

The question then is whether or not Power Plates work, and unfortunately the answer is as you might expect: ‘no, not really’. Other claims include that doing 10 sit ups is equivalent to doing 100. The proponents and marketers of these machines claim that spending 10 minutes on a Power Plate is equivalent to spending 60 minutes working out in a conventional setting. Similarly then the individual does their exercises on the Power Plate in a bid to make them more effective. Arguably you could also presume that the body would attempt to balance itself in order to account for the movement and that might lead to tensing in the stomach and core muscles in much the same way as you might train no a wobble board. The idea behind the Power Plate is that these vibrations cause an ‘involuntary muscle contraction’ throughout the body which is enough to increase the intensity of a workout. The Power Plates have a string of celebrity endorsements appearing in advertizing including Jonathan Ross, Donatella Versace, Claudia Schiffer, Madonna and Natalie Imbruglia. The speed of these vibrations can be adjusted in order to increase the intensity.


More precisely this is a machine that can vibrate around 1 to 2 mm which means 25-50 times a second and they are designed to be wide enough to let people stand on them with their feet shoulders’ width apart. It looks like a vibrating box much like something out of a computer game, and you’re likely to find rows of people training on it by doing press ups and sit ups etc. This has a vibrating base and it can be found in many gyms these days in rows of two or three. Rather a power plate is a ‘vibrating platform’ which can be used as exercise equipment. If you’re wondering what a Power Plate is then it has nothing to do with crockery. Here then we will look at ‘Power Plates’ – a brand of training equipment – and decide whether they’re worth your money. It pays then to research these training products before you invest too much money or too much hope into them, and it makes sense to read about the experiences that others have had before you shell out. And in fact it’s almost fair to say that they usually aren’t what they promise. In fact if you are truly a fan of bodybuilding, then you are possibly likely to have tried many of these things yourself and you’ll know that they aren’t always quite what they promise. If you have an interest in bodybuilding then you will be aware of what a booming industry it is, and just how many different kinds of bodybuilding equipment there are – each one promising to do miraculous things and to help you build powerful muscle more quickly and easily than would otherwise be possible.
