Training Effects of NEMES BOSCO

The benefits of using NEMES BOSCO-SYSTEM in sports training is unique. Athletes and coaches of different sports such as soccer, volleyball, basketball, track and field, boxing, tennis, skiing, baseball and more will find new ways to improve skills such as speed, power, strength, flexibility etc.

Vibration training can be applied simultaneously with other training methods in every stage of the preparation. Vibration training can be used in addition to the regular power training, or as a safe alternative to power training. It can also be used as a warming-up, to prepare for power training or in combination with technique training and/or speed-training.

A problem area in top-sport is training the explosive power, such as jumping power or throwing-power. Use is often made of 'brutal' training intensities and high 'peak' loads. This could be with heavy power loads of hundreds of kilos of weights, plyometric loads or drop-jumps. These unfortunately often result in injuries. Some examples are foot injuries, "Achilles" tendon injuries, knee injuries (jumpers knee) or back complaints. Vibration training is the key solution in these conditions.

Another issue is that the muscles become stronger after many years of training, but not the passive movement apparatus, like tendons, ligaments, joints and bones. Certainly for athletes who have reached the limits of their physical limits, it is extremely difficult to find effective and safe training methods. Vibration training allows the muscles to work very hard without overloading on the ligaments, tendons, joints and vertebra. This is not only to the benefit of top athletes, but also for young athletes, who are not able to take on strength training because of growing problems e.g. Osgood-Schlatter or M. Scheuermann, both disorders in bone growth that often appear in the teen years.

Vibration training using the NEMES BOSCO can be applied in a number of ways:
- Supplementary to the normal power training
- An alternative for power training, when there is injury or rehabilitation (for example: instead of power training, replace with vibration training)
- In preparation for power training (for example: first vibration training, and afterwards power training)
- In preparation for other types of training, such as technique training or speed training
- In preparation for competitions, as a warming-up; during track and field events, we often see the sprinters jumping or hopping up and down before they take up their positions in the starting blocks
- Cooling-down after training and contests, because of the positive effect on the blood circulation and the hormones, which helps the athlete to recover faster

NEMES has an impressive training effect on speed. Bosco et al (1990) showed improvements of 5.7% in power and 6.4% in speed after only one vibration training session. Conventional training did not show any performance improvement after one session. This improvement is typically only evident after at least 4 weeks of training!Power increases are also noticeable after a minimum of three sessions using the NEMES. Jump power and height achieved improved by 12% after a 10 day training programme using vibration training while no change was observed in the control group (Bosco et al 1998). In another study Bosco and colleagues (1999) found a 25% increase in arm power in international boxers following one vibration training session. Again the control group did not show any improvement and this type of gain is only evident from conventional training after several weeks. It is estimated that 100min vibration training is equal to 200 drop jumps from 60cm height, twice a week for 12 months !