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The Wingate test has also been used as a basis to design newer tests in the same vein, [4] and others that use running as the exercise instead of cycling. [5] Sprint interval testing such as is similar to the construction of the Wingate test has been shown to increase both aerobic and anaerobic performance.
Concept2, Inc. is an American manufacturer of rowing equipment and exercise machines based in Morrisville, Vermont.It is best known for its air resistance indoor rowing machines (known as "ergometers" or "ergs"), which are considered the standard training and testing machines for competition rowers and can be found in most gyms.
Rowing on an ergometer requires four basic phases to complete one stroke; the catch, the drive, the finish and the recovery. The catch is the initial part of the stroke. The drive is where the power from the rower is generated while the finish is the final part of the stroke. Then, the recovery is the initial phase to begin taking a new stroke.
Cybex International was founded in the late 1960s as "The Cybex Ergometer Company" in Ronkonkoma, New York. It was acquired by Lumex, which was traded publicly on the American Stock Exchange. At that time, it manufactured isokinetic rehabilitation equipment. In 1995, Lumex sold its medical supply business and changed its name to Cybex (AMEX ...
Henry S. Wingate was born in Talas, Ottoman Empire, and raised in Northfield, Minnesota. [3] He obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College in 1927 and a law degree from the University of Michigan in 1929. [3] [4] He served Inco in 1930 while on the staff of its general counsel. He was named assistant secretary of that corporation in 1935.
Ergometer may refer to: Exercise machine, equipped with an apparatus for measuring the work performed by exercising; Indoor rower, called an ergometer by rowers; An instrument for measuring the amount of work done by human muscles; Ergometer comes from the Greek words ergon (ἔργον), meaning work, and metron (μέτρον), meaning measure ...
WinGate is an integrated multi-protocol proxy server, email server and internet gateway from Qbik New Zealand Limited in Auckland. It was first released in October 1995, and began as a re-write of SocketSet, a product that had been previously released in prototype form by Adrien de Croy.
The Wingate Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Wingate, Union County, North Carolina. It encompasses four contributing buildings in the central business district of Wingate. The district developed between about 1904 and 1925 and the one-story, brick commercial buildings are the State Bank of Wingate (c. 1909 ...