Power plate, vibration plate

Tagger · October 21, 2009

I've used these whole body vibration machines several times. There is a poster of different exercises or movements or positions that you should go through each time - each one for about 30 seconds for a total workout of 10-15 minutes. It is not a matter of just standing on it unless you are not able to do the exercises. I felt great after the workouts, muscles were tired and I was sweating. I'm saving my money to buy my own machine.

Kim

Jachut · October 21, 2009

I've got mixed feelings on these machines.

One, theyv'e been around for a while and they havent really taken off in gyms. Which tells you a lot.

Two, there's lots of private exercise studios around that focus on these things. I did a trial of 5 sessions for a small fee. What I found was that I did feel like I'd exercised, but not to any great degree. The exercises I was able to perform on the platform were not the usual heavy weight whole body moves that I'm more likely to do - I'm more into functional fitness and do things like squats with presses, sandbag training etc. You could only stand round doing things like bicep curls, not really very effective exercises for losing weight and really changing your body. I felt like I'd lifted some weights but not like it was any harder than normal.

that I believe tells you a lot. You FEEL it if you work harder. Its like saying you do the ellipitical instead of the treadmill because the readout tells you you've just burned 800 calories in half an hour. If you REALLY burned that much in half an hour, you'd be aware of it. So being exhausted when you get off the treadmill after half an hour and being NO more exhausted when you get off the elliptical, there's simply no way you burned double the calories.

As it is with these plates. I felt the same as I normally would, well less so actually. The kind of workout you could do on them was not as strenuous or difficult as my normal ones.