Workouts Power (Plate) off the pounds

Body: Mia Sylvestre, 28, 5-feet-4, 144 pounds, trainer at Myra & Company in South Miami. Her passion: The Power Plate, a new workout machine that uses whole-body vibration to contract muscles 30 to 50 times per second. (The continual vibration causes you to tense and relax your muscles to keep your balance.)

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What a kick! 'You're exercising without knowing it'

Body: Peter Reilly, 34, 5-foot-8, 168 pounds, dietician at Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami. His sport: Kickball. He plays on a team called the Backyard Bandits every Friday night at Indian Hammocks Park in Kendall.