Power Plate® training exercise

Power Plate stimulate the body’s natural response to vibration

A stretch reflex occurs when a doctor taps your knee with a hammer causing your quadriceps to contract and your foot to mopve forward. Similarly the Power Plates use the body’s natural reflexes to activate rapid, involuntary muscle contractions in response to the tri-dimensional vibration between 25 and 50 times per second.

For years, weight resistance training has been the only way to become physically stronger. Weight training, or weight lifting using conventional gym equipment, increases the force that one needs to resist in order to become stronger.

The Power Plate machine increases gravitational force exponentially by increasing the acceleration factor, as opposed to mass (as per the equation above). Not increasing mass while increasing acceleration puts much less strain on the ligaments and muscular-skeletal system, resulting in shorter, less exhaustive sessions.

The lowest machine setting effectively doubles the effect of gravity, meaning that weights are not required to increase the downward force during exercise. For example, a 70kg person doing a squat has to carry a 60kg barbell in the gym to generate the same force as on the Power Plate, with no weight, on the lowest setting.

Because it works on a reflex basis, almost 100% of all muscle fibers are recruited, versus less than 50% for the average person engaged in conventional training.

• Increased metabolism and accelerated weight loss:
Power Plate® intensifies fat burning and improves the resting metabolism.
• Improved strength and muscle tone:
Power Plate is especially beneficial in strengthening the stablisers, core and deep tissue muscles, which are difficult to reach with conventional methods of resistance training.
• Cellulite and cosmetic consequences:
Power Plate loosens up coagulated tissues and adhesions, breaks down fat cells, improves the mobility of tissue layers, breaks down cellulite, reinforces connective tissue and improves skin tone.
• Activated circulation and improved lymph drainage:
An immediate and substantial increase in blood circulation as a result of the muscle pump effect feeds the muscles and cells with essential nutrients and oxygen, and removes waste products, at a very high rate, through the lymph drainage system.
• Increased bone density:
Research has shown that Power Plate stimulates the growth of bone tissue, reducing and even reversing the effects of Osteoporosis. Combined with stronger core muscles and improved balance, exercise on the Power Plate reduces the risk of falling.
• Increased production of repair hormones, faster recovery and anti-aging effects:
The intense training stimulates the body to produce high levels of human growth hormone, testosterone and IGF-1, which are essential in repairing and regenerating the body, burning fat and keeping the body young.
• Elimination of stress effects:
Power Plate decreases Cortisol levels, while it stimulates the release of the “feel-good” hormones Serotonin and Neurotrophine, which make us feel good and support our thinking processes
• Improved flexibility and range of motion:
Reflex relaxation of muscles, intense circulation, and warming of the muscles and tendons enhances flexibility and range of motion.