When is the law going to catch up with these people.

It would be interesting to know how members of Power Plate’s Sports Medicine Advisory Board are being compensated? One member of this board (Mark Verstegen) and his company Athletes’ Performance (AP) have been corporate partners with Power Plate for some time. This raises conflict of interest issues. Mark, as far as I know, has never revealed what Power Plate is paying him/AP. He certainly won’t tell me as I have called him numerous times.

One thing Mark/AP are doing with their corporate partner Power Plate is featuring this equipment in coreperformance centers they are opening. This is kind of how the marketing thing works I guess? It seems to be tied to $. I know Mark complexes Power Plate exercises with resistance training exercises for neural potentiation. Does this work? A scientist friend of mine who does not have financial ties to Power Plate completed a pilot study looking at this in college track & field throwers and saw virtually nothing. They will do more studies. Also, an MD told me on the phone he will not use vibration as a neural potentiation right prior to squats because it alters kinesthesia. So, at least some of Power Plate being integrated into fitness routines appears to be mainly based on marketing and not scientific evidence showing Power Plate protocols to be beneficial for aspects such as neural potentiation.

Its clear that Jerry needs to offer us alittle more full disclosure. Sometimes when a consumer buys an exercise device, it motivates them to go above and beyond the call of duty to get in shape. If this woman who lost “30 lbs” did any research about fitness when buying this machine, she would have discovered that dieting plays a huge role in all of this.

The probelm with vague testimonials like this one is that people often forget to add important details like changing thier diet, doing cardio or even how they used the vibration machine.

Did she used the machine for plyometrics and step exercises? If so then there is no doubt she would have lost weight. Also, its important to note where these people started from. If they were obese to begin with, then odds are they will show much more drastic results than say a conditioned athlete who has built up a hefty tolerance for exercise.

I was looking thruogh testimonials from other vibration websites and I am certain that many of these things are fake.

Jerry- did you pull that testimony off of the Soloflex website?– its possible that they just threw that on the site to boost sales.

Offend Lloyd? Not a chance and if he felt even slightly miffed or even amused I know he’d give back way more than what was directed at him. It’s all good that we have the word “Vibration” attached to this technology as it provides scope for laughter which can reduce new customers fears before and when they first get onto the machines.

I do not think she means offending me, you are not smart enough to do that. I think she means the poor innocent readers.

what do you mean “a bit OTT, I hope most readers don’t understand your post.”

I’m sure Lloyd nows me well enough by now
Its ok too not be so uptight and have some fun once in a while…:)