Daily Prompt: Teachable Moment
You have to learn a new skill. Do you prefer to read about it, watch someone else do it, hear someone describe it, or try it yourself?
My wonderful blogger friend told me about a wonderful new exercise machine!
Her description was so wonderful that I went ahead and ordered it. And now I have a Total Body Vibration Machine that looks like a bathroom scale. All you do is plug it in and you are good to go. Simple, right?
Wrong.
I need new skills to master this gadget which is supposed to increase circulation, decrease weight, cure arthritis, take the place of a full one hour work out in ten minutes, and all you do is stand on it, lie on it, or sit on it. Magic!
The machine came with no real instructions – well maybe a few – and there is no manual – just a page with minimal text and some pictures of a lady standing on the gadget, lying on it or sitting on it. She looks fairly serene.
So my first plan of action was to read the captions. Hurrah! Now I can turn the thing on and off. I also know how to stand, sit and lie on it.
Next?
There is something there about programming timing but I don’t understand the lingo and all the little lines to the buttons don’t make sense either.
Next?
I decided to TRY IT MYSELF!
I stood on it.
I turned it on.
It was on lowest speed (01).
And my eyes started vibrating!
The rest of me was jouncing too.
But have you ever tried to focus your eyes when they are vibrating?
I lasted one minute.
Suggested timing is ten minutes.
Today I will try for two minutes. Forget lying on it or sitting on it.
Hurrah – I am learning a new skill – how to exercise your eyes!
BTW – THANK YOU CINDY! All kidding aside, I think I am going to love this little gadget.
Gosh – hope you get the hang of this – and let us know if it works as well as you’ve been told!
Maybe we will all have to order one and try to work out how to use it –
sure beats jogging in the rain!
Emma.
Thanks for visiting my blog Emma. Jogging in the rain sounds rather attractive though, after vibrating eyes!
Well, that sounds interesting…. I usually like to read how to do something IF there’s complete instructions. Other than that….search the internet! I’ve learned SO much there.
Good luck with this little gizmo!
Right again Dianna. I did look on the internet and learned a few more things about the new machine and its potential benefits. The research goes on.
Good luck! By the way, I tagged you in a blog challenge today. No pressure to participate!
Thanks for including me in your tagged people Dianna for what looks like a major challenge. I have it starred for deeper thought before proceeding.
I don’t know. It sounds like snakeoil to me. Let us know if it works — like really works, like losing weight (although I really don’t think your eyeballs weigh that much.)
Snake oil – could be. Still, the promise of the end-all cure-all is irresistible!
Hope you master this machine, doran
Me too. Me too.
I’m a try it out myself or watch someone else first kind of person. I know these contraptions. Stood on one at a show where they were selling them. Managed a good 10 min and can’t say I felt different at all. They said this was very good, I decided not to buy the machine. Vibrating eyes are certainly an issue
Will keep you “posted” on my progress – if any. Could be like getting sea legs and when you finally touch ground you feel wonderful?
You’re welcome Dor
. I’m so proud of you!!! The vibration is pretty intense, and you are right to stay at the slowest speed to start. You will get used to it, although you will definitely never be able to read a book on it. I can’t even hear what people are saying to me when I am on mine LOL!! However, after you have been sitting in front of the computer for hours and your body is feeling all stiff, just spend a few minutes on the machine, and you will feel great! Try going down on your hands and knees and just resting your forearms on it. Then relax and enjoy. It will loosen up stiff shoulders and arms! Now you have reminded me that I haven’t been on mine yet today, so off I go. Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle!!
Awww, that feels better
. Standing on my machine I also thought I should let you know in case your instruction manual didn’t tell you this, you should never lock your knees. Always make sure that your legs are slightly bent.
Oh, good advice. I won’t lock up the knees but I read you should tighten your abs and practice good posture.
Yup, that’s good! Here’s another one. Sit on it with your hands under your bum and fingers pointed inwards. This is supposed to help with fat on the back of the upper arms.
LOL! Are you kidding me about these poses?
No, I’m serious, really! I do all sorts of exercise on mine, but then mine has a big upright piece with handles so I can hold on
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O.K. Cindy – I’m up to two minutes! And I had so much energy this morning after those 2 minutes that I went on the treadmill for 20 more! Wow! I am impressed. P.S. I hold onto a chair for balance but will practice letting go soon.
Oh Dor, I am SO proud of you. I was afraid that some of the comments on here might scare you away from it. I find the circulation and energy benefits are the most noticeable effects of using the machine. I mean I’m not going to say it has made me lose tons of weight because it hasn’t, but I did lose inches, my muscles have toned up, and I just feel better physically. I’m not stiff all the time like I used to be. As an example, I have very, very long legs and could never touch my toes, even when I was younger, but now I can touch them no problem
. Keep up the great work!!!
