Galileo Whole Body Vibration: Benefits: Muscle Strengthening


		BENEFITS: HOW IT WORKS MUSCLE STRENGTHENING - BONE STRENGTHENING - BALANCE CONTROL

FIND OUT MORE: Training_in_Movement[1].ppt Beekhuizen Acute Effects of WBV on soleus H-reflex.pdf Bosco Adaptive responses of human skleletal muscle to vibration exposure.pdf Bosco Influence of vibration on mechanical power and electromyogram human arm flexor muscles.pdf Bosco Influence of WBV on mechanical behaviour of skeletal muscle.pdf Bosco New trends in training science The use of vibrations for enhancing performance.pdf Bosco Hormonal responses to WBVin men.pdf de Ruiter Short term effects of WBV on maximal voluntary knee extensor force and rate of force rise.pdf Gent-skiers-English.doc Harbrecht Weight training with the Galileo 2000 in youth top-volleyball.ppt High freq vibration training increases muscle power in postmenopausal women. Cosimo et al.pdf Issurin Acute and Residual Effects of Vibratory timulus on Explosive strength in athletes.pdf Klinikum Recovery effects of Galileo2000. A new device for training interevention.pdf Neusy The galileo system.pdf Nishihira Effect of WBV stimulus and voluntary contraction on motoneuron pool.pdf Poster presentation Acute effects of WBV on lower body flexibilty and strength.pdf Rittweger Acute Physiological Effects of exhaustive WBV exercise in mam.pdf Russo High frequency vibration training increases muscle power in postmenopausal women.pdf Torvinen Effect of vibration exposure on muscle performance and body balance a randomised cross over study.pdf von der Heide Effect on muscles of mechanical vibrations produced by Galileo in combination with physical therapy in treating female stress urinary incontinence.pdf		MUSCLE STRENGTHENING When using the Galileo the users muscles are stimulated to work by the stretch reflex. This is the same as the patella reflex, which we see when the doctor taps the patella tendon below the kneecap and the lower leg moves upwards without the brain being able to prevent the movement. Because the muscles are activated with the stretch reflex we get a number of benefits not seen with regular exercise. Under normal circumstances we do not use all our muscles for standing or moving. The stretch reflex ensures that all muscle fibres being stimulated are working at one time. For this reason exercising using the Galileo is much more time efficient than dong normal exercise. The stretch reflex also gives benefits to the user by stimulating a movement without the brain being involved in planning and executing the activity. The brain still receives information about the activity and so can learn from the experience. This can be highly useful when trying to rehabilitate after an injury or to change old movement patterns, which may not be an ideal movement pattern for that person. Because the exercises are all functional and we can move on the plate, it is easy to strengthen through range for activities we do in daily living or in sporting pursuits. Usually sports people have to train using weights in high load non-functional positions and hope for functional carryover resulting from on field practice. Using the Galileo strengthening can be very sport specific.
updated: 22.09.08