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SmithShaper LLC was born in late 2015. That's when product developer, Louis Morales, partnered with Marcus Smith, a former body builder, to refine Marcus' squat exerciser concept. Marcus wanted to find a way to perform squats in a safe way at home that would consume limited space. Read More
Louis Morales , a co-inventor of six patents, brings over 20 years of product development and marketing experience to the SmithShaper team. Louis is also an active amateur beach volleyball player and coach.
Louis became involved in the infancy of the SmithShaper Exerciser concept in late 2015 when he teamed with Marcus Smith, a former body builder. Marcus, wanted to find a safe way to perform squats at home in limited space. In early 2015, Marcus had his first working prototype. Around that time, Louis was searching for a rolling wall squat device to target his leg muscles in a way that would lesson stress and strain to his one "football" knee. This led Louis right to Marcus. Before you knew it, the two became partners and formed SmithShaper LLC in the fall of 2015.
Louis worked with Marcus to refine the design and led the effort to reconfigure the axles and update the prototype with special non-marking wheels so the device would be safe to use on fine walls or floors and roll smoothly and quietly for additional exercises. SmithShaper teamed with Louis' ZOBOAPPS firm to design the now registered SmithShaper® trademark, brand, website and marketing materials. Louis then worked to complete the patent application Marcus initiated in 2014. A U.S. patent was granted to SmithShaper LLC in April, 2018 for the invention of the SmithShaper multipurpose exerciser.
While testing the SmithShaper® Ab Squat Roller™ device with various certified trainers, the SmithShaper team (including Tiffany Morales, a former two-sport NCAA athlete) developed multiple exercise applications for the device. Tiffany said "we realized in our testing that the SmithShaper Ab Squat Multipurpose Exerciser is hands down better than any other rolling workout platform due to its versatility." Louis added, "No form of single or dual wheel abdominal rolling exerciser, ab roller, ab wheel, or sliding board can compare."
Louis then asked, "can you place your forearms on an ab wheel when doing ab rolls? Can you place both feet on an ab roller and perform SmithShaper Core Crushers, SmithShaper Hamstring Curls or SmithShaper Sideways Jackknives? Can you do mountain climbers, ice skaters or lunges on an ab wheel? Can you wear an ab wheel and do perfect posture wall squats? As you see, the answer is "no" for these other devices."
In 2019, Marcus decided to leave the business and Louis became CEO of SmithShaper LLC. Louis believes customers are beginning to understand the value represented by the SMITHSHAPER® brand. According to the new CEO, these values include the freedom to workout anywhere, indoors or outdoors, portability, exercise variety, exercise effectiveness, and durability. Louis convinced me that SMITHSHAPER® exercisers can address the goals of many who embark upon a fitness quest. Whether the goal is to tone and shape, build and strengthen muscles, jump higher, increase balance, enhance ones core, increase mobility, or protect and build up the ligaments and muscles around previously injured joints, SmithShaper exercise equipment can help.
SmithShaper® exercisers continue to provide more value compared to single use exercisers. In other words, SMITHSHAPER delivers more exercises per dollar spent when compared to other portable devices. "This is the primary differentiator between the SmithShaper Ab Squat Roller (25 exercises), SmithShaper® SQUATX® (37 to 50 exercises) and all of our other products compared to limited functionality exercise equipment," said Louis.
The SMITHSHAPER LLC product line continues to evolve. Louis explained in 2023 that with the new
SQUATX® Max 85-Exercise System comes some serious versatility. Portable and unique self-anchored and door-anchored resistance band bars such as the TR-BAR and TR-BAR PLUS add multiple exercises to the system. However, what's revolutionary are the productivity gains from combination exercises within the new SQUATX® exercise system. The SQUATX device itself is a version of the patented SmithShaper ASR that enables both bodyweight and band resistance training. With the SQUATX, rolling wall squats and resistance band chest presses can be performed simultaneously. In addition, the SmithShaper Loop Max resistance band accessory pack was introduced to increase in the quantity of exercises available for stand-alone SmithShaper products such as the ASR and TR-BAR. Also in this timeframe, Louis and team began their work on the SQUATX Exercise app so that people would be able to create their own custom daily workouts containing SmithShaper exercise videos.
The robust SQUATX® Exercise App became widely available for iOS and Android smart phones users in April, 2024. The SQUATX app allows people to arrange, save, and run, their own easy-to-difficult workouts. For each exercise repetition within a person's Workout of the Day (WoD), the associated SmithShaper exercise video plays on the app's timer screen. Exercises can be selected by muscle group, SmithShaper exercise device, or by exercise name. There are several customizable settings and these can be changed as often as needed. The SQUATX Exercise App settings include the quantity of exercises (Sets), the number of times an exercise is to be performed (Cycles), the desired length of each exercise work cycle, and the desired rest durations between Sets and between Cycles. Sixteen to eighty-five different exercises can be performed within the app. It depends upon the SmithShaper equipment you own.
According to Amazon and eBay reviews, customers give all SMITHSHAPER® products high marks. This includes SmithShaper exercisers as well as SmithShaper workout pads. SmithShaper® Super Pad™ Thick Exercise Kneeling Pad and the SmithShaper® Squat Mat™ Knee Mat, are both eco-friendly nitrile rubber exercise kneeling pads that effectively provide comfort during workouts. The SmithShaper Squat Mat enables lower body muscle targeting and like the SmithShaper Super Pad, it cushion knees, forearms, elbows, and other body parts when performing exercises such as ab rollouts, planks, knee push-ups, etc..
SMITHSHAPER® products are available on www.SMITHSHAPER.com as well as Brookstone.com, Amazon.com, Walmart.com, eBay.com and Shopify.com. SMITHSHAPER LLC continues to partner with sales channels that are particular about quality and customer care. Since 2017, over 50K SmithShaper products have been sold worldwide. The SmithShaper team continues to create and launch additional complementary fitness solutions and sports training tools. This includes their line of portable resistance band bars and muscle relief rollers. Don't forget to follow #smithshaper on social media and see how people are using SMITHSHAPER® exercise equipment.
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Best Abdominal & Leg Trainer
The SmithShaper® Ab Squat Multipurpose Exerciser™ is a top choice by physical trainers and people looking for space saving workout gear because no other compact exercise device provides as much versatility.
Perfect posture rolling wall squats, abdominal roll-outs, ice skaters, lunges core crunches, sideways jackknives, and hamstring curls are just some of the many SmithShaper exercises to target legs, glutei, abdominals, lower and upper back, obliques, core, shoulders, chest, arms. and more.