Recently, I have been tidying up data on old difficult drives to relocation the data to cloud based storage in purchase to have simpler gain access to as well as decrease cluttering. Going back to old data brings back great deals of memories as well as it is a great exercise in discovering back about the advancement as well as activities I did in my career/life so far. Old photos appear as well as old manuscripts written as well as never submitted likewise show up. Finally, old analysis files, notes, correspondence reminds you of numerous hours spent discussing/debating/working on different jobs with numerous people. working in sport as well as science provided me remarkable chances to satisfy truly smart people as well as discover from them. one of them was my old mentor Prof. Bosco. It is amazing exactly how numerous things which are now appropriate in the sports science market were introduced by him in the 90s as well as still stand strong. one of the numerous realisations of going with old data was that our very first paper on whole body vibration was published 20 years ago. indeed 20! I was at the beginning of the PhD journey as well as this was one of the very first jobs conducted with the team I was coaching at the time.

The paper was published on Biology of Sport, as well as I had the assist of some excellent people to make sense of the data as well as enhance the composing to make it great sufficient to be accepted as well as published. The short article is here, as well as I still treasure the notes/comments of Professors Josefz Tihanyi as well as Atko Viru both working with Prof. Bosco at the time on different collaborative efforts to comprehend much better numerous elements of stamina training.

This paper was the beginning of a series of efforts to comprehend much more about the possibility to utilize vibration as an exercise intervention, as well as it was a follow-up to the work carried out by Vladimir Issurin on segmental applications in athletes. I still keep in mind the pride of the very first acceptance letter. I likewise keep in mind the unexpected rate of interest this experimental modality (at the time) increased in the sporting as well as academic World. because then, numerous papers have been published on this topic by numerous research study groups around the world as well as many seem to suggest that our intuition of utilizing such modality to enhance stamina in different populations was not far-fetched. Sadly, advertising has got in the method with numerous industrial interests which have somehow impaired the advancement of such modality in my view, rather than exploiting much better applications as well as safer guidelines. Also, it is type of gone out of fashion as well as replaced by “newer” modalities. I do see in truth in numerous locations I see (gyms, hotels, physical fitness centres) some vibration platforms in corners mainly unused. It is unfortunate to notice that young specialists don’t seem to be thinking about the applications of vibration anymore, nevertheless I am still persuaded that there is still lots of range for its utilize not only in sport however likewise to assist different populations as evidenced by my work with colleagues at the Italian Auxology Institute. Finally, there is a great deal of prospective for applications in rehabilitation as well as for the elderly.

I keep in mind the beginnings, when speaking at conferences I satisfied tons of skeptics (lots of heads shaking in my very first few talks at conferences) as well as had rather a few grant applications turned down. things got much better later on in my profession (but funding companies don’t seem to like non-pharmacological interventions…). However, truth is that 20 years from that paper, there is now a scientific neighborhood studying vibration as well as effectively showing what works as well as what does not work. numerous still trying to figure out the precise mechanisms. The number of papers has exponentially increased, as well as while I marginally contribute to that literature still as my interests have changed, I am happy to have been part of the “pioneers” which started the scientific argument as well as development which for sure is offering some clients as well as sports people with one more avenue to enhance performance as well as high quality of life. On the other end, what I am less happy of, is the truth that an market of gurus as well as pseudo professionals established as a repercussion of the work done by numerous institutions which have “confused” the end individuals rather than improving the results as well as have barely invested in the scientific developments. This is similar to numerous other “industries’ in the sporting/fitness world where “experts” tend to appear as well as vanish when industrial gains ended up being offered and/or disappear. however that’s a topic for one more post…as now it is time to be grateful for the journey which started keeping that paper 20 years back under the mentorship of a few of the biggest sports scientists in history.

 

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