The document describes a fitness training system called Vicore that utilizes unstable surfaces to enhance core strength, balance, and coordination in a more practical way than traditional exercises. It provides an overview of Vicore equipment and methodologies, highlighting research showing their effectiveness at engaging more muscles and improving physical performance through increased neurological stimulation and proprioceptive training. Safety testing results and sample exercises are also outlined to demonstrate the benefits of Vicore's ergonomic and dynamic training approach.
2. Course Expectations:
Why Vicore:
We brought you here for the next two days, because we want to demonstrate a better way - ok, a vastly
superior way, for anyone to gain the benefits of core strength, balance, and functional vitality. Our objective is
to teach a methodology that will unify and enhance the human body in ways never before possible. During the
course, we will introduce you to equipment that is changing the way people train. You will experience, first hand,
how the right tools can turn traditional exercises into a three-dimensional experience that is more dynamic than
anything you have ever encountered. Most exciting of all, we are going to reveal the future of what fitness looks
like from now on...
Vicore represents a huge leap forward in the areas of bio-mechanical enhancement, athletic training, and overall
wellness. Through the fusing of both new and traditional technologies, a dynamic, ever-changing environment
has been created. One that literally forces your body and mind to engage through increased neurological syn-
apses. Vicore equipment creates an interface that requires the user to constantly adapt. With each adaptation an
entirely new combination of movements are then required, making it nearly impossible for your muscles or mind
to plateau. Otherwise stated, it is impossible to work one muscle group without engaging ten others.
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household.
WARNING!This is not your run of the mill exercise
equipment. If you have a tendency to whine
and cry when faced with pain, please refrain
from using.
HOWEVER, if the thought of being bathed in
lactic acid and sore muscles excites you, please
carry on.
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3. When you set out to build strength, the bi-products are agility, balance and increased coordination and vise
versa. Vicore Equipment and its methodologies are also vastly superior when it comes to the sciences of ergo-
nomics, comfort, and safety. We are not sure that comfort and safety are actually sciences - but they soon will be.
Why is this important to you and your profession? We are an aging, time starved population that has been forced
Coordination
Agility Flexibility
Balance Power
The ability to perform complex
tasks with fluidity and ease.
The perfect recipe for converting
muscle energy into motion.
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5. The premise:
The evidence behind using unstable surfaces to enhance core strength, balance, and coordination has been
around for years. However, practical equipment for implementing these practices has been pretty scarce. The
good news is that human beings are very resourceful. The bad news is that straddling a giant rubber ball is a bit
embarrassing for everyone involved.
Vicore has spent the last five years designing and developing a system which takes the best elements of tra-
ditional gym equipment and fuses them with a surface that is dynamically three-dimensional, not only in their
shape, but in how they move and respond to the human form. We call this the Body Link System, because that is
exactly what it does. It unifies the body with the equipment, like two parts of a puzzle.
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vicore history:
Vicore was founded by a team of industry veterans and fitness maniacs who knew and practiced the ‘dark art
of core strengthening and functional fitness:’ balancing on balls; lifting car tires, cats, dogs, and the occasional
barnyard animal over their heads; along with an entire series of other strange practices. All for the sake of build-
ing a little core, balance, and a bit of coordination. These early pioneers knew, full well, that these three virtues
were the winning tickets when it came to gaining the performance edge they were looking for. However, there was
still something missing - a need and desire for core strength and resistance training. Therefore, they set out to
develop a new system with the necessary tools to accomplish these goals.
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6. The fun doesn’t stop here, the Body Link System also synchronizes the extremity muscles with the stabilizers
and the nervous system - creating a singular, unified machine. You could say we redefined serendipity.
An apparatus can be made unstable in two ways; one is mechanically, the second is passively through the use of
materials which are inherently unstable (i.e. gasses, liquids and gels). Vicore chose an air system which provides
a large number of advantages, such as the ability to change and enhance the level of difficulty by simply adding
or subtracting the amount of air. Also, we know that air never wears out. It simply adapts to fit any shape or size
and is an absolute constant in all areas of reciprocated pressure, all of which go well beyond instability.
