Dwiizie
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Yeah cept the fly is now 389, not the 289 it was last year (lol) and the stand is 395 plus shipping, not including the rig bar. The omi complete has all of it for 695 + shipping. Even cheaper for right now cuz nothing is in stock. $$ say the fly gym side hammocks aren’t work the gains vs losses
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I just still wish I could get the Omni with the Flygym side slings instead of the omni foot pad slings. I just like that hammockynes. I did hear of a few other "aerial gyms" while browsing their Facebook like the Air Gyro Gym…. Haven't looked at that one much yet.
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I'm pretty sure Omni can do UK….I know they can do Australia from looking at some comments on their Facebook. Theres a button on their sale page that says "click here for non us shipping charges" but the link takes you to a not found page. Not sure about the other types and where they are because I've pretty much settled on Omni. Oh I found it, the shipping is listed as "for Western Europe"
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Got it 🙂 Thank you!
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And I typically do strength training 3 times a week, a day in between for recovery, a day off. So thats why I was sticking to the reps and things, though failure seems to come more naturally to me as a method, s I was still failing myself out 3 times a week WITH reps. I'm glad to know someone else has heard of it, when V and Chem and Saph came in with their thoughts I was like "Maybe I'm just imagining things or misinterpreting something…"
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*I meant 3 sets of 12 lol
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You have put forth an excellent explanation of what I was trying to say when describing the method as opposed to a sets method. So you like that and use it. I've done kind of a mix by working until positive failure, but by using mediumish weights, so failure doesn't come in 7 reps, it comes at 12, then 15, then 17, then when I get to 20, I go up a weight and start with low rep again. But no sets, no breaks. Its like I'm not being effective at either technique.
I will say that for certain things, like a pole row, you're using body weight resistance, so upping the reps and sets is your only way to continue to reach failure until there is no failure at 10 sets of 12, and you can't add to body weight. You can change angles to present challenges, but it seems theres a roof on it. Hrm…
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I think the logic behind it was "max out your muscles to build muscles, take 20 reps to do it with sets and lighter weights, or kill them in 5 reps with heavier weight and move to next muscle" Going with the whole "lift til you can lift no more" mentality. Either way, after hearing from you guys, I'm thinking maybe its just a screwy "get buff quick" type fitness approach. Appreciate the weigh ins!
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I guess I'd ask next, is it BAD if you don't break it up? I totally get what you're saying with "if you're doing 20 reps without effort, more weight needed etc" but what if you do the most reps possible at your heaviest repable weight, and only pop out 5-12… is that a bad technique for strength? I ask because recently I was using a program that advocated minimal reps on max weight rather than sets or switching or breaks. It DOES call to do cardio like jump rope before moving to the next muscle group, circuit training style, but you never go back to, say, bicep curls, if you did 8 of them with 20lb weights, as opposed to 2 sets of 10 with 8 lb weights…
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Whats the advantage to a break between a set, to move to a set of other movements and come back, or just rest and start a new set of the same thing, or it doesn't matter it just means to break it up…
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Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!! *confetti and glitter* Cheers to 20 13!!!
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R would be really cool leaning against the pole, arching the back with hands over head, with one foot pointed forward. If you can do a back bend move to make an O that would be cool, either on the ground, or a rubber ayesha or something. If you can photoshop, you could do two of you on one pole to make it look like some doubles moves. Cool idea!
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Yay!! Congrats VW!
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I'm going to copy and paste some of my response from another topic and add to it if thats ok:
I've been researching all these aerial gym options. I like the aerial empowerment hammock, but you can use the hammock part alone with the fly and omni. The omnis main sling is 4×8. The fly is about 4 something by 4 something, but very stretchy. The empowerment hammock I believe is 5 wide and whatever length you want, so yeah if you wanna go silks, get a super long hammock. I plan to buy an omni. I like the trapeze setup. I like that the stand has 3 poles all around you so you can still do pole moves assisted by it. I saw a youtube of 3 polers just using the stand legs for monkeyin' around and the trapeze setup. I plan to put mine in the center of the living room and when I don't want the swing out, I can hang just a regular hammock chair from the connect point as a cool accent piece. I just can't decide if I want an 8'3" or an 8'6" (HUGE difference I know lmao but I just wanna get the right thing for me). I also found the best views of the stand from the pt 1 0f 9 101 omni gym moves video on youtube. I definitely can see me taking it outside or on vacations lol.
The Fly Gym does have two smaller slings and a main sling, as well as a set of handles. The Omni just has the padded foot/thigh slings instead of a really "hammocky" looking side sling. The omni with the trapeze is cool, because you can just carabeaner the hammock, side handles, or slings interchangeably, either to the outter 2 loops, or from the center single point. You can also go without the trapeze system, you loose the bounce and the swivel, but you can buy the swivel. I think you can find instructions online, or ask them to email them to you, as they say thats how they are delivering instructions in order to reduce their paper trail/carbon footprint. The Omni is padded and not as stretchy as the Fly, and the Fly isn't padded, but is very stretchy, the empowerment hammock I believe has about the middle ground between the two, but is a little wider, which is the one thing I wish Omni was because I love when people are all balled up in their hammocks, looks so cozy and cocooning, but its only a foot shorter, and I've seen plenty of photos of people "cocooning" in the omnis.
