Vibration Exercise Machine

[Turkish Delight]

Does anyone have or know of someone who has a vibration exercise machine?

Have they lost weight on it?
Is it as good as they claim?
Where did they buy it from?

Thanks

[Floweryfields]

Sorry Turkish, not related to your topic - well kinda, but I read on an older thread where you recommended the free diary thing on the calorie king website. I can only find a 7 day free trial, is there something else I am missing?

[Turkish Delight]

Calorie King

this is the website. it shouldn't be a 7 day free trial

[Fuzzywuzzy]

I haven't heard of whether they're any good or if they actually work, but I saw a lady trialling one in the shops yesterday and her butt was jiggling like crazy. I wouldn't want anyone to see my butt jiggle like that..ever...

[Turkish Delight]

LMAO. Well not in public anyway.

They say 10mins is equivalent to a 1hr workout

[Floweryfields]

Wow that would be incredible! Thanks for the link, I was on the american site I think!

[Turkish Delight]

My pleasure ausgirl. all part of the service i provide here on BB

[Fuzzywuzzy]

LMAO. Well not in public anyway.

They say 10mins is equivalent to a 1hr workout

That makes it sound a bit more appealing (as long as I don't have to be seen in public ) My head is telling me that even though your muscles are moving with the vibrations there isn't really any resistance so I don't know how it would work. Does anyone know how it actually works?

[Bathsheba]

Hmmm, I'd be sceptical of vibrating machines. It might increase circulation but it's not making the body do any actual work so how is energy used? Muscles have to move to burn energy... from inside. If you are shaken for 10 mins are you panting? Every 1 hour workout I can think of makes the person breathe quite hard...

I'm sure Googling would explain things better than I am.

[Fuzzywuzzy]

Exactly what I was thinking Bath. Doesn't look like it would increase your heart rate at all

[Lulu]

Vibrations at that level at for that long are just not good for your body.

[mbear]

yep...10 mins is equivalent to 1 hr of aerobic activity....improves bone density too. My mum and dad have one...my sister has one. My sister has lost 10kgs - gets on it for 10 mins a day. my mum and dad have only had theirs 4 weeks. In both cases theyve purchased not necessarily to loose weight, but to tone.
They bougth from TVSN (foxtel shopping channel).
They explained it on tele like imagine you are running down a slippery grassy hill, and you are about to fall, you tighten your leg muscles to stop the fall - pretty much what the vib. platform does for 10 mins constantly. Your muscles are contracting for that amount of time (and at what speed you decide).
Ive had a '10 min' go on mums....and i definetly feel that endorphine rush when i get off it - you know that feeling you have after doing a good workout, swimming a few laps ??? it defn got the blood pumping around my legs...and the next day my legs were stiff and sore, just like they would be from a netball game or something...whilst im interested in it...i kinda like the ole traditional way of exercising, be that a game of netball or a few laps of a pool....but thats just me...

[Bathsheba]

Ok, so if muscles are contracting then they must be using up lots of extra oxygen... meaning that you should start to breath harder...?

I would be worried about the organ damage. It's not natural and that means something will probably go wrong eventually.

[Turkish Delight]

Thanks Baths.

I was actually looking at the one from TVSN. Its $699 on TVSN with a 3 year warranty, whilst on Ebay they go for about $320 with a 12 month warranty. I'm just cautious on buying it from Ebay because their warranties are not legit most of the time.