Sonic Life Sound Whole Body Vibration provides the Ultimate No Sweat Workout! Just 10 minutes gives the effects of an hour of cardiovascular exercise.
The History of Whole Body Vibration Technology
The world first caught a glimpse of the results of Whole Body Vibrational-training when the Russians began to win most of the Gold Medals at the 1960 Olympic Games. Next, they found they could keep their cosmonauts in space for an extended period. Soon it was over a year longer than the United States could. The Soviets kept the technology of whole body vibration a secret until after the Berlin Wall came down in November 1989. In fact, it took over 30 years for the rest of the world to discover the secret to Russia's Olympic and outer-space achievements.
Dr. Vladimir Nazarov, the former Soviet Nationís leading sports scientist, began to experiment with the research and development of this amazing technology. Nazarov was a chairman of sports biomechanics at the State College in Minsk and also a member of the Soviet gymnastics team. He was able to introduce this technology to the fields of medicine and sports only after achieving repeated successful results from rigid scientific experimentation.
The Russian Space Program continues to use the technology today, as physical therapy to help the cosmonauts overcome the considerable decrease of bone mass and muscle tone that they used to experience during extended periods of weightlessness.
In the early 1990ís, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Nazarovís research on whole body vibration made its way west and immediately, european athletes began utilizing whole body vibration training.
Starting around 1990, Germany, Israel and Korea each began extensive research into this potent technology. The European Space Agency and NASA continue to utilize vibration technology in ongoing studies for the maintenance of muscle strength, mass, and bone density.
Today, whole body vibration technology is being utilized for Health and Fitness, Recovery and Rehab, Sports Performance and Anti-Aging puproses, on a Global scale. Everyone from the elderly, the person with physical disabilities, to the general person looking to get toned and healthy is using this form of exercise.
Sonic Whole-Body Vibration (SWBV) employs a speaker system with new magnetic circuits, rather than vibration spin motors. SWBV works to overcome all negative aspects of vibration motors. Vibration spin motors have excessive noise, an unnatural directions of vibration, harsh direction changes, and can create a stress response in the body. SWBV which is in a natural vertical plane of motion, has fully adjustable intensity, and is a true sine wave directional change. All of which results in a much more enjoyable and healthy vibrational exercise experience. Mechanical WBV simply cannot function at the level that SWBV does.
Many types of intermediate sports, like walking, power walking, horse riding, etc. are all performed at low frequencies, between 1 ~ 8 Hz. It is now possible with SWBV to exercise at these ultra low frequencies. The movements are only vertical, which is the direction we experience through most of our physical activities.
