00:40:49:11 – 00:41:14:09
Synergee
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00:42:35:09 – 00:42:38:15
Synergee
And now let’s get back to today’s episode.
00:43:34:03 – 00:44:07:12
Laura Wilson
Yeah. First of all, just let me compliment you guys. I love the idea that movement is medicine. Humans are meant to move, and it’s when we don’t move that we start to have issues. So I love that movement is medicine. I was a busy body. I have always been both. I’ve adopted it, but my friends always say I’m naturally caffeinated and, so movement for me is just a way of extending all of this additional energy that I’ve got going.
00:44:07:12 – 00:44:26:21
Laura Wilson
And, you know, if you could go back and you could talk to my parents who would tell you that from a very young age, I was a very busy person. They put me in gymnastics at the age of three because they were like, this girl needs to expend some energy. And that was even though I was, I grew up on a farm, an actual working farm.
00:44:26:21 – 00:44:49:05
Laura Wilson
And it was my mom, dad and my sister. So we always said we were my dad’s girl crew. And so I worked on the farm from the time when you walk, you can work. So moving it for me is just a necessary part of being. And I’ve always found joy in that dance movement, you know, whether it is more as people think of structured exercise.
00:44:49:05 – 00:44:52:21
Synergee
I like that too, but I just like to move.
00:45:16:16 – 00:45:39:20
Laura Wilson
Yeah. Health and wellness. Again, the part of being active was was very natural. But to get into the field, like you said, you know, you don’t study that when we’re young. But I found very quickly that, growing up and being someone who was so connected, kinesthetically and enjoying it that it made sense for me to at least retain some part of that in my job capacity.
00:45:40:02 – 00:46:01:15
Laura Wilson
And I started off as a high school English teacher, but I was always doing fitness on the side. So I was taking group fitness, or I had a client or two because I was just passionate about it. Okay, this is a fun area to be with people, and people have really positive reactions when you help them feel better.
00:46:01:17 – 00:46:26:11
Laura Wilson
And I was like, well, let’s all feel better. And it really started off as that simple. Like we feel better when we move together. So it started there and then obviously became much more of the science of when I went back, I got my master’s in exercise science and continued to pursue and even then crossover into the world of health and wellness.
00:46:26:13 – 00:46:45:20
Laura Wilson
As my full time job. And I was able to do that just, you know, kind of somewhat gradually, still working as a teacher, but then always dabbling in that world. And I just realized that’s the world that I preferred to be in. I could still teach. I could just teach in the world of health and wellness journey in Ridgeland, MS instead of teaching in a traditional classroom.
00:46:45:21 – 00:47:10:02
Laura Wilson
Because, again, the power of helping someone to either get rid of, or diminish pain or to allow them to move better or play better, you know, if they’re a sports person, whether it is actual as an amateur or professional or just recreational was so powerful to me. And it still filled me with joy to see the joy in others that I knew.
00:47:10:02 – 00:47:16:21
Laura Wilson
That was the right place, because who wouldn’t want to do what they love? So like I was like, I love this, let’s make it my how can I make it my job?
00:47:24:01 – 00:47:29:06
Synergee
That’s. Exactly.
00:47:37:02 – 00:47:57:21
Laura Wilson
Yes.
00:48:00:15 – 00:48:09:17
Synergee
Yeah.
00:48:31:04 – 00:49:00:04
Synergee
So, to dig into the science of it, our bodies have to be strong enough to fight gravity and to be able to stand up right and move. And as your muscle decreases and your bone as well, we’re also losing bone, you know, the integrity of your bone as we age, as those decrease, obviously we become more susceptible to a lot of disease or risk of bone breaks when we fall.
00:49:00:06 – 00:49:29:15
Laura Wilson
You know, or if you just talk about the muscle mass, like not being able to sit down, stand up or go upstairs or do things that would allow us simply to live alone, you know, or or live and not be in assisted living. So and again, because we are a somewhat sedentary society and, and, or people just don’t know what to do because they think it needs to be sciencey in a specific program or very structured in, in a gym, which is not the case.
00:49:29:21 – 00:50:03:13
Synergee
And I’m sure we’ll address that here in a moment. But it’s it. So it is very profound. You know, I look at a friend of mine who around her mid 60s because she was not a movement person at all. She was very thin. But that has nothing to do with being active, fit and using movement because bending down at the grocery store to get a can off the bottom shelf was impossible for her in her 60s because she had no muscle mass anymore.
