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Created to help
cosmonauts combat
the weakening effects
of zero gravity, Power
Plate equipment is
now used for general
fi tness and rehab
What’s the company
philosophy?
To dominate the global Acceleration
Training market (see details below)
by helping people understand that the
Power Plate machine can achieve
results for everybody.
What is Power Plate?
Power Plate equipment is a
premium vibration device that uses the
principles of Acceleration Training to
stimulate the body’s natural response
to vibration. These vibrations transmit
waves of energy throughout the body,
activating muscle contractions between
25 and 50 times a second, enhancing
overall performance in sessions as short
as 15 minutes a day, three times a week.
What is Acceleration
Training?
It’s about creating instability in the What benefi ts does
body. With each vibration, the body is it have for the user?
JEFF DAVIS FAVOURITES
forced to perform reflexive muscle Acceleration Training offers a wide
actions, multiple times each second. range of benefits. It can help improve Book: It’s Not About the Bike by
These contractions must work in blood circulation, increase muscle Lance Armstrong and Fathers, Sons
multiple dimensions, as the Power strength and flexibility, improve range of & Football by Colin Shindler
Plate machines oscillate in all three motion, decrease cellulite, increase bone Music: All music, especially music
planes, exactly as the body is designed mineral density, enhance core that I can sing to!
to do. The result is an incredible conditioning and stability, and reduce Place: Home
improvement in force production, or pain and soreness. Food: Italian
strength and power. Season: Summer/autumn. I have
The principle of Power Plate How can the twin daughters, named Summer
equipment lies in Sir Isaac Newton’s product be used? Darcy and Jade Autumn
law of motion – that the force of an The Power Plate machine is endlessly Leisure activity: Family, basketball
object is equal to its mass multiplied versatile. You can perform any (I was assistant coach at Sheffield
by acceleration – meaning that one can standard stretch, tone or strength Sharks Basketball Club for seven
improve stability, strength or power exercise on the machine, and it can years), golf, cycling and the gym
by either applying more mass or more also be combined with the use of
acceleration to the body. equipment such as kettlebells, Swiss
Many forms of training and balls and medicine balls. Does it lend itself to
conditioning – such as weight machines – group exercise classes?
use mass, but Power Plate machines use Does it constitute a Yes. Certain gyms – including David Lloyd
the second half of this equation, applying workout in itself? and Virgin Active, where there is more
acceleration while keeping mass (the Yes, you can do a full body workout in as than one machine – offer group exercise
body weight) the same. little as 15 minutes. classes led by Power Plate trainers. There
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