▲ Laban / CEO Yuri Jun

One of the key words of working out trend this year is apple hips. Apple hips will likely make you look you have a coke bottle body which probably is every woman’s dream. In fact, hip muscles are an important factor to make our body strong over just looking good because they uphold and balance the whole body from top to bottom.

Introducing world’s one and only transverse muscle excerciser Slahip

Introducing by Laban, Slahip is an effective excerciser that strengthens your hip and pelvic muscles. Laban CEO Yuri Jun has 16 years of experience as a health trainer and run a private PT center for 10 years. 

“Weakened pelvic floor muscles can drop balance of the body. It especially affects badly to women as it is one of the reasons of urinary incontinence. Slahip, which I invented, is one and only excercise equipment that strengthens the transverse muscle of pelves in the world as far as I know. It is fun to excercise and fun to do it on a regular basis” says Jun.

Most of members of her private PT center were middle aged women or older. During her 10 years of observation, she found that most of them have weak pelvic floor muscles. Slahip is the very result of this observation and study. Slahip, however, is not only popular now among middle or older age but also the young. 

All you need to do is just move your legs and hips right and left

Most fitness equipment are designed to strengthen large muscles but not many are designed to strengthen floor muscles. In particular, most of pelvic muscles are vertical and inside which we cannot move as we wish. So, Slahip targets specifically this muscles designed with shape similar to the shape of the pelvic floor muscles. All you need to do is to move your legs and hips right and left on the device. It helps you lose inside fat while strengthens hip muscles for not only looking good but strong. It also helps you lift up your loosened hips. You do not need to worry about your bad joints as Slahip is adjustable of weight bearing for each person to minimize the burden on your joints. What is more? It only weighs 5 to 6kg for you to carry it around easy.

Recognized for this excellence, Slahip won the runner up prize at an idea competition held by the Korea Institute of Continuous Engineering and Technology while attracting great attention at the 2024 Seoul Health Industry EXPO. With a fund of wadiz, Slahip is set to unveil February or March and be on the market from May or July in earnest.