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Whole Body Vibration Training: Can it provide the competitive edge you’ve been searching for?

Posted May 31st, 2007 at 1:30 PM by Megan Hueter

Section: Health & Fitness, Injury & Rehab, Exercise

vibration1.jpgElite athletes around the world constantly scour through the hottest research in sport and exercise science for the latest and greatest training trend for their field. One of the newest topics to surface is whole body vibration (WBV) training.

WBV training is a neuromuscular training method that has been widely used for rehabilitation purposes. Recent studies examined the effects of WBV training for athletes. WBV training is a fairly new concept in the field of health and exercise science. It was invented by Russian scientists who combined vibration stimulation with resistance training in hopes of enhancing resistance training techniques.

Conventionally, resistance training is the main method used by athletes to improve neuromuscular performance. Vibration has been combined with resistance training in an attempt to attain greater neuromuscular gains. Over the past five years, vibration training has become increasingly popular as an alternative method of strength training with a number of vibration machines commercially available (6).

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2 Responses to “Whole Body Vibration Training: Can it provide the competitive edge you’ve been searching for?”
  1. Lloyd Shaw said:

    Why is an underpowered home unit on this article. Why no sports models ?

    March 12th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
  2. Ted said:

    Learn a lot more about Whole Body Vibration by visiting our blog.

    August 28th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
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