I spent the weekend in Melbourne with my son, Brad, and enjoyed a little sightseeing and visiting friends. It was a rather subdued experience with news of bushfire casualties and damage still being updated but the response to helping survivors there is fantastic.
We took a 60km train trip and later heard of a minor fire in an area we passed through so the danger is ongoing. The ground is dry, trees are oily (so they burn easily) and the temperature is hot with a dry wind.
While there I visited a Vibration Studio just outside of Melbourne CBD. The studio had Vibro-gym machines and I did a gentle workout. Still having pain in both shoulders and arms I was very careful to have the machine set low. I found it hard to hold correct position with sore arms and It was my first real workout on a lineal machine in almost a month.
(Note: In Auckland I’ve been so fortunate to have been using a wonderful, newly designed, big, pivotal, therapy-machine with vibrating side handlebars to relieve muscle tightness in my shoulders and arms and help keep my legs and core stable while I recover).
The Melbourne Studio was busy with people who looked like athletes, doing regular poses with extra positions and some dynamic work. It differed from my regular studio by the machine brand and program.
I expect to go back again later in the year and as I know there are two other central city Vibration Studios I want to visit them also. Melbourne is a bustling city with a central shopping and business district visited by many thousands of people daily including at the weekends. There are performance areas where street performers are welcomed and large theatres and performance stages. The people are friendly and there’s a great community spirit . In the central city area of Melbourne there is huge scope for more Vibration Training Studios. In the suburbs even more so.
