The first range of training equipments for a Standing Workout

Switching® is a new range of training strength machines designed to last, because the upright position is more natural for humans. This method, called Standing Workout is behind the success of this new line.
Switching® is an Italian invention that won an international award for outstanding innovation. Teca is the first company that discovered this extraordinary training potential in an upright position, creating a revolutionary workout. Switching® is not just another basic design of training gear; it is a real discipline that has revolutionised the way we think about training in the gym. Switching® is ideal for specific workouts and can be used in various ways, from personal training, weight loss, individual training programs or for a group circuit training program. It can be used by everyone to improve performance and its potential is limitless, being beneficial for the over 60’s, teenagers and athletes. The Switching® circuit can simultaneously improve the strength, power and endurance in the muscles, but also the cardio-respiratory system.
Based on the principle of functionality the Switching® System is designed to improve balance, posture, strength and endurance in the most effective manner. You can also use other accessories to improve your cardio or increase the muscle work. All machines in the circuit are inspired by natural human movements, especially the most common occasions of the physical activities of daily life.

Using circuit Switching®, through the Standing Workout , reduces the load on the spine and at the same time it stabilises muscles, especially the muscle groups that the body uses to correct the bodies posture.
The condition of imbalance and instability of the upright body requires complex adaptations that emphasize the action of muscles agonists, antagonists, and stabilizers through the synergistic action of kinetic chains.

Why do the Standing Workout?

There are two types of muscle fibres in the body: dynamic and stabiliser. When we work on a machine we traditionally train the isotonic fibres through dynamic exercise, which is specific muscle strengthening. The exercises with the traditional strength machines are always performed in a sitting position, forcing the spine to create unnatural postures and compensations to counter react the capabilities of the joint itself. In the sitting position the load on the lumbar (L3) increases by 30 percent according to Troisier and 40 percent according to Nachemson. In order not to subject your discs on your spine to wear and tear and prevent the onset of the pain, we have to maintain the physiological curves and muscle balance. Switching® exercise improves natural body functionality involving different muscle chains while burning more calories. This optimises the time spent while training.

Evolution or Involution?

Physiologists analysing obesity, cholesterol clustering, heart disease and diabetes found that the act of sitting shuts down the circulation of a fat-absorbing enzyme called lipase. They found that standing up engages muscles and promotes the distribution of lipase, which prompts the body to process fat and cholesterol, independent of the amount of time spent exercising. They also found that standing up uses blood glucose and may discourage the development of diabetes. Another benefit to standing: It improves your HDL, or good cholesterol levels. People who sat reduced their good cholesterol levels by 22 percent!"Chair time is an insidious hazard because people haven't been told it's a hazard" (Marc Hamilton, Ph.D., professor of biomedical sciences at the University of Missouri in Columbia) That's advice worth a standing ovation!

Focusing on core stability

Switching, like all other Standing Innovation concepts, offers everything needed in daily life. Working in a standing position reduces training comfort zones where parts of the musculature do not contribute to the complete exercise a body needs. Ten machines address practically all muscles, muscle groups and muscle chains. And many machines offer numerous varieties of movement. This means that everyone of every stature and physical capacity can benefit from Switching. Just find your best standing position. Like you do in daily life… And then, importantly, Switching is a well-proven, attractive training due to the shortness in time it takes. Working in ongoing intervals over 1, 1 and a half or 2 minutes, provides your club members with a workout which lasts twenty minutes at the most. And believe us, that is more than enough time to keep the human engine running. Ten machines means ten participants. But trampolines, balance balls, maybe an easy to install indoor cycle can easily be involved to welcome more members.

The machines are compact, very versatile, easy to move

The Switching® strength circuit is composed of 10 machines that allow you to train in an upright position, creating situations that mimic and maintain the natural movements of everyday life. The machines are compact, very versatile, easy to move. You can arrange this equipment in any space of your gym, whatever big or small.

Why Switching® in your Fitness Club?
•  It is the only system of strength machines in the standing position
•  Easy to use because there are no adjustments
•  Easy to use by the trainer
•  Can be integrated with the traditional machines that are located in the training room
•  It has a modern and refined design
•  It is versatile and usable in accordance with the wishes and objectives of our clients
•  Reduces costs by optimising space freeing up more working space in your gym for maximum membership
•  Offers training programs that reflect the trend in fitness today: fast, efficient, safe and fun
•  It is a pleasant and fun news for customers of the club

Switching® allows the owner of the fitness centre to offer more services and thus higher quality, using the machines to individual records as the traditional strength-training, but also for group training to music. There can be organised lessons which are fun and effective at certain times of the day or on certain days of the week or times of year, when customers need more encouragement to continue to attend the centre. Switching® creates the preconditions for increasing customer loyalty and stimulates the curiosity of potential new members, offers greater possibilities of success for the fitness centre even during the off peak seasons of the year.

Fun & Functional

Already in 2000 Teca introduced standing innovation as a joyful answer to immovability. We designed ten machines, gathered in a versatile multi-target training, highly functional in intervals of one, one and a half or two minutes, focusing on muscle tone, fat burning, anti-ageing, post-rehab and most of all improving core stability. This highly "fun & functional training" can be done in no more than twenty minutes providing your customers with a complete exercise. Everybody of all ages can join in. Arrange group sessions or let the machines be used at any time of the day, for all sorts of training.

Multi Target Training

It is obvious to many: if you want to face the physical resistance daily life presents, you need a multi-target training that emphasises core stability. Because in the core runs the engine of all active movements. In the core you find your personal strength and especially: your self-esteem. Switching® is well-accepted: this first standing innovation concept won the FIBO 2002 Innovation Award. In 2007 a special Switching version for young children entered the stage, called Gymboy. And recently more varieties have been designed, like Beauty and Lady Switching® for the women’s market. And standing innovation has much more potential!

How to make money with Switching®?

Put Switching® in the middle of your training room, available to use every opening hour. Considering the fact that it is a short training (20 minutes) you can provide three group classes every hour. Switching® made active every minute of your opening hours. Can you imagine: There is always something happening in the gym. The room comes alive! Members used to doing their thing individually are invited to join in for a short, intensive and motivating training together. That makes people curious: "Hey, working out can be fun too!". And in the slow hours, people can use the circuit themselves if you provide them with an interval clock. And then there is the possibility of activating Switching in physical therapist and personal training programmes. And think about special training moments for elderly people. Great group training sessions are limited by the availability of space, agenda and availability of expensive instructors.That means that your investment can be made profitable only at certain hours of the day. Switching® is available in your club every minute of the day, with or without instructors!