Vibration training requires the use of a whole body vibration trainer – a piece of gym equipment with a platform that moves intensively to create vibrations which give your body a thorough workout. It has really taken off in the last few years as a means of giving the body a short but powerful workout, making it ideal for busy people.

Vibration training has seen a real trend in recent years as being the workout of choice for fitness professionals and celebrities alike. It is now one of the hottest workouts because it promises to deliver much in a very short space of time.

Typical vibration training workouts lasted around 10-15 minutes, creating instant appeal for those who needed a superfast but intensive workout in as little time as possible. The brilliant thing about it is that it’s ideal for those who want to lose weight and lack the time to do longer workouts.

To understand how it helps you lose weight, you first need to understand how vibration training actually works. Vibration trainers work by vibrating thousands of times a minute, transmitting bursts of energy throughout your body. This energy forces your muscles to contract and relax repeatedly as your muscles try and stabilise your body.

It’s these contractions which give your muscles a workout and means that even if you stand or lie still on the machine, you get a super-intense workout at a fraction of the time taken to complete a traditional gym workout.

What’s more is that it can specifically aid weight loss by helping to burn off fat and increase your flexibility, as well as helping with overall weight loss goals. It’s important to note that true weight loss and especially fat loss happens when you undertake any type of physical training in conjunction with a healthy diet.

Advocates of vibration training swear by it to help them achieve their weight loss goals faster and it also offers them other health benefits - all in a nifty but intense 10-15 minute workout. One of the ‘side effects’ of vibration training is that it decreases the stress hormone cortisol in the body.

Cortisol is the culprit behind many a bulging middle, since it encourages fat to store around your abdominal area. Therefore, it makes perfect sense that if it decreases cortisol levels, then this will in turn decrease your wobbly middle!

But perhaps the best part of vibration training is that it’s an ideal form of training to help the elderly and the sick to attain their weight management goals, since it places minimal impact or stress on the joints. This makes vibration training the perfect solution for people who find it painful or difficult to do traditional movements.

If you are serious about your weight loss and fitness goals and you’re busy, then vibration training is the ideal type of workout for you.