anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine?

Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Mon, 28 May 2012 11:41:22 GMT

Doncia17 — Mon, 28 May 2012 11:41:22 GMT

Vibration training increases flexibility. Synovial fluid is released into the joints within 90 seconds, resulting in lubrication that enhances movement. Also, the stiff muscles resulting from stiff joints are relaxed and loosened up to move more freely. As the circulation pumps oxygenation into the damaged joints, healing can take place. That is why there are several ways in which whole body vibration increases flexibility, range of motion and decreases joint pain. Osteoarthritis is one of the conditions that can greatly benefit.

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Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:39:14 GMT

IMIM — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 10:39:14 GMT

sleepy:
e3nity:
My next machine would probably be a treadmil.. perhaps you wana consider that?? AiBi has some nice ones..

I'm tempted too
Only drawback is the fixed space a threadmil occupies.

My next \"machine\" is a pair of running shoes
Saw my neighbour ( dun knw which block )who is a young Fat lady in her early 20 maybe in U or Poly running ard the est. Tog it was a waste of her time cos shes real obesse
Didnt see her abt a year+ and saw her the other day and was shocked to see her slim figure...wow running can do wonders..
:lol:

Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Sat, 02 Apr 2011 07:40:42 GMT

sleepy — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 07:40:42 GMT

Just to add, this OTO machine is using Whole Body Vibration (WBV)

Besides OTO, I think there're other brands

Here's a write up on WBV
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole-body_vibration

Anyone tried similar sort of WBV exercise machine?

Which brand?

How long have you been using it?

Effective in keeping fit?

Appreciate your feedback

Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:59:35 GMT

e3nity — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:59:35 GMT

ANobleNerd:
Not really. In running, your foot impacts the ground hard and this impact jars on the kneecaps. In cycling, your weight is on the seat, and this minimises the impact on your knees.

Cycling is certainly a better cardio exercise than running, although we tend to think of running as the basic cardio exercise because it has zero barriers to entry - anyone can start running.

Besides, we keep seeing images of lean, muscled runners, and we think \"Wow, if I want to look like that I must start running too.\" We don't often see people on exercise bikes, so that's not in our mind's eye at all.

Of course, if all things remain equal, swimming is ideal - but that means getting access to a pool.

Is it real that cycling only uses the lower body?? which is the best for overall work out? arms legs everything..

Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:57:37 GMT

ANobleNerd — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:57:37 GMT

Not really. In running, your foot impacts the ground hard and this impact jars on the kneecaps. In cycling, your weight is on the seat, and this minimises the impact on your knees.

Cycling is certainly a better cardio exercise than running, although we tend to think of running as the basic cardio exercise because it has zero barriers to entry - anyone can start running.

Besides, we keep seeing images of lean, muscled runners, and we think \"Wow, if I want to look like that I must start running too.\" We don't often see people on exercise bikes, so that's not in our mind's eye at all.

Of course, if all things remain equal, swimming is ideal - but that means getting access to a pool.

Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:09:48 GMT

e3nity — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:09:48 GMT

cimman:
if you're in your 20s, skipping is fine.

i'm in my mid 20s so still can skip... :lol:

the effect of cycling isn't it the same as running? both uses the knee alot.. :? cimman u seems like a pro in exercising.. perhaps you can ans my doubt??

Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:13:57 GMT

ANobleNerd — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:13:57 GMT

I was going to suggest getting the exercise bike instead of the treadmill too.

But, Cimman, your post says it all. :goodpost:

Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:02:53 GMT

cimman — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:02:53 GMT

if you’re in your 20s, skipping is fine. Once you get to your mid 30s, it is best to avoid jumping in your exercises. Jogging, jumping all induces great amount of stress on your knee caps. As you get into your 40s, there is natural cartilage detioration. If you do a lot of jogging and skipping, this will speed up the natural cartilage detioration process and you’ll get knee joint pains.

Cycling on a stationary bike is good. It is convenient and all gyms has it. Spend about 30mins on it with zero resistance. After a week or two, increase the resistance. When you’re used to the exertion of the cycling exercise, increase the cycling speed and monitor your heart rate. Cycle for as fast as you can and check your heart rate. Note down this heart rate and use it as a target reference. On subsequent exercise, try to hit that heart rate for at least a minute, then slow down for a minute to catch your breath, and then speed up again to hit that target heart rate. Do this for 10 times. You can start off with 4 times initially and gradually increase to 10 and beyond.

