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The company stopped selling exercise equipment to gyms in 2011 and shifted its focus to home-use equipment. The same year, Nautilus. licensed its brand name and technology to other manufacturers. [6] [dead link ] In 2004, Nautilus was sued by Biosig Instruments for allegedly infringing its design for heart-rate monitors. [13]
BowFlex is the brand name for a series of fitness training equipment, marketed and sold by BowFlex Inc., formerly Nautilus, Inc. Based in Vancouver, Washington, [1] the company sells its products through direct, retail, and international channels. [2] [3] The first BowFlex product, BowFlex 2000X, was created in 1986. [3]
Universal Gym Equipment was an American manufacturer of exercise equipment, in particular weight machines. It was founded by Harold Zinkin in 1957. In 1998, it was acquired by Flexible Flyer. In 2006 it was acquired by Nautilus, Inc. The Universal Gym brand was subsequently discontinued except for a line of selectorized dumbbells. [1]
The Nautilus machines and the company he formed to sell them made Jones a multimillionaire and landed him on the Forbes list of the 400 richest people. At one point, financial analysts estimated that Nautilus was grossing $400 million annually. He sold Nautilus Inc. in 1986 for $23 million. He also sold MedX Corporation in 1996 and then retired ...
The early Nautilus machines were a combination of lever and cable machines. They also had optional, fixed elements such as a chinning bar. Universal Gym Equipment pioneered the multi-station style of machines. [2] Image of a stack machine in use in a commercial gym in Ottawa Canada.
StairMaster is an American company specializing in the design and production of fitness equipment. They sell cardiovascular and strength equipment such as stair climbing machines, TreadClimber cardio machines and dumbbell sets. The Stairmaster was so widely used that people referred to nearly all other brands of step climbers as StairMasters. [1]
Cable leg press machine. The leg press is a compound weight training exercise in which the individual pushes a weight or resistance away from them using their legs. The term leg press machine refers to the apparatus used to perform this exercise. [1] The leg press can be used to evaluate an athlete's overall lower body strength (from the ...
The Plongeur, inspiration for the Nautilus. Verne named the Nautilus after Robert Fulton's real-life submarine Nautilus (1800). [6] For the design of the Nautilus, Verne was inspired by the French Navy submarine Plongeur, a model of which he had seen at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, three years before writing his novel.