Have you ever fantasized about lying on the sofa and scrolling through your phone while easily shaping and burning fat? Nowadays, this seemingly impossible dream is becoming a reality through EMS technology. EMS shaping machine, a name that sounds full of technology, is sparking a “lazy revolution” in the fields of fitness and beauty. Imagine that you only need to wear several handles, and you can experience the high-intensity training effect equivalent to 1-2 hours in a traditional gym in just 20 minutes. Does this sound like a plot from a science fiction movie? But in fact, EMS technology has already “crossed over” from the medical field to the fitness industry, becoming a new favorite of many fitness enthusiasts and shaping enthusiasts.
A brief introduction about EMS
EMS is a technique that directly stimulates muscles through weak electrical currents, forcing them to contract. This may sound a bit sci-fi, but the underlying principle is actually similar to how we use EEG signals to command muscle contractions in traditional fitness. Differently, EMS accelerates muscle contraction frequency through external current input. This method not only activates deep muscle fibers, but also synchronously stimulates multiple muscle groups throughout the body in a short period of time.
How do EMS body sculpting machines work?
EMS body sculpting machines are machines devices that stimulates muscle contraction through electrical pulses, used for fitness, rehabilitation, and shaping. Its working nature is based on electrophysiology, sending low-frequency electrical pulse signals to target muscle groups through electrode pads attached to the skin surface. These electrical pulses simulate the neural signals emitted by the brain, directly stimulating muscle motor neurons, triggering muscle contraction and relaxation, thus achieving an effect similar to active movement. EMS training can simultaneously activate more muscle fibers, especially deep muscles, enhancing muscle strength, endurance, and tightness. Due to its ability to efficiently stimulate muscles in a short period of time, EMS training is commonly used to assist in fitness shaping, exercise rehabilitation, and relieve muscle fatigue.
A Comprehensive Comparison between EMS and Traditional Fitness
1.Exercise efficiency: 20 minutes VS 120 minutes
Traditional fitness requires long-term persistence to see muscle growth and fat consumption, while EMS greatly shortens this time. EMS relies on electric current to directly stimulate muscle fibers, and within just 20 minutes, we can feel a feeling of muscle soreness throughout the body. Imagine if you only need 20 minutes a day to achieve the same effect as you did in the past two hours, wouldn’t it sound tempting?
2.Deep muscle activation VS Surface muscle
Traditional fitness mainly stimulates surface muscles through autonomous exercise, such as dumbbells and barbells, which often exercise visible muscle groups. EMS can directly penetrate the skin and act on deep muscle fiber groups, bringing about more balanced and comprehensive muscle development. This is undoubtedly a powerful tool for those who want to improve their physical fitness in all aspects.
3.Rehabilitation and weight loss: Dual track VS Single track
Traditional fitness has a certain impact on joints and muscles, and many people in rehabilitation find it difficult to exercise through high-intensity movements such as running and squats. EMS, on the other hand, is different as it reduces the impact on joints through external microcurrent stimulation, making it an ideal choice for rehabilitation patients. In addition, EMS is equally effective in reducing fat. For example, a common model who participated in EMS training lost 15% of body fat in just 8 weeks and successfully shaped her ideal body shape. In traditional fitness, this often requires longer time and effort.
What can we gain from EMS?
Muscle gain. EMS machines use non-invasive high-energy electromagnetic wave technology, a large amount of clinical research data has shown its shaping safety and effectiveness. High energy concentrated electromagnetic waves safely enter muscle tissue as deep as 7cm subcutaneous in a non-invasive manner, triggering its motor neurons (similar to the brain transmitting information to stimulate motor neurons). Subsequently, due to action potentials, sustained ultra strong muscle contractions are triggered, reaching high-frequency extreme training, causing nearly 100% of muscle fibers to produce activity, while general exercise can only reach 20-30%. During the process of extreme super contraction of muscles, some muscle fibers break, allowing the muscles to deeply reshape and grow, and producing new collagen chains and muscle fibers, which increase and thicken the myofibrils, strengthen and tighten the muscles, and improve the lines. These data firmly prove the powerful effect EMS machines do in muscle gain.
