb. But our message is finally getting out there."
The February issue of the world's largest Firefighter Magazine, Fire Rescue Magazine, has a study they conducted on these LOBOS devices, last summer. This report backs up you have just read.
Look for Fire Rescue Magazine's "Gear Test" section in this February's issue.
They also enjoy pointing out that for the last few years, people who Google or bing "World's Greatest Workout Device", "World's greatest Water exercise" or "Disabled Fitness device" find their first few pages dominated with info and testimonies about their Body Oars, or their other bodybuilding in water methods.
If anyone out there has a direct line to Ali, tell him to Google "world's greatest workout device" and read this article, then contact those engineers at bodybuildinginwater.com.
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