A Fascinating Behind-the-Scenes Look at What Is Planet Fitness Total Body Enhancement

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Do you have a burning curiosity about the glowing red machines at Planet Fitness? You’re at the right place if you have ever wondered about the Planet Fitness Total Body Enhancement machine.

This device combines red light therapy with a vibrating platform to revitalize and tone the muscles, restore and energize the body, reduce pain, and improve circulation.

The only catch is that it’s available to Planet Fitness members with the Black Card.

Is it worth upgrading to a premium membership to try it? This article will help you determine if Total Body Enhancement works or is just a bunch of woo.

Push the start button to discover this revolutionary technology.

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What is Total Body Enhancement at Planet Fitness?

Beauty Angel is the Total Body Enhancement Red Light Therapy booth. It’s a powerful rejuvenation device. It looks like a tanning salon at first sight, with its long tubes and booth-style format.

Instead of UV bulbs, the system uses an infrared plate and infrared combined light. This system is rejuvenation m magic! Red light therapy restores skin and energizes your body while vibrating plates help to soothe and recover sore muscles.

This powerful combination will make you look and feel amazing. This should be a part of every workout!

What is Total Body Enhancement?

The Total Body Enhancement machine is a body enhancement booth. Red light therapy panels cover the walls, and a platform-based vibration pad vibrates and tones the whole body.

This Vibra Shape technology stimulates muscle activity and increases circulation.

It’s complemented with red light therapy which not only targets fat cells (and therefore promotes weight loss) but also offers improved skin tone and lessens the appearance of cellulite, stretch marks, and other imperfections.

Planet Fitness Total Body Enhancement booth is totally enclosed, making for complete privacy. It has overhead ventilation providing optimum cooling, a major plus during the warmer months. As an added bonus, it’s fitted with an MP3 player connection, so you can enjoy your own music while getting your red light therapy at Planet Fitness.

What does Total Body Enhancement do?

The Total Body Enhancement treatment can be used to improve skin tone and texture. How? By helping to reverse and control the visible signs of aging – decreasing wrinkles, and firming the skin through red light therapy.

The vibration pad is also used to improve skin tone, stimulate muscle motion or activity, and increase circulation.

How do you use the Total Body Enhancement machine?

A session in the Beauty Angel Total Body Enhancement booth is an excellent addition to your fitness routine, before or after your workout.

This machine offers low-impact muscle toning. It’s excellent to use before your sweat session to warm up the muscles and enhance microcirculation.

And suppose you’re feeling those muscles grumble after the gym. In that case, Total Body Enhancement reduces soreness and relieves tightness in the joints.

If you’re short on time or aren’t in the mood to move, the Beauty Angel booth can be used independently of exercise as a stand-alone session. It will help you build core strength and muscle tone and relax.

.Using the machine is easy. So easy; it’s a self-service booth where you set the controls yourself. Here’s a step-by-step guide: Press the start button on the remote.

Activate the vibrating footpad by pressing the white button on the left side of the remote. Press the button twice. The foot icon on the top left of the remote will light up once set.

Now it’s time to set your vibration intensity, choosing from four different programs

After choosing your vibration setting, allow the LED screen to clear

Finally, turn on the fan.

Touch the white button on the right side of the remote twice until the fan light comes on. You can adjust the fan to a speed that suits you. Push the dial up to 11 to keep your cool while relaxing in the Total Body Enhancement machine.

Does Total Body Enhancement at Planet Fitness Work? My review & results

January 6, 2018, By: Heather Hart, ACSM EP Heather Hart, CSCS 155 Comments

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Imagine a machine that promises fat loss. Cellulite reduction. Remove wrinkles. All you need to do is stay still. Sounds too good to be true?

Planet Fitness Total Body Enhancement Machine makes all of these claims and more. My gym-loving, science-nerd self wanted to know if these claims were valid.

I researched the machine and used it for several months. This is my story and what I learned about the Total Body Enhancement machine.

Does Planet Fitness’s Total Body Enhancement Work? Let’s dive in.

