VTDesigner

" referring to functional training as a "better" way to train the core than traditional exercise " Sorry I am confused. Please clarify "traditional" . When you climb a tree, you directly engage your arms and legs and indirectly engage your abdominal region for stability. It is what our core is designed to do last time a…

A) Climbing a tree will help me to lift an elderly person who has fallen. A) Using a jungle gym will ensure that I can move awkwardly shaped furniture A) Climbing a tree will make my swimming stroke more powerful A) Using a jungle gym will provide me with the balance and core strength to avoid going down in a hard contact…

(a) If you want functional training. Go play on a jungle gym or climb a tree. It is free. The fact is these terms are marketing jargon .Just like "exercise" . They are generic and are for the layperson, not scientific. Real Vibration Training is not cardio. It is simply looping an eccentric contraction. It does not do…

It really depends on what you call Vibration Training. It can be a pure scientific idea, or a cheapened marketing idea. Approx 99% of all machines are fake. Because retail companies simply can not afford to build machines that function properly.…

Vague for a reason. (1) Article 5 years old. That was back when no-one but a few people even understood the concept. (2) Companies like Power Plate releasing fake machines into market in 2004. And some even finding their way into studies. They got slammed for that. pubmed.org best place for more recent studies. Some still…

It is as simple as exercise gets.. The squats feel as though you are jumping off a chair and landing perfectly over and over again. The push-ups feel as though you are catching a medicine ball over and over again. Eccentric contractions and proprioception used to fatigue. You have the "catch phase" and the "rest phase". It…

It is only smart to be skeptical. Especially when you see adverts on TV with people just wobbling side to side. That is not Vibration Training. It is Therapy for people with mobility issues. That stuff is aimed directly at lazy people who want to believe no pain = some gain. A lot of "top" academics and fitness pros have…

Do not let the word "vibration" get in the way of what is really going on. If any vibration did it for you, all truck drivers would be skinny... http://www.youtube.com/user/VibraTrain#p/u/20/kPUQji9RPsA Calories burned ? Anyone saying they know are just guessing. The fact is it is anaerobic so no way of scientifically…