COMPARISON OF RECOVERY WHOLE BODY VIBRATION AND STATIC STETCHING ON LACTIC ACID LEVELS OF CYCLI

[steph2271]

Hi There,

 

My name is Stephanie Sawyer, I am a student at the University of the Western Cape, I am currently doing my honors in Biokinetics and I am looking for volunteers to participate in my thesis. I am testing the possibility of improving lactic acid removal from the blood after exercise using whole body vibration (power plate). all the results will be shared with the participants, which can prove to be beneficial to your training.

 

Please contact me if you are interested in participating or if you require more information. My email is stephsawyer2271@gmail.com

 

Many Thanks,

 

Stephanie

[Escapee..]

pics please

[JGR]

More details - times required ect

[T-Bob]

Deffo interested to see how it helps. The vibration / power plate method used to be used alot for build up, recovery and stretching in snowboarding and was originated for the NASA program.

 

Let me know what commitment you need from participants.

[V12man]

Deffo interested to see how it helps. The vibration / power plate method used to be used alot for build up, recovery and stretching in snowboarding and was originated for the NASA program.

 

I would be interested to see how they plan to generate and then measure lactate clearance after a couple of hours of recovery... and exclude other influences... and then prove it was the vibration that caused it... and that recovery is improved as a result of increased lactate clearance... Can't see a result of any significance being generated at all.

[RockCoach]

Stephanie, you might want to correct the typo in your email addy.

[T-Bob]

I would be interested to see how they plan to generate and then measure lactate clearance after a couple of hours of recovery... and exclude other influences... and then prove it was the vibration that caused it... and that recovery is improved as a result of increased lactate clearance... Can't see a result of any significance being generated at all.

 

Guess that's the point of the methodology and the research.

[Mr SingleTrack]

Said research has been done many years ago. I worked for VibroGym many years ago (VibroGym and Powerplate used to be the same company before the split because the Powerplate founders wanted to make more money by outsoursing their manufacturing to China whereby they lost much of the quality of their product as well).

 

Vibration training has it's benefits, mostly short term though as the benefits seems to be lost (and reversed) over time (prolongued use). There are also dis-benefits that vibration companies refuse to confirm even though research proved it. This might make a readworthy thesis to expose the disbenefits to the market.

 

Sorry about my spelling, I am blaming it on my BB (and the fact that I can't spell to save my life)

[r0adrunner]

As an honours student i'm sure she knows what she's doing and has done her research in this field.

 

She will have a supervisor with a Phd or postdoc probably.

 

Good luck!

[T-Bob]

There are also dis-benefits that vibration companies refuse to confirm even though research proved it. This might make a readworthy thesis to expose the disbenefits to the market.

 

What were the dis-benefits? Would love to know the downsides.

 

I used to use it a lot a few years back in the lead up to a snow season and for stretching. While it didn't change the world on it's own I noticed my body felt a lot more prepared in terms of muscle strength and core when included in a training regime. Each time I used it for about 6 weeks pre season and it just seemed to help with getting you ready to hit the ground running... or sliding.

[V12man]

As an honours student i'm sure she knows what she's doing and has done her research in this field.

 

She will have a supervisor with a Phd or postdoc probably.

 

Good luck!

 

But clearly not one who cares about his students - anyone that is still looking for test subjects in September and planning to complete research, write a decent thesis, submit it and still graduate this year is not guilty of good planning..

 

The biggest issue this thesis will have is trying to prove (or disprove something) - and is far to ambitious - just studying the lactate clearance rates with and without the vibration device to see if the vibration affects clearance rates is enough for an honours thesis - they will never prove that increased lactate clearance rates improves recovery - not this year anyway...

[Mr SingleTrack]

What were the dis-benefits? Would love to know the downsides.

 

I used to use it a lot a few years back in the lead up to a snow season and for stretching. While it didn't change the world on it's own I noticed my body felt a lot more prepared in terms of muscle strength and core when included in a training regime. Each time I used it for about 6 weeks pre season and it just seemed to help with getting you ready to hit the ground running... or sliding.

Sorry I don’t have time to get into the specific reasons that lead to the dis-benefits etc but here is a few:

• Decreased strength after prolonged use – using vibration training can yield rather dramatic strength increases (it is said to increase the % of muscle fibres used for contraction) BUT, studies indicated that prolonged use actually result in power losses. There are studies that shop increased jump capacity, but again this is reduced with prolonged use.
  
• Joint injury – They claim they control the vibrations in a number of ways and it therefore does not result in joint injuries/weakening (they have a number of reason why including better circulation in joints etc.). Studies showed the opposite for prolonged use and you can expect similar issues as those guys using this jackhammers (it just takes longer because the vibration is much less intense)
  
• Ligaments and tendons has shown to stretch and weaken with prolonged use
  

 

There are more, but unfortunately I don’ have the time to get into that right now. Hope it helps

[Mr SingleTrack]

But clearly not one who cares about his students - anyone that is still looking for test subjects in September and planning to complete research, write a decent thesis, submit it and still graduate this year is not guilty of good planning..

 

The biggest issue this thesis will have is trying to prove (or disprove something) - and is far to ambitious - just studying the lactate clearance rates with and without the vibration device to see if the vibration affects clearance rates is enough for an honours thesis - they will never prove that increased lactate clearance rates improves recovery - not this year anyway...

I agree. What they try to do is prove that the vibration (by means of massage etc) increases blood flow and thereby removes the L. There is also a gimmicky type of stretch thing you can do on the machine that "shows instant flexibility increases" and they then claim "seeing that stretching aids in flushing lactic acid from the muscles, their machines increase this because the stretching is Superior". There is other studies done on the same topic as well but this is usually what the sales reps try to punt

[Slowbee]

Hi There,

 

My name is Stephanie Sawyer, I am a student at the University of the Western Cape, I am currently doing my honors in Biokinetics and I am looking for volunteers to participate in my thesis. I am testing the possibility of improving lactic acid removal from the blood after exercise using whole body vibration (power plate). all the results will be shared with the participants, which can prove to be beneficial to your training.

 

Please contact me if you are interested in participating or if you require more information. My email is stephsawyer2271@gmail.com

 

Many Thanks,

 

Stephanie