00:50:03:15 – 00:50:26:18
Synergee
And she just wasn’t able to do that. So that was very alarming. She was so young and I was like, okay, you know, let’s just start with some really basic things like walking regularly and you can sit down in a chair and stand up and do it repeatedly, you know, stuff like that. So that idea that it suddenly accelerates, you know, it starts at what did you say?
00:50:26:18 – 00:50:44:18
Synergee
30, I think is the first kind of threshold and then it’s 50. It nearly doubles. And the amount that we’re losing, you know, again, that’s that’s scary. But guess what? It’s not because we can combat that. And that’s what you guys are doing. That’s what I’m doing. You know with our people that we work with. So.
00:51:26:05 – 00:51:55:17
Synergee
actually, not just that, but I just was, like, geeking out, and I was like, let her finish. Let her finish the power play. Does 3 or 4 things that you that you mentioned as barriers. It combats those. It gets rid of the reason not to move. First of all, you can simply stand. And there are some whitepapers out there that show that a power plate, not just any vibration plate, but specifically power plate, because that’s the one that has the science backing to it.
00:51:55:19 – 00:52:25:01
Synergee
It’s the one that has the medical device accreditation. But simply standing on a power plate improves muscle mass and bone density. And we’re talking within ten minutes, three times a week. One can stand on a power plate for ten minutes. You can be injured, you can be older, you can be young, you can be. I hate exercise like anything for ten minutes is the equivalent of doing like a 30 or 45 minute workout.
00:52:25:02 – 00:52:49:06
Laura Wilson
So we’re we’re addressing the need for time. We’re addressing that need for, I don’t like exercise because it’s hard. You can stand or I don’t, you know, I can’t exercise because, I have an injury. Or maybe I just don’t, you know, I’m so new that I’m a beginner and I’m afraid of it might hurt against standing.
00:52:49:07 – 00:53:11:21
Laura Wilson
But the last one is that the power plate? Because of what it’s doing as far as the circulation, in addition to the other stuff, it actually makes you feel really amazing because it takes our central nervous system and it down, regulates your, your pain receptors. So they shut off and they’re like, that’s so good. And you’re all happy.
00:53:11:21 – 00:53:34:17
Laura Wilson
And your serotonin and dopamine go higher than they do with a normal workout on the ground. Then what it also does is that circulation is recovering. It’s it’s rehydrating all of your tissues and putting nutrients back in your blood at a really incredible pace, so you won’t be sore or you won’t be hurt. You feel more oxygenated, you’re going to feel lighter.
00:53:34:20 – 00:53:54:15
Synergee
So it does all of these other things when you simply stand that also combat. You know, I don’t like exercise because it’s hard. I don’t like exercise because it doesn’t feel good. You know, those things are then kind of deactivated as far as well. That was, you know, an excuse that I had before. But now the power play can help to solve that.
00:54:08:09 – 00:54:27:00
Laura Wilson
Yes, I promise I am not a snake oil salesman like, because it does. It does sound that way. And I always say, you know, when I talk to people the first time, I’m like, I know it sounds like it’s it’s a magic pill. Well, it’s as close as you can possibly get. So what it’s doing is when you stand on it.
00:54:27:00 – 00:54:50:21
Laura Wilson
So if this is me and this is the power play, it’s actually moving underneath us. And what that simulates is your brain thinks you’re falling down. So every time the play moves, your brain says to your body, brace for impact, because I want you to take a moment and imagine if you’re on ice or it’s raining and you start to slip and fall.
00:54:50:23 – 00:55:14:20
Laura Wilson
What does our body do automatically before we land? It races every muscle. You feel it gone, like everything was tracked. You may even not notice. But you like hold your breath for a second because your body doesn’t know on what part you’re going to land, so it tries to protect you. It braces all the muscle, squeezes every muscle fiber to activate.
00:55:14:22 – 00:55:39:14
Laura Wilson
That’s what’s happening when we’re on a power plate. Normally in our just ground movements, we’re able to activate. If you’re really, really kinesthetic aware, like maybe you’re a professional athlete or, you know, a dancer or something like that. People who have great body awareness and connection. There may be activating 60% of the muscle fibers in every muscle body.
00:55:39:16 – 00:56:10:04
Laura Wilson
The average person is getting like 20% when you slip and your central nervous system says, I’m falling down, it’s 100%. So we went from maybe getting if we were in really good shape, you know, up to 60%, but more likely probably 3,040% to 100. So now I have so many more muscles moving more often. Because the second thing is, it’s every time the plate moves that happens.
