Vibrating platform: benefit and harm

A person has to look for methods that will help keep the body in good shape without effort. This is exactly what the useful biomechanical vibration trainer offers, which is designed for body shaping and maintaining an athletic physique. What are the benefits and harms of a vibrating platform?

This article will help you understand the principle of the simulator, functional features, properties, and will reveal the negative aspects.

Description of the vibrating platform

The complete set of a useful vibrating platform exactly reflects the name and properties. This is a small area that begins to vibrate under the influence of current.

The process has useful properties. The amplitude of this vibration can reach 10 mm.

Vibrating platforms can be equipped with a special expander, thanks to which you can successfully and usefully (without harm to the body) do fitness.

On store shelves, you can see two types of vibrating platforms:

• Compact model that consists exclusively of one useful vibrating platform. It can be easily put on a shelf or put in a closet, it does not take up much space, which is convenient for people with a small living space.
• A more cumbersome option, as it has special handrails, a pen stand and even a computer. The model is more convenient for training, it has more various functions and even has special programs. A vibrating platform of such a useful configuration is much more expensive and requires more space.

What is a vibrating platform for?

Before purchasing a vibrating platform, you need to thoroughly understand its purpose in order to understand whether a purchase is necessary and whether the state of health allows it to be used. Otherwise, the exercises may not be beneficial, but harm - such a property of the vibration platform.

When a person stands on a useful vibration platform and launches a certain program for weight loss, vibrations begin that spread throughout the body. Vibration effectively affects all organs. Thanks to them, muscle fibers tend to begin to work more actively and contract (the same happens during sports loads). A person does not have to do a lot of grueling exercises, while the result is the same as with a fairly prolonged power load.

If we talk about the structure of cartilage, then it also tends to improve under the influence of vibrations. During training, the condition of the vessels improves: they expand. Thanks to such fluctuations, blood circulation is normalized, and tissues are actively enriched with oxygen, which has an excellent effect on the state of the cardiovascular system and, of course, benefits for weight loss.

If you combine the positive aspects, you get a picture of an effective beneficial effect on a person's well-being, which means that his psychological health will improve. The benefits are obvious.

Commercials promise that in a month of the course on a useful vibration platform, you can already lose several tens of kilograms.It is worth finding out whether such promises are true, and the properties of the device are miraculous.

Health benefits of the vibrating platform

If we talk about the benefits of exposure to vibration, then it really is the cause of the destruction of fat cells. But in order to successfully remove them from the body, a special oxidizer is needed, the release of which cannot be achieved in a course on a vibration platform. Therefore, when classes are over, fat cells are successfully restored.

A useful vibrating platform can only become a part of your workout, not completely replace it.

Advertising says that training should take no more than 10 minutes, but this is incredibly small for weight loss. The duration of classes should increase every day. You can start with 10 minutes and gradually lengthen the time to kick-start the weight loss process.

Another important nuance of the course on the vibration platform: daily exhausting exercises are not beneficial. In this mode, they only do harm. Vibrations can cause resonant vibrations in all internal organs of a person. Excessively prolonged exercise, not without harm, affects the body and leads to visual impairment, negatively affects the functioning of the nervous system and blood circulation. There may also be problems with the spine and gastrointestinal tract, metabolism and sleep cycle.

How to practice on a vibration platform

1. If a person is full of desire to try the beneficial effect of the vibration platform on himself, there is no need to exhaust himself, overpowering the body.
2. To get the maximum benefit from the vibrating platform, and not harm, it is necessary to familiarize yourself with the technical safety rules.
3. Before performing useful exercises on a vibrating platform, you must do them on the floor, while following the instructions.
4. To practice on a vibrating platform, you must wear cotton socks or shoes with thin soles. This will protect against the formation of blisters and prevent injury.
5. In order for the loads to be beneficial and effective, you need to correctly stand on the simulator, placing your legs so that the amplitude of oscillations is uniform throughout the body.
6. Before starting the program, you need to do a few regular exercises to warm up the body and prepare it for more serious stress.
7. In an apartment or house, it is important to choose a place specially designated for training, it is best if it is a free space that is well ventilated.
8. Before using the simulator, you need to consult with your doctor in order to protect yourself from negative effects and possible harm.

Exercises on a vibrating platform for weight loss

If all the preparatory operations for training have been carried out, you can start the exercises.

Below is the order of a small workout that tends to tone the body:

1. Stand on a useful vibrating platform, while exhaling, bend your legs, and stretch your arms in front of you and stay in this position for a few seconds.
2. Take steps (like on a ladder), while holding each foot on the vibration platform for 30 seconds.
3. Get on your knees and put your hands on the vibrating platform, relax your back and stay in this position for 30 seconds.
4. Lie down on the vibrating platform with your stomach down so that the middle of the body is placed on the vibrating part, put your hands in front of you, stretch your legs, the body should be on the same line. Hold in this position for 30 seconds.
5. Lie on your back, and fix your feet on the vibration platform, arms should be extended along the body, while the lower back and buttocks are slightly raised.

Vibrating platform harm

Even harmless morning work-out can cause significant harm, you need to approach the classes in moderation and reasonably.

Even if a person is completely healthy, there are factors that can negatively affect the state of health when exercising on a vibration machine. For example, if a woman suffers painful periods, it is more useful to protect herself from such activities during this period, as this can be harmful.

The property of vibration, which is useful for losing weight and toning the body, can be harmful after recent fractures or operations, with open wounds.

It is necessary to exercise extreme caution on the vibration platform for those who have disturbances in the functioning of the vestibular apparatus, a tendency to dizziness.

Contraindications to training on a vibrating platform

The vibrating platform also has contraindications.

The high-risk group also includes:

• pregnant women;
• people who have artificial organs or joints, pacemakers, prostheses, metal elements in the body;
• patients with diabetes mellitus;
• people with various inflammatory processes and high fever, with stones in the kidneys or bladder, patients with osteochondrosis.

The benefits and harms of the vibrating platform are obvious. The valuable properties of the apparatus help to bring weakened muscles and tissues back to normal, get rid of subcutaneous fat. But classes should be carried out regularly, in moderation and after consulting a doctor.

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