Hammock Training: characteristics and benefits of training suspended in the air

The tool

The Hammock tool consists of a semi-elastic fabric, 2 short slings, 2 carabiners, 2 long slings (for fixing between carabiners and anchor point of the ceiling or structures).

It is strongly recommended to use the materials supplied with the Hammock or, alternatively, certified climbing materials, and to use suitable structures certified for the type of work or to make sure, even with the help of experts, that the anchor points have sufficient to ensure safety at work.

The Hammock has unique characteristics that make working with it changing, multifaceted e training:

• I work in Balance
• Work in suspension and overthrow

Training in Balance and/or Suspension and Overturning with the Hammock produce a unique type of training which aims to strengthen the basic motor patterns and to increase motor skills and abilities.
A close relationship is created with the tool it produces continuous stimuli both from the point of view of training, and from that of creativeness, since from errors and recoveries new movements, exercises, joints, tricks, up to real combos can be born.

For this and many other aspects, this type of training considerably increases the psychophysical well-being of the subject.

Hammock training

Several can be made training programs, diversifying the objectives: HammockFit, Hammock Stretch&Relax, Hammock Acre.

Work in suspension of the body, partial or total, constantly activates the core muscles, strengthening the center and keeping the muscle chains active thanks to the continuous balance given by the tool. Indeed, the movement of the Hammock produces repetitive postural adjustments, using small and deep muscles, more difficult to activate normally.

A further interesting aspect concerns the possibility of stretch and cool down your muscles, mobilize joints and increase proprioception through work Hammock Stretch&Relax. The functional versatility of the Hammock thus allows you to train the body and then be able to stretch and relax it in stretching and cool-down positions, giving moments of full calm of the mind even if the body continues to work, cradled by the balance.

Another aspect, no less interesting, aimed at those who already have a good Hammock level or are familiar with aerial, acrobatic, calisthenics, etc. disciplines, concerns the Hammock Acre: the training includes acrobatic positions, movements and combinations that favor working upside down, the use of strength and support of the arms, knowledge of joints with the fabric and sequences for the execution of "falls".

Benefits of Hammock Training

• POSTURAL AND PROPRIOCEPTION BALANCE

The changing shape and "instability" of the fabric of the Hammock entails a continuous adaptation of the body which works in continuous balance, which can be increased to your liking and at the discretion of the trainer. This produces a intense and continuous work of all muscle chains who strive to seek stability in a condition of instability. The result is one good readiness of large and small and deep muscles to react to external stimuli, even if minimal and an excellent education of the body to receive small or large stimuli. The speed of neuromotor reaction times is shortened thanks to the work in suspension that entails greater concentration of the subject during work.

• STRENGTH DEVELOPMENT

One particular feature very important of Hammock Training concerns precisely this aspect, since work in suspension, if guided gradually with an eye to posture and correct execution, can produce excellent development of upper limb and core strength in particular, but also of the lower limbs. Work with fabric promptly activates full-body utilization and increases the perception of the body in the various positions with respect to space and with respect to the fabric. overthrow it is a fundamental point of training, to be approached gradually in order to have the right proprioception and strength, as well as mobility of course, to be able to perform entire combinations upside down, supported by the safety of the tool and the technique learned.

• DEVELOPMENT AND INCREASE OF JOINT MOBILITY AND MUSCULAR FLEXIBILITY

The fabric of the Hammock, being flexible but supportive, guarantees adequate support to achieve stretching positions that would otherwise lead to incorrect contractions and adjustments. The modulation of the tool, in fact, is useful for increasing and overcoming joint blockages, working simultaneously on both the passive and active fronts and therefore on muscle lengthening. Joint mobility goes hand in hand with muscle strength: if the muscles of a joint are weak, the joint will not be stable enough to carry out all its movements. To maintain the maximum possible mobility of a joint it is necessary to exercise the muscle groups in their full range of motion.

• DEVELOPMENT AND INCREASE OF MOTOR SKILLS

Performing Hammock training routines necessarily involves mastering a different type of training language technical-combinatory. The existence of a performance model makes it possible to plan a path appropriate to the requests and needs of the subject, consequently increasing their motor skills according to the objectives set. The motor skills most involved areequilibrium, coordination, reactivity, multilateralism.

• DEVELOPMENT AND INCREASE OF SELF-ESTEEM

It is not to be underestimated the increase in the perception of one's own abilities and therefore in self-esteemwhich it produces indirectly the acquisition of good posture and an increase in the consideration of oneself and one's own possibilities also in daily life. Dealing with the fear of emptiness, of heights, of instability, of overturning and the approach to movements and positions that initially seem impossible and unattainable, it greatly satisfies ourselves and gives us greater strength in facing daily difficulties.