00:56:10:06 – 00:56:34:08
Laura Wilson
And when you turn the plate on to a low setting, say 30 low, don’t worry about what that means, what it means it’s moving 30 times a second. So 30 times a second your body says, I’m falling down. Contract the muscles. So it’s sort of like falling out, falling, falling, falling, falling. It’s so fast that down on the floor I do about 1 to 2 per second on the plate.
00:56:34:08 – 00:56:55:12
Laura Wilson
I’m doing 30 a second. So not only are more muscle fibers activating, but they’re doing it more often 30 times a second versus maybe two times a second. So that’s how you get such a huge volume of work. Muscle contractions and neurological activations in this amount of time. What would normally take this amount of time we can do in this amount of time.
00:56:55:14 – 00:56:58:04
Synergee
So more muscles, more often?
00:56:58:04 – 00:57:04:21
Laura Wilson
Yeah.
00:57:04:23 – 00:57:08:11
Synergee
Yeah.
00:57:52:09 – 00:58:12:14
Synergee
Yeah. So again, we used to shun away. Like as you age, you should. Do, you know. No more jumping, no more those types of things. And in fact, that’s the opposite. As we age, we should be doing more. We should be more jumping. We should have more impact in our lives because our bones are getting weaker. And it’s that impact, that heel strike.
00:58:12:15 – 00:58:40:04
Synergee
And you said or jumping or any kind of, you know, again, ground reaction force. That’s what keeps our bones strong. So when you think about what the plate is doing, it makes sense because not only our, you know, in the case of when we walk or remove, we’re striking the ground. In this case, not only are we striking the ground, we’re getting an extra benefit because it’s striking us back, because it leaves you and hits you.
00:58:40:08 – 00:59:08:10
Synergee
So it’s even more impactful without feeling that way. Imagine how do we put babies to sleep? We put them in a bouncy chair, a vibrating chair to soothe them and put them to sleep. That’s what this is doing. You turn it on, you don’t see it moving. Why? Because it is so minimal, so you’re not even going to feel it per se until you put a foot on it and you’re like, oh, it is moving.
00:59:08:10 – 00:59:36:14
Laura Wilson
You can’t even see it. It’s imperceptible when the machine is on. So again, that idea that it’s it’s moving two millimeters, so you don’t even know that you’re not touching something because it’s also happening 30 times a second. So it sounds dramatic, but like you said, it’s the most soothing, wonderful feeling because it’s just like a vibrating chair or, you know, people who fall asleep in the car on the airplane because it’s basically vibrating you to sleep.
00:59:36:16 – 00:59:59:13
Laura Wilson
That’s what the power plate does. And it has those same soothing effects on us, lowering our cortisol. But yeah, that idea of ground reaction, force building, bone heel striking. Yeah, we can do that without having to do box jumps, without having to do, you know, six miles of walking every day because we can get again so much more in a lot less time.
00:59:59:13 – 01:00:03:15
Synergee
So we’re not stressing the body as much. Work smarter, not harder.
01:00:18:13 – 01:00:23:10
Synergee
Yeah.
01:00:32:21 – 01:00:57:07
Laura Wilson
Teah. And and it’s there’s there’s a couple of things that we talk about here. You know, I think more and more people are becoming aware of things like, you know, heel strikes, grounding that that’s leading to bone density and or the lack thereof. But that idea also of, of a certain vibration or a way it vibrates, actually syncs up with the body more or biological, grounding.
01:00:57:07 – 01:01:23:22
Laura Wilson
Putting your bare feet on the Earth helps to reset our electromagnetic field. It also helps when you put your bare feet on a power plate, because that vibration then is helping to reset ground you, because the frequency of the vibration is sync so that it is precise and predictable at a range in which we know medically is compatible with the human body, and the power plant is still under all its patterns.
01:01:24:00 – 01:01:43:20
Laura Wilson
So no other vibrating platform out there, not one in the entire world has the accreditation to power play does. And when you go dig in to the science. So when people come to me and they’re like, hey, you know, I’m wanting to work on osteoporosis or osteopenia, I have bone density. My doctor, you know, is telling me to work on this.
01:01:44:01 – 01:02:07:15
Synergee
So I’m going to go buy a vibrating plate. You know, I’m always like, let’s take a second, because not all vibrating plates are created equal. We have to have the ones that actually sync up the frequency sync up to the human body. Number one, which is what the power plate is meant to do. But number two, it needs to move, not on a singular axis.
