Nautilus? Will a Nautilus-Based "Variable" Training Regimen Yield Greater & More Sustained Muscle & Strength Gains?
Arthur Jones shows a beautiful lady, how his latest Nautilus Pull-Over Machine Works... don't you tell resistance training machines and fitness babes were an invention of the late 1990s ;-) Although I suspect that most of you are too young to remember the hype surrounding the introduction of the Nautilus Training Systems , I am pretty sure that you will have seen similar machines which are using a nautilus- (a mollusk whose shell has the shape of a logarithmic spiral) or otherwise funkily shaped cams in the place of regular circular wheels, in your gym. The (ingenious?) apparatus was an invention of Arthur Jones (see image on the right), himself a devoted physical culturist, who build the first machines using this by now often-copied mechanism in the late 1960s The idea behind the concept is that the nautilus-shaped cam would vary the lever over the full range of motion in a way that the intensity would peak at a selected point of the full range of motion. Usually this was an...