Hi,

This week I have been working on sales channels for youbreathe. We are getting so much interest from people wanting to sell youbreathe. Once people try it they get hooked. You can pretty much feel the benefits straight away so it really markets itself. I guess this is what sales people are looking for, somthing they can make money from that takes little or no effort whatsoever.

I have also been working with the team at London South Bank University on the science of vibration training. We have been looking at stimulus characteristics and transmission. Obviously the vibration pulses get damped by the tissues of the body so working out which stimuli have the best transmission is just about as important as working out what stimuli have the best effects on the body. I will let you know more later.

I am also planning to add some meditations and visualisations that will be downloadable from the website as I think covering the psycho-physical is better than just covering the physical, especially when breathing is involved.

See you soon

this weeks news

Hi,

Lots happening this week. We have had a good presence at the Scottish Vitality Show http://www.thevitalityshowscotland.co.uk/. youbreathe was received with lots of excited interest, people do seem intrigued by vibration training and what is offers.

We are continuing to get lots of interest from media, again they can see the potential of vibration training as something that people want to know about. I will keep you updated about where to go and what to do.

OK, let talk about some physiology of vibration training. Vibration affects sensory receptors within the muscles called muscle spindles, you already know about these from when you were children and u used to tap the front of your knees and your lower leg used to kick out. This is called a stretch reflex. Now imagine doing this 20-50 times a second. It can lead to huge muscle contractions. As we talked about previously if you do this at the same time as a muscle contraction then it is possible to get higher force contractions.

This also has effects of bone. Bones are constantly being broken down and reformed, which is why astronauts can only stay in space for relatively short lengths of time. There is no gravity in space which means there is no stress on the bones so they become soft. This is why vibration training has been so important to space as it acts like hypergravity, causing greater stress on the bones meaning they get stronger.

Hopefully we will be off to Italy later this week as we are having a meeting with one of the worlds largest gym manufacturers about working together on our vibration technology.

I will keep you updated as to how that went.

Have a great week

This weeks update

We have had a good couple of weeks in terms or research and what we have learnt about vibration. One of our devices has also received great coverage in Athletics Weekly magazine in the week leading up to the marathon. I find it so rewarding when someone comes back with a very positive experience using something that I did or contributed to. This is why we got into Science and this line of research. As a side note the editor of Ultra-Fit (http://www.youbreathe.com/general/images/17-2%20Vibration%20Training.pdf) magazine came back and said youbreathe had really helped him in his rowing time trial performance. These are exciting times indeed.

Many people keep asking me about vibration training and one of the most important questions I keep being asked is do I think it is bad that people are looking for quick fixes rather than doing the hard yards of a conventional training programme. Honestly I agree but what we have to realise is that our society is changing and we have to change with it. People don't seem to have the time to commit to regular training like they used to. So vibration training is one way we can try and keep the world healthy and happy even with a short amount of time and effort.

We also have an exciting week coming up for some of our other vibration inventions. We have a meeting coming up next week with the largest gym equipment manufacturer in the world who want to use our technology for their equipment. I think there hasn't been any major advances in training methods and gym equipment for a good 30 years. Vibration training is a quantum leap forwards for those who embrace it first. I hope soon everyone can have access to a vibration suite based on our technology. That would be fulfilling indeed, especially with the London Olympics coming up.

OK, will keep you updated regarding all things vibration.

Bye