01:02:07:15 – 01:02:35:06
Laura Wilson
It shouldn’t be a wobble board or I like, I like to call it sometimes, but it should move in perceptibly. So that’s obviously a visual. You know, you can do an eye test because I’ve seen there’s lots of ones out there that do this or they do this, and, and you can only imagine if you think about doing that over long periods of time, what this does to your ankles, knees and hips when they’re joint.
01:02:35:06 – 01:03:00:19
Laura Wilson
Those joints are doing this too for long periods of time on those other alternatives. It’s a hard long term on your joints because you’re not moving in a very precise, predictable way, number one, on every edge of wherever they’re standing. And number two, it’s it’s moving on a singular axis so it wobbles instead of having full body vibration.
01:03:08:13 – 01:03:16:11
Synergee
Yes.
01:03:23:05 – 01:03:45:03
Laura Wilson
Yeah, absolutely. And again, that’s an eye test that you can, you know, when you watch and see them. Someone sent me because of course my friends all know what I do for a living. They sent me a picture of two women because it was independent. The two things that were vibrating, that were each seated on one and trying to drink a glass of wine, and it was shaking them so much that it was spilling all over.
01:03:45:04 – 01:03:48:13
Laura Wilson
And I was like, exactly, that’s not the one we want.
01:04:35:21 – 01:04:38:14
Synergee
I love it.
01:04:49:21 – 01:04:53:01
Laura Wilson
Yeah.
01:05:51:02 – 01:06:08:21
Laura Wilson
To again, reiterate, this power plate that I have here in my house is 21 years old, and and what is so great to just to speak to, you know, yes, people might have a bit of sticker shock when they first look at it. You know, the fact that we have so much science backing, it leads to some of that.
01:06:08:21 – 01:06:33:11
Laura Wilson
But again, 21 years, you don’t have to service them. You have to service. If you buy a said bike system and you have to pay for their, their workouts, or, or if you buy, you know, a whole weight rack, those kinds of things. Usually there’s some kind of updating or if you buy a treadmill, you have to take the belts off and you have to clean them those time.
01:06:33:13 – 01:06:56:01
Laura Wilson
The power plate requires none of that. This is 21 years of just me pressing go. Nothing else has ever been replaced. And that’s true for most of us, you know, so people say, oh well, maybe you don’t use it as often in gyms. We know whenever we buy new ones because 20 years later they’re still functioning perfectly and they’re being used all day, every day.
01:06:56:03 – 01:07:17:08
Laura Wilson
So yeah, those home units, they’re still made with the same components. They still have the ability to be commercial. That’s how they’re built. And they last forever. And then being able to just put the app up, whether you put it on an iPad, you’ve got your phone, you can screen share up to your TV and it’s free.
01:07:17:10 – 01:07:36:22
Synergee
It’s pretty nice. It’s pretty nice because oh, one other thing. This is one piece of equipment, it does everything. You buy a bike, you’re doing cardio, where’s your strength? Where’s your flexibility? We’ve got to have all the components. You can’t just do strength. You can’t just do code. You can’t just stretch. You know there’s a little bit of something.
01:07:37:00 – 01:07:47:17
Synergee
This does it. Oh I can get stronger. I can get more flexible and be limber. I can have a better range of motion. I can get my cardio in one piece, one piece.
01:08:12:06 – 01:08:33:18
Synergee
So the question is, you know, people always come with conditions. Okay, I want to lower my cortisol or I want to improve my bone density. Well, the good news is you don’t have to do any specific set of movements in a certain order to get those things. It’s about time on top of the power plate. So for example, you want to lower your cortisol rate.
01:08:33:19 – 01:08:54:15
Laura Wilson
You’re going to aim for at least three times a week for ten minutes. Get that in there. You’re going to see some significant reductions if you’re like, oh, I can’t even do that. Guess what? Get on it every day. Then for maybe 2 or 3 minutes, like I promise you, you can find those 2 or 3 minutes in your day, because even those shorter bouts, but more throughout the week are going to help.
01:08:54:21 – 01:09:25:05
Synergee
So what it does is because of how it affects our parasympathetic system, it actually tells your body to be less stressed out. So it’s it’s soothing that symptom our system because of the neurological activations and the way it actually affects our hormones. Because if you’ve looked into the science at all about what jumping does to our hormones, and that’s both male and female sex hormones which control your metabolism, control pretty much every function in your body.
01:09:25:07 – 01:09:31:20
Laura Wilson
It’s amazing. We should be jumping around all the time. Well, that’s what you’re doing. You’re standing there jumping. You’re getting all these micro hits.
01:09:47:12 – 01:09:48:13
Synergee
Sounds great.
01:09:48:13 – 01:09:51:17
Laura Wilson
Yeah. We should.
