There are four main types of exercise that are recommended for seniors:

Endurance activities – Activities like walking, swimming, or riding a bike build stamina and improve the health of the heart and circulatory system.  Studies have prompted the American Heart Association to also recommend resistance training as a way to reduce risk of heart disease and as therapy for patients in cardiac rehabilitation programs.

Strengthening exercises –Activities to build muscle tissue and reduce age-related muscle loss.  Strengthening exercises increase the strength of your muscles, maintain and build bones, improves your balance, coordination and mobility. The health benefits far outweigh the risk of injury, a concern that prevents many elderly people from adding more physical activity to their lives.  Strength training can also have a great effect on reducing falls, the number one cause of death in the elderly.

Stretching exercises - Activities to keep the body flexible.   Muscles trained through vibration exercise not only get stronger but also improve flexibility and mobility. When you stretch, the muscle tissues warm up and increase blood circulation and flexibility. When your muscles receive highly oxygenated blood, the time required to obtain a certain level of flexibility is dramatically decreased.

Balance exercises- Activities to reduce the chances of a fall.  As people age, poor balance and flexibility contribute to falls and broken bones. Resistance exercises increase flexibility and balance, which decrease the likelihood and severity of falls.

Performing these exercises on a Whole Body Vibration platform can increase these results and help you achieve them in less time.  Any exercise that can be done on the floor can be done on a vibration platform.  Whole Body Vibration aids in faster muscle growth, better flexibility, better blood circulation, reduction of sore muscles, improved balance, even healing injuries.

 Exercise is a tested and proven remedy that keeps the body young and vigorous.

Whole body vibration exercise improves circulation and oxygen delivery to feet, hands, skin and hair, as well as organs, glands, muscle and bone.  This increase in oxygen and blood circulation improves our cells ability to eliminate waste, respond to hormonal and enzyme cues and to absorb nutrients. Improving these cellular functions is a necessary part of any plan to slow or repair the aging process.

Whole Body Vibration exercise also stimulates our hormone secreting glands to release many positive chemicals.  It has been said that whole body vibration increases Human Growth Hormone (HGH) levels by up to 361%.  This is a lot more than you can receive from regular exercise.  HGH has been called the anti-aging hormone.   Imagine the difference an increase in HGH can make in your life.  Your mood and energy levels affect everything you do.

Vibration exercise and therapy is a safe, easy and effective addition to your personal longevity and wellness plan.  All of these benefits can be obtained in a 10 minute session, 3-5 times per week!

Although the mind-body research into the benefits of exercise against dementia may still be just beginning, there is interesting evidence that regular exercise promotes essential cell and tissue repair, including growth of new brain cells.  Previous research has also shown that a regular exercise program can slow the development of Alzheimer’s disease by altering the way damaging proteins reside in your brain.

Physical exercise may also protect against mild thought process impairment by:                               

• Promoting production of nerve-protecting compounds
• Increasing blood flow to your brain
• Improving development and survival of neurons
• Decreasing your risk of heart and blood vessel diseases that can impact brain function

Exercise encourages your brain to work at best capacity by causing your nerve cells to multiply, strengthening their connections and protecting them from damage.  Exercise seems to have an effect on certain chemicals in the brain, like dopamine and serotonin. Brain cells use these chemicals to communicate with each other, so they affect your mood and thinking.

With WBV training, you can get a full body workout in just 10 minutes a day, 3‐5 days a week.  Not only does this modality have all the health and wellness benefits from exercise, it makes these changes accessible very quickly.

WBV training contracts virtually 100% of the muscle fibers of any particular muscle. WBV fires not one muscle group after the other, as typical weight training does, but the whole body neuromusculoskeletal system is being stimulated at once. That is why with WBV your training time is significantly reduced.  WBV requires your body to constantly respond to the rapidly moving platform beneath you. 

Get started with whole body vibration to preserve your brain function now!

Regardless of your shape, size, age, or current fitness level, Whole Body Vibration can be worked into your daily routine with ease.  WBV is a safe, fast, and effective way to live healthier and it only takes 10 minutes a day 3 – 5 days a week to achieve measurable results!

