What is the "Vibe Disc"?

Series Summary

The Vibe Disc is a newly developed piece of fitness equipment that is a simple disk with an adjustable tilt that when stood on will spin with the correct twist from the person. It is a great tool for downhill ski conditioning as well as simple core training. It can be used by itself or with other assisting pieces of equipment such as weights, medicine balls or bands. The disc is able to stay level or tilt depending on the setting chosen and spins with the force of the person twisting. Not only is it a great conditioning tool and workout machine but it is fun as well!

Take a look at this video clip series and introduce yourself to the newest workout craze, The Vibe Disc! Our expert is one of the co-developers of this new piece of fitness equipment. He will take you through several of the dozens of workout possibilities of the disc and give you tips on how to get the most out of them. You'll learn how to stay safe while using the disc and ways to incorporate other equipment into the workout for conditioning for a specific sport. Check it out and have fun getting fit!

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is Maneesh Chada and today we’re going to be going over some basic techniques with the product called Vibe disc. Vibe disc stands for vestibular inertial balance energizer, the vibe disc is a rotational balance board which provides a 360 degree range of motion, this product is designed to help you develop better balance, coordination and body awareness. Today I have Kathleen Wainwright who is a certified occupational therapist and Feldenkrais practitioner who’s going to assist me today prior to using the vibe disc. We need to make sure we’re warmed up and we have the proper stretching before we engage into any type of exercise activity, okay I’m going to have Kathleen show us some warm up exercises before we use the vibe and Kathleen. So we just stretch kind of circling the hips rotating the hips would be great, so you want to get those hips and legs stretched out and your ribs stretched, the back stretched, just kind of get used to moving in ways that we’re going to be moving on the vibe disc. Make sure that your trunk area has some warm up time and as we’re also warming up our trunk we need to start warming up our legs and also our calves and some basic stretching in our thighs, so keep in mind that stretching is a very important thing to do before you step onto the vibe and start using it. What I want to make sure we understand here before we get started is for anybody using the vibe disc you have to start using the vibe at zero degrees or on flat slow, so what I want you to do is step on the vibe disc and get proper foot position and you do that by keeping your feet parallel and out towards the edges of the disc, so go ahead and move your feet toward the outer edge, perfect okay head straight up. Now what we’re going to do now is we’re going to do some basic quarter turns to the right and quarter turns to the left to determine which side someone has more of an emphasis on, so what I want you to do is go ahead and make four consecutive turns so think of this as a clock, three o’clock right here rotate, great okay and over here six o’clock, nine o’clock and as you use it more and more it gets easier. Okay, keep in mind to keep your head in alignment with your shoulders as you’re rotating and you’ll be able to develop better rotational skills."