SportBoleh Lila Exogen User manual

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SAFETY FIRST – PLEASE READ
Welcome to the world of wearable resistance and the
beginning of your safe EXOGEN® Experience!
At LILA your safety and great EXOGEN® experience are a priority. EXOGEN® was
developed with your safety in mind. Exercise, sport and training have inherent risks.
Therefore, prior to starting or restarting an exercise or training program we
recommend reading and completing the PAR-Q questionnaire below and following
up accordingly with your medical specialist as instructed.
PAR Q
YES
NO
1
Has your doctor ever said that you have a heart
condition and that you should only perform physical
activity recommended by a doctor?
2
Do you feel pain in your chest when you perform
physical activity?
3
In the past month, have you had chest pain when you
were not performing any physical activity?
4
Do you lose your balance because of dizziness or do you
ever lose consciousness?
5
Do you have a bone or joint problem that could be made
worse by a change in your physical activity?
6
Is your doctor currently prescribing any medication for
your blood pressure or for a heart condition?
7
Do you know of any other reason why you should not
engage in physical activity?
If you have answered “Yes” to one or more of the above questions, consult
your physician before engaging in physical activity. Tell your physician which
questions you answered “Yes” to. After a medical evaluation, seek advice from
your physician on what type of activity is suitable for your current condition.
PLEASE READ OUR DETAILED SAFETY GUIDELINES FOR
USING EXOGEN PRIOR TO STARTING ON PAGE 23-24

OUR STORY 5
INTRODUCTION 7
PRODUCT GUIDE 8
EXOGEN COMPONENTS 9
KEY DESIGN FEATURES 10
KEY PERFORMANCE FEATURES 14
USER GUIDELINES 16
EXOSKELETON TRAINING & LVRT ™ 19
LOADING FOR LVRT ™ 21
HANDLING & CARE 28
WARRANTY & FAQs 30
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The Beginning: Necessity is the mother of all invention
EXOGEN®’s patented Exoskeleton Technology was born from
necessity. The need to improve the way we move. The question is
can we? One look at Usain Bolt a man tall enough to be a starting
forward in the NBA, who rewrote everything we know about the
concept of speed, tells us we can, and we will.
One day a human will run the 100m dash below 9 seconds. It’s not
a question of if, but how? 25 years ago, a torn ACL was a career
ending injury. Today it’s a 6-8-month delay. A hip fracture in the
elderly was confinement to a wheelchair. Now, hip replacements
are as common as root-canals and the 1:59:58 marathon is just
around the corner. So how will we continue to go faster, higher,
stronger? The answer is (and has always been) - resistance.
Resistance to movement is the greatest stimulus for adaptation and improvement. It doesn’t
matter whether ‘movement’ for you is reducing your 40-yard time, adding distance to your golf
drive, returning to fitness after pregnancy, recovering from a back injury or serving your
community in the police or military. The questions are how much and in what form?
We’ve gotten about as far as we can go with traditional exercise equipment. Current modalities
share one common feature. The equipment defines the movement, not the user. The simple
truth is if you are attached to a piece of equipment and that equipment is attached to something
else, the floor, a wall, a tree, your hand or foot then the equipment defines your movement.
Traditional equipment still serves an important training purpose, that purpose is just limited. This
limitation is what drove us on a decade long journey to create a technology that meets today’s
