Product Development History
Growing up in Vietnam in younger years, the only
fitness trainings that I ever involved with were Fighting Martial Art and Callisthenic Exercises (for improving my fighting skill). Weight lifting / Body
Building was very much a rare practice in a society where a tanned and solid
body was often associated with outdoor laborer class. Few
years after moving to U.S., while enrolling in college for my Engineering
degree, I had an opportunity to do extensive study & research on Human
Physiology and its Application on Physical Fitness Training; and it was my
favorite subject. Consequentially, I started weight training beside practicing
& teaching Martial Art, and applied my engineering skill into
inventing/designing Fitness Training Equipments and earned three
Patents: US
Patent 4822036 US
Patent 4750738 US
Patent 4751440 After graduation with
advanced degree in engineering (with minor in Exercise Physiology), while working for IBM, I and a few coworkers from IBM developed
a new line of computerized strength training equipment based on my patents.
Eventually, We opened a small fitness club in Boulder, Colorado, called NEXT CONCEPT FITNESS,
featuring our newly developed High-Tech Fitness Machines. However, working for IBM in highly competitive High-Tech
business while running the fitness club became overwhelming, I decided to focus
on IBM career.
| In 2006, after retiring from
High Tech jobs and more than thirty Patents in the field, I returned to my
passion in Fitness Training Arena, and redesigned my equipments and
Training Concept, mainly for personal strength training and
rehabilitation. This time around, along with application of the State
of the Art Technology, I infused the Basic Principles of Martial Art into
the training practice. |
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