01:09:54:22 – 01:10:13:12
Laura Wilson
You know, it’s so funny because I like to call my time at the gym. It’s an adult recess. Like every kid loves recess. And at some point, we stopped liking recess. Maybe because it was taken away from us in high school. And so I’m like, I am reclaiming my recess. Like, that recess is playtime.
01:10:24:16 – 01:10:29:04
Synergee
Yeah.
01:11:05:18 – 01:11:15:20
Laura Wilson
Yep adult recess on the power plate. Not only will that mind shift help your cortisol, but obviously the science behind it helps our cortisol, too. So it’s a double whammy if we can make that mind shift.
01:11:34:19 – 01:12:05:05
Synergee
Okay. Whole body vibration training. The power plate. Let’s talk specifically about that, because I, this is the one that I choose because of the science that backs it. And what is insanely amazing is there are no contraindications. None. People might have contraindications, but the power plate does not come with any. So if you’re cleared for weight bearing, cardiovascular exercise, you can use power plate.
01:12:05:07 – 01:12:33:21
Laura Wilson
And we’re talking literally anyone as long as you can exercise, you can use power plate. And whether it’s standing on it or actually doing some kind of, you know, movement, either one, that’s what’s so amazing. It’s it truly is beneficial for all. And we’ve seen everything from, you know, there’s studies that have been done on like 18 month olds that are, that are told that they have autism and ADHD.
01:12:33:23 – 01:12:54:23
Laura Wilson
It helps them to refocus because there’s often a tactile issue that they have, and the power plate can help through that so that they can then apply themselves in other areas all the way up to, you know, 90 year olds who are maintaining bone density and muscle mass and the ability to live on their own. So they’re standing on it.
01:12:55:01 – 01:13:17:20
Laura Wilson
You know, you can hold on to the column and be in a very safe place, but you’re getting the equivalent of box jumps of, you know, taking a bike ride, like all these other things like flushing your lymphatic system, things that only happen when you maybe do exercise at a very high level. We can just chill out. My favorite thing is to see all my peeps from class.
01:13:17:20 – 01:13:36:08
Laura Wilson
We go down there and most of them are 70 and above this that who I get to hang out with every day. I love it. We go and we get on the power plate. We have four of them where I work all side by side. These big ones, 2 or 3 people are standing on it at a time and chit chatting.
01:13:36:08 – 01:13:47:20
Synergee
It’s the water cooler. But guess what? We’re at the water cooler building bone density. You know, maintaining muscle mass, flushing our lymphatic system, all while chit chatting away like. Community.
01:15:12:06 – 01:15:40:15
Laura Wilson
Yes, yes. And it’s because we’re getting. I’ve mentioned the micro hits, but those micro moments of instability. So it’s training you to improve your balance again just by standing on it. That’s what’s so incredible. Yes. You can move and do other things, but just standing on it gets you all of these other benefits. So that balance you just gave us a nice little outline of progressions and how they would, you know, go about slowly improving that.
01:15:40:17 – 01:16:03:01
Laura Wilson
But again, it’s such a safe way to do it. Whereas, you know, if I had to take someone that truly needed to improve their balance, there’s going to be a lot of, you know, factors I need to consider if I’m putting them on a BOSU or I’m having them, you know, stand on one leg and I need to try and they can hold the column, this one back here.
01:16:03:03 – 01:16:22:16
Laura Wilson
That I have the larger units to have a column you can hold on or if you have the move, I always say, and you’ll see it in all of our online workouts as well as our app workouts. We put a chair next to the move and that becomes how you hold on to it or get it next to a wall.
01:16:22:18 – 01:16:43:20
Laura Wilson
Or I even have places that, for example, you said you have a move in your clinic, a lot of clinics will take that and install a stair rail or a ballet bar, so that then becomes your stability to hold on, but still getting in stability because you’re on top of the plate. So it will improve balance.
01:16:55:21 – 01:16:57:04
Synergee
Yes.
01:16:57:04 – 01:17:24:07
Laura Wilson
So people think, oh, this is new. I’ve not known about this. Our place has been around since the 1960s. The original powerplate was in the 1960s is when it was invented. And it was used. We bolted it into the Russian rockets. And if you go back and you look at the space race, Russia is the one who first built Mirr and figured out how to stay in space for long periods of time.
01:17:24:08 – 01:17:45:02
Laura Wilson
It’s because they had power plate, because it’s somewhere between 100 and 120 days, where if you don’t come back, your bone has atrophy and your muscles have atrophied so much you will be crushed by gravity. So they could not stay. And no one was staying that long. And they were really trying to solve for that because they wanted to be able to have experiments.
