How SMARTGYM Works

SMARTGYM is a deceptively powerful fitness machine that allows you to strength train and cardio train without using weights or treadmills. Instead, using its unique Power Band resistance system, you can choose variable levels of resistance for a customized total body workout that rivals a health club...free weights, treadmills, and all.

Most exercise machines are big, heavy, and expensive. But SMARTGYM is compact and lightweight, totally portable, and very affordable.

What's the secret?

Most of the expense of other machines lies in the mammoth steel frame needed to support the resistance system (usually metal weights). 

However, SmartGYM's unique omni-directional pulley system, fitted with four variable-resistance Power Bands, is designed to use any conventional door as the frame.

So you don't have to carry the frame around with you, which makes SMARTGYM extremely lightweight (just 3.5 pounds!), and easily portable.

And since doors are readily available almost anywhere you go, we don't have to sell you the frame, which drops the price dramatically.

Vector Balanced™ Design

SMARTGYM sets up and packs up easily in just seconds. It's secured to a door using two narrow "cinching straps" made from very thin, very light, but extremely strong, polypro webbing. The cinching straps slide over the top and underneath the door and meet behind the door where they are pre-threaded through a D-ring. 

Simply pulling downward on the cinching straps levers the pulleys apart to rest at the top and bottom of the door with the Power Bands stretched between them. Velcro is used to hold the straps in place at the back of the door once they've been "cinched" tight. 

Once setup is complete, SMARTGYM behaves as if it's been screwed directly to the door. But what's really happening is that it's "Vector Balanced," and that's why it can remain flat against the door even as you push and pull on the Power Bands. 

In fact, no matter how tightly your door is fitted to its frame, the cinching straps will still fit between door and frame for easy, no hassle setup. No screws or fasteners needed!

Beware of cheap "knock-off" products that attach to your door with bulky steel clamps. These can prevent the door from closing, and make the product unsafe and unusable. Only SMARTGYM's patented Vector Balanced™ design fits all standard doors (up to 7' high).

You can also choose to wall-mount SMARTGYM more permanently on any vertical surface in any room of your home or office.

Free motion resistance... it's easy on your body!

SMARTGYM's resistance system (or weight) consists of 4 Power Bands. You get 2 light-weight blue bands (one blue band for each hand) and 2 heavy-weight red bands (one red band for each hand). The Power Bands are dynamic, which means that the resistance steadily increases as they're stretched. 

This provides a number of advantages over dead weights, such as dumbbells and barbells. 

For example, at the end of a set of bicep curls with a dumbbell, when your muscle is in its uncontracted, vulnerable state, you've got the full pressure of the weight tugging on the muscle and then you have to bend over and set the weight on the floor or push it into a rack. Unless you're very careful, free weights can put lots of pressure on your back, joints, and spine. 

Using SMARTGYM, however, at the end of the same set of bicep curls, the Power Bands are no longer stretched, so there's no weight tugging on the fatigued muscle and virtually no pressure on your back, joints, and spine.

And since there is no "weight" to hold in position, SMARTGYM allows you to do exercises that are virtually impossible to do with free weights. Plus, if you're training to be an astronaut, you could even use SMARTGYM in the weightless conditions of outer space!

The SMARTGYM system offers both high and low pulley positions so you can push and pull the Power Bands in almost any conceivable manner or direction, facilitating over 70 muscle building and cardiovascular exercises, Pilates training, cardio dancing, rehab, and physical therapy. 

It's so easy to use! All you have to do is change your body position relative to the pulleys and, instantly, you're working a different muscle! No setting up or changing the machine. 

This revolutionary breakthrough in design allows you to flow from exercise to exercise without stopping, so your workout is extremely quick. And since your heart rate can remain elevated within your target aerobic range, each workout is also extremely effective.

Changing Resistance

Each SMARTGYM exercise is designed to work a specific muscle group, and since muscles vary in strength, it's important to choose an appropriate resistance level for each exercise to be the most effective.

Changing resistance is a snap - literally. 

Simply snap the handles, ankle straps, or cardio belt onto one or more Power Bands in different combinations. Eight different combinations, or levels of resistance, are possible. The red Power Band (just think "red hot") is more powerful than the blue Power Band ("cool blue"). However, two blue Power Bands are stronger than one red Power Band.

The 8 possible combinations, or resistance levels, from lowest to highest, are shown below:

Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Level 5	Level 6	Level 7	Level 8

Remember, the Power Bands work on the principle of Dynamic Variable Resistance -- the more they're stretched, the higher the resistance. 

This makes fine tuning overall resistance extremely quick and easy. Simply step further away from the door to increase resistance or move closer to the door to decrease resistance in increments smaller than one Power Band.

Setup

SMARTGYM comes completely assembled and ready for action.
Setting up and packing up for transport are as easy as 1, 2, 3... 4, 5, 6.
SMARTGYM can also be wall mounted!