challenge - What would 100% user-defined resistance training really look like?
The Challenge: Improve the way we apply resistance
Challenge #1: In the world of high-performance sport user-defined training is called - specificity.
Training that matches the actual physiological and psychological demands of your event or
activity. For example, a squat will make your legs strong, but it won’t necessarily improve your
directional speed reaction to an opponent or reduce your 10k run time. The movements, speeds
and energy demands are simply too different. Solution: The technology must be useable during
both training and competition at real movements and speeds - it must be relevant.
Challenge #2: There are some great specialized pieces of equipment designed to load specific
movements or particular skills. All have merit but almost all are limited to a niche activity or
partial movement pattern. Few if any can be adapted very well. Solution: The technology must
be organic like the human body and applicable across all sports and activities – it must be
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Challenge #3: Without the ability to progress, resistance training won’t help for very long.
Progressive overload is the foundation of periodization. Existing specialized resistance training
equipment allows progression but often in increments outside the range required for real-life
movement. Solution: It must allow - measurable progression.
Challenge #4: During movement, concentration is everything. Current resistance training with
the load or resistance concentrated at a focal point such as the hand, foot or one a part of the
body often feels heavy and is perceived by the user as external. This disrupts the skill and
concentration. Solution: To reduce the disruption on concentration and proprioception the
loading must be dispersed around and over the body– it must feel internal.
Challenge #5: A baseball throw maxes out at about 100 mph, a tennis serve over 200 km/hr,
golfclub head speed approaches 130+ and a trained punch maybe 40 km/hr plus. If you wanted
to train resistance to improve velocity, power and technique at these speeds what percentage
load could you realistically use and not get injured. Solution: The loading must be light – it must
be safe.
Challenge #6: Next, it had to do something resistance training had never done before. Not only
should it improve physiological function (strength, speed, power, endurance) but also actual
movement skills. No two people move the same, everyone’s needs are individual. Imagine two
golfers training with resistance to improve their drive power while simultaneously improving
their swing mechanics to reduce a slice or hook. Solution: The technology had to focus on
improving actual movement not just muscle mechanics – it had to be intuitive.
Challenge #7: Finally, it had to be cool and to feel great – we hope we’ve achieved that, let us
know.
Our story is the story of these challenges and the journey to meet, understand and overcome
them. EXOGEN® our signature product line was developed to meet these challenges and to help
us achieve our company mission - to improve the way you move.
LILA? We often get asked about our name. Perhaps it is the best part of us. A thousand-year-old
Sanskrit word that literally means “pastime, sport and play”. In Hinduism the concept off LILA is
associated with the movement and activities of the Supreme Being. The LILA legend tells of the
Supreme Being changing into human form to experience movement, play and sport.
This is our story, rooted in a divine purpose to move and it’s just beginning.
Welcome to the movementrevolution...

