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Health & Fitness > Exercise (Other) Vibration training: Fact or fiction?

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Vibration training and targeted vibration training has recently hit the headlines when Madonna and Kylie Minogue announced they were devotees of the system which involves performing exercise whilst standing on a vibrating platform (Powerplate, Fit-vib or Galileo). Manufacturers of vibration equipment point out that results c... More..

Health & Fitness > Fitness Basics Which vibration platform should you choose?

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The fitness regime from outer space has landed! Over the last few years the popularity of vibration-training has increasingly grown with the development of machines such as PowerPlate and Vibrogym , and with the recent introduction of personal or 'domestic user' models, the potential for greater training benefits such as str... More..

Health & Fitness > Fitness Basics Target muscle vibration training

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Introduction Vibration stimulation is gaining popularity as a training method with the potential to elicit muscular performance adaptations similar to those produced by explosive strength and power training. Studies on vibration have shown transient increases in muscle power output and chronic strength enhancement and signif... More..

Health & Fitness > Fitness Basics Power-breathing and its influence on strength

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Those readers interested in strength training have surely come across kettle bell training and the other methods advocated by Pavel Tsatsouline in his many books. Bust as a respiratory physiologist the one method I became interested in was power breathing that Pavel refers to, citing Professor Zatsiorsky as the creator of th... More..

Health & Fitness > Exercise & Weight Loss Is vibration treatment effective for weight loss?

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This week I have done google searches for the effect of vibration training on slimming and weight (fat) loss and found hundreds of responses from all sorts of different companies promising slimming miracles if you go to their gym and stand on this platform for 10 minutes. Claims such as these are some of the promises made: H... More..

Health & Fitness > Alternative Exercise Muscle training for improvement to breathing

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Research into respiratory muscle training has been ongoing since the 1970's. However, results are conflicting most likely due to the different forms of training such as pressure-threshold training, voluntary hyperventilation and hypercapnic (increased CO2) hyperventilation; and the variety of outcome measures used. These con... More..

Health & Fitness > Fitness Basics Can breathing vibration make us stronger?

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Introduction Acute vibration stimulation enhances skeletal muscle activity and strength performance (Issurin & Tenenbaum, 1989; Bosco et al., 1999; Mileva et al., 2006). Vibration stimulation has also been applied to the respiratory musculature with demonstrable increases in respiratory activity in rabbits (Jammes et al., 20... More..

Style & Beauty > Shoes Product reviews: FitFlop fitness shoes

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Summer 2007 saw the introduction of the FitFlopTM on to the health and fitness market. This product was soon causing a stir in both the UK and US with demand outstripping supply and stockists such as Harvey Nichols being forced to open waiting lists pending fresh deliveries. This innovation was developed by a team from the S... More..

Health & Fitness > Exercise Tips Exercise programs to make the most of your skiing experience

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It is ski season again and lots of people are doing their best to lose weight and build their fitness ready for the slopes and the aprs ski. I like everyone else wanted to get in shape for my annual ski trip so this sparked my interest about training for skiing and the resources available on the internet. Actually good resou... More..

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1. Power-breathing and its influence on strength
2. Is vibration treatment effective for weight loss?
3. Which vibration platform should you choose?
4. Product reviews: FitFlop fitness shoes
5. Target muscle vibration training
6. Can breathing vibration make us stronger?
7. Exercise programs to make the most of your skiing experience
8. Vibration training: Fact or fiction?
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