In this article we will discuss exactly how the ISO7X works and give you some background on isometric exercise.
With so much hype about the ISO7X, it’s no wonder that many people are both curious and skeptical. If this describes you, it certainly describes me; Then you’ll want to read this article and find out if everything you’ve heard about the ISO7X Isometric Exerciser is true or just a hype and possible scam.
When I first heard about the ISO7X, I was very skeptical about how a simple 7 second exercise could help me build muscle and get in shape. So, like many people, I want to know exactly how the ISO7X works.
Well, the ripped part I knew was more about diet than exercise. I knew then that this statement was part of the typical “infomercial” sales hype.
However, when I started researching isometry and isometric exercise, I discovered that this type of exercise protocol is one of the few that has been scientifically tested and validated.
It seems that isometrics became very popular in the 1960s and a host of products quickly appeared that offered people the opportunity to gain muscle size and strength very quickly. In fact, according to my research, many of the NFL football teams, such as the Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, and Minnesota Vikings, used isometric exercises in their strength and conditioning program.
It seems that isometrics fell out of favor when it was discovered that the US Olympic Weightlifting Team, which had been advocating using isometric exercise as the reason for their substantial strength and muscle gains, was actually using an oral steroid called Dianbol or Methandrostenolone (its pharmaceutical name.) This product was manufactured by the pharmaceutical company CIBA and was the main reason all powerlifters were gaining such incredible strength and muscle gains.
However, it seems that isometric exercise was the proverbial “baby and was flushed with bath water”, it was dismissed as a means of generating muscle size and strength due to the fact that steroids were responsible for the incredible bodybuilding gains of Olympic athletes.
What everyone seems to forget is that although these people were on steroids, they also used an isometric power rack and practiced isometrics in their weight lifting workouts. Look, I don’t know how much you know about steroids, but just taking steroids alone will not build a strong, muscular body.
It just doesn’t work that way, you also have to exercise and your training program must be able to produce results, otherwise all steroids do is bloat.
Now that we have the history lesson out of the way, let me clarify once and for all that isometry has been used for centuries in many of the martial arts, yoga, and many of the strong men of yesteryear. In the 1950s, isometry was validated as an exercise protocol by Drs. Hettinger and Müller. They carried out a great deal of research at the famous Max Planck Institute in Germany. The results of the studies were published in many scientific and commercial journals of that day.
The ISO7X is not a revolutionary new isometric exerciser. However, it is based on the design of the old Bullworker exerciser (designed in the 1960s). With the exception that it uses a fabric strap instead of steel cables and is based on a two-tube design as opposed to the much later three-tube Bullworker design on the Bullworker X5.
There are other types of isometric exercise equipment that are superior to ISO7X and offer much more in terms of warranty, training programs, and customer support.
Two of these models are the Bullworker classic and the Bully Xtreme 4.
The Bullworker classic offers a five-year defect warranty and the Bully Xtreme 4 offers a lifetime defect warranty. If you had to choose an isometric exerciser because you want to achieve greater muscle size and strength, I would recommend that you spend your money on either of these two models and leave the ISO7X behind.
In the end, how does the ISO7X work? It works using a proven scientific principle of exercise called Isometric, Static Contraction, or Iso-Tension.
