Power Plate – What It’s All About
From Madonna to Martha Stewart (yes she really does have one) celebrities swear by their Power Plate machines. Add to that devotees like Claudia Schiffer, Elle Macpherson and Kylie Minogue and we have something to talk about! Power-Plate is a machine that gives the body’s muscles a high-speed workout by using vibrations to stimulate them to contract and relax. They generally contract once or twice a second, but by standing on the Power-Plate, its vibrations cause an automatic reflex muscle contraction of 30-50 a second. The body has to subconsciously contract a variety of different muscles in order to stay balanced during the vibrations created by the Power plate . It is precisely this constant muscle tensioning that makes the Power plate so effective. Developed by Russian scientists for their Olympic athletes in the 1970’s and later used to train cosmonauts, the Power Plate® platform vibrates as you perform a series of simple exercises. A pose is held for up to 60...