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Traq 3D
TRAQ 3D - "A New Fitness Experience Built Around Technology So Groundbreaking that it was featured on Oprah, NBC Today & ESPN
Kids, adults, seniors, athletes and patients all agree – TRAQ 3D’sPersonalized Programs are fun and amazingly effective! Interactive games and sports sims create a total mind/body experience – drawing big smiles and unprecedented results. And energize your brain while toning your body with TRAQ’s new E-Cubed Learning preparation & Brain Fitness Programs!
Traq 3D
Traq 3D Traq 3D is the first technology-based experience to truly capitalize on the movement is life concept. The ability to effectively move is essential for successful sports participation and an active, healthy lifestyle. But it is also essential for improved health and safety, and, where desired, truly permanent weight loss. Modern training programs emphasize the development of strength, power and endurance. Yet most sports physicians, therapists, trainers and coaches agree that it is the athlete with better reactions, greater agility and superior quickness who excels in competition and is less likely to be injured.
Unfortunately, training programs for reaction time, agility, and quickness have always been the hardest to design. And with the exception of simple straight-ahead running, results have been virtually impossible to measure objectively. This type of testing and training appears to be the missing link in most sports conditioning programs, and in most rehabilitation programs as well.
TRAQ 3D uses the award-winning Trazer sport simulator to develop awesome total-body performance capabilities!
Doesn’t it seem that on nearly every corner, health clubs are selling strength and aerobic programs? And yet the health club industry reports that 90% of us will not join a health club! Is it because traditional exercise machine make us feel like hamsters on an exercise wheel, bored by the mindless exercise routine?
Or do we feel we have to first get in shape before we join a fitness club, with all the mirrors, bright lights and crowds? Or are we confused by equipment that is difficult to use? And are afraid that knowledgeable assistance is too expensive? Most of us have grown tired of mindless exercise programs. We all know that exercise is vital to health and wellbeing, but for most of us it’s boring. Think how cool it would be if exercise could be as much fun and as engaging as games.
ECubed Brain Fitness & Learning Preparation Program
The ECubed Program, a TRAQ TRAZER® module, simulates the complex 3-dimensional world you navigate daily to engage your mind and body together in active problem-solving. This mind-body integration to accomplish a common goal exploits the power of synergy: exercising your mind and body together produces greater results than exercising either separately.
ECubed’s approach differs drastically from, let’s say, reading a book while peddling a stationary bike. Even though this multi-tasking exercises the mind and body at the same time, it exercises them in an isolated manner, rather than requiring them to integrate, as ECubed does.
Strategic, mind/body games such as tennis require real-time problem solving that involves mind-body integration as well as trained reflexive responses; ECubed adds the ability to tailor an infinite range, progression and type of problems presented from those replicating sports to those requiring considerable mental horsepower and that same mind-body integration.
ECubed conditions this proficient mind-body integration by requiring controlled physical movement to complete cognitively demanding challenges, and, vice versa, requiring quick cognition to execute physical movement essential for interacting with the simulator.
As an example, one of ECubed’s games challenges you to quickly solve simple math problems by “catching” the correct answers as they charge past you in 3 dimensions.
Our brains are actually “wired” to learn best through this type of combined mind-body approach to challenges. According to Dr. John Ratey, MD, “As we adapted to an ever-changing environment over the past half million years, our thinking brain evolved from the need to hone motor skills. We envision our hunter-gatherer ancestors as brutes who relied primarily on physical prowess, but to survive over the long haul they had to use their smarts to find and store food. The relationship between food, activity, and learning is hardwired into the brain’s circuitry.”
Our “thinking brain” developed from our “moving brain,” as our distance ancestors fought for survival. These selective pressures demanded more complex movement of us, and our brains evolved the complex cognitive capabilities to support this movement. If our hunter gatherer ancestors did most of their thinking and learning while on the move – then perhaps there’s a compelling reason for literally “learning on the move.” To tap into our “hardwired circuitry” and learn in a manner that the fittest of our distant ancestors used to survive and prosper.
E-Cubed and Athlete Development
Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky volunteered, “Growing up, I was always the small guy; I couldn’t beat people with my strength. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.”
Peter Vint, a researcher with the US Olympic Committee, commented about superstars Wayne Gretzky, Larry Bird, and Joe Montana, “In any sport, you come across these players… They’re not always the most physically talented, but they’re the best. The way they see things that nobody else sees—it can seem almost supernatural. But I’m a scientist, so I want to know how the magic works.”
People functioning in rapidly changing environments (athletes and fighter pilots, for example) must adeptly sense – process – execute. Because the visual acuity and physicality of the aforementioned superstars were certainly not superior—or perhaps even equal—to their peers, we suggest that the “magic” Dr. Vint refers to is the ability to process: that rare ability to calculate on the move, in real-time, the complex geometry and physics problems that sports present.
Interestingly, elite athletes exhibit memory and perceptual skills comparable with the memory and perceptual skills of people who are accomplished in architecture, chess, and physics. So perhaps sports are“90 percent mental… the other half physical,” as Yogi Berra notoriously claimed. Elite athletes demonstrate the same compulsory skills our distant ancestors employed as they hunted for prey. TRAQ’s E-Cubed simulations are potentially the missing link in modern athlete- training programs. And as such, they may also be the future—the bridge that trains the mind on the move, re-creating the incredibly complex physical and mental demands of competition to build a superior performer.
ess who excels in competition and is less likely to be injured.
ECubed conditions this proficient mind-body integration by requiring controlled physical movement to complete cognitively demanding challenges, and, vice versa, requiring quick cognition to execute physical movement essential for interacting with the simulator.
on the move – then perhaps there’s a compelling reason for literally “learning on the move.” To tap into our “hardwired circuitry” and learn in a manner that the fittest of our distant ancestors used to survive and prosper.