What can you expect from moving your clients from old-school equipment to Vicore?
Below is a list of health advantages that professional trainers, medical personel, and our own studies
have revealed:
1. Training at a neurological level.
2. Proprioceptive training coupled with resistive train-
ing, recruiting both phasic and postural muscles to
work together for strength and stability.
3. Increases proprioceptive stimulation and mechano-
receptor firing, thereby increasing joint stability.
4. Fires more neuro-receptors to increase neuroplasti-
city resulting in accelerated balance, coordination,
and increased athletic performance.
5. Balances with resistance stimulates and trains the
body’s five righting reflexes:
a) Labyrinthine righting reflex (inner ear - medulla
b) Optic righting reflex (eyes – occipital cortex)
c) Neck righting reflex (joints of the neck - midbrain)
d) Body righting reflex #1 (body’s surface receptors
– midbrain)
e) Body righting reflex #2 (body to head orientation
– midbrain)
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7. 6. Reduces stress on joints, decreasing the risk of ten-
donitis and the development of osteoarthritis.
7. The equipment contours to the spine, preserv-
ing the lordosis – kyphosis - lordosis relationship.
Increases proprioceptive stimulation and mechano-
receptor firing, thereby increasing joint stability.
8. Supports lordosis in the spine, allowing for normal
coupled motion.
9. Encourages motion in the spinal discs, increasing
nutrition and hydration through osmosis and imbibi-
tion.
10. Slows down the aging process by continual stimu-
lation of proprioception, helping to slow the degen-
eration of the vestibular system. (You don’t use it,
you lose it).
11. Greater muscle recruitment increases vascular
circulation. Muscle contractions pump blood back
to the heart through veins, and promote lymphatic
drainage.
12. Greater muscle recruitment causes the body to
increase the number of blood vessels to meet the
demands of oxygen and glucose required to fuel
them.
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than we can understand.
If your brain starts
hurting, just know that
we feel your pain.
All that really matters is
that you are getting the
best core workout your
body has ever known.”
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9. the science:
infrared thermal imaging:
The integration of all the body’s functions and synapses as a single unit is the optimal workload scenario. Vicore
has developed systems and tools which unite and utilize all the functions the body needs to perform to peak,
youthful levels. As the Benefits section pointed out, our equipment creates a wider range of motion, better er-
gonomic environments, less skeletal stress, and a more comfortable and enjoyable workout. These alone would
make most companies jump for joy; however, Vicore is not just any compa-
ny. The latter results were very evident, making us quite happy...but they were
not the reason that we developed the equipment in the first place. Once again,
we wanted a system that forced the body to unite, one that created a three-
dimensional environment. The resulting Vicore body would be strong, well-
balanced, and able to perform at peak levels, not only in the pursuit of one’s
athletic endeavors but in carrying out the daily tasks we call ‘life,’ allowing them
to move with nimbleness and ease. To see if we had achieved success, we
turned to every type of testing and measuring device we could find.
One way to visually understand what’s happening in the body is through thermal imaging. In order to perform,
muscles need oxygen, which is carried by blood through the cardiovascular system. The harder a muscle is
working, the more oxygen it needs, requiring increased blood flow (the by-product of which is heat). Therefore,
a series of tests were devised to see which areas of the body (if any) demonstrated amplified loading. Controls
were implemented using traditional benches and equipment, as well as physio balls, and simple hard flat surfaces
(A.K.A. the floor). An infrared thermal camera was then directed at the test subject(s) at which point they were
asked to perform a series of movements and exercises while muscle activation was observed and recorded.
Vicore has developed
systems and tools
which unite and uti-
lize all the functions
the body needs to
perform at peak,
youthful levels.
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10. In literally all cases, the amount of heat was dramatically increased in the test subjects when using Vicore prod-
ucts. What about the physio balls? Well, once we could get them to stop rolling around, the infrared camera
recorded some higher levels of core activity as well. However, it was concluded that due to the ball’s inefficient,
spherical shape, only a small percentage of the user’s body was actually on the ball at any one time (the remain-
ing portion of the body was stabilizing itself against the wall or floor). Thus, the induction of additional muscle
groups was limited.
