Russian Import: This Gym Promotes Very Heavy Lifting

Local reporter covers Gravitational Wellness program and its benefits

DATE: August 27, 2015
PUBLICATION: Emory News Center

“There’s one place in the world, other than Moscow, where this is done, and it’s Sandy Springs,” said Dr. David Burke, who chairs the department of rehabilitation medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine and has been studying the program.

Under the watchful eye of trainer Vladimir Chubinsky, a Ukrainian-born physical therapist and wrestler who brought the “gravitational wellness” program to the U.S in 1997, the people working out in the Cliftwood Drive gym lift weights loaded with metal disks weighing hundreds of pounds.