Redefining the Boundaries of Weightlifting

Dramatic gains in weight lifted and significant health benefits achieved through the Gravitational Wellness program

DATE: August 21, 2017
PUBLICATION: Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Journal

In our global search for exercise techniques that will benefit our patients, we have discovered a novel training program that uses the conventions of Eastern Medicine and redefines the limits of weights lifted, and seems to point us in a new direction of treatment and discovery. The Gravitational Wellness (GW) system was developed by a Russian physiologist, Anatoly Samodumov, and brought to the United States by Vladimir Chubinsky, a physiotherapist. As we have demonstrated in previous publications, GW provides our patients and athletes the capacity to load the musculoskeletal system, with uniquely high weights, leading to rapid weekly strength gains through 30 minute, weekly training sessions (In one study, subjects averaging 48 years of age were able to lift on average 1100 pounds (498.95 kg) after 10 sessions) [4].

Contrary to conventional weight lifting programs that emphasize performing a full range of motion during lifts, GW emphasizes the stimulation of the qi, using a wide belt attached to free weights, allowing for stress to be transmitted through the lower Dantian. By first stimulating the qi, and using four distinct lifts (belt lift, hand lift, chest lift, and leg lift), individuals have been able to achieve impressive strength and wellness benefits. In the study mentioned above, by the 10th session, the average weight lifted in the belt lift for males and females had increased to 1336.7 lbs (606.32 kg) and 949.4 lbs (430.64 kg) respectively [4]. In a study of 75 consecutive patients beginning the program, we found no injuries during the weightlifting sessions.