Vibration Training – The perfect solution for weight loss after pregnancy

Today I would like to write about how I lost 6kg of my post pregnancy weight in 8 weeks with vibration training.

In my first pregnancy I gained 28kg weight and had an abdominal muscle separation of 8cm. In my 2nd pregnancy I gained a bit less, 17kg. I lost most of the pregnancy weight, but just could not get rid of those last 6kg. No doubt, my body looked and felt a lot different after having the kids, than it did before. Well, a lot of people kept saying “oh, that is just the way it is, once you have children, it all changes, you just have the body of a mother now”. I lived in this belief for a while, I was happy being a mother, but unhappy looking into the mirror or even worse, going shopping for clothes. Nothing quite fit.

In order to loose weight after every pregnancy I bought myself a gym membership, paid a little fortune each month, but did not make it to the gym most of the times for various reasons. Either I was too sleep deprived to even put on some gym clothes, or I did not have someone to look after the kids in this time. Breastfeeding and sport did not fit well together either for me, as my full milk breasts were just too uncomfortable to do much exercise with them.

One day I was surfing through the internet and on one of those social networking websites I came across an advertisement for “weight loss through vibration training”. The vibration training machine shown in the advertisement looked just like an exercise machine my father brought home half a year earlier when nobody was quite sure what it was for as he lost the instructions. I was so excited when I found out that this machine can do a lot more than circulate your blood in your feet

I went back on the internet and researched all sorts of vibration training exercises and even made them up myself. When I started my pregnancy weight loss exercises on my vibration machine, it felt a bit weired as your body needs to get used to the strong vibrations. It feels a bit like a thousand ants in your feet But that goes away pretty quickly.

I found that the most effective way to train on the vibration machine is to bring your body in a certain position, tense the muscle you want to work on and hold that tension for a certain time. That’s all you do. Please, don’t get me wrong, it is quite intense to hold that tension, you will go to your limit. To start with, 10 seconds might be already enough per muscle. But session by session you will improve that.

So one session is about 10 to 15 minutes long and I do all sorts of vibration training exercises like:

standing on the plate with knees bend and thighs and buttocks tensed, or sitting on the plate in a sit-up position with your abs tensed. It is amazing, how my abdominal muscles have recovered from the pregnancy using my vibration training machine. Recently I started to use a stretch band for my bottom muscles, which works fantastic.

In my next post I will write more detailed vibration training exercises for pregnancy weight loss