I also found that Omni has another website after Liking them on Facebook, http://www.omni-gym.com that has some alternate photos and stuff, but the info is basically the same as the yogaswing.com that pops up when you google the gym.
If you got the omniswing without the stand, its the same type of rigging as the fly or any other hammock, heavy boltage properly into the ceiling (LOTS of rigging info on fly gyms site that would be about the same for any of the hammock systems) http://flygym.com/about/equipment
I feel like the omni and Fly have those extra straps so you can really go "gym" with it, where as the hammock is very yoga and flowy. I like the idea of having handles for extra spotting and stuff, and I love when people are planking or working on splits with just the handles and extra slings, with the main sling having been removed. Both Fly and Omni have this option.
If I can think of any other WHAMO differences, I'll repost, but thats the jist of what I have discovered. Definitely go youtube videos of people using each. And Veena did a hammock video that was VERY dancey and flowy and stuff, but wouldn't be like "I'm going to do 2 presses and pulls and this pose and that pose to target these muscles" type of workout, its more like working everything like you do with pole.
I'd love to hear people who have them weigh in about their experiences.
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Yeah, I'm terrified of tree limbs, we've seen some GIANT ones come down in fairly mild storms, just because they were dying inside, but you'd have no idea looking at it. Even rigging on playground equipment designed for kids makes me a little woah. I'm really glad that I have room for the omni stand. And chem also made a good point about having a teacher. I'm going to trade in some of my beloved pole classes for hammock classes so I get some basics before I just go strapping myself into a flippy hammock thing lol!
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I’ve been researching all these aerial gym options. I like the hammock, but you can use the hammock alone with the fly and omni. The omnis main sling is 4×8. The fly is about 4 something by 4 something, but stretchy. The hammock I believe is 5 wide and whatever length you want, so yeah if you wanna go silks, get a super long hammock. I plan to buy an omni. I like the trapeze setup. I like that the stand has 3 poles all around you so you can still do pole moves assisted by it. I saw a youtube of 3 polers just using the stand legs for monkeyin’ around and the trapeze setup. I plan to put mine in the center of the living room and when I don’t want the swing out, I can hang just a regular hammock chair from the connect point as a cool accent piece. I just can’t decide if I want an 8’3″ or an 8’6″ (HUGE difference I know lmao but I just wanna get the right thing for me). I also found the best views of the stand from the pt 1 0f 9 101 omni gym moves video on youtube. I definitely can see me taking it outside or on vacations lol. I’m so excited. I’ve exhausted my husband by “pro and con”ing on the different options for days on end, showing videos, comparing limitations. Its to the point he said “just buy one, get the best one, and get one for me too, they’r f’n awesome” lol!!! So that would be cool to take our slings and things to the park, hook up to some monkey bars, and go to town.
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They JUST posted on my thread that they’re closed till the 2nd. And they have several support emails apparently. Good luck!
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Okie dokie, will do, thanks for responding!
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I Googled Aerial Empowerment and the site popped right up. I was wondering if the yoga hammock is all you really need, and if all the handles and grips and foot slings with the "gym" ones are just extraneous. But some of the poses and things I see on the gym ones seem like you could never get that from a straight hammock. When people first said Yoga Hammock, I was JUST looking at Omni because they call it the Original Yoga Hammock lol.
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Mainly basing this opinion off my experience with the American Idol audition process….
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I would say list it. I'm American though, I don't know if "British bakers" would feel differently lol. If you feel more fitness, go for vertical fitness, if you feel like a dancer, you could put pole dancing, or just dancing if you really feel shy about it. It could be the thing that gives you an edge in competition, not as a novelty exactly, but just something unique about a contestant that would make the show more interesting, which means more money, and those $$$s are what producers are looking for when screening apps for any reality show. I hate to call it a gimmick, but it could act as such to advance you past preliminary screenings.
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Well, if the time stamps on this thread are correct, they were aware of the issue and this thread, and received videos on the 12th. I feel like that is enough time to respond to an email at least. They even asked me what the best time for them to call me was, so I was thinking they were planning to call soon.
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Well, like I posted earlier, mine isn't bowed or anything, its just a PITA lol. I do worry because I still LOVE the xpole style, and my planned replacement is a 45 or possibly 40, but if its going to have the same issues, I may be looking into PS. I hear that I got my xpole right before "the april" where they changed a lot about the x joints so they weren't twisting and slipping, and I had the problems with the xjoints and spin mode and everything else when the pole first arrived. The bottom "never touch these" screws weren't even in place or tightened. I got it from an authorized distributor, but its just so frustrating to invest so much in something that has so many bugs with it. I mean, there are bad batches of any product I suppose, but it makes me want to cry.
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When I had to do this, I also loosened and retightened mine. When it got to the point that there was tension, but not enough tension, I would just turn in 3rds with yank tests until it felt right. That way it never got over tightened, but doesn't loose tension with weight or spins.
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What is the main difference between Omni and Fly? Could you use a Fly with an Omni Stand (that stand looks like it rocks lol!)