*The white patches indicates the areas generating the most heat; and therefore, the most core workout.
traditional hard
surface benches
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11. Somaxis:
When our team was first developing the Core Bench, we knew we were onto something
revolutionary; simply because, after a workout we were sore in places we never knew
existed.
We crossed paths with a scientist named Alex Grey, who had developed a system for
measuring muscle activity, called Somaxis. We tested the Core Bench using custom
sensor configurations to measure several different muscle groups, while test sub-
jects worked out on the bench. The results far exceeded our mental expectations, and
matched perfectly with the fatigue we were experiencing physically. Working out on Vi-
core equipment engaged and fired four to six times more muscle groups than traditional
strength equipment.
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“The Vicore bench en-
gages core muscles
about 4x more than a
- Alex Grey, Somaxis
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12. Ergonomic advantages:
We find it rather odd that of the 50 plus companies out there making fitness equipment and gear, not one of them
has ever compared their products’ form with the human body and said, “Hey those don’t seem to look anything
like each other.” Everyone else in the world has seemed to figure it out. The automotive industry, furniture manu-
factures, even tooth brush companies all know that when a product is used near or on the body it needs to con-
form. It needs to interface with the user. If you would agree that it is advantageous to make a key board match
the human form, wouldn’t you also agree that it is exponentially more important that something your entire body
is laying on, with the addition of extra weight & loading, should also conform?
On the other hand a standard
bench is just a place to park while
you lift.
Vicore’s patented Body Link System automati-
cally forms itself to every user’s personal body
shape for full anatomical support.
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Balance Balance
Core Muscles Core Muscles
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13. Ease the pressure, man:
Putting extraordinary pressure on the skeletal system can lead to all kinds of injuries and overall
unhappiness...ok, we added the unhappiness part for effect. However, for the sake of this course,
let’s just assume that placing your beautifully curved spine and scapula on a flat, hard board...
then proceeding to bounce, jump, and move about with cast iron weights in your hand is a
bad thing. Then, let’s try to imagine the best way to fix that problem. If it were us (and it is),
we would like to join our bodies with a surface that supported and molded to every unique
shape and form our human tissue and bone had to offer. We would hope to feel as though
we were almost floating, removing pressure and pain out of the equation all together. This
way, we could focus on the best workout of our lives. What we would really be looking for
is the perfect relationship between body and equipment. Anyone know where you can find
something like this?
“Thou shalt not pressure thee.”
- Vicore 1:19
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14. safety Done right:
Let’s face it, people take risks wherever they go, it’s in our DNA - and the gym is no different. Our objective is to
help these risk takers reach their fitness goals by designing equipment that takes the risk out. We create
controlled environments that don’t roll, burst, or slide. All vicore products are subjected to extreme and redun-
dant testing. Everything from being deliberately punctured multiple times, while under 4,500 lbs of pressure, to a
menagerie of formal testing standards. We take every measure possible to ensure that our equipment is up to any
challenge those creative types can think of. Besides, wearing a helmet while working out just seems so cumber-
some.
Aside from being subjected to all sorts of indignities which we invented ourselves, all Vicore products have
undergone and passed the following:
Mandatory European Safety Standards (TUV)
EN 957 Safety Standards
9001 Factory Certification
DIB Certification (Dipped in Blood and thrown into
a tank full of angry sharks)
Test Notes: The SUV weighs 4,500 lbs ( 2,041 kgs).
Try that with a Physio Ball.Alright, we made that last one up.
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15. Learning objectives:
1) General Movements & Exercises
2) Advanced Movements
3) Progression & Muscle Confusion
4) Think Negatively
5) Regression
6) Sports Specific Training
These are some symbols you will need to know:
Progression Ecentric Concentric Advanced Beginner
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17. General Movements & Exercise:
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18. core bench EXERCISES1
Sit on the front of the Core Bench (The side opposite the
wheels)
Pick up selected weights or have someone hand them
to you.
