How And Why It Works

Whole Body Vibration Training is an incredible method of exercise and therapy that works by exposing an individual to both an unstable platform and an increase in gravitational force.  The two of these are mutually achieved by vibrating a platform 25-50 times per second.

          The unstable platform is the main reason why Whole Body Vibration is so remarkable at exercise and healing. As the plate vibrates, your body is being shifted up and down, left and right, and front to back anywhere from 25-50 times per second. These rapid shifts cause your body to become unbalanced. In order to regain stability, your muscles are forced to compensate for these shifts by an involuntary muscular contraction. A reflex!

          Essentially, this means that your muscles will be contracting up to 50 times per second! These shifts affect your entire body resulting in your entire muscular system undergoing rapid involuntary contractions that are hardly noticed and require minimal user effort. Because of the intensity and frequency of these contractions, phenomenal improvements in your fitness, health, and healing begin to take place!

      The instability present within Whole Body Vibration Training has another incredible benefit that catapults it high above its competition. The platform’s destabilizing movements are so profound that they result in 30% more muscle fibers used per each and every single movement! Much of the extra muscle fibers used are in the form of Fast Twitch Muscle Fibers.

          While these fibers are usually difficult to activate in conventional weight training, everything you do on Whole Body Vibration Plates involves a Fast Twitch Muscle Response! This is what leads to such drastic gains in power, explosive strength, and speed!

The reflex contractions that Whole Body Vibration activates are also a special kind of contraction. The reflex stimulated is called a natural stretch reflex. It is similar to how a Doctor would tap your knee during an exam. It is an innate and automatic feature of your body! This kind of reflex happens when a muscle spindle is under a static stretch, is quickly stretched, or is overstretched. Once any of these stimuli are present the muscle spindle undergoes a reflex contraction. With Whole Body Vibration, these spindles are constantly in the presence of those stimuli resulting in constant contraction and relaxation until the vibration stops! The result is far more calories being burned!

The significance of this is incredible. When a muscle spindle contracts involuntarily in a reflex, it will stimulate its neighboring muscle spindle to contract and then relax! The result is a chain reaction! Whole Body Vibration causes virtually 100% of a muscle’s spindle to fire compared to traditional weight lifting’s 40%! This is huge! This is why you can achieve the best workout possible in an incredibly short amount of time! The sheer amount of activity generated within your muscles is enough to drastically impact the very nature of how your body functions!

So far we’ve explored the effects that Whole Body Vibration has with just instability. There is also a second action taking place that makes Whole Body Vibration even more effective. This action is the manipulation of G-Force being exerted on your body.

          G-force is a measurement of how much gravitational pull is being exerted against your body. On earth, we experience a G-force of 1. On Whole Body Vibration Plates, you can effectively weigh up to 8 times your body weight! How is that possible?

  It is all due to the vertical vibration. As the plate moves it drops 4 mm and that drop creates a micro free fall. It tricks your body into thinking its falling! The body then contracts all of its muscles in a reflex response. It is at that moment you land when the force of the plate begins moving up against your previously descending body and this force creates the G-Force!

          The best part? All the stress is located in your muscles and not your joints! Whole Body Vibration is a low impact exercise routine! The micro free fall is simply too little of a fall to generate enough energy to impact joints. However, the fall is enough to generate a reflex from the muscles. This is why you can exercise your muscles up to 8 times your body weight and leave your joints virtually untouched!