{"id":587968,"date":"2026-04-16T15:34:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/587968\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:34:26","slug":"everyones-talking-about-vibration-plates-can-they-really-boost-my-gym-gains-and-how-do-they-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/587968\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone\u2019s talking about: Vibration plates \u2013 can they really boost my gym gains and how do they work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nCelebrities such as Elle Macpherson and Paris Hilton are on board, but should we be making \u2018VP\u2019 part of our overall exercise regime \u2013 or is it just another fad?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Social media is awash with people using vibration plates as part of their exercise regime. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/tyImages_1335205037.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Social media is awash with people using vibration plates as part of their exercise regime. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">If you\u2019ve spent any time on social media lately, you\u2019ve probably seen them: people standing, squatting, or stretching on vibrating \u2018plates\u2019 that promise everything from lymphatic drainage to muscle tone and weight loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Vibration training isn\u2019t technically new. Scientists in the 1960s, particularly in East Germany and the Soviet Union, began exploring whole-body vibration as a way to stimulate muscles and bone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrities such as Elle Macpherson and Paris Hilton are on board, but should we be making \u2018VP\u2019 part&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[337,97,2700,35566,204940,204941],"class_list":{"0":"post-587968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-service-journalism","12":"tag-shp","13":"tag-signature-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}