How can sitting or standing in one spot possible add to my fitness, you must have wondered when you saw someone using a whole-body vibration machine at the gym. If that describes you, there’s a good chance you’ve never used a power vibrator, and it makes perfect sense.
Moving around or lifting something heavy is regarded as beneficial for your body when performing traditional exercises. It may seem odd to use a whole-body vibration machine for this reason. However, even just 15 minutes on one of these machines can improve your blood flow, balance, and muscular strength.
The following are some advantages of employing a whole-body vibration device:
A workout usually necessitates the active use of one’s muscles through one’s own motions.
1. Increased Blood Flow Reduces Pain
The vibrator machine’s vibration increases blood flow, facilitates nutrient exchange, and improves oxygen delivery to the affected area, resulting in increased flexibility, improved neuromuscular functioning, and pain relief. Every time your muscles vibrate, they promote blood flow so that you can maintain a healthy circulatory system. If you already have poor circulation, you know the array of problems that causes cold hands and feet, swollen lymph nodes, cramps, and so forth. And we all know poor blood circulation increases the risk of getting a chronic heart condition.
So, vibration plates can improve your circulation, whether you already have problems with it or not.
That way, you can at least alleviate – if not prevent altogether – some severe health conditions.
- Reduce back pain
- Improve strength and balance in older adults
- Reduce bone loss
Making Your Posture-Muscles Work
Vibration platforms require that you stand and employ the use of your posture muscles to accommodate multiple rapid adjustments to achieve balance. As the machine vibrates, it transmits energy to your body, triggering your muscles to contract and relax dozens of times each second–about 30-50 times a second. In just 10 minutes, your muscles can get a workout that provides increased strength, stability, and tone. Each session targets key areas that you need to improve.
Athletes and How They Benefit from Vibration Therapy
Strength and conditioning regimens of many professional and collegiate sports teams use vibration platforms to increase muscle strength with non-traditional methods.
2. Enables Weight Loss
Extra calorie burning has a variety of health benefits, including improved sleep, hormonal balance, and blood sugar levels. A peer-reviewed study published in the journal ‘Endocrinology’ discovered that spending 20 minutes a day on the vibrating platform for three months reduced abdominal and liver fat while also strengthening bones. With whole-body vibration, you stand, sit or lie on a machine with a vibrating platform. As the machine vibrates, it transmits energy to your body, forcing your muscles to contract and relax dozens of times each second. The activity may cause you to feel as if you’re exerting yourself.
Advocates say that as little as 15 minutes a day of whole-body vibration three times a week may aid weight loss, burn fat, improve flexibility, enhance blood flow, reduce muscle soreness after exercise, build strength and decrease the stress hormone cortisol. If you’ve seen someone using a whole-body vibration machine at your gym, you must have thought to yourself, how can sitting or standing in one place possibly contribute to my fitness? If that sounds like you, chances are you’ve never used a power vibrator – and it’s completely understandable why. In traditional exercises, moving around or lifting something heavy is considered productive for your body. That’s why using a whole-body Vibration machine may seem absurd. However, spending even as little as 15 minutes on these
Machines can have a positive effect on your blood flow, balance, and muscle strength.
3. Stronger and Toned Muscles
Any vibration machine will have a platform that vibrates at a certain frequency. Through the platform, energy is transmitted to your body. This forces your muscles to rapidly contract and relax, building your strength.
If you want to make the most of your vibration machine, consider performing dynamic strength exercises like squats, push-ups, lunges, etc. on the machine’s platform. The variation applied in different angles enhances the performance of the exercise by activating more muscle fibers. This leads to muscle growth and an increase in the muscle density.
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Tougher Bones
According to a study by Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise Journal, vibration training increases bone mineral density and leg strength. Stronger bones are beneficial to your overall strength and can help you avoid diseases like osteoporosis. This makes vibration training especially useful for the elderly.
4. You’ll lower Your Stress
Your fast-paced metabolism doesn’t just make you look good. It makes you feel good. That’s because a slower metabolic rate can lead to all sorts of endocrine issues. For example, it can mess with your thyroid, sleep patterns, skin, and so forth. So because you’re not exercising, your slow metabolism can make you tired, cranky, and give you zits. In turn, using a vibration plate will alleviate the symptoms of these conditions so that you can feel calm and centered. But what if your metabolism is running just fine, and you still feel stressed or have problems sleeping? Vibration plates will still help you because exercise releases serotonin, endorphins, and dopamine. These happiness hormones will give your brain the boost it needs to improve your mood.
5. Healthier Looking Skin
Using a vibration plate will improve the aspect of your skin because :
- You’re toning your muscles
- You’re improving your blood circulation
- You’re decreasing your stress levels
These things allow your body to detoxify faster, so it looks smoother. Besides, stronger muscles keep your skin firm.
And there’s another thing :
An accelerated metabolism promotes collagen production. You probably know about collagen from all those ads about skin lotions and creams. Luckily, when your body produces collagen, it tweaks the amount to what you need.
Translation : less cellulite and wrinkles.
If you have a chronic condition or recuperating from surgery, vibration plates can reduce that pain. Just remember to consult your doctor before because you can worsen some disorders like spinal pain. That said, vibration plates work wonders for sciatica, muscle cramps, and arthritis.