Lie back slowly while bringing the weights toward your
chest and into Chest Press position.
Place feet at a comfortable distance apart and flat on
the ground for a strong base.
Begin Fly movement while maintaining balance.
Trainer’s note: The heavier the weight the more core activation. It’s
best to start with a weight selection that is approximately 50% of
what is used on a traditional bench to get a feel for each exercise.
This is especially important as you move through more difficult
progressions.
Perform exercise with a narrow base. Place feet flat on
the ground and close together.
Chest Press: Wide Leg
Chest Press: Narrow Legb
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core bench EXERCISES1
Sit on the front of the Core Bench (The side opposite the wheels)
Pick up selected weights.
Lie back slowly while bringing the weights toward your chest
and into Chest Press position.
Place feet at a comfortable distance apart and flat on the
ground for a strong base.
Begin Fly movement while maintaining balance.
Trainer’s note: The heavier the weight the more core activation. It’s best to
start with a weight selection that is approximately 50% of what is used on a
traditional bench to get a feel for each exercise. This is especially important
as you move through more difficult progressions.
Perform exercise with a narrow base. Place feet flat on the
ground and close together.
Chest Press: Wide Leg
Chest Press: Narrow Legb
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Maintain a strong base.
Alternate by pressing with one arm at a time.
Trainer’s note: This can be very difficult. Once you are in Press Po-
sition, start by bringing only ONE foot off the floor first and stabilize
before bringing the second foot off the ground.
Perform exercise with feet off the ground.
Chest Press: Alternating
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Sit on the front of the Core Bench (The side opposite the wheels)
Pick up selected weights.
Lie back slowly while bringing the weights toward your chest and into
Chest Press position.
Place feet at a comfortable distance apart and flat on the ground for
a strong base.
Begin Fly movement while maintaining balance.
Trainer’s note: The heavier the weight the more core activation. It’s best to
start with a weight selection that is approximately 50% of what is used on a
traditional bench to get a feel for each exercise. This is especially important
as you move through more difficult progressions.
Perform exercise with a narrow base. Place feet flat on the ground
and close together.
Chest Press: Wide Leg
Chest Press: Narrow Legd
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Sit on the front of the Core Bench (The side opposite the
wheels)
Pick up selected weights or have someone hand them
to you.
Lie back slowly while bringing the weights toward your
chest and into Fly position.
Place feet at a comfortable distance apart and flat on
the ground for a strong base.
Begin Fly movement while maintaining balance.
Trainer’s note: The heavier the weight the more core activation. It’s
best to start with a weight selection that is approximately 50% of
what is used on a traditional bench to get a feel for each exercise.
This is especially important as you move through more difficult pro-
gressions.
Wide Leg Fly
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Perform exercise with a narrow base. Place feet flat on
the ground and close together.
Perform exercise with a narrow base. Place feet flat on
the ground and close together.
Narrow Leg Fly
Legs Up Fly
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Trainer’s note: This can be very difficult. Once you are in Press Po-
sition, start by bringing only ONE foot off the floor first and stabilize
before bringing the second foot off the ground.
22. core bench EXERCISES3
Sit on the front of the Core Bench (The side opposite the
wheels)
Pick up selected weights or have someone hand them
to you.
Lie back slowly while bringing the weights toward your
chest and into starting position.
Place feet at a comfortable distance apart and flat on
the ground for a strong base.
Begin movement while maintaining balance.
Perform exercise with a narrow base. Place feet flat on
the ground and close together.
Dumbell Tricep Press Wide Leg
Dumbbell Tricep Press Narrow Leg
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Trainer’s note: For increased core activity, perform exercise with an
alternating single arm movement. When moving to this progression
start with a comfortable base and work towards a narrow base.
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Perform exercise with feet off the ground.
Start facing the side of the bench.
Step up onto the Body Link Surface.
Maintain good form and balance.
