Well I bet you've never
heard of a T-Bow or Tbow. Am I right? Thought I was! Actually,
neither had I until a few months ago. We were at a Fitness exhibition
in London when I saw this - Thing. Looked like a small humpback
bridge in bright orange with a blue exercise mat fixed to the convex
side. Gaps in the sides meant you could pick it up and carry it
like a briefcase. I lifted one - not heavy; I could easily carry
2 and I'm not exactly built like Charles Atlas.
I laid it down and turned it over, curved-side down. Hmm. Footgrips.
By now I was intrigued. I'm always interested in portable, versatile
pieces of exercise equipment that I can load into my dogeared,
faithful old car and take to torture - I mean train - clients with.
(My beloved old Heap of Tin is named Milo. I kid you not; Bob's
car is called Donkey!! )
All the time that I was sniffing around this T-Bow like an overgrown
Labrador, the attendant was watching me with a grin. No attempt
at hard-sell (which I hate), just letting me have a good nosey.
When I looked up, she caught my eye and gestured at the T-Bow. "Want
a go?" was all she needed to say. I wagged my tail.
She showed me how to put my feet on the footgrips and swing the
T-Bow from side to side so that it rocked. It was great! And in
less than a minute I was really feeling the burn and beginning
to pant a bit. I could rock forward and back by turning through
a right angle, balance and do squats. Wow!
Then she turned it over, curved side up, put resistance bands
through the gaps in the sides and showed me seated exercises, standing
exercises, lying-on-your-back exercises, lying-on-your-front exercises,
sidelying exercises. My jaw dropped lower and lower. I wouldn't
have been surprised if she'd shown me a standing-on-your-head exercise.
I was hooked! What an amazingly versatile piece of kit this was!
Now, I have gone through all the variables of home exercise equipment.
I have had a huge multigym in my back bedroom. I have had exercise
bikes, walking machines, crosstrainers. I have tripped over dumbbells
and banged my shins on mini-trampolines. They all look hideous
and are a nightmare to dust. And if you cover them with sheets,
it looks like the Addams Family moved in!
And then there are these gadgets that can be put up and taken
down and stored in a cupboard after you've exercised. Well, for
one thing you can never be bothered to haul them out and build
them, and if you do, you're too worn out to exercise!
This T-Bow thing can be stacked, rested up against the wall or
even shoved under your bed. Just take it out, lay it down and you're
ready to rock! Never before have I come across a single piece of
kit on which you can do your whole workout - warmup, cardio, toning
and stretching - with no other accessory than a flexiband. And
in such a small amount of space!
Reader, I bought them.
Two to start with. One for me, one for him. Child settled for
an ipod instead (I think I got done there!) I took them along to
show my Personal Training clients - as in "Look, look, I've
got a new toy!" The first two clients bought the first two
T-Bows. Not exactly the Cunning Plan!
And that's the story so far. The Cunning Plan is to build up a
stock of 15 Tbows and introduce them into our Pilates classes -
nobody else that we know of has toys like these, teehee. Trouble
is, everybody who sees them wants to buy one and we haven't been
able to keep 15 yet!
If you would like to see some pictures of the T-Bow in action
please click this link
The
T-Bow rocks!
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