What Is Shake Weight?
Causing a serious American fitness craze, Shake Weight has become notorious for its tacky advertisements promising 6 minute workouts and beautifully toned arms in men and women alike. With a spring on each end, the idea is that the Shake Weight shakes as you shake it, creating more resistance and therefore more muscle, or at least more tone.
It comes in 2 sizes: a 2.5 pound dumbbell for women and a 5 pound dumbbell for men. And Shake Weight now sends videos to instruct you on the best ways and the best positions to get the best possible results.
It’s not electric. The idea is that you do all of the work, which is obviously a more productive idea, assuming that you take the time to shake it. With all of this, it’s supposedly better than a regular dumbbell workout.
Is This Truth or a Lie?
It depends on what you expect from the Shake Weight. As a dumbbell, obviously it creates some resistance as you lift or move your arms. There are plenty of workout programs using small dumbbells that don’t shake to make workouts more effective. But these weights are typically used as background products, not the main product.
On its own, the Shake Weight does not burn fat, and even though the 6 minute angle sounds good, there is nothing that works quite that quickly. It’s best if you spend at least 30 minutes at a time using something like this, and you can use this more than once a day for even better results.
Outside of that, Shake Weight talks about being scientifically tested, proven, developed, whatever you want to call it. It even talks about targeting either sex. But truth be told, the only difference between the men’s Shake Weight and the women’s Shake Weight is the weight. The women’s Shake Weight weighs 2.5 pounds and the men’s weighs twice that at about 5. There is nothing gender targeted or for that matter clinically proven about that. To date, I don’t know of any clinical studies proving that the Shake Weight does more than a 5 or 10 pound weight.
The makers of Shake Weight did send a report. But keep in mind, again, this is not a study, and there’s no sign of it on official websites such as Pubmed for example, which tracks every major study.
Is Shake Weight Better Than Regular Training
You could probably lift a 10 or 15 pound weight and get the same results. If the Shake Weight was heavier, you would obviously have to increase the weight to match it. But it would still be fairly easy to get the same workouts from a pretty conventional workout program.
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