E3 Grips Are AWESOME!!

Steve:

I just wanted to say that I have been using my e3 Fitness Grips
religiously since February of 2001. That is when my teammates from Team
In Training and I were videotaped while running on the track at
Sacramento State University during one of our workouts. I never knew
how bad my form really was until the tape demonstrated how much my
elbows went out and my hands crossed over. I also found that this
improper movement was also indirectly causing my feet to point slightly
outward as they landed, rather than totally forward.

Ever since then, the e3 Fitness Grips have improved my form dramatically
– simply by helping me to keep my elbows in toward my sides and drive
my fists forward, rather than crossing over. With the e3 Fitness Grips,
I feel like I have so much more control. My workouts go more smoothly
and I am much more efficient on my longer runs (this last part turned
out to be very important, considering I ended up logging over 2100 miles
in the 2001 calendar year).

In the past I would see my shadow on the ground and I thought that I
just naturally had a funny looking running form. That is simply not the
case today. I look like a real runner now.

I have also been injury free since using the e3 Fitness Grips. I am
sure that improved running form has a lot to do with it.

Thanks for your great invention and for helping runners run happier and
healthier.

–
Bob Rowden
Former Team-In-Training Mentor
Greater Sacramento Area Chapter
Fall 2001 California International Marathon
Sacramento, CA

Ever since I first began running I have been a magnet for running injuries. Feet that are not bio-mechanically well-constructed produced a never-ending list of aches and pains; some annoying, others debilitating and long-lasting.

Shin splints, fascial releases, chronic muscle pulls in hamstrings and calves, achilles tendon issues, knee pain, SI joint pain, etc. I often joke that I got my degree physical therapy first-hand.

I first heard about e3 grips www.biogrip.com two years ago when I was battling through an endless series of calf and hamstring muscle strains. Calf muscle would be feeling great, I’d be running easily, and then ZAP!, out of the blue, the muscle would zing and I’d be walking home. Ditto for the hamstring.

My running routine consisted of jogging 90″ laps around a soccer field where I would walk every 3-4’ to rest the hamstring so it would not spasm and send me home depressed yet again. I had worked up to almost 20’ of walk/run, but my state was very precarious and the muscle was always on edge.

Enter Stephen Tamaribuchi, who I had heard about from a friend who knew an elite runner whose chronic calf pulls disappeared by running with these silly grip things. Stephen was in the area of my home and paid me a visit.

Stephen led me through a series of strength and stepping exercises with and without the grips and the difference was so striking that I called in my wife to observe, or as I said to Stephen, to see if she could detect whatever trick he must be doing to produce such different results simply by holding these grips! No tricks were discernible to my wife either.

The next evening I ventured over to the soccer field with my purchased grips to do my 3’ jog, 1’ walk routine and hoped to add up to 20’. Amazingly, I found myself running 30’ continuous and at a faster pace than my previous jogs under the cover of darkness.

Curious as to the explanation for this quantum leap forward in my running, I put the grips down and ran some more. Within 2’ the hamstring was sending warning signals….not good, so I stopped. Still curious however, I picked up the grips again and began jogging gingerly—no hamstring tension. Fifteen solid-paced minutes later I stopped running and was exhilarated.

Since that time, I have never in my life run so consistently and worry-free. I NEVER run without the grips unless I somehow have not placed them in my bag. Those few annoying times that this has occurred, it was striking how out of sync my stride felt running grip-less.

Stephen’s technical explanation as to how the grips help a runner is as follows:
“The e3 grips help modify mechanical behavior throughout the body by placing the shoulder and hip girdles in more inherently stable positions and the axial skeleton in a balanced vertical alignment.”

My own sense in running with the grips is that everything just seems to line up better and my overall stride and arm swing compacts into a tight, efficient unit. I feel better balanced and with the elimination of extraneous movement my muscles work more easily in moving me forward as they do not have to compensate for strains outside of my specific exercise pattern.

In the simplest of terms, I do not feel like I am walking on eggshells each time I venture out the door to do a run.

Many of the athletes that I coach who have suffered from similar annoying injury patterns will tell you similar stories. We do laugh at ourselves, and jokingly remind each other to hold crystals as well, but bottom-line is that these things work.

-www.triathloncoach.com

Ultrarunning Magazine’s 2001 Men’s North American Ultrarunner of the Year
2001 World 100km Ultramarathon Silver Medallist
2000 USA 100km National Silver Medallist
1994 USA 100km National Champion
Co-author of “The Ultimate Guide to Marathons”

Rich trains and races with the e3 Fitness Grips

Olympic Runner (1996 and 2000), 6-Time Japan National Champion, Japanese National Record-Holder

I have always been pleased with our speed development program, but the addition of the e3 Grips has opened up a whole new area of instruction and learning. The e3 Grip has allowed us to make quicker, more permanent corrections to mechanical flaws in some athletes form. Thanks again for such a substantial innovation.”

– Bob King, C.S.C.S.,
President
Athlete Development Center
Strength & Conditioning Coach Dallas Burn MLS

Human Resource Manager

Director, Shiley Elite Athletic Excellence, Health Resource Center at Scripps Clinic
Author, “Strong Abs and Back: 165 Exercises to Build Your Center of Power”