Just when you think it’s safe to go back in the water…
The Montreal, Canada Sudbury Star has an article about a vibrating machine that is supposed to take off inches effortlessly.
It does sound too good to be true: a vibrating machine that you stand on for 10 minutes, giving you the equivalent of an hour workout at the gym.
The folks at T-Zone Vibration in the Brady Square hear a lot of skepticism from new clients. But, they say, results don’t lie.
“Some are skeptical, yes,” said Mindie Terry, manager. “But when people start, we take their weight and measurements. We just had a fellow yesterday, his month was up and he wanted me to redo his measurements. And the inch loss was unbelievable.
I thought these machines had all been put in mothballs long ago. Similar machines have been around at for generations.
Back in the sixties they had a wide band that went around your rear, and when you leaned back into it, it jiggled the fat away. Supposedly. Only problem was, they never worked.
These are just another version of a machine that will do the exericise so you don’t have to.
It would be funny, except people are taken advantage of by these things. So you lose inches by vibration? Then you should lose inches by riding a small motorcycle over a rough road, too. But you don’t.
There are other kinds of machines that promise you’ll lose while the machine does the work. You might have seen the electrical abdominal stimulators. They are supposed to tone your abs by sending an electrical current through the muscle to stimulate it.
It could work in theory. But in practice, the electrical current required to get effective muscle contraction would be too painful to use.
The best advice? Save your money and effort for something that will actually do you some good.
http://www.thesudburystar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2229644
