Deler av Team Exspirit og ThoraxTrainer. Foto: Magnus Östh.
Team Exspirit will start a partnership with the Danish training machine manufacturer ThoraxTrainer.
ThoraxTrainer has since 2009 been sponsoring the team member Oskar Svärd, now ThoraxTrainer has made a sponsor contract with the whole team.
“Oskar has had very good experience from training in at ThoraxTrainer Skiingergometer, so we want the rest of the team members to have the same possibilities to improve their performance capabilities.” Says David Nilsson Team Director of team Exspirit.
"ThoraxTrainer has been very satisfied with the cooperation with Oskar Svärd, and we really look forward to work together with the rest of team and help them to improve. And for ThoraxTrainer it is also a great opportunity to develop our products through the feedback from one of the best long distance ski teams in the world"- says Ulrich Ghisler, CEO of ThoraxTrainer.
“Double poling, upper body strength and endurance has become more and more important in today’s long distances races and the best skiers are winning races without kick wax. ThoraxTrainer is the best skiing ergometer on the market, with a very realistic and smooth feeling of skiing, and through the computer we are able to evaluate the efficiency of the athletes technique and performance. This is a total new way of training in cross-country skiing, and we see it as a great tool to gain advantage to our competitors", says David Nilsson, and he continues "With the ThoraxTrainer our athletes can improve upper body strength and endurance, VO2 max, Lactate acid threshold, technique, balance and core stability in a new and very efficient way".
ThoraxTrainer is in use in several research projects throughout universities in Europe and has in only a few years become known as a high-end quality product among ski teams and private skiers.
Team Exspirit athletes: Mathias Fredriksson Oskar Svärd Rikard Andréasson Anton Sjöholm Jimmie Johnsson Jenny Hansson Susanne Nyström
See www.teamexspirit.com and www.thoraxtrainer.com for additional information.
