Saturday, January 24, 2009

High tech exercise

So excited (again). Just ordered a Vibrating Fitness machine, just like the one in Behind the Sun (p.57). These were first developed to help prevent bone mass loss in astronuats. See the report at http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=9939 NASA status report August 2003.
"The vibrating platform uses low-magnitude, high-frequency signals to reintroduce this stress by tricking the body into thinking it is in something akin to normal gravity."
Also shown to help with balance, weight loss and flexibility. Just standing on the platform is good, but of course you can use it with specific exercises too (no excuses Sue)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gosh, I can't wait to try that out.

I have ordered a few books from amazon.com to send to family up north!

You should give us some news on how the book sales go when you find out :)

Anonymous said...

bought my copies and eagerly await them...
colleen

Jenny said...

Congratulations Sue on your sales ratings on amazon.com for Behind the Sun!

Can't wait for the publication of the sequel, Golden Apples.

Jenny