Technology

Acceleration Training with Power Plate leverages your body’s natural response to vibration.  Developed in Europe, the technology has proven effective over 40 years of research and use by Olympic and professional athletes, ballet dancers and Soviet Cosmonauts, among others. Vibration Training is low-impact, and offers excellent results for every fitness level.

The Science Behind Vibration Training
At Crave Fitness & Nutrition you’ll perform a series of exercises while in contact with a Power Plate platform.  The machine’s vibrations transmit waves of energy throughout your body, activating involuntary muscle contractions 30 to 50 times per second.  Because the platform oscillates in all three planes, your muscles contract in multiple dimensions, exactly as the human body is designed to do.  The net result is an incredible improvement in strength and power.  The best way to understand how Acceleration Training works is to try it, but it’s all based on simple physics.

Newton’s Second Law of Motion tells us that the force of an object is equal to its mass multiplied by acceleration, (F = ma).  That means we can improve functional force (stability, strength or power) by applying more mass or more acceleration to the body. Many forms of training and conditioning use mass, as with weight machines, free weights.Vibration Training focuses on the second half of the equation by applying acceleration to the body while mass (your body weight) remains the same. The technology builds strength with low risk to joints, in much less time, and with less chance of injury..