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Matching Technology To Movement
Your purchase of EXOGEN® the world’s 1st generation of multi-function, high-performance exo-
skeletons has accelerated you into the future of user-defined movement training. Finally, a
training concept has been developed that combines the art of movement with science and
technology.
WHAT IS AN EXO-
SKELETON?
An EXO-skeleton is a specialized, outer layer containing strong,
mobile and resistant components
USER BENEFITS
EXOGEN® Wearable Resistance technology offers these functions with the following user
benefits;
Enhanced Performance in;
• Movement specific functional
strength, speed, agility, power
• Muscular and aerobic endurance
• Muscle potentiation
• Calorie burning and weight loss
Protection and Support
• Light impact and abrasion protection
• Lumbar postural support
Sensory Feedback
• enhanced movement awareness
• skill and technique development
• enhanced proprioception
Thermo-regulation
• enhanced wicking
• improved circulation
• optimal evaporative cooling
that fulfil a number of functional roles including;
• Performance enhancement
• Protection and support
• Proprioception / sensory feedback
• Thermoregulation (cooling and heating)

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Your EXOGEN
™
purchase will include;
1
. The selected EXOSKELETON SHELL
2
. Fusiform LOADS © to start LVRT™

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Please read carefully to fully benefit from your exo-skeleton movement experience.
GENERAL
SLEEVESLESS
TOP
SHORTS
SLEEVES
LOADS
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EXOPRENE™ Material
COOLMAX® Mesh: Located at major sweat zones
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Teardrop Tabs: Tabs provide a visual marker for
-
tightening the straps so you easily see the balance
between the left and right straps and set your
normal desired tension easily.
Lumbar-PosturalStraps
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:
Provide functional lumbar support
during training or competition,
LOADED or un-LOADED
Gluteal-Waist Straps:
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Provide support for the hips
and gluteal muscles both while
loaded and unloaded.
Left / Right EXOGEN® straps
:
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straps designed to attach outside
to inside
Spine: The sleeve backbone
-
worn to the rear of the limb
Hand/Foot openings: Allowing
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easy on and off for the FOREARM
& CALF sleeves
Distal end (Wide
)
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Proximal end (Narrow
)
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Rear hook attachment
-
-
)
Load weight (grams
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By Athletes, for Athletes, fo r
EXOGEN® technology has been in development since June 2004 when the idea was first
conceptualized and our firsthand-made exoskeleton prototypes were tested on elite athletes
bound for the Athen’s Olympic Games. Since that time, we have spent years developing the
technology needed to make this unique high-performance product functional, meeting the
demands of today’s high-performance individuals. Our innovation goes beyond new product
development. LILA offers you patent pending technology innovations in our design, materials
and function, when combined with our game changing LVRT™ training method provides un-
paralleled performance benefits.
1
. ADJUSTABLE-CONTRACTION©
EXOGEN®
’s patent pending material combination
meets current scientific standards for improving
recovery and performance.
Additionally our innovative adjustable
EXOGEN™ straps allow the best fit and offer you
•
Greater comfort
•
Easy on and off
•
Strap adjustments
•
Secure anchoring during loading
During unloaded EXOGEN®
functions as a
high-performance shell. Once on,
anchor the strap comfortably without tension. This
can be adjusted individually based on your fit and
comfort. If at any-time you feel it is too tight,
uncomfortable or there is reduced circulation, open
the straps and re-adjust with less or no tension. We
recommend do not apply full tension of the straps
either LOADED or un-LOADED for longer than 30
minutes.
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2.Integrathermoregulation
EXOGEN®’s integrated thermo-regulation system combines several key components to improve
evaporative cooling
MICROCOOLING™ - 3M SCOTCHGUARD® moisture management inner wicking layer quickly
moves sweat and heat away from the skin to the outer layers.
MESOCOOLING™ - 3D COOLMAX® wicking mesh allows maximal breathability in the
intermediate sweat zones of the neck, chest, under-arm, lower back and groin.
MACROCOOLING™ - our patent pending Spirale-perforations allow direct skin-on-air evaporative
cooling, rapidly funnelling sweat and heat away from the body which directly improves
evaporative cooling by over 20%.
LOOKS HOT FEELS COOL
3. FASCIAL-HELIX CONSTRUCTION©
Our design construction is engineered following the body’s natural fascial-helix support system.
Fascia is the connective-tissue forming a continuous matrix around the body following a 3-D helix
structure to support multi-planar movement around your body’s two major rotational, focal
points:

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4. POSTURE SUPPORT STRAPS
EXOGEN®’s innovative, built-in postural straps provide functional support to your core and
lumbar region like nothing you’ve used before. Unlike bulky weight-belts or restrictive back
supports this provides a functional increase in intra-abdominal pressure during exercise without
the restrictions on movement and breathing.
5
. FUSIFORM LOADS® (PATENT PENDING
)
Our Fusiform LOADS® are biomechanically
engineered to follow your natural muscle
architecture allowing gravitational mobility.
This basically means they can bend and flex
according to gravity with little restriction
allowing streamlined application to body
contours even during movement. A feature
unlike anything you have experienced or felt
before.
Exercise, training and competition can quickly fatigue postural muscles even during light activity.
This is especially true for athletes or people with chronic low back pain or a recent back injury.
Our functional support straps are 100% adjustable so you can regulate the support as needed
when the intensity of your activity or the loading of your exoskeleton increases.

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FUSIFORM®, FULL-FLEX LOADS not only allow you to target specific muscles but specific
movements and skill patterns, something unprecedented in current resistance training
methods.
6. EXOPRENE™ (PATENT PENDING) MATERIAL
The key to EXOGEN®’S design and performance is our patent-pending, EXOPRENE™ material
which offers not only base level of support and function unlike anything available on the market
today. This unique material blend offers you the very best in style, comfort and safety with the
combined effects of Integrated-thermoregulation©, Scotchguard® wicking, AEGIS® eco-friendly,
anti-microbial treatment, and OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 Certified human safe materials making
EXOPRENE™ one of the most advanced high-performance materials available today.

