Introducing Flywheel Training

Whether you're rehabbing an injury, training for everyday life, or building elite performance, flywheel training adapts to your effort, giving back what you put in.

The Flywheel Training Cycle

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Concentric Phase – Push or Pull to Spin

You generate force to spin the wheel, activating muscle shortening like standing from a squat or deadlift.

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Eccentric Phase – Resist the Pullback

The flywheel pulls back. You fight it, slowing the momentum and building strength as your muscles lengthen.

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Amortization – Quick Transition

At the switch, you pause briefly before reversing direction, mimicking the explosive changes of direction seen in sport.

Repeat

This continuous rhythm trains your body to control deceleration and acceleration in one fluid motion, just like sprinting, jumping, and cutting.

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Why Flywheel Training Outperforms Traditional Weights

Traditional Weight

Load limited by gravity
Eccentric phase is often underloaded
Variable resistance through range of motion
Fixed resistance regardless of fatigue
Progress by adding weight

Flywheel Training

Load created by inertia (effort-based)
Eccentric resistance is equal or greater
Constant tension throughout full ROM
Adaptive load based on user effort
Progress by increasing force or flywheel size

Why Eccentric Matters

The eccentric phase (when muscles lengthen under load) is where muscles are naturally stronger. Flywheel training emphasizes this phase, helping:

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Build resilience and reduce injury risk

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Improve strength and muscle quality

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Enhance power, control, and stability

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Support effective rehab and return-to-play timelines

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Built for All Who Move

Whether you're a physiotherapist guiding recovery, a coach refining athletic performance, or someone who wants to move better for longer, flywheel training adapts to your goals.

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Athletic Performance: Power, reactivity, and strength

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Sports Medicine & Rehab: Safe, scalable resistance

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Everyday Strength: Functional gains for life and longevity

Common Questions

What is flywheel training?

Flywheel training uses a spinning flywheel instead of traditional weights to create resistance. When you push or pull, you unwind the rope and accelerate the flywheel; the harder you push, the faster it spins and the more resistance you create. As the rope rewinds, the flywheel pulls you back with the same force in the opposite direction, so you must brake and control the movement eccentrically.

This creates a 1:1 relationship between the concentric and eccentric phases, providing constant, adaptive resistance throughout the full range of motion.

Who is Exerfly for?

Essentially, anyone! From rehab patients and elderly users to high-performance athletes. Exerfly's resistance is entirely user-defined through inertia, automatically scaling to your effort and strength, making it safe and effective across the spectrum with minimal adjustments needed.

How is Exerfly different from traditional weight training?

Unlike weights, Exerfly's resistance comes from inertia, scaling automatically with your effort rather than being limited by gravity. It's because of the effects of gravity that the eccentric phase is often underloaded with traditional weights. Exerfly provides equal or greater resistance in the eccentric phase and tension stays constant through the full range of motion rather than varying.

What makes Exerfly different from other flywheel devices?

Exerfly stands out from other flywheel devices as the only system delivering true eccentric overload through optional Motorized Technology, enabling up to 80% eccentric overload on every rep. Exerfly products provide more loading capacity than any competitor with up to 0.8 kgm² of inertia (8x large flywheels) available at once. Most importantly, every unit is built to the highest standard of American manufacturing, crafted locally in Wisconsin.

Is there scientific research supporting flywheel training and Exerfly?

Yes. Flywheel training is backed by extensive sports science research, and Exerfly itself is used by top teams and research institutions worldwide. You can browse a wide range of research studies here.

What is Exerfly Motorized Technology, and do I need it?

Exerfly Motorized Technology is an optional addition to any Exerfly product, used in both performance and rehab settings. The built-in motor adds extra resistance during the eccentric phase of every rep, while keeping resistance user-defined like standard flywheel training.

Add 1-80% more resistance than your concentric effort, increased in as little as 1% increments. This enables eccentric overload training at high velocities and forces to replicate elite sport demands and build injury resilience. It's recommended for athletes and advanced users seeking a unique training advantage.

Where can I find Exerfly case studies?

We publish Exerfly case studies on our website here. Our case studies cover a range of flywheel applications across performance and rehabilitaion using both standard flywheel and Exerfly motorized flywheel training.

How is Exerfly used in rehabilitation and physiotherapy settings?

Exerfly delivers superior eccentric loading that scales to what the patient can safely manage in each rep and stage of progression. This user-controlled approach makes it ideal for rebuilding strength and stability after injury, from early mobility through advanced strengthening. Rehab therapists worldwide adopt Exerfly because this approach accelerates recovery safely, matching eccentric stimulus precisely to the user's current abilities.

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Flywheel vs Traditional: What Sets Them Apart

Gravitational Dead Spots

Eccentric Overload

Control Over Range of Motion for Rehab

Explore the Research

Flywheel resistance training is backed by years of peer-reviewed studies in sports science, physical therapy, and strength conditioning.

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Flywheel resistance training calls for greater eccentric muscle activation than weight training.

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Effects of flywheel vs. traditional resistance training on neuromuscular performance of elite ice hockey players.

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Comparison of flywheel and pneumatic training on hypertrophy, strength, andpower in professional handball players.

Our Products

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