You can gain significant health and wellness benefits with less effort and in less time than you could with conventional exercise. You can improve your bone health and core strength, increase your flexibility and coordination, gain greater mobility, carry less body fat and have more lean muscle mass.

Whole Body Vibration exercise also contributes to a more youthful feeling due to an increase in the secretion of serotonin, the feel good neurotransmitter.  Whole Body Vibration can improve muscle strength, but it will also help increase flexibility and range of motion while stimulating the production of collagen, creating tighter, more beautiful skin.

Progress cannot be made without change.  Because WBV is safe, fast and highly effective, it’s become a great solution for a healthier lifestyle.

Whole body vibration machines move in different planes and depending upon which plane the vibration plate or user moves in, determines the type of effects on the body. There are three planes that whole body vibration machines move in. The first is strictly up and down (also called lineal or vertical movement), the second is called pivotal (see-saw or teeter-totter), and the third way of movement is called elliptical (more horizontal and less vertical motion).

Vibration platforms are scientifically calibrated to produce precise vibrations at a set amplitude (vertical displacement) and frequency (platform speed). When the user stands on the platform, the vibration energy is transferred to the entire body. These vibrations generate involuntary contractions in the muscle fibers several times per second. By adjusting either of the two variables (amplitude or frequency) you can affect the number of times per second your muscles contract, the amount of G force exerted on your body, the degree of difficulty for stabilization, the detoxification effect, etc.  Different frequencies will have different effects on the body. Depending on what you want to accomplish with WBV, will determine what frequency you should set your machine at.

As a result of the vibration exercise, the body will respond with several healthful benefits.

These include:

• Increased bone mineral density
•  Increased overall strength
•  Increased flexibility
•  Increased core strength
•  Improved blood and lymph drainage (detoxification effect)
•  Improved balance, stability and coordination
•  Burn fat-weight loss
•  Muscle relaxation Rehabilitation of injuries
•  Joint mobilization
•  Scar tissue healing
•  Hormonal changes
•  Neurological stimulation
•  Increased mobility
•  Decreased lower back pain
•  Improved muscle tone.

Most whole body vibration exercise sessions are designed for use in short sets.  Therefore, an entire workout can consist of only 10-15 minutes actually spent on the platform. Performing these exercises three to five times per week will yield incredible health and fitness benefits for users of all age groups.

The medical community has also embraced whole body vibration exercise as a safe therapeutic modality. Professional athletes are adding WBV exercises to their training regimens while gyms, spas and wellness clinics and even assisted living facilities have incorporated this technology into their programming and business models.

Whole body vibration, or WBV, involves standing on a platform that sends mild vibratory impulses through the feet and into the rest of the body. The vibrations activate muscle fibers more efficiently than the contraction of muscles during regular exercise.

Some studies have found that WBV increases bone density in the hip, and inhibit bone loss in the spine and hip areas.  WBV training has also been shown to improve and maintain bone mineral density in postmenopausal women and is being studied for its therapeutic potential.  For example:  increasing older women’s bone mass.  This seems to be a much better alternative than the dangerous osteoporosis drugs currently on the market.

WBV training has shown significant gains in most measures of muscle performance in sedentary and elderly individuals.  One study, performed by the University of Liege in Belgium, investigated the effects of whole body vibration exercises on overall health in elderly patients and found that after 6 weeks (performing 4 one-minute sessions, 3 times a week), the participants experienced:

* 143 percent improvement in physical function
* 77 percent improvement in equilibrium
* 60 percent improvement in vitality
* 57 percent improvement in the quality of walking
* 41 percent reduction in pain
* 23 percent improvement in general health

These are pretty amazing results, and in a very short amount of time.  Plus, since it’s accomplished with little stress to your joints, tendons and ligaments, it can be a very good therapy option if you’ve suffered injuries, are elderly, or have conditions such as arthritis, fibromyalgia or multiple sclerosis, which would normally limit your fitness program.

