My review of the Shake Weight has been quite popular, generating all kinds of traffic for the site. And Id like to thank all of the Shake Weight fans for visiting the site, taking the time to comment, and ultimately helping to drive traffic to HealthAndFitnessAdvice.com.
However, I am slightly disappointed that none of the Shake Weight fans have been able to provide any of the science behind the claims made by the products manufacturer. Or even some before and after photos. How hard can it be to take a couple of pictures, especially since so many Shake Weight fans claim the see and feel the difference in just days or a few weeks?
Certainly the Shake Weight people dont provide any access to this info on their web site.
The Shake Weighters dont give even a shred of data to support their claim that their gadget, Is 7 times more effective at burning muscle energy than a regular dumbbell! BTW, the asterisked footnote at the bottom of their home page doesnt constitute data. Do a Google search for muscle energy and you will find nothing about this term in the context used by Shake Weight. There is something called muscle energy technique, but this is a type of manipulative treatment used by osteopaths and physical therapists to treat joint hypomobility.
Also, where is the data that shows the Shake Weight contracts muscles 240 times per minute? And how can a muscle contract when it doesnt move through a range of motion. You know, concentric and eccentric contractions, where muscles shorten and lengthen as they are used.
Now people say the Shake Weight works, but there are still people who say the Earth is flat and that the astronauts never walked on the moon. There are people who think that raising taxes is an incentive for business and will spur economic growth. People also say that you have to try the Shake Weight and feel the burn in order to pass judgment, which of course is crap. Apply this logic to other areas of life and youll realize how ridiculous this position is.
Take a broomstick and hold at arms length with elbows locked at shoulder height and constantly move your arms up and down about 6 inches for 30 seconds or so and tell me if you feel a burn. Or take a can of soup and hold it like the Shake Weight dude is holding it in the video on the web site, and shake the can in the same manner the Shake Weight is shaking. Youll feel a burn.
We are told this vibrating dumbbell dramatcally increases muscle activity, but compared to what? Doing nothing? Holding a live cod fish? Doing an exercise that involves actual movement? Inquiring minds want to know.,,
According to the Shake Weight site, you will, Feel the results instantly. Is the burn indicative of results? Can you feel results? When you go for a power walk, do you feel results? Are feelings and sensations indicative of some result, and if so is this result necessarily a good thing? So many questions, so few answers.
Heres another question. Does anyone seriously think the guy in the ad got to look the way he looks as a result of using the Shake Weight?
And then there are the people who poo-poo the paucity of scientific proof. Poo-poo, I say. These types dont want to be bothered by inconvenient truths provided by legitimate scientific data, they want their exercise to be easy and sweat and movement-free. However, my bet is that these same folks would insist or having real science in the picture when it comes to undergoing a medical procedure or drug therapy. Science came in handy when NASA decided to go to the moon and when the Space Shuttle was designed.
Ah, but Im being a spoil sport. Who needs science. The Shake Weight guy has a good build, so it probably works. But Id still like to see some science.
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