MOTOPAD: innovative footboard for high quality training

Two large wooden disks that can slide thanks to resin marbles: apparently Motopad with its simple and pleasant appearance, doesn’t look like a fine work out tool.
Created by a German physiotherapist Motopad is been on sale since January 2008 in Italy by Tecnocomponent, a company located in Cesena, which is specialized in professional products for gyms and rehab.
The large surface of Motopad (124 cm of diameter) and the unprecedented sliding mechanisms make it an eclectic and versatile tool, suitable for specialized work out for high performance athletes aiming at improving such skills as balance, coordination, body awareness but also at strengthening legs and arms joints through a wide range of exercises.
Motopad is grand  to train all lower limbs muscles because it work on the stabilizers by improving agility, strength, the sense of the rhythm and the synergy of agonist-antagonist muscles.
Motopad’s maximized performance is in sports (ski, ice skating, football/soccer etc…) and in the rehab field in particular when it comes to proprioceptive training, that is to say the development of that particular sensitiveness which allows the body to be aware of itself and its relation with the surrounding world.
In Germany Motopad is used even in nursery schools in psychomotor contexts and as play therapy to tackle Continue reading »