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Stevie Nicks - 13 Minutes Keeps Her Slim

by Kristen Seymour (Subscribe to Kristen Seymour's posts)
Apr 2nd 2009 5:00PM

Categories: Diet & Weight Loss, Celebs & Entertainment

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Stevie Nicks has dropped the extra weight she's been carrying around since the 80s, and, at 60 years old, the singer is looking slim and sexy and is wearing a size 8. She's currently touring with Fleetwood Mac and feels great, and fortunately, she shared some of her secrets with "People" magazine.

stevie nicksFor one thing, she doesn't blame herself for the weight gain. She was on tranquilizers when she put on the pounds, and acknowledges that the drugs played a major role. Nicks said that, had that not been the case, "I would have stayed at 125 pounds from 1985 and [later on] probably would have weighed about 130 pounds. That would have been way better than fighting to get back to 130 lbs. from 175 lbs." Additionally, she's not feeling pressure to get super skinny: "You don't have to weigh 105 lbs. Weigh 125 lbs. and stay there."

So, how did she lose the weight? She credits her Power Plate workouts, saying, "I do it every other day for 13 minutes. You can't get results faster than that."

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According to the Power Plate website, "Acceleration Training with Power Plate machines creates instability in the human body, as with each vibration the body is forced to perform reflexive muscle actions, multiple times per second ... The net result is an incredible improvement in force production, or strength and power."

I have to admit, I've had questions about vibration training before, but if Stevie Nicks can, at 60 years old, lose 30 pounds by working out every other day for 13 minutes, I might just have to give it a try.

What do you think? If it's good enough for Stevie, is it good enough for you?

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