Soloflex WBV

For under $400 perhaps the most affordable Vibrating Platform available  no bells and whistles, a simple solid platform with a vibrating motor attached. It comes with a power cord and a simple On/Off switch.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Soloflex press Release:                             Soloflex Shakes Up Exercise Industry                             HILLSBORO, Ore., Jan. 20, 2005 -- Would you like that iron-pumping exercise with or without vibration? Lance Armstrong, Shaquille O'Neal and Dirty Harry (Clint Eastwood) now vibrate regularly in their workouts. So do dozens of pro football, baseball and basketball teams. And universities. And physical therapists. Porque? Because vibration really works. The Journal of Sports Sciences reports that inducing a low frequency mechanical vibration to resistance exercises dramatically increases their effectiveness. Vibrating while exercising makes muscles grow faster and improves bone density. Vibration also provides almost instant warm-ups to help reduce injuries and it greatly increases flexibility. What's not to like about that? "Soloflex is now making this technology available to our millions of Soloflex users," says Jerry Wilson, founder and President of Soloflex, Inc. "Institutional vibration platforms are just that, a platform. It makes more sense to induce these mechanical vibrations on weightlifting equipment than it does to attempt weightlifting exercises on a vibrating platform." Not much new has happened in bodybuilding the past 2,500 years. Greeks and Romans did the same barbell and dumbell exercises we do today. Maybe this will shake things up. If history can be trusted, expect to see Soloflex's competitors copyflexing this idea quickly.