01:17:45:02 – 01:18:05:17
Laura Wilson
And, you know, the science of being able to grow things in space. All the stuff we were looking to do, Russia figured that out because they had powerplate and they were holding themselves on to the top of the powerplate platform so that they could maintain bone density and muscle mass. And NASA then said, excuse us not to talk. What have you got going on over there?
01:18:05:19 – 01:18:09:15
Synergee
And so, yeah, that’s that’s still a part of what’s being used in zero gravity. Yeah.
01:19:22:22 – 01:19:54:06
Synergee
Wow. Yeah, that’s that’s I you know, that is a very delicate spot for me currently. Because we do have so many people that, you know, some for very serious medical reasons, need to be on that medication to be able to, to get back to a healthy, movable, you know, body. And but it does it it will force, you know, the body to kind of eat your muscle and eat your bone to say it in simple terms.
01:19:54:06 – 01:20:14:00
Synergee
So you ‘ve got to be really conscious when you are on those to have other protocols, to be on a powerplate, to make sure you’re consuming enough protein, you know, more than you were before, probably. So you’re absolutely right. You know, with new medicines and new technologies. Guess what? Powerplate just becomes even more powerful with functional medicine in Ridgeland, MS.
01:21:40:17 – 01:22:14:08
Laura Wilson
Oh, gosh. You know, there’s so many interesting things, both anecdotes and then. Then science. So, yes, you mentioned that we’ve got both ends of the spectrum. I think, you know, the middle. Let’s just talk about the middle ground. For example, the common gym goer that’s going to see it at the gym. What we can see there in that area is this is one of my favorite things to tell people is it is not about, you know, the whole like, no pain, no gain.
01:22:14:10 – 01:22:40:23
Laura Wilson
You know, the more sore I am, the better the workout. That’s definitely, I think still for a lot of people, a mindset that they have to have, which is why exercise becomes a barrier. Because I don’t want to be in pain. I don’t want to be sore for four days. Well, what’s so great is the power plate is so much about recovery that in this middle ground, when you’re like, well, I’m healthy and this and I don’t have osteopenia yet and I don’t have autism.
01:22:40:23 – 01:22:52:13
Laura Wilson
So what would it benefit me? Well, guess what, you should never really be sore. Soreness is not the sign of a good workout. It’s a sign of a poor recovery.
01:22:54:13 – 01:23:27:20
Synergee
Soreness is not the sign of a good workout. It’s the sign of a poor recovery. And we’re finding now that a low oxidative stress, like the amount of stress that we have in our life, is actually reversed, saying the good things that we’re doing for our body, it’s that stress we’re finding is causing our bodies to mutate cells, which then turn into the, you know, the ugly little dandy cells that could make you more prone to cancer, those kinds of things, because we are over
01:23:27:20 – 01:23:51:22
Synergee
stressing the body so often. So whether it’s that endurance athlete or just, you know, me and my neighbor trying to be fit but working out too much, always chronically sore, chronically stressed, those types of things with the power plate that allows us to do on several different fronts is to help decrease some of that. So the endurance athlete doesn’t need to train for 20 hours every day.
01:23:52:00 – 01:24:12:11
Laura Wilson
If they use a power plate, maybe they can do, you know, 20 minutes, which is the equivalent of, you know, a 30 mile bike ride or a 20 mile run or, you know, for a body, the athlete to its it’s causing less stress because we’re not spending as much time. I’m not just talking about time saving. I’m causing it.
01:24:12:14 – 01:24:32:03
Laura Wilson
I’m talking about the volume of workload you put on your body and stress out your body. Because yes, we want to work out, but we have to find that balance between stressing just the right amount to get these results over here. So then the second part of that comes in the fact that it does turn that switch for cortisol.
01:24:32:03 – 01:24:58:16
Synergee
It does turn the switch for your happy hormones. It does help to reset your hormones, which then affects your gut. So our gut bacteria starts to go back into the right, you know, page, which is directly linked to our mood, because that vagal nerve venerates in our gut. And so it’s down there and it’s like, ooh, your gut is so gross.
01:24:58:18 – 01:25:24:16
Synergee
Or it’s like my guts just down here doing it all. And you’re like, I feel so good. Like it’s a direct correlation. So if we can add our hormones by getting on this for a little bit, suddenly you feel better, not only because of the happy hormones that are coursing through you, but because your actual vagal nerve, which sends out the signals to the rest of your body, your gut bacteria’s right.
