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    is this popular in the US? its a vibration plate thing that you excercise on, and somehow it is like doing an hour excercise in just 10minutes!!!

    i went last night,and was kinda suprised (i have never excercised or been to a gym,so it was a totally new experiance!) it was quite fun. only thing,was my hands and wrists swelled up so bad i couldnt go into work! i have a friend that went 6 times in two weeks and lost 8cm (uh? 3inches?) from her waist measurment!!

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    This was HUGE in the 1940's and 1950's. Funny that it's making a comeback.

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    Is it really working ? I mean it sounds great but if it was popular before and now it isn't is it because it's not working ?

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    I think the "science" behind it is either keeping balance or possibly the vibrations unconciously make you tense muscles you aren't actively working out. Whatever works I say, but you could probably get the same results with a workout ball or just keeping your tummy tight as you work out.

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    meh but im lazy as hell....if you sit on it it does a deep tissue massage on your ass and thighs,so PRESTO! no cellulite! i like the idea of not having to really excercise.just holding a pose sounds so much easier.

    apparently sports people use it with their training for health benifites or something.well thats what the lady told me last night.

    it made my hands and wrists go all puffy-i had to remove my watch it was so tight! and my ankles started to puff up too.

    its so popular here....i thought it must have been an american introduced thing?i know something similar was around decades ago,like that belt thing that vibrated. Its in movies like blast from the past. i guess it has been revived.

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    Default Re: vibration excercise

    Maybe a better example would be those electric impulse bands that they sold a few years ago. (Did those get pulled off the market? Or just lose popularity?)

    I wonder what makes the puffyness though... that's kind of weird. Were your muscles sore afterwards; did it feel like you had worked out?

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    Oh never mind! I found the swelling answer on the site (I think), the section about "lymphatic drainage". So it's getting squeezed from your muscles and pooling in these areas?? Haha. Still weird.

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    when do you think they will have it in america?
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    hey mermaid.

    your body is telling you that it is being traumatised.

    the swelling you are talking about sounds like effusion (fluid in the joint) which results from trauma.

    don't do any of this crazy vibrating biz until you've had a Dr ok it. sounds extremely suss to this little black duck.

    swelling of joints needs to be checked. promise me you won't keep aggravating it?!?!

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    nautilus, i forgot to update this thread- i ended up getting STOMACH ULCERS form this machine!!! i went on a photo shoot a week after i tried the vibration thing, and almost passed out,went to the doc and he said i had stomach ulcers!!

    apparantly,the vibration thing causes too much stress phsycally on the body and cos i was totally unprepared, i got ulcers from it.

    gross huh!?

    so no more vibration thing for me.

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    praise be!! (sounds like vibra-train or whoever they are need a damn good suing!!)

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    haha we cant sue in nz

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    Default Re: vibration excercise

    the vibrator excersise machines are a scam. they didn't work in the 1920's when the were invented, or when they were reinvented in the 40's, or when they were resurrected in the 50's, and they don't work now. vibrators are excellent devices, but they won't make you thin unless you use them so much you forget to eat. the only possible use they might have is for deep tissue massage to break up cellulite, but you don't need to spend thousands for that. get a hitachi, which is excellent for other uses, or even go with a crappy $20 homedics version. doesn't last too long, but it still works if all you're doing is massaging your butt.
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