Power Plate Shown to Enhance Weight Loss
May 11, 2009 by ted
Filed under POWER PLATE, Weight Loss
We just received a press release concerning a six month study presented on Friday at the European Congress on Obesity that showed participants who used Vibration Training as well as a low Calorie diet had more weight loss then those using conventional exercise with the same low Calorie diet.
Here is and outline of the study
The study was conducted over a six month period, after which subjects returned to their daily lives and reported back for retesting at 12 months. In terms of weight loss:
- The Power Plate® group lost 11 percent of their body weight and maintained a 10.5 percent loss
- The diet and conventional fitness group lost 7 percent and maintained a 6.9 percent loss
- The diet only group lost 6 percent, and maintained less than 5 percent loss
Even more promising was the reduction of visceral fat:
- The Power Plate® group lost 47.8 sq. cm. (18.8 in.), and maintained a loss of 47.7 sq. cm (18.7 in.)
- The diet and conventional fitness group lost only 17.6 sq. cm. (6.93 in.), and maintained only a 1.6 sq. cm (.63 in) loss
- The diet only group lost 24.3 sq. cm. (9.57 in.) and maintained only 7.5 sq. cm. (2.95 in.) loss
We are extremely encouraged by the results of this study, especially in terms of the reduction of visceral fat, said Guss Van Der Meer, Founder of Power Plate®. Obesity is a major concern both in the United States and worldwide and we are excited that Power Plate® exercise may provide a low-impact way for people to lose weight and belly fat.
This study was funded by the Artesis University College of Antwerp and has not been peer reviewed as of yet. It does show promising results for the industry, in general, even though this study was conducted using Power Plate machines.
This has to be a good thing for the industry.
Note: No one here has ever said Power Plates can not and do not work to a degree. It is just a shame they do not perform as well as they should and the company selling them are so unethical.
Hello Ted,
I just learnt about this Study and intended to share it here; but you are one step in front and have it posted already.
Thanks!
Timothy
Let’s not overlook this one either:
Whole-body vibration training increases muscle strength and mass in older women: a randomized-controlled trial (link below).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19422657?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DefaultReportPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
Don’t think I saw this one posted.
I urge everyone to jump onto Sals recent article…
http://blogcritics.org/scitech/article/more-evidence-to-indicate-whole-body/
…. and and ask him to explain the results from this study. As this man has done more to try and stop the development of this industry that any other person I am aware of. He now has to step up and justify his actions.
The coward will not reply, but the more people point it out the better.
Done
Gabriel.
Thanks for sharing the study out of Spain on older women which has been peer-reviewed. This is a potential huge market for the vibration industy – not just older postmenopausal females, but I think the anti-aging crowd in general.
In the same vein as Lloyd’s comment and Gabriel’s action on Sal’s article, could somebody go on the forum (Core Talk) at http://www.coreperformance.com and ask what happened to Power Plate’s worldwide educator Scott Hopson (ask them to verify if Scott is still with Power Plate, if Power Plate still has Chicago headquarters?). Athletes’ Performance (AP) runs the CP site and of course is a partner of Power Plate. They won’t answer anything. Also, AP client Manny Ramirez was recently suspended 50 games by MLB for PEDS. Read the “winning with integrity” statement at the bottom of the homepage at http://www.athletesperformance.com. So far, they haven’t said a thing about banning Manny from AP facilities. How’s that for hypocrisy? Is it any wonder Power Plate and AP are partners?
I’ve called Mark Verstegen I don’t know how many times and he won’t answer. When people don’t answer simple questions it makes me think they must have something to hide.
I can’t get onto Sals’s site – apparently it’s experiencing a very high load! Everyones’ obviously trying to ask for explanations!
None of your comments went through or they were all deleted. Try again.
Blogcritics have recently updated their site so the current outage will be for minor adjustments
BUT just maybe we are causing it
Scott is no longer with Power Plate. He was let go for financial reasons. Head office moved from Chicago to LA.
To have to let go your top educator, someone who they have promoted heavily into such a high profile position, due to fianacial reasons ?
That is pretty serious.
I know they were top heavy in useless middle management there for a few years. For every 1 person working there were 3 watching. That will be hurting them now.
Well, now we at least seem to know what happened to Scott Hopson!
The research helps justify our efforts to grow the industry but I doubt it will boost sales or awareness. Consumers have become too hard up for money to buy a $4500+ machine. It really comes down to the fact that most people are only purchasing the neccessities.
We can’t sit here and pretend its just PowerPlate thats hurting. The whole fitness industry in general is tanking. Busy Body who distributed Power Plate and at one time the Ironman resulotion went under closing over 100 stores. Now many of the smaller independantly owned fitness stores are not making sales which is forcing them to slowly shut their doors. When those retailers start sinking, they stop paying their supplying manufacturer. It’s a trickle up effect here.
I know several stores that have gone BK here and not paid vendors like PowerPlate hundreds of thousands that they owed them.