01:25:24:16 – 01:25:26:14
Synergee
So it says, yeah, we’re good.
01:26:36:16 – 01:26:40:16
Laura Wilson
I know my graph is in the other room where I would, I would point it out, but it’s not in this room
today.
01:27:18:19 – 01:27:49:03
Laura Wilson
Oh my gosh. Yes. So I, the Rev, was my baby. I was tasked with being in charge of education and development. And it was, almost eight year process. I’m like, doing the calculation in my head. It was eight years of us doing research, development, testing back to the boards. You know, again, we have the power plate and the vibrating platform, which is the gold standard in the world for full body vibration training.
01:27:49:03 – 01:28:08:00
Laura Wilson
We couldn’t just come out with a vibrating bike. You know, we had to make sure that the science was there to back it, that it was actually doing what was in our heads. We thought and knew it could be done. So it took a hot second. But yeah, it’s hit training. So it’s short bursts of vibration.
01:28:08:00 – 01:28:27:16
Laura Wilson
So there are two different drive shafts if you will, or gears on the bike, one that’s smooth like a normal bike and one that’s bumpy. Think of it that way. So you turn the bumpy one on and off like the chain goes over the bumpy one. Then it goes back on the smooth one, then the chain. It’s not actually a chain, but just to try and give you, you know, if you know what a Spirograph is.
01:28:27:16 – 01:28:53:02
Laura Wilson
When we were kids, you put the gear inside the other gear and you put a padding in, and that would make that cool design. That’s what it is. It’s like a Spirograph. And there you’re riding over the Spirograph, so you’re like, and it’s the pedals that vibrate. So your feet then are absorbing that vibration. It’s coming up to the legs, which is why I’m sure you’re seeing the great leg definition, because the two two main critics.
01:28:53:04 – 01:29:16:04
Laura Wilson
Yeah. I said, hey, that’s right. That’s what we’re doing. We’re cheating with all the power plate and the rev, but it enhances. Your two key benefits are that mechanical power in your cycle muscles is going to have a massive boost. It’s going to be able to generate way more power. So whether you’re an endurance athlete or a sprinter, you’re going to benefit from that.
01:29:16:06 – 01:29:46:02
Synergee
Secondarily, we have metabolic power. If people know anything, one of the number one indicators we’re finding now for overall health and wellness journey in Ridgeland, MS is your VO2 max. And the better that is typically the longer lifespan. If you focus on improving your VO2 max, it takes somewhere between, for most humans, nine months to a year to see improvements with the power plate.
01:29:46:04 – 01:29:48:08
Synergee
We see them in four weeks.
01:29:50:23 – 01:30:19:19
Synergee
And we’re talking up to 3 to 5% improvements by riding three times a week. It’s eight minutes. Is the protocol for three times a week. And it’s a 42nd vibration. In that eight minutes you’re going to warm up for like three minutes, right? For 20s on vibration, take a little breather for two minutes, ride for 20s to the vibration and then cool down for two minutes. You’re done.
01:30:20:08 – 01:30:46:05
Synergee
Four weeks of doing that three times a week. And the studies so that it’s a VO2 max improvement somewhere between 3 to 5%. That is wild. Like that’s really wild. When again one month or 9 to 12 months and we’re talking again this is taking your overall like how close or how far you are from disease.
01:30:46:05 – 01:30:59:16
Laura Wilson
It’s something called your Z score. It’s improving that in those four weeks. That’s just that’s really powerful. When we can do that. I don’t care if you don’t like to bike, you can sit there for seven minutes and 40s
01:31:34:11 – 01:32:01:05
Laura Wilson
Off the table. Because not only is it lower impact, we know that, but the vibration is then ultra hydrating your body. So for example, if you go and you start poking around the power plate website, you’re going to see Caroline Pearce, who is, former. She was a track star and in Great Britain, and she actually was, a the person who pushes the bobsled.
01:32:01:05 – 01:32:23:22
Laura Wilson
And for the Olympic team for England, and then went on to be one of the gladiators for the UK Gladiator series. Her body, her body has sustained a lot of impact over the years. And she has bone on bone and both knees. She can’t ride a bike. It’s very painful. She can ride the Rev and we were like, just waiting.
01:32:23:23 – 01:32:41:20
Laura Wilson
I can’t wait to see what Caroline says, you know, as we’re all testing it too, because of the massive amounts of hydration you’re getting in the muscles, not only is it lower impact. So okay, great, she could ride a bike, but she couldn’t because of the traffic. She can ride the rat because it doesn’t. She doesn’t feel that.