Dumbbell Tricep Press Legs Up
Step Ups
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Trainer’s note: This can be very difficult. Once you are in Press Po-
sition, start by bringing only ONE foot off the floor first and stabilize
before bringing the second foot off the ground.
Trainer’s note: This requires a good sense of balance. Before
performing this exercise, please make sure this is not beyond your
client’s capabilities.
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Number of times
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a Core Bench.
24. core bench EXERCISES4
Sit on the front of the Vicore Core Bench (The side op-
posite the wheels)
Pick up or have someone hand you your selected
weights. Lie back slowly while bringing the weights
toward your chest and press into starting position.
Place feet at a comfortable distance apart and flat on
the ground.
Begin movement by trying to sit up while keeping arm
with weight straight and pointed towards the ceiling.
Begin standing once you reach the seated position, all
the while keeping the weight pointed towards the ceil-
ing.
Trainer’s note: The heavier the weight the more core activation. It’s
best to start with a weight selection that is approximately 50% of
what is used on a traditional bench to get a feel for each exercise.
This is especially important as you move through more difficult
progressions.
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Start by facing the side of the bench and selected
weight on the floor.
Feet should be approximately shoulder width apart.
Lean towards the bench and place one hand or forearm
on the Body Link Surface.
Pick up weight and pull towards the hip.
Trainer’s note: Keep the core tight and perform without hip. rotation.
Trainer’s note: Keep the core tight and perform without hip. rotation.
Start by facing the side of the bench and selected
weight on the floor.
Feet should be approximately shoulder width apart
Lean towards the bench and place one hand or forearm
on the Body Link Surface.
Pick up and raise weight to the side by contracting the
rear deltoid.
Leaning Dumbell Row
Leaning Rear Deltoid
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Sit on the front of the Core Bench (The side opposite the
wheels)
Pick up or have someone hand you your selected
weights.
Bring weights to starting position and press overhead.
Sit on the front of the Core Bench (The side opposite the
wheels)
Pick up or have someone hand you your selected
weights.
Bring weights to starting position.
Lean slightly back and bring feet off the floor
Press overhead.
Seated Shoulder Press
Seated Shoulder Press Legs Up
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Sit on the front of the Vicore Core Bench (The side op-
posite the wheels)
Pick up or have someone hand you your selected
weights.
Bring weights to starting position and contract bicep.
Sit on the front of the Vicore Core Bench (The side op-
posite the wheels)
Pick up or have someone hand you your selected
weights.
Bring weights to starting position.
Lean slightly back and bring feet off the floor
Contract bicep.
Seated Dumbbell Curl
Seated Dumbbell Curl Legs Up
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28. core bench EXERCISES6
Sit on the front of the Vicore Core Bench (The side op-
posite the wheels)
Lean back
Bring your feet off the floor and contract your abdomi-
nals by bringing your knees and torso towards each
other.
Trainer’s note: Light weights and slow, deliberate movement while
maintaining balance is key.
Trainer’s note: To make this exercise easier hold on to the side of the
bench. To make this exercise harder do not hold on.
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Lean back holding weight near the chest
Bring your feet off the floor and hold a static position
with abdominals contracted. Body should be roughly in
the form of a “V”
Extend the weight towards the ceiling and rotate from
the torso moving the weight from side to side.
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Start on side of the Vicore Bench.
Lean towards the bench and place forearms onto the
BLS
Assume plank position while keeping the back straight
and tightening the core.
Explode to a press position now having hands onto the
BLS.
Keeping the core tight explode back to plank position.
Trainer’s note: This requires a good sense of balance. Before per-
forming this exercise please make sure this is not beyond your cli-
ent’s capabilities. Spot from the front of the client. For progression,
perform a single arm movement.
Start by facing the side of the Vicore Bench.
Pick up selected weights and one leg at a time kneel
onto the BLS
Once you have stabilized, curl weights by contracting
the biceps and then press overhead.
Ballistic Plank Press
Dumbbell Curl into Shoulder Press
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30. core Adjust EXERCISES1
Adjust Vicore Bench to highest upright position.
Sit on bench and pick up desired weights.
