How Mechanical Activation Builds Fitness and Strength Without Struggle or Willpower
by Jackie Wicks
Do you feel like you “should” be exercising more or working out “harder.”
On the other hand, do you feel like “just taking a walk” is enough to keep your mind sharp and bones strong?
The actual data around both of those ideas is brutal.
More than 95% of people do not exercise with enough intensity to generate biological activation.
And while walking is great for mood, circulation and basic metabolic activity– it does nothing for the activation side of things.
Activation = things that keep muscle and bone strong and brain sharp.
Activation = things that boost repair cells, stem cells, lymph system activation, nitric oxide and growth hormone.
Activation is the process that helps with the entire aging process.
The very interesting thing is that everyone is interested in getting to the root cause of things.
Health, fitness, therapy– whatever it is. When it comes to intense exercise and impact, the data is also dramatic.
When your body is activated, it generally responds powerfully. But if so few people can get to that “activation point”– how do we solve this essential problem?
==>> This is where a concept called Mechanical Activation comes in.
The main idea is that our body was built for a world that no longer exists. A physical world with little room for error, where our bodies were literally “mechanically and physically activated from dawn to dusk.
Very different from the modern world. We think differently in the modern world, and most of the discussion is around chemical inputs. (coffee, supplements, drugs, painkillers, alcohol etc)
KEY IDEA: Your cells are not primarily chemical machines. They are mechanical sensors.
They listen first to pressure, load, vibration, fluid movement, tension, compression, deformation.
They evolved in a world where the body was constantly being mechanically activated by movement, terrain, gravity, and physical challenge.
When that signal disappears, everything downstream starts to fade: circulation slows, tissues stiffen, stem cells stay dormant, nitric oxide drops, growth hormone falls, fascia dries out, nerves lose responsiveness, muscles weaken, joints destabilize. Your entire sense of “aliveness” begins to dim.
You don’t notice it at first. You just start avoiding little things. You compensate. You move less. You push through a bit of discomfort. You tell yourself it’s age or stress or genetics.
You think you need better discipline, better supplements, better willpower.
But the truth is simpler and far more hopeful: your system is starved for mechanical activation.
KEY IDEA: The body you think is “getting old” is actually just under-stimulated.
It hasn’t been receiving the input it was engineered to interpret as life.
Mechanical activation is the upstream category that wakes everything back up.
This bears repeating– wakes everything back up.
It switches dormant pathways back on. It increases circulation without strain. It mobilizes stem cells without injections.
It triggers nitric oxide without supplements. It stimulates growth hormone without brutal workouts.
It restores mobility without pain and builds confidence by restoring capability.
And what’s remarkable is this: when you reintroduce the right mechanical signal, the body responds instantly. Not in months. Not with perfect habits. Not after you reinvent your life. Immediately.
Because the biology and machinery is still there. The instructions are still there.
They’ve just been waiting for the signal.
KEY IDEA: Power Plate delivers that signal with a level of precision, consistency, and ease that almost nobody expects.
You feel it within seconds. The brain recognizes it. The tissues open. The fluid moves. Your whole system wakes up.
And this is why everything else you do — nutrition, supplements, sleep, recovery, mindset, training — suddenly works better when mechanical activation comes first.
It sets the stage and primes the system. It gives your biology the footing it needs to do what it already knows how to do. Power Plate is like an on switch for peak existence.
Once you understand this, you stop thinking of Power Plate as “exercise equipment” — and start seeing it as a foundational mechanical stimulus.
This is reason everyone needs a Power Plate in their home Power Plate provides a daily activation layer your body and biology has been missing for decades.
And there is NO OTHER machine or technology that does this.
(Many competitors do steal our research and make claims that waste valuable time and money. Internally we view this as a sin, because no amount of money is worth messing with how people feel and move)
Mechanical activation is not a fitness hack or a shortcut.
It is simply the quickest way to activate your body with enough intensity that you can do. Mechanical activation is the Goldilocks mode for 90% of us. Mechanical Activation helps you MOVE. This is why we call our most popular unit the MOVE!
What’s also interesting is that for the most physically active, Power Plate plays a DEEP role in recovery and pain management.
An NFL offensive lineman is a perfect example. I was chatting recently with one of the offensive line coordinators– a guy with at least one Super Bowl ring. He was saying that his guys use the Power Plates so much at their training facility that they just ordered new ones.
It’s a great visual to describe the range of activation that Power Plate provides. Offensive linemen are very large humans. If the Power Plate can impact the body of these guys– what can it do for you.