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!

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 ?

Bella
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http://blogcritics.org/scitech/article/one-clients-experience-with-vibration-training/

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.

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.

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

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.