01:32:42:01 – 01:32:49:09
Laura Wilson
So it even has that enhanced little component because you’re getting more circulation benefits out of a rev over a traditional bike.
01:33:05:22 – 01:33:32:17
Laura Wilson
So obviously when you’ve had any kind of joint replacement surgery, you have to get your doctor’s clearance, that’s always I’m always going to be on the side of that. But what I have found is when I’m able to work with, you know, my client and, and talk to their doctor, if they’re not familiar with power, it is typically 48 hours after we can have them standing on our flight or seated with their feet on the power plate.
01:33:32:19 – 01:34:12:02
Laura Wilson
Because again, when we talk about healing from surgery, if you aren’t cleared to exercise, typically for many weeks. However, if doctors truly understand what a power plate is and you have some a lot of them out there who use it in their own practices, they want you to heal from surgery, and that means getting your circulation moving. And we can do that without compromising anything by having them on a power plate, because they’re not having to exercise, you know, not even a walk, because some people aren’t even cleared to walk at first, but they could sit and put their feet on the power plate, which is going to generate circulation, which we know leads to healing. So that’s a critical piece.
01:34:48:09 – 01:35:09:18
Laura Wilson
So targeted vibration, just that it’s going to go on a specific part of the body. Again, so Power Plate is the original creator of vibration. And just to speak even further of that, the Rev is a whole new category of vibration. It’s self-powered. You determine the intensity that didn’t exist before. Power play invented this entire category.
01:35:09:20 – 01:35:32:08
Synergee
Again, one more reason to speak to. It’s the gold standard. It’s the one that you need to be purchasing for the science reason. Targeted vibration is going to be your massage gun, your vibrating rollers, those types of things. And we have a roller. We have what looks like a peanut shaped device, the dual sphere. And then we have a large, massage gun and then a smaller one that’s really portable.
01:35:32:10 – 01:36:13:02
Laura Wilson
I the the joy of those are going to be twofold. One, because we are, you know, the originators ours are made to always be just, you know, a little we’re going to try and beat the competition, make it a little quieter. The battery lasts a little longer. But more importantly, the science behind the frequencies that are used, and how far it’s moving when it’s vibrating is all backed by the science that we know, not just going with the cheapest way to make something so that that’s a critical piece is, is we can, you know, as a company, sit in and look at this and say, okay, we really want the science to be behind those.
01:36:13:03 – 01:36:34:20
Synergee
And you’ll find that sometimes people, if you’ve ever used a massage gun and then suddenly got hives because some of them are not set to the correct frequency that the human body likes. So you got to do your research. You’ll have people who have this condition where maybe a roller they bought. This vibrating causes a rash on their skin, and it’s not a reaction to the texture, the the ingredients in the roller.
01:36:34:20 – 01:36:57:00
Synergee
It’s a reaction to the vibration frequency, which is wild because your biological beings and we have our own frequencies. So you want to be using one that’s in tune with you. But the concept of what it does is activation and recovery. Yeah. You’re stimulating blood flow, blood flow to those areas. You’re telling your central nervous system to calm down.
01:36:57:02 – 01:37:19:02
Laura Wilson
It doesn’t do it in the same way whole body vibration does, which is it starts at the brain. Instead, you’re injuring the body almost. It’s saying, hey, send blood flow over here or send blood flow here. Wherever you’re using it. It’s telling your body to send blood flow there because they sense the impact to the body. So it’s going to help to repair that tissue.
01:37:19:03 – 01:37:25:01
Laura Wilson
It can be used again for either a warm up or for recovery purposes. When you’re sore.
01:38:05:05 – 01:38:07:14
Synergee
We did this. We were geeking out together.
01:38:19:17 – 01:38:36:19
Laura Wilson
Well, thanks. I could say the same thing for you, too. And. And so I’m just glad that we all found each other. And hopefully, you know, we all can just touch as many clients and people out there. And so all those people that are listening, you know, that’s. I’m just happy to be here and and be able to share something that I know is so amazing.
01:38:41:05 – 01:38:47:20
Laura Wilson
Yeah. They can. Feel free to email me. Laura.wilson@powerplate.com.
01:38:47:20 – 01:38:57:13
Laura Wilson
Yeah. That’s that’s always an open line of communication. And if I don’t have an answer, I will get one for you because I have lots of resources I can go to.
01:39:01:16 – 01:39:02:14
Laura Wilson
Thank you guys.
01:39:02:14 – 01:39:19:18
Synergee
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