Obesity research

[Jackie P]

Is there any simple to read research papers on vibration exercise and how it can help obesity.

[Great Vibrations]

Jackie

You can read a ton of research but it really is a simple as this. Strength training burns 10 times more calories then cardio. When you do conventional training such as dumbells every time you do a repitition it is 1 muscle contraction and you recruit about 45% of the Muscle fibers. With vibration training you get up to 60 contractions per second the equivalent of doing 60 repetitions per second with 90 to 100% recruitment of the muscle fibers. With Vibration research is showing up to a 460 percent increase in HGH and up to 10% increase in testosterone. These hormones are essential in your bodies ability to burn fat, additionally it is much easier to stick with a vibration training program as opposed to conventional training program because among other things you do not have to spend nearly as much time doing it and you only need 1 piece of equipment asopposed to needing several with conventional training.

[Dr Jasper Sidhu]

With vibration exercise and weight loss, you really have to go back to the basics of exercise and weight loss and then understand how vibration exercise can be effective. Will you lose weight just standing on a vibration machine a few minutes a day? Most probably not, although I've seen some that have. You see, if your body does the same thing every day, it gets used to that stimulus and its harder for your body to continue having positive effects. So in order to understand weight loss, the following points should shed some light:

Exercise in general should consist of some form of weight resistance exercises that work the entire body. The more muscles that are being stimulated, the greater your energy expenditure throughout the rest of the day. That's why current fitness programs stress working on all the big body parts in one workout. The days of doing one or two body parts every day should be over. Now let's take a look at vibration exercise. The platform allows for up to 3000 muscle contractions per minute and since it works on involuntary muscle contractions, you are recruiting more muscles than voluntary contractions.

Most of the patients I've seen for weight loss had some success with vibration exercise. However, you have to understand that it was balanced with a good nutritional program and lifestyle changes. The key thing was that most of my patients originally didnt exercise because they had some form of medical condition that prevented them from working out (ie. fibromyalgia, arthritis, chronic pain, etc). Vibration exercise seemed to be one of the few exercise programs they could actually do, and at a high enough intensity to make any difference. As they continued with their program, guess what happens? They get stronger, they feel better, and then they move better through the day. All this leads to more calories burned throughout the day.

So in conclusion, when someone tells you that all you do is stand on a vibration platform to lose weight, they aren't telling you the whole story. You have to have the right program that fits your abilities and needs and the program must be consistent with proper training principles that are currently being used with regular conventional exercise programs.

[momcani]

I saw on a news program that doing one pushup on a vibration plate is equal to 4 more conventional pushups. It also said that standing on a vibration plate is equal to an hour on a treadmill at 3 mph.

Is this information accurate? If not what are the exercise equivalents? I usually walk 3 miles on the treadmill at 4 mph then lift weights varying the muscle groups that I exercise.