bio bench

During my years at Cal in the mid 1980s we benefitted from using the "speed circuit" developed by Evan Flavell and Isokinetics, Inc. It incorporated several "swim benches" and other isokinetic apparatuses... Evan is still going strong in the Bay Area, and I believe the Bears still use the speed circuit, too. Back in those days I worked for Evan and his partner at a commercial version of the speed circuit called "FitLab" 15 stations in 30 minutes. The perfect dryland training for swimmers. I loved that BioMetric Swim bench too, great for strength building at pace with accomodating resistance. We'd do the circuit as a points competition, Evan programmed a computer to monitor your energy output while on the circuit, and we'd compare scores. Bengt Baron, and Jim Corbeau were two of the staff there, Jim was a manager for a while too. Miss that workout. I hear Evan is still servicing the benches and builds one or two every now and then.

During my years at Cal in the mid 1980s we benefitted from using the "speed circuit" developed by Evan Flavell and Isokinetics, Inc. It incorporated several "swim benches" and other isokinetic apparatuses... Evan is still going strong in the Bay Area, and I believe the Bears still use the speed circuit, too. Back in those days I worked for Evan and his partner at a commercial version of the speed circuit called "FitLab" 15 stations in 30 minutes. The perfect dryland training for swimmers. I loved that BioMetric Swim bench too, great for strength building at pace with accomodating resistance. We'd do the circuit as a points competition, Evan programmed a computer to monitor your energy output while on the circuit, and we'd compare scores. Bengt Baron, and Jim Corbeau were two of the staff there, Jim was a manager for a while too. Miss that workout. I hear Evan is still servicing the benches and builds one or two every now and then.