 
Your fountain of youth—Vortex.
Vortex offers older individuals a safer training environment where they can
work towards feeling their best. As therapists and trainers around the world learn
the techniques for leveraging this one-of-a-kind tool, hundreds of seniors are regaining
their strength, stability, independence and regaining youthfulness and personal
confidence they had not felt in years.
How it all started
In 1989, Bob Piane, inventor of the Vortex units, watched his then 84-year-old
grandfather, Sam Piane, turn his own life around by strength training on a unique
cable machine in Bob’s personal training studio. Sam tried the fixed movement
machines. “These don’t fit me. They hurt”, he said. Then he saw
the cables and sent Bob out of the room to create his own exercises. Sam was an
engineer and quite headstrong. After 30 minutes he called Bob back in and showed
him the routine he made. It was simple. One exercise simulated lifting grocery bags
(Sam still drove and liked shopping for his large family). Another he explained,
was to help Grand Mom, who “was getting fat” out of the car during long
trips to California. “This is getting you Grand Mom’s fat ass out of
the car” he said. And the third was simulating picking up his then 35 lb niece
up over his head. “I used to do this when you were little. I want to do it
gain”. He did so 16 weeks later. When the positive changes came so quickly
for his Grand Father and he saw the joy on his face and confidence in himself revived,
Bob knew he had witnessed something special. So he designed his new strength training
units, the attachments, and even the patent pending resistance system to bring this
“fountain of youth” to seniors worldwide.
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Vortex, innovation for a better life |
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