On Monday, U.S. Customs in Savannah, Georgia intercepted a shipment of 1,783 pieces of counterfeit exercise gear imported from China. The 764 cartons included Shake Weights, Body by Jake, and Total Core. The gear sported counterfeit logos. So not only would you get the normal benefits of a fake exercise product, the fake exercise products themselves were also fake.
In case you don’t know what a shake weight is, it’s a dumbbell with plates inside that you shake back and forth, supposedly toning your arms more easily than if you were lifting weights. Here’s a video clip:
Fake Shake Weights, Other Counterfeit Workout Equipment Seized [cbsatlanta] (Thanks to foofish!)
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Damn, out of Kleenex.
ahhh. tiffany davis.
You do know that the shake wake does not vibrate right? It’s not battery operated.YOU have to make it shake, so you ARE moving your arms.
grrr, I meant shake WEIGHT obviously
Yeah, but due to the teeny tiny range of motion you aren’t burning many calories nor building muscle…the bigger your range of motion and heavier the weight, the more muscle fibers you recruit to complete the action. It’s the same reason the “electrodes” on the abs doesn’t equal washboard abs. Sure, the muscles are contracting, but only very slightly, and the amount of calories burned is also negligible.
I can’t recall where, but I read somewhere that doing more reps with less weight actually builds muscle faster than less reps with more weight. It might have been it burns more calories… I don’t know and I’m too lazy to Google right now.
I think it was actually on here, and I think the study showed working at higher reps with 60% of max weight resulted in building more muscle than doing heavier weight for lower reps…although that’s pretty much common knowledge. That’s why powerlifters are usually stronger than bodybuilders, despite the fact they may not look as muscular.
It was a study done recently, although I’m not sure it’s common knowledge, since a lot of places it was reported had tons of people chiming in with the “science is wrong, Bob at the gym who is a bodybuilder knows more.”
In my experience you can find a study to support just about any claim you’d care to make. This is especially true in fitness.
More reps with less weight gives you more definition than bulk.
true, but Ben and a lot of people (myself included before I saw one in person) think they are vibrating for you. So sure it’s a crappy work out but it’s more of one then holding something moving itself would be.
Your work out is finished. Here is some cab fare. Now going to sleep mode.
This. Great “South Park” reference.
A good “old fashion” workout
Tell me again about the women who you do not like
Shake Weight…because when I am at the gym the safest way I know to work out is to grab a weight and shake it back and forth. What could possibly go wrong…
Yea the south park version is so much better.
At least that one gives you cab fare when you’re done.
Shake weight commercials make me grin every single time.
In that case you should check out the South Park parody of the Shake Weight:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s14e14-creme-fraiche
Jerked off the shelves?
That comment was made of 50% pure awesome, 50% pure win, and 50% pure hilarity. Yes. 150%.
Agreed!
+∞
I stayed up late watching TV the other night and it was full of infomercials. In my tired stupor I ended up buying a bunch of crap, like the shake weight. So I am now typing this comment wearing my new snuggie and with a shake weight in one hand. It’s cool though, I stopped having a boring life because I used my slap chop to make breakfast. And some dude driving a car a talking into a camera showed me how I can make millions in real estate, so I am set.
I have a fake Shake Weight in my pants.
Just had to.
My wife told me they have “Shake Weight for Men”. I said “I’ve already got one, and it’s free.”
Dynamic inertia @ 240 muscle contractions per minute, INDEED!!!
One of the ladies in the office got one for Christmas and made a big deal on her FB page about it. She didn’t understand the South Park references and thought we were “being mean” to her. Until she came in and we showed her the clip.
Last I heard she was trying to return it.
For those who haven’t seen it:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/360884/just-a-quickie
Damn international content licensing agreement. I am unable to view, Grrr!
Forgive me for this…but…
I guess people were making their own shake weights at home?
Since the dawn of time.
The fakes can’t be much worse than the real deal.
My wife actually asked for one for Xmas. I gave her one.
I expected the spring to create a type of resistive resonance, but the bellows on the ends compress and pass air in and out which dampens the spring action rendering it worthless.
She’s using it a a 2.5 pound free weight.
fake exercise products themselves were also fake.
Now that is a classic line.
Is this what they call weight loss.
Oh, I’m sorry; lost revenue.
It certainly makes the wallet lighter.
Poor Tiffany Cooper from San Diego, CA….. How’d you like to be the thumbnail for this product?
Almost there, home stretch.
Now dispensing cab fare.
Thousands Of Fake Shake Weights Seized.
Thousands of guys preparing for their annual jack-a-thon are going to be very upset…
Jack-a-thon was just the laugh I needed. Thank you.
the male ad for this is ewwie.. hint: dont have the guy groan as he finishes
Would have been much better to embed the SNL DVD spot in the still image…
Regardless if you approve of the workout products, this is not the first or last time we will hear the huge shipments have been seized. Think if those that do get sold and now the legit company has to spend hours telling angry customers they can not refund their fake product.
Were they the regular size or the larger “Big Jim” model?
ok yea.. this is a bad bad idea to begin with those shake weights look like they meant for porn stars then normal people
I’d be OK with a counterfeit Shake Weight. I was planning to lie about how much weight I lost, anyway.
My father-in-law got one of these for Christmas. Yes, people made jokes about it. I just silently mused that someone wasted their money.