SAY NO TO “WALKER”
Hi my name is Serge Goldberg, I am a personal trainer.                                                                                           

I invented the new fitness device SERGE-1. This device was designed for the ELDERLY POPULATION, to “stay in shape” or for multiple rehab purposes.WHAT MAKES IT NEW?  I combined  strength training equipment and cardio in one device. That’s right two in one.
20 MIN OF TRAINING AND YOU’RE DONE FOR THE DAY! Sound like it’s too good to be true…. but it’s achieved by using the majority of muscle groups simultaneously. By repeating the motion you add an aerobic component to your strength training. You probably begin to think that it must  be very difficult. Not at all. You sit on a comfortable car seat, and using your legs, core and upper body,  move yourself from one side of  the device to another, and back.
WHAT IF I AM IN A VERY BAD SHAPE? WILL IT BE  TOO DIFFICULT  FOR ME? First of all you don’t have to do it for 20 min on a row. You can stop at any time, rest and continue. Secondly the  back of your  seat has handles for assistance.
WHAT IF I HAVE KNEE OR HIP REPLACEMENTS? The device has very low impact on these joints, besides that legs can be not used at all, upper body and core muscles will do the job.
WHAT IF I HAVE A BAD SHOULDER? Your legs can do the majority of work.
HOW FAST SHOULD I GO? Its up to you, the device utilizes the gravity force only. I would suggest  to find your own comfortable pace. If you,
hypnotically,  moved three seconds in one direction and three seconds to come back, its 10 cycles per min, in 20 minutes you will do 200 cycles that’s a desirable result.
I AM IN GOOD SHAPE, WHAT IF IT’S GONNA BE TOO EASY FOR ME? Well if you’re a competitive body builder, this device is not for you….. yet, but a serious answer is: the flat  surface you moved on, can be adjusted  up to seven degrees of inclination, that means you become a physical object that’s constantly moving up hill. Also you can increase the speed of motion.
IS IT SAFE? YES 100% as I mentioned before you are on a car seat and buckled up.
IS IT FUN TO USE? Great, finally we came together to the last  but not least part…why do you think that majority of so called “fitness equipment for home” become   garage decorations, and then end up at curb side? Right, its boring to use. If you like skiing, dancing, skating, rollerblading or any free motions, the SERGE-1 is for you.
Now, If you read up to this point I want to share a  little history behind the invention. I was born in St. Petersburg Russia  in a family of scientists, of course I wanted to become a scientist. My parents  were also skiers, so they put me on skis when I was able to walk. My father elevated my skiing skills to the level that was excepted  for  ski racing school. I was so admired  by my ski coaches, that  I want to become one myself. Such idea “raised my father’s eyebrows, so when I grew up I found a solution, I  became an electro-mechanical engineer, and a trainer, because I could not decide which  occupation I like more. Going back and forth between sport and engineering (where I specialized in industrial robots) I finally choose the sport. When Michael  Gorbachev declared “Perestroika” me and few more  trainers  opened one of the first private Gyms in St. Petersburg, that became quite popular, even with the primitive equipment that  we built ourselves. Time passed by and I moved to USA. My career begins  at the largest  sport corporation at that time “Ballys Total Fitness”, where I got a personal trainer certification. During nine years of working there I trained hundreds of people and received  several awards “Top 20 Personal Trainers” nationally. Some of the clients  I trained  were elderly people, and existing strength training equipment (that was build by body builders for body builders) was not ideal for them. Treadmills and Elliptical were potentially dangerous  in case of losing balance. Stationary  bikes are safe, but not for bad knees, rowing machines are great, but not for people with back issues. Later I was hired at “Weston” fitness  club, by Paul McG.
So I start to  think of ideal equipment for seniors, that eventually after years of experimenting, cutting, drilling, welding metal,
exsidments and aggravations, the prototype was build, patented (USA) and started manufacturing.
I believe that my device SERGE-1 Will open the  door for  the new generation of fitness equipment for seniors.
I would like to say thank you to people who were involved in the my project: My parents of course, my wife for  being patient with my weekends disappearing  in the “man cave” garage shop, my son who did administrative jobs, to my great Patents Attorney Martin Feigus, to very talented mechanical engineer and blue print drafted Viktor Kapilovich, who solved several main issues, and to my business partner David Goberman, who deals  with manufacturing.

-Serge Goldberg, Fit@55+ President

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