Originally developed by Russians to combat the reduction in muscle wasting and loss of bone density experienced by cosmonauts under zero gravity, WBV has now been adopted by many of the world’s top sporting teams and healthcare practitioners, due in part to the reduced amount of time to achieve significant benefits. Celebrities and athletes such as Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Tatiana Gregorieva and Lance Armstrong have built this into their fitness training.

WBV works by forcing your muscles to contract and relax 12 to 27 times a second activating between 80-100% of all muscle fibres both voluntary and in-voluntary, hence the high speed workout. Recent research conducted by the School of Medicine, University of Cordoba, Spain confirmed that energy expenditure was 17% higher when conducting squats with WBV compared to the same exercise without WBV and that, additionally, energy expenditure during the four minute recovery stage was 22% higher following WBV suggesting increased metabolic activity.