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