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Whole Body Vibration
A revolutionary training technique to achieve an enormous range of health and fitness benefits from increased strength to improved bone density. Whole Body Vibration was developed by the Russians in the 1970’s to combat the problems of bone and muscle wasting in their cosmonauts as a result of spending time in zero gravity. Impressed by the speed with which the cosmonauts regained their strength, Russian athletics trainers saw the potential for their athletes and used Whole Body Vibration to gain a competitive strength advantage over those outside the Eastern Bloc.
This technology is widely used throughout Europe and North America by elite sports clubs, world class athletes, hospitals, gyms and physiotherapy centres.
Now, for the first time this ground breaking technology is available in Australia.
The benefits have been studied and proven through extensive studies at over 30 Universities worldwide and the European Space Agency.
The researched benefits include:
- Increased muscle strength and power.
- Increased flexibility through muscle lengthening.
- Increased tendon strength.
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- Increased bone strength - ideal for osteoporosis and osteopenia.
- Up to a 460% increase in growth hormone production - essential in repairing and regenerating body tissues.
- Up to 7% increase in testosterone production - allowing fast twitch white muscle fibres to recover faster and assisting with muscle strength.
- Cortisol levels decreased by 30% - decreasing stress response.
- 100-150% increase in peripheral blood flow - ideal for peripheral vascular disease and diabetes.
- Decreased diastolic blood pressure.
- Reduction in muscular tone due to spasticity.
- Reduced tremor in neurological conditions such as Parkinson's.
- Decreased low back pain.
- Increased balance control in elderly and post ACL repair.
- Improved 'get up and go' time in the elderly.
- Improved stress incontinence.
Training on Galileo is very time efficient with proven physiological benefits after one minute and a full training routine lasting no more than ten minutes. When standing on the rapidly vibrating platform the legs are alternatively rapidly vertically displaced, in a manner comparable to walking. The muscles of the legs, as in walking, then automatically dampen this vibration.
By varying the frequency of the vibration a variety of different therapeutic and fitness benefits can be achieved - frequencies at low levels are better for balance, medium frequencies for muscle relaxation and recovery, and higher frequencies for muscle training.
How it Works?
The Galileo plate stimulates the whole body by tilting slightly around an axis. A person stands on the tilting plate and senses a vibration coming up from the plate. These vibrations are too fast for a person to voluntarily react to; however they stimulate the muscle, bone and tendons, which receive the vibration.
The vibration around an axis means while one leg is going up the other is going down, simulating walking and allowing damping of the vibration as the forces are transmitted up the body towards the head. It is proposed the muscles are stimulated by the ‘tonic vibration reflex’.
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