I work in a Vibra-Train Studio. It’s Pure Vibration Training at it’s best – a much higher force way of Acceleration Training or Power Plate.
We use a Safety Program specifically designed to give a safe workout with excellent results. Customers are fully supervised and quickly learn the steps to get into and maintain perfect position on the machines. Over time, however, people tend to cheat a little, usually unintentionally, and their body moves slightly out of position making the workout easier (and less effective) so I still have to watch them.
Early this morning I had many regular customers in the studio; ones that I don’t have to watch too closely. One couple come regularly every Monday and Thursday morning on their way to their office. They started at another Vibra-Train studio five years ago and have been coming into the Auckland City Studio for about a year so they know the program very well, so well they could just about do my job and instruct others BUT this morning I, foolishly, left them alone for a few minutes while I cleared rubbish bins in another part of the studio.
Walking back into the room I laughed as I saw them both struggling with a position that involves having a mat on the platform while doing the position. They had both chosen the wrong mat; one that fits our larger, “Bullet” machine platform so it overhung the “Vibra” machine platforms they were using. I asked them to look at the platforms and the mats and both said, “the mat doesn’t fit; it was hard to hold position”. They still didn’t realise they’d done anything wrong yet they had both walked accross the studio and taken mats from beside another machine instead of using the ones right by them, ones that perfectly fit the “Vibra” platforms they were using.
Maybe they’d had a busy weekend and had Monday-itis!
