Green Performance Has The Solution
No more expensive drugs with all their scary side effects or starvation diets that rebound you heavier than when you started. Whole Body Vibration technology is a new to Canada / USA and available from Green Performance Systems.
Whole Body Vibration was developed 40 years ago by Russian scientists for the cosmonaut program. They realized, very quickly, that they could not stay in space for any length of time without bone density loss and muscle loss. They had to speed up the metabolism and training of cosmonauts before and after space travel to build bones and muscle. Whole Body Vibration is the result. It has been used in Russia for 40 years for space training, Russian National Ballet, their national sports teams and Olympic athletes. It has become recognized worldwide. NASA has studied and used it for 10 years. It is on the space station along with a treadmill. These 2 machines allow them to stay in space for over 400 days with no muscle or bone loss.
Major sports teams world wide use Whole Body Vibration for both training and repair. Celebrities, physiotherapists, doctors, sports therapists, personal trainers, Olympic and professionalteams and athletes are all now utilizing this training breakthrough to repair injuries faster and target week muscle groups quickly.
What is Green Performance Whole Body Vibration?
It is exercise, more specifically - resistance training. It is exactly the same as weight training. Your body is the resistance instead of heavy weights. The platform you stand on oscillates under you causing vibration. As it drops your muscles stretch, every time your muscles stretch - they have to contract, the same as traditional exercise. The great thing with Whole Body Vibration is that the muscles stretch and contract up to 40 times per second. This is like doing, up to 40 jumps every second. Impossible to do with traditional exercise. Also, it stretches all your muscles at the same time. Your core, slow twitch, fast twitch, legs, abdomen, back, shoulders, arms and organs all by just standing on the platform using your weight as the resistance. So, in 10 minutes, you get a whole body workout because you worked all your muscles at the same time. There are other great benefi ts to this kind of training. There is no stress on any joints or your cardiovascular system so anyone can use it from kids to the totally immobile.
Anyone with MS, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson’s, cardiovascular disease, stroke or injuries can yield the benefi ts of exercise while working within their limitations. Anyone from the totally inactive to professional athletes can benefit. The advantage of Whole Body Vibration exercise machines is that they give you an entire, full body workout in 10 minutes. You don’t have to change, redo your make up, take a large time block out of your day. Just step on and hit the start. You can do it any time of the day and several times a day as you get stronger. Shake your booty when you wake up, before you go to bed, any time of the day you can get a full body workout.
With the Whole Body Vibration exercise from Green Performance, you will build lean muscle mass, firm and tone, get rid of cellulite, build bones, increase your circulation, detoxify, relieve pain, gain fl exibility, increase collagen, lose weight and just plain feel better. You can do it. You can fit it into your sedentary life to get you moving!
Traditional Exercise
In traditional strength and power training the load on the muscles is determined by the weight lifted. A specific frequency and amplitude of vibration is chosen and the movement of the plate loads the limbs. The vibrations stimulate a reflex contraction within the muscle which leads to a high level of muscle activation and exertion. The superior muscle-activation that the vibration machine stimulates compared to conventional training, means that less time is required to work muscle groups completely.
The Stretch Reflex
When a muscle fiber is stretched, it contracts by reflex (stretch reflex). By simply standing barefoot on the machine, vibration is generated and sent through your body, which passively stretches your muscles. This causes millions of muscle contractions, which increases muscle tone and size. As muscle density increases, your metabolic rate goes up, as an increase in muscle mass requires more energy. The movement of the vibration plate simulates the body’s natural ‘stretch reflex’ (tonic vibration reflex). This is similar to the knee jerk reaction that occurs when the knee is tapped by a reflex hammer in a doctor’s office. Without thinking about it, your body responds with a strong involuntary muscle contraction, leading to your leg ‘kicking out’. With Whole Body Vibration technology, these strong muscle contractions can be repeated at a rapid rate.
Acceleration and Amplitude
These two factors will directly influence the "results" the user can expect. Acceleration can be defined as the maximum speed of the platform during the upward motion. Amplitude is the vertical displacement of the platform from the lowest to highest point. The amount of force received by the user is directly related to the mass, or body weight of the user, and the acceleration of the platform in the upward motion. Since the weight of the user is constant, the greater the acceleration of the platform upward, the greater the force applied to the user. The greater the amplitude through which the force is applied, the greater the work done.
Nearly 100% Muscle Recruitment
Due to its involuntary effect on muscle contraction, nearly 100% of the muscle fibers are recruited. Compare this to conventional training where there is only on average 40% muscle recruitment. This benefits the rehabilitation patient looking to add stability and strength to all muscles around their joints, to the athlete looking to maximize strength gains.
Faster Workout
By stimulating the body and muscles at high frequencies, users of Whole Body Vibration obtain comparable results of standard exercise in up to 1/6 of the time. Most training programs are only 6-11 minutes in duration.