To build muscle in your postmenopausal years, you must add weight training and/or resistance exercises to your natural weight loss plan and workout routine.  Resistance training alone has been shown to have positive effects on body composition. But lifting weights is not your only option; these benefits may be enhanced by the addition of a vibration stimulus. 

Whole Body Vibration improves muscle strength the same way as regular exercise does, but in a shortened amount of time.  Vibrations lengthen and shorten the fibers the number of times per second that you have the frequency of the machine set at.  This builds muscle much more efficiently than conventional exercise.  Increased muscle contractions improve muscle strength, tone and endurance.  Muscular and neurological coordination is also improved.  The effect on muscles is similar to that of other powered exercise devices, such as treadmills and bicycles, but in a condensed amount of time. 

Whole Body Vibration can do wonders for strength, flexibility, balance, energy levels, and overall well-being.

1. Nutrition
2. Rest
3. Strength Training
4. Cardio
5. Flexibility

Whole Body Vibration is great because it helps to take care of the exercise components.  By using Whole Body Vibration only 10 minutes a day, you’ve already completed half of these components.   It makes exercising so much easier and fun.  You’ll then have time to focus on the other components and be motivated to adequately complete them.  The philosophy itself is quite simple and can be made even simpler by using WBV.  Our bodies were designed to move and when we don’t move enough are bodies stop functioning right and we gain excess weight, which can eventually result in our becoming ill. Exercising excessively causes its own problems. Balance is the key here – we don’t want to over-do it or under-do it.  10 minutes a day is something everyone can make time for. 

By practicing these key components you will experience abundant joy, gratitude, contentment, purposefulness.  The importance of a healthy lifestyle should be measured by the incredible sense of well-being and joy that comes from feeling energetic, joyful and radiant.

It is important to focus on range of motion, strengthening, and aerobic benefits when exercising to benefit arthritis.  A lot of times a rebounder (aka: mini trampoline) is recommended for a light workout.  By bouncing lightly on the rebounder it helps to stimulate lymphatic drainage. 

Whole Body Vibration can provide these same results, but in a much shorter amount of time.  For example: when standing on a vertical vibration platform that is set for 20 HZ your muscles are contracting and relaxing 20 times per second in response to the vibrations.  This is like jumping 20 times per second on a rebounder!  The vibration stimulus travels straight up through the body.  Your whole bodyweight is being mobilized to circulate lymphatic fluids.  This creates the same benefits as a rebounder, just in a much shorter amount of time.

Exercise can reduce pain and disability by decreasing muscle inhibition and by improving local circulation.  Unfortunately, most arthritis sufferers tend to not adhere to an exercise regimen due to the discomfort associated with working out.  The more difficult the exercise, the less likely they will do it.  Whole body vibration is particularly suited for these people because it exercises the postural system.  WBV is easy to use, the exercise sessions are short and best of all it is safe.      

Whole Body Vibration is a great option to relieve arthritis pain and suffering, maybe even reverse the effects naturally.

Research has shown that Whole Body Vibration can help improve skin by reducing cellulite.  WBV causes increased local circulation to targeted areas resulting in a decrease of fat, stronger skin and connective tissue.  By using WBV regularly muscle mass will increase, and fat burning increases helping to keep cellulite away. 

A study was completed to determine if WBV was beneficial in treating cellulite.  For this study, 24 women participated in vibration training for 24 weeks, and 31 women participated in vibration training with cardio exercise.  After 24 weeks the results were amazing!  The vibration training group showed a decrease of 25.68% in cellulite.  The vibration training combined with cardio provided a decrease of 32.30% in cellulite. 

To reduce cellulite, it’s important to increase muscle tone and replace fat stores with lean muscle.  Whole Body Vibration is a safe, fast solution in fighting cellulite.  To help maintain results it is important to eat a healthy diet and reduce intake of alcohol, refined sugars, and caffeine.

If you’ve been battling cellulite, try adding Whole Body Vibration to your workout and get amazing results….fast!