Post Pandemic & How Electric Muscle Stimulation Training Can Surge Your Fitness Forward
Electric Muscle Stimulation Training (EMS)
What is it?
EMS is a technology that works by delivering electrical pulses that activate nerves in the body, causing muscles to contract and then relax. The body naturally uses electrical messages to tell muscles what to do, thus, the stimulation caused by EMS creates muscle contractions that can be quick and frequent, fast with long pauses, or contractions that are held for several seconds or minutes at a time.
How does it work?
To see how EMS works in practice, let’s look at the problem of returning blood to the heart from lower parts of the body, such as the legs. This is hard work for the circulatory system, because this blood has to be pushed 'uphill'. When EMS is used to stimulate the leg muscles to contract and produce a squeezing action on veins, this helps to push blood uphill, and back to the heart.
Normally, it is your body that fires your muscles by sending electrical impulses from your brain through your central nervous system (CNS). But an EMS device allows you to engage in deep, intense, and complete muscular contractions without actually activating (or stressing) your CNS—not to mention your joints and tendons.
The coolest thing is that your body doesn’t know the difference between a voluntary contraction and an electrically stimulated one. The body only recognizes that there is a stimulus and reacts to it accordingly; and there is plenty of science to back this up.
How Can EMS Benefit YOU?
Weight Loss
The amount of calories your body requires on a daily basis is largely determined by your metabolism and sport activities. In general, if you have a caloric surplus, i.e. eat more than your body needs, you will gain weight. A caloric deficit on the other hand leads to weight loss. With age, the metabolic rate slows down which means fat is gained more easily. EMS cardio workouts can increase your metabolism by 300-500 kcal, i.e. your body can burn an additional 300-500 kcal every day!
Skin Tightness
Repeated intensive engagements of individual muscles can increase your metabolism significantly. A higher metabolism promotes fat loss and can therefore reduce the appearance of cellulite and improve the overall look of your skin. Furthermore, the electric currency stimulates the facia fluide and allows it to flow from its stagnant placement within the body, providing addition benefits and limiting the appearance of cellulite and stretch marks.
Muscle Growth & Body Toning
EMS strengthening workouts can both increase muscle mass and decrease body fat at the same time. Depending on your goal, you can either gain muscle size to appear stronger or reduce your overall size to achieve a more toned look.
Injury Recovery & Rehabilitation
If you are suffering from back, shoulder or knee pain and are unable to do conventional workouts, EMS training can help you gain strength and therefore prevent future injuries while helping with existing problems. In this case, the workout only contains simple movements and requires no weights to ensure a minimal impact on your joints. EMS enhances injury recovery as well as rehabilitation and can be done in conjunction with conventional physical therapy.
KEY TAKE AWAYS
1) A 20-minute EMS workout equates to a 90-minute high-intensity gym class or personal training session and can easily be added to your existing workout routine or used solely.
2) Scientifically proven to be effective and safe by reputable sports universities and used by doctors, health clinics, physiotherapists and athletes for more than 50 years all over the world.
3) Our workouts engage up to 98% of your muscles compared to 60% in the gym, burning up to 500 kcal in just 20 minutes. No weights are required ensuring minimal impact on shoulders, back and knees.
Anecdotes Journal of Strength and Conditioning
Looked into whether or not EMS could help elite athletes gain a performance edge. They concluded that :
“the analysis shows that trained and elite athletes, despite their already high level of fitness, are able to significantly enhance their level of strength to same extent as is possible with untrained subjects. EMS offers a promising alternative to traditional strength training for enhancing the strength parameters and motor abilities in athletes.”
Poppy Delevingne
Actress & Model
I love EMS! It amazes me how effective it is and the results that you are able to achieve in just 20 minutes are unbelievable. My body has gotten so toned since I started training with EMS.
Hofit Golan
TV host, model, fashion & travel blogger
This workout allows me to do a full body workout in just 20 minutes. That’s very important to me because I have very little time plus I generally don’t like working out. But I absolutely love EMS!
