Location: In my office, at the Ministry of Awesome!
Exp:
General rule of thumb. If a product is meant to make exercise easier to do, it probably makes the exercise less effective.
If it isn't hard work, it isn't exercise.
__________________
THE SHANTZ WILL RISE AGAIN. <-----Check the Badge bitches. You want some Awesome, you come to me!
I've heard they can cause serious damage such as brain damage. I don't see how continuous tiny vibrations through your body can be anything but harmful.
Location: In my office, at the Ministry of Awesome!
Exp:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
I've heard they can cause serious damage such as brain damage. I don't see how continuous tiny vibrations through your body can be anything but harmful.
That's some good scieince you've got there.
__________________
THE SHANTZ WILL RISE AGAIN. <-----Check the Badge bitches. You want some Awesome, you come to me!
Didn't they have a machine that shook your body back in the 60s and it was found out to be horrible and do nothing. Now I see a new commercial on TV with brutal acting saying that it helps with metabolism. Not sure how this would work but it seems like a fake claim to me.
General rule of thumb. If a product is meant to make exercise easier to do, it probably makes the exercise less effective.
If it isn't hard work, it isn't exercise.
for the most part, the woodway treadmills at our gym have much more shock absorption and are much easier on my knees than the tank like precor's. But I agree, if you have to ask yourself if it's a hard workout it's probably not.
Location: In my office, at the Ministry of Awesome!
Exp:
Quote:
Originally Posted by robocop
for the most part, the woodway treadmills at our gym have much more shock absorption and are much easier on my knees than the tank like precor's. But I agree, if you have to ask yourself if it's a hard workout it's probably not.
I should have been clearer.
There is a difference between making a easier, and making it easier on the body.
For example, cycling or swimming are probably way easier on the body than running, but that doesn't mean they are easier workouts.
__________________
THE SHANTZ WILL RISE AGAIN. <-----Check the Badge bitches. You want some Awesome, you come to me!
I know very little about the science behind these machines other than what the propaganda pamphlets have told me. However, I would go on this assumption ... if these things actually worked as well as advertised, wouldn't we actually see dozens of them in every gym? Shouldn't it be very easy to walk in to any fitness center and talk to at least one person who experienced 'life-changing' results? Well I've never met one.
It seems to me this is simply an exercise meme expanded upon from a narrow study.
The Scotty BS meter is simple. I will ignore what people (both 'scientists' and 'whack jobs') tell me about a health product, idea, or technique and simply try it and judge for myself. As long as it passes these three tests:
1. Is there at least the smallest chance that this could work? ie. If someone tells me that licking a rock can get me huge pipes, then I'm gone.
2. Is it reasonably safe? ie. If someone tells me that drinking a diluted concoction of sulfuric acid can cure a cold, then I'm gone.
3. Is it reasonably priced? ie. If someone shows me a product that might work, and it passes the first two tests, but costs a few grand, then I'm gone.
Your shaky device here passes my first two BS test ... but not my third. I would never shell out the money to buy this. I hope you don't either.
__________________
I like to quote myself - scotty2hotty
I am not an exercise guy, so take what I say with a grain of extra double chocolaty chip salt. yumm salt..
Cardio is supposed to exercise your heart by making it work harder. It does this my pumping blood to the muscles that are working extra hard.
Building muscles happens when you make tiny tears in your muscles and when it creates new tissue to heal, your muscles are bigger.
If you can think of a way that either of those 2 things happen because your body is shaking, then you might be able to think of a way that these products might do something, but even then they will only do it to the degree that those 2 things happen.
My guess is it might do a very tiny amount of something, but certainly isn't worth paying for.
__________________
"Wake up, Luigi! The only time plumbers sleep on the job is when we're working by the hour."
Vibrating Excercise machines...
<-----Check the Badge bitches. You want some Awesome, you come to me!
