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Why you should never buy a vibrating machine online

A vibrating machine is a piece of fitness equipment, just like treadmills, cross-trainers and indoor bicycles, but if you’re planning to buy a vibrating exercise machine for home use, purchasing it online may not be the best idea.

Usually when you get to choose your fitness or cardio machines from online stores, all the technical parameters are listed there and it’s not so difficult to anticipate whether or not a machine is qualitative enough and able to provide results. However, with vibrating platforms things are a bit different, so here’s why it’s not recommended to buy a body vibrating machine online.

With treadmills, the parameter that maters the most is the speed it can reach, and then another important factor is the incline. The incline angle doesn’t vary, 1° is still 1° regardless of the brand you choose, and this applies to speed as well; if the producer says the treadmill can reach 12 mph, it’s more than likely to be true and very unlikely for a piece of equipment to go “faster” or “slower” than another one, if they both run at the same speed.

Things are pretty similar with cross-trainers, and as long as you choose a machine that has the parameters you want it to have – speed and incline in our case – it’s very likely to get a good enough product for your money. Please note that we’re not discussing design, size and other such parameters here.

Why you shouldn’t buy your vibrating machine from online stores

Now let’s move to picking a vibrating machine from an online store: why is it tricky to buy a vibrating exercise machine without actually seeing and testing the product first? An interesting study comparing 41 such devices showed that lots of the WBV platforms available on the market are promoted as more qualitative and more powerful than they actually are.

In other words, producers of whole body vibration machines often claim their products are the most powerful, the best choices, when in fact lots of these platforms aren’t able to reach the needed frequency, amplitude and load. In case you’re asking yourself why these parameters are so important, it’s crucial to understand that although all these machines do the same thing (send energy waves through the body), it’s the values of those parameters that influence the results the most.

So if you want to make sure you buy a body vibrating machine that is able to provide all the claimed benefits – improved muscle strength and flexibility, enhanced coordination and balance, improved circulation, weight loss and so on – you need to make sure you’re getting what you pay for.

A WBV platform needs to reach a frequency of 20Hz to 45Hz, and to provide at least 10G (G being Earth’s force of gravity), in order to ensure a thorough workout. If you buy a vibrating exercise machine that only provides 3G, or works up to 20 Hz, you will get a nice massage, but won’t feel your muscles and entire body getting stronger.

Before buying a vibrating machine, you need to step on it, and test its parameters to see whether it’s powerful enough to actually work your body efficiently. To make sure you get the best value for your money, opt for a WBV platform that provides power you can actually feel, not for one that just looks nice or has a lower price.

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