Lean slightly forward and keep torso upright
Begin with arms to the side and raise weights
out to both sides and contracting the deltoids.
Adjust Vicore Bench to desired height.
Sit on the BLS
Pick up or have someone hand you the desired
weight
Bring weight towards the chest to starting posi-
tion
Press weight towards ceiling.
Incline Lateral Raise
Alternating Dumbbell Chest Press
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31. Adjust Vicore Bench to desired height.
From a seated position, pick up or have some-
one hand you the desired weight
Bring weight towards the chest to starting posi-
tion
Press weight towards ceiling.
Begin fly movement
Adjust Vicore Bench to highest upright position.
Sit on bench and pick up desired weights.
Raise weights overhead to starting position
Begin alternating press movement.
Incline Dumbbell Fly
Alternate Incline Shoulder Press
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Trainer’s note: The more upright the bench position the
more shoulder muscles are trained. Also, more prone
bench positions involve more chest muscles.
32. core Adjust EXERCISES2
Adjust Vicore Bench to highest upright position.
Sit on bench and pick up desired weights.
Start with both arms to the side
With hand position, palm facing in and thumb
up, contract the bicep
Repeat with other arm
Attach resistance band to bench hooks.
Start by pressing handles towards ceiling,
palms facing out.
Keeping the pectorals contracted and arms
straight, lower the arms till parallel with the
floor. Rotate the wrist so that palms are facing
up.
Bend the arm, stretching the pectorals (like a
low or reverse chest press) and bring the hand
back near the body and press back out.
Alternating Incline Hammer Curls
Incline Total Chest with Band
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core Adjust EXERCISES1
Adjust Vicore Bench to highest upright position.
Sit on bench and pick up desired weights.
Lean slightly forward and keep torso upright
Begin with arms to the side and raise weights
out to both sides and contracting the deltoids.
Adjust Vicore Bench to desired height.
Sit on the BLS
Pick up or have someone hand you the desired
weight
Bring weight towards the chest to starting posi-
tion
Press weight towards ceiling.
Incline Lateral Raise
Alternating Dumbbell Chest Press
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33. Adjust Vicore Bench to lowest incline position
Pick up desired weight
Place knees on the seat and face the bench,
placing front of torso against the BLS.
Let arms hang straight down in starting posi-
tion.
Keeping arms straight, pull arms back by con-
tracting rear deltoids
Adjust Vicore Bench to desired height.
Attach resistance band to bench hooks located
near the wheels on base of the unit.
Sit on bench, locate and grab resistance band
handles.
Slowly lie back.
Start by pressing handles towards ceiling.
Lift legs off the ground
Begin alternating press movement
Reverse Incline Rear Deltoid Fly
Alternate Incline Band Press
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Adjust Vicore Bench to desired height.
From a seated position, pick up or have some-
one hand you the desired weight
Bring weight towards the chest to starting posi-
tion
Press weight towards ceiling.
Begin fly movement
Adjust Vicore Bench to highest upright position.
Sit on bench and pick up desired weights.
Raise weights overhead to starting position
Begin alternating press movement.
Incline Dumbbell Fly
Alternate Incline Shoulder Press
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Trainer’s note: The more upright the bench position the
more shoulder muscles are trained. Also, more prone
bench positions involve more chest muscles.
34. core chair EXERCISES1
Sit on Vicore Bench and place feet together at
the front of the bench or on the pegs.
Pick up or have someone hand you your select-
ed weights.
Lean torso forward and bring weight near front
of bench for starting position.
Pull arms back by contracting rear delts.
Sit on Vicore Bench and place feet together at
the front of the bench or on the pegs.
Pick up or have someone hand you your select-
ed weights.
Raise weights to starting position at shoulder
height and palms facing towards self.
Press up and overhead while rotating wrist in-
ward to finishing position with palms facing out.
Rear Deltoid Raise
Seated Arnold Overhead Press
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35. Sit on Vicore Bench and place feet together at
the front of the bench or on the pegs.
Pick up or have someone hand you your select-
ed weights.
