How Does EMS Training Work?

The EMS system

With the EMS system, you wear a body vest and straps around your arms, legs and glutes. These electrode straps carry a small electrical impulse through to your muscles. This then creates a harmless and painless stimulation that actually boosts the effectiveness of a light workout.

Remember – your muscles actually rely on electrical stimulation of this type to move at all. The EMS stimulation is just an amplification of the normal electrical pulses.

The science – deep muscle tissue fibres

Not only does the EMS stimulation amplify your body’s electrical signals to create an effective and safe workout, it also recruits and activates deep muscle layers and fibres that you struggle to activate using conventional exercises.

It does this in two ways. Firstly, the electrical stimulation itself forces your entire muscle to activate, allowing your body to recruit deeper muscles, and complementary ones, that typically aren’t recruited during conventional exercise movements.

The second way is to do with the different types of muscle fibre in each of your muscles. Your body has both slow and fast twitch muscle fibres. The slow twitch fibres contract slowly and are there for endurance exercises like walking and cycling. The slow twitch fibres are always stimulated first during exercise. Fast twitch fibres are used in quick and powerful movements, like jumping or sprinting – and they’re much harder to activate. The EMS system specifically targets the harder to recruit fast-twitch fibres, making the workout ultra effective at growing your muscles and making you stronger.

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