This week’s Q+A is all about vibration training. You may have seen those snazzy vibration plates that you stand on during exercise – and this video is not about those machines, but about the theory behind them.

I’m in favor of low tech, high payoff simple exercises over high tech, low payoff machine-based exercises. For decades, fitness equipment inventors have been trying to create a strength training machine that will mimic real life events – and they have failed miserably every time. Those vibration machines have the same story. And I have to ask myself, why would I pay thousands of dollars for one of these things, or pay a hefty gym membership fee to be able to use one?

You can achieve the same results without any equipment at all, using some old-school, Russian-based sport science techniques. Here they are…

Basic Vibration Drills for Relieving Tension

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