SO IT ALL BEGAN ON SOCIAL MEDIA. Instagram stories have been my go-to distraction in recent months, even though I’m angry at Instagram for reducing users’ attention spans and thus ruining the blogging business.

LONG-LIVE WRITTEN WORD

I was scrolling through an elite endurance athlete’s daily IG story when I noticed a video boomerang of her lying in a red-light therapy bed. I immediately thought of the ” total body enhancement” contraptions in my local Planet Fitness.

But Heather, I thought you hated Planet Fitness?

I’ll go back to the beginning. Planet Fitness is better than I thought it would be. Deep down, I support small, locally-owned gyms which do not apply a double standard.

You may have seen my rants about their “links” and how they single out and shun fit people. They also have a terrible reputation for banning you if your attire is deemed “intimidating” and for getting rid of heavy weights and squat stands because only “links” would use them.

I’ve also made snarky comments that their headquarters used to be next to Chuck E. Cheese for many years (we drove past it multiple times a year on our way to Portland, Maine).

But I will be the first one to say: Planet Fitness, I apologize. I was wrong.

About a year ago, I became a member of the Myrtle Beach PF Circuit as a Black Card Member to work out with my friends.

It’s actually pretty decent. Myrtle Beach is a great gym. The staff is friendly, and the cleanliness is impeccable.

If we’re being honest, the “no judgment zone” is extended to everyone at this location…including super fit women wearing only tights and sports bras. Is the equipment always in good working order on the first Monday of each month?

You can get a free pizza.

You can slam pizza served in gyms, but THIS ultra-runner finds it absolutely fantastic. My pizza habit is a thing of no shame.

For $20 a week, I can invite my husband or anyone else I like, but my favorite is him, to my pizza party as often as I wish. I’ll take that.

But I digress. I digress. An Instagram Elite athlete, Amelia Boone, reminded me of my Planet Fitness Black card membership.

I receive free hydro massages, free tanning, and free use of the Total Body Enhancement Machine, which I have never used. It was red light therapy bulb; I knew that.

Now I was curious. I should try it, too, if super endurance athlete Amelia does. So I decided to do some research online.

The Total Body Enhancement machine:

Total Body Enhancement Machine is also called ” beauty angel RVT 30″.

It is a booth that uses red light therapy (non-damaging, non-UV rays) combined with a vibrating plate to enhance you magically in some way.

What’s the point? Google, a non-scientific, non-reliable source, returned the following benefits.

Potential Benefits of the Total Body Enhancement Machine:

It stimulates the release of Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP), giving you extra energy before your workout

It enables the production of collagen and elastin, increasing skin elasticity. Stretchmarks and wrinkles are reduced.

Reduces cellulite

This burns tiny holes in your fat cells. This allows you to burn off the fat more efficiently (??)

Warms up the muscles by stimulating blood flow.

Reduces inflammation of muscles and joints

Is the Total Body Enhancement too good to be true? Maybe. Probably. But…

I looked for more credible sources about the benefits of red-light therapy. I found a few scientific and citable statements, including:

In one study, the researchers aimed to test whether red light therapy was effective in reducing abdominal fat.

The combination of three different wavelengths of red light therapy reduced abdominal circumference in 100% of the subjects. (Montazeri, et al., 2017)

In a second study, which tested the efficacy and safety of red light treatment in wrinkle reduction, the groups treated with white and red light-emitting Diodes found that the wrinkle measurements in the skin improved significantly compared to baseline at Week 12.

There were no statistically significant differences between the red and white LED groups. The red-led group showed slightly more substantial improvement. (Nam et al.., 2017)

And, perhaps my FAVORITE little bit of information that this runner stumbled upon:

Photobiomodulation can increase muscle mass after training and reduce inflammation and oxidative damage in muscle biopsy samples ( Ferraresi et al. 2016).

You can see that the Total Body Enhancement Machine may have real benefits for athletes with sore muscles and a little butt cellulite.

It is essential to know if the wavelengths emitted in the Total Body Enhancement machine are the same as those used in the study. You are as good as me.