I sure am looking forward to my inches toning up Cindy! And boy am I glad I found you. I would never have heard of such a wonderful machine. I simply love it and actually did the full 10 minutes this morning! I think this is great, sharing our experiences. Did I tell you I called my eye dr. to ask if a cataract lens implant is in danger of being dislodged. Remember my eyes were vibrating? She said, “No – go ahead.” So all systems are go. The reason I asked is I read that people with joint replacements should not use the machine.
Hope you don’t have a hip or knee replacement or anything. My husband has a hip replacement, so I was glad I read about it and now he won’t use the machine. Ha! It’s all mine! 
I’m really glad you asked your doctor about your eyes because it’s better to be safe than sorry
, and it makes me happy to know that I have helped someone else. Too bad about your hubby’s hip replacement, but isn’t it nice to have something you don’t have to share LOL?!?!
Doing ten minutes now at 01 and up to 02 on the “richter scale.” Eyes are still jiggling but I try to ignore them. What a wonderful gift you have given. And yep, here’s something of my very own.
Go Dor, Go Dor!!!!!
We are in this together Cindy and I can’t wait to “get used to it.” Will try the hands down maneuver as soon as I can conquer the standing upright move with grace.
Thanks again for putting me onto this.
You’re very welcome
I am still laughing! If this works, I want one too. Good luck and keep us informed of your progress.
The darned thing is fun! So if it doesn’t do all it says it will do, at least it’s fun…. and I’m really glad it made you laugh coastal crone. It made me laugh too
OK, this is really funny! Perhaps the secret to curing arthritis and lowering weight simply involves moving the eyes very quickly? Good luck with it. Let us know how it works when you reach ten minutes. lol.
Now you have me laughing about rolling my eyes to lose weight! Thanks. At least the new machine is good at generating giggles if nothing else.
Let me know what you think in a month. It sounds hysterical–probably useless, but hysterical.
Hysterical is the right word Lilly… if my eyes weren’t out of focus I would feel a lot better about laughing while on the Vibration Machine.
Will definitely get back to you in a month or less if there is any progress with weight loss or flexibility… re the body I mean, not the eyes.
Perhaps you can hold a pan of popping corn in your jiggling hands and allow the machine to help stir it up so all the butter, sugar and salt don’t burn. We’re making Kettle Corn, in case you didn’t get the reference. That is guaranteed to put back, with interest, all the calories you burn.
Mmmmmm – Kettle Cork. Is there a recipe you can share? I love the stuff but have to wait til they sell it in malls or on street corners. Never mind the new Vibration Machine. I’ll think about that after the Kettle Corn!
That’s because it is not turned on! ; -) Ted
It was! It was turned on Ted. I lasted one minute. And wouldn’t you be surprised if the darned Vibration Machine actually worked?
Thanks for looking. 
Sounds like it will also help you improve your balance, something we all need a we get older.
Nancy
Balance is important for sure. I refuse to get older however.
Good luck Dor, Sound like you burned a bushel of calories just trying to figure it out.
Now there’s a thought Barb. I wonder how many calories I used up. They say you consume calories just by fidgeting so all that jiggling should be a landslide too.
This sounds like a really terrible machine. Return it and ask for your money back! Tell them it shakes your eyeballs in an alarming way…..
My grandparents had one of those vibrating belt machines….Remember those? You put the belt around yourself and it shakes your fat like like a train on a broken track. It looks appalling and did absolutely nothing but they used it religiously. I was never to use it as it was “dangerous.”
So of course I used it all the time. It shook my eyes in their sockets too.
This can’t be good for you.
It’s like those vibrating motel beds in cheap motels. Remember those?
My grandparents also had a bidet in their bathroom. They were forward thinking, techy grandparents, back in 1963! I used to turn the bidet on full strength creating a shower like effect in the bathroom annoying my grandmother to no end….
You better not let your grandchildren near this machine!!!
Unless of course you want them to show you how it works…..LOL!
Oh my goodness! Now you have me worried. I remember those belts in gyms in the old days that were finally deemed useless. I’m also worried about a cataract implant in one of my eyes. I forgot about it vibrating. Maybe it will be dislodged? Uh oh….. hope is fading for miracles of weight loss and flexibility. I can also tell you were a thrill seeker/trouble maker as a little girl Cindy. A Bidet shower?
PS. I tagged you in a blog challenge today. No obligation to participate, though; it’s fun, but time-consuming!
At least it is smaller than the vibrating machines my aunt had in the 60′s! Let me know how it works!
Hay Julie – Don’t tell me the 1960′s vibrating machine didn’t work for your aunt. I need hope in order to continue and will let you know if I can talk myself into making the durned thing bring positive results! LOL!
More torture in the name of health…sounds interesting.
Well Dor, time will tell. I can’t wait to hear what you think in a month or two. Photosfromtheloonybin sounds very encouraging. All the best, and don’t forget to let us know if it helps you feel more energetic or lose weight.
Cindy at photosfromtheloonybin was actually the one to recommend this fantastic little machine. I will keep you posted Lori on any progress but so far, I’m very impressed.