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Looking lean and muscular, you'd think Lloyd Shaw was a regular gym goer. But to our astonishment he hasn't pumped any iron for years! Infact Lloyd has been undergoing a 5 year experiment that many gym junkies would run from in fear of loosing muscle mass. But Lloyd, who's one of the pioneers of vibration training, wanted to set out to find out what are the long term effects of vibration training as there has been no real long term research done on the area. He wanted to know what effects just vibration training had on muscle mass, strength, bodyfat and cardio fitness. Was he going to become a 60kg weakling? |
| In 2006, Lloyd was looking bulky and weighing 85kg with 18%. He gave up conventional weight training and began Vibration training 3 times a week. In January 2011, Lloyd now weighs around 79kg and 10% but he will once again get tested in April 2011 for his bodyfat, muscle mass and VO2 max to see precisely what Vibration training has done to his mass and fitness. Although we have featured vibration training on this site, we haven't exactly delved into the workings of vibration training so we thought who better to ask than the person who's a leader in the area. So here is our Q&A with Lloyd about Vibration Training and the effects of the experiment on his body so far: |
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1. You're one of the pioneers of Vibration Training, what made you come up with the idea for your platform and who was your intended market? I am a mortician by trade, specializing in obesity cases. I simply got sick of hearing nothing could be done for people over a certain weight. After doing some research into vibration therapy I decided to build the first Vibration Training machine that worked effectively over 80kg. My goals was simple at the time, get people who didn't want to move, to move. Kind of a form of forced exercise. I initially didn't want to set up a whole company, I was forced to because no-one else would. I would have preferred a more advisory role but it didn't work out that way. " If you want some thing done properly etc etc ...... " |