Its going to be interesting to see how many of these big companies survive.
Jon, It is never pleasing to see people losing thier jobs and hard working and above board business’s close thier doors. However, consumers still have the option of WBV studios rather than buying machines.
Our studio has not seen any drop off in clientelle, in fact we are ahead of the same period last year.
Quality of service and equipment, which leads to postive results, are essential factors for survival during tough times
The facts of business…
People get involved in sales knowing full well they are only as good as their last sale. This fact never changes recession or no recession. People just tend to “remember” it in tough times. People do sales in our industry for the fast bucks and quick turnaround on their investment. No problem with that but it has its pitfalls as they are now finding out.
Others buy a “durable product that produces an income” and offer a service around it. No fast money, lots of work and takes a while to build up clientele and goodwill. But much harder to knock over. And other options for income come with this mentality. Some will even move forward during tough times ( I plan to expand considerably), but some will also fail.
No guarantees, but we have all placed our bets by this stage of the game.
I’ve written an article about this for blogcritics site
http://blogcritics.org/scitech/article/study-shows-vibration-training-to-be/
Now working as an Instructor I see amazing toning and weightloss results in customers, and more so in those who change from high fats/high calorie to a more balanced diet. With no dietary change there’s still benefits from vibration training, it’s hard-out exercise that gives results that can be seen.
Here is an article that tells the story of one customer’s experience of fat-loss. I wrote it in rather “infomercial” style and have been asked not to comment on brandnames so please respect this if making comments, rather please point out machine categories. Thanks
http://blogcritics.org/scitech/article/one-clients-experience-with-vibration-training/
I have a PowerPlate my5 at home and its awesome I don’t understand alot of the negativity against the machines they give amazing results! It’like the BMW of cars why would you waste your money on a cheaper car which is likely to under perform?
Bella
X
Marketer alert….
Where did you get the BMW line John, straight from a pamphlet? At least try to be a little original.
My advice is to do some research on this industries history, then you might ” understand allot of the negativity ” as you put it , instead of making uneducated comments on here and wasting forum space. Power Plate might be trying now but that was not always the case and they have allot to do before they can be trusted by us.
Start by reading all the comments on this ….
http://www.vibrationtraining.net/2006/03/power-plate-successes
Feel free to get back to us with a ” now I understand the situation” OK ?
John Sutherland,
Also, read my recent comments under the Acceleration heading. I just looked and Power Plate still has David Nieman listed as a PhD and heading the Power Plate Research Center (at Appalachian State). Nieman is a “doctor of public health” (DPH) and not a PhD. I just spoke with Dr. Jeff McBride Mon. McBride is a colleague of Nieman’s. McBride and Nieman did a grand total of two studies on Power Plate at the “Power Plate Research Center” at Appalachian State and don’t have plans to do anymore studies on Power Plate according to Dr. McBride. So, if Power Plate is so great why can’t they be honest on their website? This is just the latest in a long line of ethical issues. Why don’t you tell the Power Plate marketers to “pull their heads out” and correct the information they currently have about Nieman and the Power Plate Research Center on their website? Do all the marketing folks at Power Plate have IQ’s below room temperature? They must because I catch them on this stuff repeatedly!
I looked at Power Plate’s site and they have now corrected Dr. Nieman’s information saying he is a DPH and not a PhD. However, they are still misleading people under Nieman’s name on their Advisory Board by saying he heads the Power Plate Research Center at Appalachian State. As I mentioned above, Dr. McBride told me he and Nieman did a total of two studies on Power Plate at Appalachian State and didn’t have any plans to do anymore. Thus, when Power Plate says Nieman heads the Power Plate Research Center at Appalachian State they imply something is going on currently and it’s not. You can view this at http://www.powerplate.com, select U.S., and go to the Education heading. Under Education select Advisory Board and read the information under Dr. David Nieman’s name. It’s funny Dr. McBride just told me a couple weeks ago on the phone that they didn’t have a thing going on currently with Power Plate and no plans for the future. Thus, it looks like the dim bulbs as Power Plate are still doing everything they can to deceive people.
Power Plate has not corrected the information under Dr. David Nieman’s name on their Advisory Board at http://www.powerplate.com. Power Plate is still misleading people saying there’s a “Power Plate Research Center” at Appalachian State. As mentioned above, Dr. Jeff McBride who is a colleague of Dr. Nieman’s at Appalachian State just told me on the phone a little over three weeks ago that he and Nieman did a total of two studies on Power Plate and did not have any plans to do anything else with Power Plate. So, if Power Plate would be honest (wink, wink) they would remove information under Nieman’s name saying there is a “Power Plate Research Center” at Appalachian State. There’s not a thing going on with any Power Plate research at Appalachian State currently nor are there plans for Power Plate studies at Appalachian State in the future according to Dr. Jeff McBride 16 days ago when we spoke. When will we see Power Plate remove the reference to a “Power Plate Research Center” at Appalachian State under Dr. Nieman’s name on their Advisory Board?