Body Shaping. The super strong muscle contraction greatly increases the energy demand of muscle cells, releases more adrenaline, and promotes the rapid breakdown of a large number of fat cells, producing a large amount of ATP energy for muscle contraction exercise, thereby burning and reducing fat, improving basal metabolic rate, and allowing you to continue to lose fat even during sleep after treatment.When muscles are strongly retracted, blood and lymphatic fluid flow faster between squeezing and releasing, and the increased flow rate accelerates the body’s metabolism, taking away waste from fat breakdown and toxins in the body, and enhancing immunity. Accelerate the penetration and absorption of external nutrients into the skin, as well as the transport of internal nutrients, to quickly repair broken myofibrils.
In addition, EMS machines also have the functions of reducing fat, creating a youthful physique, and repairing postpartum body shape.
The advantages of EMS for weight loss, shaping, and rehabilitation populations
1.A significant feature of EMS fitness is time efficiency, which allows for shorter duration and greater results. Many studies and cases have shown that a 20 minute EMS training is equivalent to a 2-hour workout in a traditional gym. This is undoubtedly a blessing for busy white-collar workers, mothers, or people with tight schedules. A study in Germany suggests that EMS training can effectively reduce body fat and increase muscle mass within 6 weeks. A 20 minute full body EMS training can stimulate 90% of muscles, while in traditional fitness, we often can only exercise various parts in sequence.
2.With strong targeting and precise effects, EMS’s performance in shaping is impressive. Especially for those who want to improve local morphology, such as the abdomen, buttocks, and thighs, EMS can directly act on these areas through precise positioning of specific electrodes, helping to eliminate stubborn fat and shape symmetrical muscle lines. In contrast, local shaping in traditional fitness often requires long and high-intensity training to see results.
3.Minimumimpact, the best choice for rehabilitation population. Traditional fitness inevitably involves a lot of joint movements, which is not friendly to people with injuries or recovering. EMS, on the other hand, does not require high-intensity mechanical loads to stimulate muscles and reduces the impact on joints, making it very suitable for those who have just recovered from injuries and need to progress gradually. For example, many athletes use EMS during the postoperative rehabilitation stage to help them recover muscle strength and gradually regain their athletic ability.
Does EMS really scientific and effective?
Research by domestic scholars has shown that simple electrical stimulation therapy is used for overweight and obese adults without controlling diet or exercise intervention. The results show that the weight and abdominal circumference of the subjects significantly decrease through electrical stimulation, indicating that electrical stimulation technology itself does have the effect of weight loss and changing body circumference.
Foreign scholars used EMS to stimulate the abdomen of subjects for 20 minutes every day. After 8 weeks, it was found that the abdominal strength of the EMS experimental group increased by 58%, the abdominal muscle endurance increased by 100%, and the waist circumference decreased by an average of 3.5cm. At the same time, all subjects in the experimental group felt that their abdomen was firmer. A scientist found in a study of 15 long-term sedentary subjects that muscle electrical stimulation exercise intervention can effectively improve the maximum oxygen uptake and quadriceps muscle strength of sedentary adults .
Nowadays, EMS technology has become increasingly mature, safe, and effective, and has been widely used in medical rehabilitation, fitness shaping, efficient weight loss, training and repair, and other fields.
What is the EMS training process?
1.Analysis and testing of body composition
2.Doctor’s face-to-face consultation
3.Signing of informed consent paper
4.Photography/measurement of corresponding body parts
5.EMS training and treatment
6.Awareness of postoperative precautions
Contraindications for EMS treatment
If the costumer’s fat layer is too thick, they may not be suitable for receiving EMS treatment. Due to the his thick fat, electromagnetic energy may not be thoroughly stimulated to the muscle layer, only reaching the subcutaneous fat layer, making it difficult to make the muscles contract strongly, which may affect the treatment effect.
Pregnant and lactating women should not receive treatment: For women who are close to menstruation and receive treatment, menstruation may come earlier or they may feel strong abdominal spasms. Therefore, it is recommended to avoid treatment during this period.
Individuals with the following conditions cannot receive treatment: metal or electronic implants in the treatment area, implantation of pacemakers, implantation of defibrillators, implantation of nerve stimulators, implantation of drug pumps, malignant tumors, epilepsy, or recent surgical procedures.
