The cult of the body is a reality in our society, the importance of feeling good and being satisfied with our body is essential for many of us. We lack time to dedicate ourselves to build the desired physique, but we do not want to give up having it. We live clinging to the clock and in the society of the 21st century, the immediacy triumphs.

Electro overall muscle stimulation is a good choice for those who want to be in shape, even taking little time to play sports.
EMS is a technique that uses electrical impulses in order to cause a great physical work, which will help us to increase muscle mass. Taking advantage of this technology, today we talk about electro fitness, which is nothing more and nothing less than applying the technology offered by electro stimulation equipment to traditional fitness.

We all know that if you do not work at a certain intensity it is impossible to have good results, “no pain no gain”. The EMS forces us to work with the intensity necessary to achieve our goals, which is why we dare to say that global electro stimulation combined with good training can be a perfect combination to achieve that ideal body with which everyone we dream

Of course always guided by a personal trainer with the necessary training in electro stimulation.

By adding to the already demanding training that our personal trainer prepares for us, involuntary contractions provoked by those electrical impulses sent to us by the EMS team, the work is multiplied by recruiting a greater number of muscle fibers. In this way the muscle is stimulated in depth and the workload performed is much greater.

The EMS is a resource that has been used for many years in the field of rehabilitation and rehabilitation of injuries, but of a time to this part, by eliminating the handicaps that represented us working with electro stimulation (work in static, muscle to muscle) has been applied in training systems and has gained a lot of ground in the field of fitness.

Many people are currently attending personal trainings that include EMS in their programs, with very marked goals, weight loss, toning, losing fat, improving their strength among many others.
Well worked, the truth is that it is a very valid way to achieve great results with little investment of time, but like any other system, requires a record.

Electro stimulation training, as in any other physical exercise, is essential to accompany them with a healthy lifestyle and a healthy and balanced diet if we want to achieve our goals.

Equipment for training with electro stimulation.

Our clothing to be able to train with guarantees with the global electro stimulation equipment should facilitate the passage of moisture, any tissue that allows the passage of water can serve us, it is also important that our interior equipment will fit the maximum to our body, as a second skin. The electrical impulses that cause the involuntary contractions in our musculature, are driven through the water and that is why the tissue of our equipment does not repel the same. (technical or Lycra clothing would not be valid for EMS training).

Depending on how each center manages its sessions, we can find that in some only wearing a sports footwear may be enough, as they provide us with the rest of the equipment necessary to enjoy a good session of electro stimulation. But I recommend that each one buy the set of underwear that will surely offer us in the center for reasons of comfort when training with our own unique equipment.

Once we have put the equipment inside, we have just prepared for the session, putting on a vest that will almost certainly be wet (some manufacturers manage to trigger muscle contractions from sweating once we have done a warm-up and you put the vest in dry).
These vests deliver electrodes practically all over the body, from the lumbar area, to the pectorals passing through the abdominal or dorsal area, etc …

In some teams we have extensions outside the vest for the work of arms and inferior trunk and in other cases, these groups are integrated (except the arms) in the same vest.

Time is money: 25 minutes may be enough.

The recommendation is to do 25-minute sessions, including warm-up and recovery.
At the beginning it is not convenient to train more than once a week with EMS, because when it affects fibers that we do not usually work, they will not cause micro-fractures that require a few days of recovery and rest, as we are getting more fit we can train with EMS every 3 days, if considered by our coach.

The most advisable is to divide the training in several phases, the first will serve as an adaptation to the impulse and warm up, normally we are 5 minutes, the second and main part of the training, it can take us another 15 min, the final 5 minutes we will devote to recover including stretching work according to our personal trainer’s criteria.

We must always keep in mind that it is very difficult to generalize any training, there are many things that we must take into account and that can make us change the recommended guidelines, our coach is the one who knows how to do it based on the state of form and objectives of each of us.

A well-executed global electro stimulation workout is really intense, we can claim would be the equivalent of 2 or even more hours of conventional exercise in the gym. It may seem like little training time to see results compared to traditional exercise but it really is a quality job if you are well guided and executed. The basal metabolism can be activated up to more than 72 hours according to body composition, client height and all this after a session of only 25 min.

Electro fitness is one of the most effective physical exercise routines for weight loss. The results of the slimming and anti-cellulite programs begin to be visible between 6 and 8 weeks as long as we combine it with a good diet.
Anyway, we must think of our EMS session as one more training, (in which we must also do our part to get results) and that either with EMS sessions or with any other modality of physical activity, the important thing is never stop training. Taking a healthy habits both in terms of training and nutrition and being constant in it, adopt them as a lifestyle, will make our body a source of health and beauty at the same time.

0 boring, dynamic and different.

Electro fitness is an activity that is not static at all, nor is it passive gymnastics, which is the term that is often used by everyone when you explain a little about what this subject is about.

Depending on each client (state of form, age, etc.) presents us with infinite possibilities to focus the training as it suits us.

It is very important to be able to voluntarily stress our muscles
to impose on the contraction

involuntary that provokes us the electro stimulation. Only in this way will we achieve the desired performance and a maximum concentration will be necessary to feel what we have to achieve. From this indication, each personal trainer
will decide if it incorporates different elements like, bosus, elastic bands, dumbbells, trx or any accessory to change the stimulus once we are assimilating the training.

Exercise is as important as recovery.

After completing the main part of the training, we must dedicate about 5 minutes (which we could lengthen without
no problem and time allows us) to recover and return to calm. We usually use a program
or metabolic (which would be the commercial name of the program in some market equipment).
recovery we could do either static or even better doing any aerobic exercise with a treadmill or an elliptical, we would also curl the curl if we spent a few minutes to stretch, even two hours after the
session would be most appropriate.

Electro fitness keys:

Speed: in 25 minutes once a week, a complete training is done and adapted to the needs of each user..
Efficiency: through the electro stimulation is achieved the activation of a large number of muscles in an intense and deep.
Customized: the personal trainer adapts each session to the user, although there are predefined programs, the parameters of each muscle group are manually changed to suit the possibilities of each person.
Strength: Strength is increased without failure option among many other objectives that we plan to achieve.
Injury prevention: Without a doubt if we train in a habitual way we will get a more trained body and with less risk of injury.

With the practice of Electro fitness you can get to be in full shape and reach the physique you want by spending less time than usual.
In addition to toning, reduce fat and volume, eliminate cellulite and sagging, helps increase strength, speed, ultimately power, also allows us to gain elasticity.

In a study of the Journal of Sports Medicine, which dates from 2007, it was verified that its isolated application would allow to gain up to 9% of muscle strength and volume. But as always all these improvements, will not come by plugging into a machine, will come because our personal trainer will be able to take advantage of a very powerful add-on, but I insist, an additional complement, inside your toolbox.