Dr Enid Taylor, Bedfordshire

I came across the Vibration Plate Pro in an email advert and as I am naturally curious about such things, I did a web search for information about these machines and liked what I read. I am in the planning stages of building a lifestyle clinic and detoxification retreat and my aim is to have a small gym for daily exercise routines for the guests so I am sampling various methods of exercise and seeing what helps me and what I can recommend, so I decided to try the Vibration Plate Pro - if it could deliver a workout in only 10 minutes, it made a lot of sense to have a couple in the gym in the future, so I had to see what it was all about.

I had no particular health issues apart from being a lapsed exerciser and constantly meaning to get back into my routine.  I used to rebound and go on my cross-trainer in the mornings but I had fallen out of my habit and kept trying to get back.  I hated the feeling of not being fit.  I thought that the alleged efficiency of the Vibration Plate Pro (10 minutes per day) would make it easier to get results for shorter times spent in the gym room, so that appealed to my sense of laziness.

I have to say that the most incredible thing that has happened through use of the Vibration Plate Pro is the most unexpected one.  This is personal, so forgive the revelations... but when I rebounded, I had a horrid problem with stress incontinence which was most distressing and embarrassing.  Sometimes even the best protection was not doing its job.  It made it hard to want to exercise.  Well the first time I stepped on the Vibration Plate Pro, I could feel the muscles in the perineum and the pelvic area responding to the vibration and tighten up.  Since then, and it was evident after only four of five sessions, or even fewer, my problem has almost disappeared.  In fact I don't have the problem any more, as I realized this morning. It has made exercising a joy again.  I can't tell you how much better this has made me feel.  I was feeling like a decrepit old woman and now I feel like I am back in the world.  I know this sounds stupid, but ask anyone who has this problem and they will agree with you. 

This morning I also realized that if you build up a head of steam (get your heart rate up and get to a point where you are sweating) with any other type of exercise (e.g. a treadmill or light jogging), and then step on the Vibration Plate Pro, you will continue to work out at this level, even more so if you can manage to hold a couple of light hand weights or get some wrist band weights.  What I found is that I warm up for 10 minutes or more on the treadmill and then spend 10 minutes on the Vibration Plate Pro.  You don't warm down, which proves that this is exercise every bit as demanding as speed walking or light jogging, and it all feels like it doesn't require any effort.  I hold my arms out at various angles to engage various upper body muscles and with the hand weights you can really feel that the muscles are working.  Sometimes if you go for the ski-squat, you can feel your muscles screaming at you to stop so you know that it is doing something.  Lean back carefully and you can feel your abdominal apron being worked without doing a single hateful sit-up.

This is the machine for lazy people and the machine for people who want to maximize their outcomes for minimal effort.  I love it.  It even makes you laugh when you try and sing along to your workout tunes, try it!

As a solution for bladder weakness or post-partum pelvic toning, I would say it is a marvel.  For exercisers who just want more results for the same effort, it is brilliant. I have only been using it regularly now for less than a month but I cannot believe the results.  I would never have believed that this machine could do what it has done.  I really look forward to seeing what the long-term results are.  Oh, and don't forget the shear bliss of seeing those calories click past with seemingly no effort - I get through 365 calories in just 10 minutes as I use the ‘high’ setting of 22Hz. Nothing else I know of can use calories so quickly and so easily.  It is the quickest 10 minutes in my day!