Raise weights to starting position overhead.
Begin movement with each arm separately.
Sit on Vicore Bench and place feet together at
the front of the bench or on the pegs.
Pick up or have someone hand you your select-
ed weights.
Bring weights to starting position and contract
biceps separately
Seated Alternate Shoulder Press
Seated Alternate Arm Curl
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Trainer’s note: Placing feet on foot pegs will add a progres-
sion to any exercise and will increase the amount of core
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36. core chair EXERCISES2
Sit and place feet together or on the pegs.
Pick up or have someone hand you your select-
ed weights.
From starting position press one arm overhead
while lifting and extending opposite leg. For
example, Press right arm while lifting and ex-
tending left leg.
Repeat with other arm and leg.
Sit and place feet together or on the pegs.
Pick up or have someone hand you your select-
ed weights.
Raise weight to starting position, with weight
behind the neck, holding on with both hands
and arms bent.
Extend weight over head by straightening arms.
Shoulder Press (with Alt. Leg/Arm Extensions)
Seated Tricep Dumbbell Press
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37. Adjust Vicore Bench to desired height.
From a seated position, pick up or have some-
one hand you the desired weight
Bring weight towards the chest to starting posi-
tion
Press weight towards ceiling.
Begin fly movement
Attach resistance band to bench hooks (Located
near the wheels on base of the unit).
Raise arms to starting position with handles
behind the neck and arms bent.
Extend handles over head by straightening
arms
Seated Alternate Side Lateral Raise
Seated Tricep Press with Band
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Trainer’s note: Try experimenting with wrist position.
Having palms forward versus having palms facing away
provides a completely different feel.
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38. core ab EXERCISES1
Adjust Vicore bench to desired height
Sit on the bench and place legs over first set of leg
cushions and under the second set of leg cushions
Perform movement
Sit-Up
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Adjust Vicore Bench to desired height
Sit on the bench and place legs over first set of leg
cushions and under the second set of leg cushions
Have someone hand you desired weights
Slowly lie back
Press weight towards ceiling
Begin movement.
Decline Skull Crushers
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see any exercise
demonstration.
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Adjust Vicore Bench to desired height
Sit on the bench and place legs over first set of leg
cushions and under the second set of leg cushions
Have someone hand you desired weights
Slowly lay back
Begin press movement
Adjust Vicore Bench to desired height
Sit on the bench and place legs over first set of leg
cushions and under the second set of leg cushions
Have someone hand you desired weights
Slowly lay back
Begin single arm press movement
Alternate between arms
Decline Dumbbell Press
Decline Alternating Dumbbell Press
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40. core ab EXERCISES2
Adjust Vicore bench to desired height
Sit onto BLS facing away from handles
Slowly lean back and grab handles (make sure you
don’t hit your head on handles)
Begin exercise by contracting abdominals and curl-
ing knees up towards the chest while keeping the legs
bent.
Knee Lift
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Sit onto BLS facing away from handles
Slowly lean back and grab handles (make sure you
don’t hit your head on handles)
Begin exercise by contracting abdominals and rais-
ing legs up towards the ceiling while keeping the legs
straight.
Once legs are pointed towards the ceiling, press off the
BLS raising the gluteus and low back off the bench,
further contracting the abdominals and driving the legs
closer to the ceiling.
Knee Lift Straight Leg with Body Raise
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43. course evaluation
We would sincerely like to thank you for attending this Vicore training course. In order to improve the quality of our educa-
tion, we would greatly appreciate your feedback, regarding what you liked and disliked about the course.
Name: _____________________________________
What aspects of this course did you enjoy most?
What did you enjoy least?
What information could we include to improve it?
Anything you would remove from the course?
Did you feel engaged throughout the course? ______ Do you feel that the information taught in this course will helpyou in
your career? ______
Additional thoughts and comments regarding your Vicore experience:
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of C O M P L E T I O N
This document hereby certifies that
Has successfully completed the
VICORE FUNCTIONAL WELLNESS COURSE
On this the ____ day of ___________ , _______
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