About us

OUR STORY: FROM FITNESS DEVICE TO A NOVEL HUBBARD TANK

Do you have an extremely challenging life, mentally or physically? Do you feel frustrated about exercising? Are you unable to include exercise in your life, even though you would like to? Do you feel exercising is too much of an emotional effort?

CREATED FOR BUSY PEOPLE

The fitness industry deals with motivation as an exercise excuse. You have probably seen fitness advertisements that say „no more excuses” or ‘get fit now!’. In reality however, people have real reasons (not excuses) that keep them from exercising: a career, children and family, friends, mental status or physical shape. Swimitation was originally created to overcome these challenges by providing an efficient and attractive training that could easily be installed at homes and workplaces.

WE DID NOT EXPECT THIS

During the testing period, more and more Swimitation’s testers who had back pain, shoulder, hip, elbow or knee pain other medical issues with joints or muscles claimed to have immediate relief.

What was first invented as a private fitness device for office people turned out to be a unique device for Aquatic Physiotherapy: a next generation Hubbard Tank.

SWIMITATION vs. REGULAR POOL EXERCISING

Water gymnastics and aquatic physical therapy are extremely efficient – read more about why it is useful to work out in water and about the benefits of aquatic physical therapy.

Swimitation differs from regular pool exercising: it is private, the body trunk is supported and the water temperature is higher (34 C or 93 F) – adjustable. Read more about Swimitation’s benefits and the effects of warm water.

Pool exercising is good for slow twitch muscle training, however standing position and the unpredictable water environment make exact moves hard to execute. With the supported body, slow and exact moves are possible: Swimitation cuts the work of strength muscles, which enables efficient training of the core muscles. Training your core in Swimtiation feels amazingly effortless – the body does not need to fight gravity and the support for the body-trunk enhances the feeling of security. Therefore, the core can be trained effortlessly and efficiently.

FROM DEVICE TO A SMART SERVICE: AUTOMATING PHYSIOTHERAPY

Swimitation is a great tool for aquatic physiotherapy. Besides the perfect environment for exercises, a physiotherapist has a good visibility of the body for spotting weak muscles and asymmetry. The therapist stays dry! With the opportunity of safe full-body exercising in warm water, Swimitation has by now developed into a service that automates aquatic fitness and physiotherapy through videosessions.

Swimitation’s exercising videos vary from mild to strength workouts and Pilates.

Our mission is to provide relief to people in Rehabilitation and Prophylaxis: to the conditions from rheumatic illnesses to neurological conditions, from spinal problems to injury recovery, athlete recovery.

It is also Swimitation’s mission to promote health via Wellbeing and Fitness: to help people in general health issues, back pain issues, weight loss and relaxation.

In our vision, a great health will be provided to people with automated, prophylaxis and self-aid based, easy-to-access solutions.

The design of Swimitation gained design award – Public’s Favorite at BRUNO Desing Award