Study/review saying EMS is awesome

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@gciriani

Did you read the whole study or just the abstract that appears in the link? I’m just asking, because I had not read the article before. I had read part 2 of the same study by the same authors last year. It’s weird that the magazine published part 2 before part 1 (the quirks of peer review, I imagine). By the way the recommendations from part 2, reveal that the programs one can find in a machine are just as important, as the quality and of the electrostimulation parameters.

EMS is not unlike any other form of exercise: it taxes your muscles which to grow have to have time to recover. So EMS is a training session and you can substitute it for another session of regular voluntary exercise, but you shouldn’t double up indiscriminately.

Giovanni, to answer your first question. I did read the entire article as I get the JSC issue every month, it was quite dry and boring and it said it was Part 1 with Part 2 coming soon. From what I read it did give a variety of parameters that have been used in previous studies, but didn’t give a clear-cut list of parameters.

I’ve been talking to Cedric Unholz and he did say that he used it 15-20min after his voluntary training sessions in those videos. It was the only way he had time to incorporate EMS MaxS sessions with his work schedule. He also mentioned if he used it within 2hrs before bed that it would disrupt his sleep. I plan to use it the same as I don’t have the luxury of being a full time athlete.