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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
I'm not trying to be an ass I'm giving my opinion.
Rule of thumb, if an exercise machine makes a claim that you can get the same results with less effort, they are flat out lying. That's why I quoted your original post. Your comment about working out without any effort is just wrong, and the type of comment people use to sell crappy equipment that doesn't do anything. A more true statement would have been "Its a way to feel like you're working out because you're standing on something, but it's about as effective as standing on something"
Sure if you're buying this as a motiviation tool so that you do SOMETHING, then yeah it'll have some benefit becaue it'll get you doing something instead of nothing. But I think most people would be better off finding some other motivational method than spending a couple grand on a machine that makes your workout less effective. Spend the money on a personal trainer. You still get the "I spent the money, I might as well go" motivation, and you see way better results for your money.
The OP wanted to know our opinions on this type of machine, and I've given mine by stating it outright, and by discussing it with you.
Bottom line, if his wife is healthy and just wants to get this because she thinks it'll motivate her to do something, there is a good chance that a) The motivation factor will wear off as it so often does with any piece of exercise equipment, or b) she could have spent the money in a way that provides much better results.
That's the problem (or strength) with the exercise equipment industry, they sell usless equipment to people who think there is an easy way to work out. The only way to actually work out is to work hard and get sweaty.
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I think we have a disagreement here between exercising and working out. In no way do I think this vibration machine is a form of "working out" in the traditional sense. I can see the point that you are trying to make and agree with it entirely but i'm also suggesting that just because an 80 year old women, for example isn't breaking a sweat and gettin all crazy doesn't mean she couldn't find a use (low impact at that) for a machine like this.
It's important to note as well that these machines aren't the same as you saw in the 70's and 80's with the strap around the back the jiggled you. You actually stand on a platform that tips back and forth at varying speeds.
disclaimer: RTTR by no means would ever by one of these machines, i'm just trying to help myself comprehend and justify why my mother would