Your heart has to be pushed to hit as high as you can go, to achieve fat burning. A slow cycling isn’t going to be much help. Most gym stationary exercise bicycle should have a heart monitoring device. It is normally situated in the handle bars of the bike.

As with everything, you will need a feedback mechanism to monitor that you’re indeed making progress with your exercise program.

a) I would suggests going for a blood test to check your cholesterol levels, HDL and LDL and blood pressure.
b) check your resting pulse rate, ie. when you first get up from bed in the morning.
c) make a measurement of your waist and record the measurements.

after 6 months, you can go for another blood test. You should see a lowering of your cholesterol level.
The resting pulse rate and waist measurement you can monitor on a weekly basis.

You know that you’ve made progress if you find that your resting heart rate decreases. Try to shoot for the 50s range, ie. 50+ heart beat per minute.

As you get used to the exercise work load, you’ll find that you need to cycle faster and put in more resistance to achieve your target heart rate that you’ve recorded earlier. This is normal. Try to increase your max heart rate on a monthly basis.

The slow walks is not going to increase your body metabolism much for you.

Once you get into the rythm of this max heart rate exercise, you body will be burning fat even when you’re sitting and sleeping. Drink lots of water to help this process along. With non exhaustive exercises (like slow walks), whatever little fat burning there is stops as soon as you stop exercising.

In addition to increasing your metabolic rate with this exercise, you work out your quads and hamstring muscles as well.

The objective here is not to pedal for a long time, but to exercise intensely for a short period of time. Note that there is some knee cap stress with cycling, however, as you’re not doing a lot of cycling here, it should be fine.
If you have bad knees, swimming is another alternative.

Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:10:03 GMT

e3nity — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:10:03 GMT

sleepy:

Wow, cannot la, 1000x way too intensive for me! Although it's a good indoor exercise, maybe I can try 10?
At my age, I think I can only afford low impact exercises, cannot strain joints too much & must be away from the sun to avoid pigmentation.

My kids are in different sessions, have to send & fetch, sayang & spend time with them when they're home. So I intend to look for a machine to use at home, more flexible in terms of timing, can exercise while kids are doing homework or practising instruments.

See la, so many consideration (or excuses?) :lol:

the max i can skip is like 300x n i'm dead..

Alternatively.. when u fetch ur kids do some brisk walking.. at least u have some low intense exercise for at least 4 times a day 5 times a week.. wait ur hubby drool with the result.. :boogie: if you r looking at morning bring child 1 to school den walk home.. mid day bring child 2 to school den otw fetch child 1 home.. and evening fetch child 2 home from school.. lke tat can even save on machine... :lol:

Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:49:55 GMT

sleepy — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:49:55 GMT

e3nity:
did you heard people saying if you skip a rope for 1000 times a day.. u can lose alot?

Wow, cannot la, 1000x way too intensive for me! Although it's a good indoor exercise, maybe I can try 10?
At my age, I think I can only afford low impact exercises, cannot strain joints too much & must be away from the sun to avoid pigmentation.

My kids are in different sessions, have to send & fetch, sayang & spend time with them when they're home. So I intend to look for a machine to use at home, more flexible in terms of timing, can exercise while kids are doing homework or practising instruments.

See la, so many consideration (or excuses?) :lol:

Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:57:11 GMT

cimman — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 03:57:11 GMT

sleepy:
cimman:
I recommend a good massage chair for couch potatoes. The fats just gets vibrated out of the body and you can collect it in a pan at the bottom of the chair. Get the models with integrated pans at the bottom for greater convenience.

Thereafter, you can use the fats to fry potato chips.
Don't worry about the oil you're ingesting. Go back to step one again and get the fats vibrated away. Store any unused fats in the freezer compartment to avoid it going rancid.