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1. USER-DEFINED MOVEMENT TRAINING©
Traditional training equipment forces the user into equipment-defined movement where they
must adapt their technique to fit the equipment. This can negatively affect technique and reduce
performance.
EXOGEN® provides a better solution for high performance specific resistance training by offering
100% user-defined movement training. This allows complete control over the speed and pattern
of movement while resistance is applied and helps ensure optimal transfer to real performance.
Several key technological innovations make this possible including;
2. Light Variable Resistance Training (LVRT)™
For today’s athlete speed is everything. Coaches are already aware of the phenomenon called
the “10% dilemma.” The observation that during specific resistance training when the external
load reaches about 10% of bodyweight or maximum weight for a given movement, the
movement skill or technique may be negatively affected. EXOGEN® and Light Variable Resistance
Training™ our trade-marked training system was developed specifically to counteract this effect.
We define LVRT™ as “movement specific, progressive resistance training using less than 10% of
additional body weight.”
This allows the user to perform resistance training using competition specific speed and
movements without the negative impacts that can occur when using heavier loads and awkward
equipment. With starting loads as little as 50grams and increments from 50-200 grams no other
product can provide this level of specificity to enhance specific speed, power, agility, endurance
and skill.
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3. Internal Mechanical Loading (IML)©
Internal Mechanical Loading© defines the very unique
proprioceptive experience when combining LVRT™ with
our wearable resistance EXOGEN® and Fusiform Loads™.
This system blends and disperses resistance over the
entire body or body part so there isn’t a focal point for the
load like traditional resistance equipment.
We call this internal loading because the user does not
perceive the load as external but rather as inside or part
of the body. This is in contrast to traditional training
equipment where the user is very aware, they are using
external equipment. Large external loads that the user is
very aware of stimulate proprioceptors to automatically
trigger protective mechanisms that will change the
movement profile in to reduce the chance of injury. This
often results in restrictions on movement that are often
counterproductive to ones desired activity.
With its ability to progressively apply light anatomical weights almost anywhere on the body,
EXOGEN™’s ability to transfer resistance training to actual human performance is immediate
and un-paralled.
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Wearing Your Exoskeleton
EXOGEN® is designed for a specific fit ensuring adequate anti-slip
and comfort especially when LOADED. EXOGEN® wear takes
getting used to especially when putting on and taking off. The
material will naturally stretch over time and EXOGEN™, like a true
exoskeleton, will conform and mould to your body the more you
use it. Be patient, choose the right size.
Limb Sleeves
EXOGEN® sleeves are designed to fit left and right as indicated on
their care labels. The straps should be closed from the outside to
inside (laterally to medially) with the SPINE aligned along the
posterior anatomical line of the limb. Remove any jewellery that
may impede putting them on.
Putting Them On
1. Open all straps fold-in Velcro tabs out of the way so they will not
catch.
2. Slide the sleeve over the hand / foot, straps to the outside and
the spine aligned to the rear.
3. For the UA/FA it’s like putting your hand in your pocket, and for
the Calf like pulling on a sock.
4. Pull the sleeve up to its optimal anatomical position:
a. UpperArm-up to the shoulder and off the elbow joint
b. ForeArm- just below but not covering the elbow
c. Calf – over the wide part of the calf just below but off
the knee
5. Once in place lock-in the EXOGEN® straps comfortably to the desired tension.

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Sleeveless Top
TOP slides on like an athletic top. First open the postural support straps prior to putting on and
‘turn-in’ the Velcro tabs to the rear to ensure they do not catch. Once on lightly ‘lock-in’ the
postural wings to a comfortable position without tension for your first use.
If you feel the need for extra cooling or to release tension simply open the postural straps to
immediate expose the rear air-vents. The straps can be left free or rolled out of the way to the
rear. After serious effort this feels fantastic.
Shorts
The EXOGEN® SHORTS pull straight on like tights. Open the waist straps and turn-in the velcro
tabs so they do not catch. Once on adjust and lock-in the straps as desired.

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EXOGEN® is designed to provide internationally recognized standards for light-to-mild
contraction during unloaded training. These values range from 15-20 mm hg at the ankle to 6-12
mm Hg at the mid-thigh when new and properly sized.
Class 3:
>20
mmHg
-
High
Class 2:
15-20
mmHg -
Medium
Class 1:
<15
mmHg -
Low
Adjustable EXOGEN™ Straps
The adjustable EXOGEN® straps allow;
•
Easy on and off
•
Minor fit adjustments
•
Anchoring to secure EXOGEN®
™
during LOADING
During normal use without LOADS, your shells function
as a performance EXOGEN® shell and there is no
need to lock-in the straps under high tension. Once on,
simply anchor the strap comfortably without tension.
This can be adjusted on an individual basis depending
on your fit and comfort. If at any-time you feel it is too
tight or there is reduced circulation or tingling in your
limbs, hands or feet simply open the straps and
re-adjust with less or no tension. We recommend that
you do not apply full tension of the straps either
LOADED or otherwise, for longer than 20 minutes to
maintain optimal circulation.
Contraction Range

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WHAT IS LVRT™
LVRT™ or Light Variable Resistance Training™ is LILA’s trademark training system for which
Exogen was designed. LVRT™ is a training methodology that conforms to the laws of training
and emphasizes 100% user-defined resistance training with significantly less load than
traditional weight training. The main principles of LVRT™ include;
1. Applied loads are generally measured and progressed in grams and not kilograms
2. Total loading generally does not exceed ~ 10% of body weight
3. Movement speeds are maintained within ~10% of competition speed
4. There must be minimal disruption to the athlete’s skill-based ROM
5. There is less emphasis on traditional sets and reps and greater focus on extended resistance
training periods mimicking real competition metabolic demands
6. Hands and feet should remain free with the body untethered to any anchor points
7. Must maintain body-mind connection with minimal disruption to focus
LVRT™ does not replace other forms of resistance training but seeks to enhance them providing
the most effective and efficient method to apply meaningful resistance to human movement.
LVRT™ AND THE LAWS OF TRAINING
1. INDIVIDUALIZATION
Each person is different. During LVRT™ you must experiment with the LOAD volume and
orientation to find what works best for you and your sport.
LVRT™ Rule #1: If it feels wrong, reload.
User-defined movement means you are in control so let your proprioception, awareness and
instinct guide you. If you feel the overall loading is too heavy or uncomfortable then simply
reduce the load and/or re-adjust the orientation. Experimentation is highly recommended.
2. SPECIFICITY
All adaptations are specific to the stimulus imposed. In general, this means if you train heavy you
get stronger, if your train fast you get more speed, if you train long you build stamina.
LVRT™ Rule#2: Reduce the LOAD not the speed.
The real advantage of EXOGEN® and LVRT™ is the ability to provide specific, progressive
resistance to maximal / actual sport speed activities. While there is some debate on the topic,
reducing the speed of a desired movement teaches that movement to be slow and is
contradictory to speed enhancement.
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In general, you need to train at or near your desired speed to improve at that speed. If you feel
the selected load is slowing the desired speed of motion down by more than 10-20% reduce the
load, not the speed.
Once you can comfortably use the lighter load at the desired speed then progress to a higher
load. With increments of 50-200grams you will have ample opportunity for this. In some cases,
progressions may come daily in a new program. Quickly you will realize why LVRT loading is
measured in grams not kilograms. When it comes to optimal speed training - less is more.
3. PROGRESSIVE OVERLOAD
The process of increasing (and decreasing) load over time to allow for greater adaption and
improvement.
LVRT™ Rule #3: Progress in gradually in grams not kilograms
The need to progressively load more weight in order to provide enough stimuli to improve has
been clearly established. The question today is how much is enough?
LVRT™ keeps optimal speed and range of motion as the central focus and primary goal of high-
quality, high performance movement training. Your progressive loading should follow suit.
Please see our progressive loading chart to help you begin training with EXOGEN® for your sport.
Please note that these are guidelines only to get you started. be sure to follow all the general
safety and overtraining guidelines when training with exogen or performing any exercise.
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