Come on, this a forum for sharing. You're welcome if you've constructive input. But is there a need to be so sarcastic :scratchhead:

Anyway my BMI is 20. Did I mention anywhere I have fats to spare for your fries ?

don't take it personally. It's just a mental image I have whenever I see a fat person trying out a massage chair in the malls, epecially in the US where they're a lot bigger size. Everything just wobbles. Just thought I'll pen down the mental image.
anyway, with a BMI of 20, you shouldn't consider yourself a couch potato.

Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:40:18 GMT

e3nity — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:40:18 GMT

sleepy:
e3nity:
My next machine would probably be a treadmil.. perhaps you wana consider that?? AiBi has some nice ones..

I'm tempted too
Only drawback is the fixed space a threadmil occupies.

sleepy.. there are some foldable onces which can be easily kept under your bed or store room.. with my tiny collections which i seldom use (eg: the vibrating ez-slim, skipping rope, twister).. DS toy room is slowly converting into my mini gym.. lol..

did you heard people saying if you skip a rope for 1000 times a day.. u can lose alot?

Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:29:45 GMT

sleepy — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:29:45 GMT

e3nity:
My next machine would probably be a treadmil.. perhaps you wana consider that?? AiBi has some nice ones..

I'm tempted too
Only drawback is the fixed space a threadmil occupies.

Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:24:43 GMT

sleepy — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 02:24:43 GMT

cimman:
I recommend a good massage chair for couch potatoes. The fats just gets vibrated out of the body and you can collect it in a pan at the bottom of the chair. Get the models with integrated pans at the bottom for greater convenience.

Thereafter, you can use the fats to fry potato chips.
Don't worry about the oil you're ingesting. Go back to step one again and get the fats vibrated away. Store any unused fats in the freezer compartment to avoid it going rancid.

Come on, this a forum for sharing. You're welcome if you've constructive input. But is there a need to be so sarcastic :scratchhead:

Anyway my BMI is 20. Did I mention anywhere I have fats to spare for your fries ?

Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:45:47 GMT

cimman — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:45:47 GMT

sleepy:
Thanks for your feedback

I guess no short cut in exercising ...

Any other exercise machine recommendations for couch potato?

I recommend a good massage chair for couch potatoes. The fats just gets vibrated out of the body and you can collect it in a pan at the bottom of the chair. Get the models with integrated pans at the bottom for greater convenience.
Thereafter, you can use the fats to fry potato chips.
Don't worry about the oil you're ingesting. Go back to step one again and get the fats vibrated away. Store any unused fats in the freezer compartment to avoid it going rancid.

Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:40:26 GMT

cimman — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:40:26 GMT

unity123:
I think working with some light weight is very effective for the arms. for the flabby stomach, need some slow running + daily crunching.

not really. Flabby stomach means there's a layer of fat around the area. To cut down on the fat, you need intense exercise that reaches 80% of your maximum heart rate. Forget about the slow running, do sprints.
Typically, it's called HIT, High Intensity Training. This really burns up the fat.

Daily crunching wll help to firm up the abdominals, however, you're not going to see the results because of the layer of fat that covers up your toned abdominals, so you will still look flabby. It's like someone with a good bod wearing loose fitting clothes. Get rid of the fats first.

Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:26:29 GMT

e3nity — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:26:29 GMT

sleepy:
Thanks for your feedback

I guess no short cut in exercising ...

Any other exercise machine recommendations for couch potato?

My next machine would probably be a treadmil.. perhaps you wana consider that?? AiBi has some nice ones..

Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:24:46 GMT

sleepy — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:24:46 GMT

Thanks for your feedback

I guess no short cut in exercising ...

Any other exercise machine recommendations for couch potato?

Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:41:46 GMT

unity123 — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:41:46 GMT

I think working with some light weight is very effective for the arms. for the flabby stomach, need some slow running + daily crunching.

Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:37:57 GMT

hihikitty — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:37:57 GMT

Complete waste of money, don’t buy

Reply to anyone using Whole Body Vibration (WBV) exercise machine? on Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:19:04 GMT

e3nity — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:19:04 GMT

I've bought something similar from okgawa.. i was told by the sales girl that it will be effective if i stand on it at least 30minutes a day.. i can even lose my flabby arms.. but end up it din work.. :x

the only thing which i find it usefull is that when i'm having constipation, standing on the machine for 10minutes will ease me in toilet.. :oops: