The real effects… of Mihabodytec and its electrostimulation sessions
Electrostimulation, quèsaco?
The concept is aptly named: via electrodes arranged on muscle groups, an electrical impulse stimulates the muscle.The idea is no longer, as in the 1990s, to draw your silhouette without doing anything.During an electrostimulation - or EMS session (training by electro -muscular stimulation) - we do muscle strengthening exercises and an electrical impulse optimizes the contraction of the muscle.When a classic effort during a bodybuilding session requests 30% of muscle fiber, electrostimulation in requests 80. A 20 -minute session would thus correspond to four hours of bodybuilding.Mihabodytec is the name of the German manufacturer of training devices.
The promises of the activity
A more effective work than classic bodybuilding, therefore a faster silhouette.At the rate of one session per week, the first results would be seen after five to six sessions.By developing muscle mass, the body is more energy -consuming, in other words, it burns more calories at rest.In parallel with an endurance activity, electrostimulation would also improve performance.
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The standard session
A session lasts 20 minutes and has two participants.The first is a little shorter due to the settings made on the machine to define the signal intensity on each muscle group of the sportsman.The measures are stored on a card which will then be placed on the machine at the start of the course.There follows a chain of muscle strengthening exercises: squats, slits, sheathing, bust surveys ... You can also integrate accessories, such as elastics or a bosu.The coach offers his own chain which requests the whole body, or targeted exercises according to what the participant wants to work.
First impressions
The combination, being connected to a machine, and especially the feeling felt during stimulation ... everything is strange.You feel like you have ants in the members.Stimulation undeniably increases muscle contraction, so much so that it is essential to accompany it by contracting your muscles yourself, otherwise the effect is very unpleasant.If there are no contracts for example, stimulation can force the body to bend in half.
We emerge intrigued from the first session.Without having the impression of having let off steam, unloaded as after jogging or a body combat session, or without feeling the effect of endorphins.But we still feel that we have sweated, made an effort.If there was a doubt, the aches of the next day, more intense than after a "classic" effort, convince the effectiveness of the session.
The results after 10 sessions?
The test was carried out over ten weeks, one session per week, having in parallel a varied and healthy diet, and regular physical activity (one to two running sessions per week). At the end of the test protocol, the results are present. We feel much more toned from the inside, less "released", because the transverse and the back muscles have been reinforced. The general posture of the body is improved, we stand straight. The size has also been refined, the abdominals, more precisely the upper part of the high rights (under the chest), are more visible. The buttocks are also slightly more rounded, the biceps slightly more designed. Some comments on the discipline speak of radical changes on the silhouette, this is not really the case. Still, if you want to build muscle in a short time (you can do your session during the lunch break), electrostimulation is a good option, provided you go on 20 sessions. Finally, there is no doubt that the results are even more present if electrostimulation is practiced throughout the year.
Do we go back?
Yes, when we lack time to build muscle, that we have a specific objective - to build muscle in two, three months without it getting forward on his schedule, or that we like neither sport nor sport or sport or sport or sport or sport or sport or sport or sport or sportphysical effort but that we want to keep in shape.Those who need to let off steam, and who are passionate about sport could be a bit frustrated.Unless you opt for electrostimulation in parallel with another activity.
Contraindications
There are many: operations dating from less than two months, arterial traffic problems, pregnancy, diabetes, untreated hypertension ... During the first session, the participant must fulfill a questionnaire and identify the history that could prevent him from usingthe machine.
Where to practice?Sport Impulse, 12 rue Lavoisier, 75008 Paris.Such.01 47 42 63 69.Tariffs: 45 euros per single session (valid for a month).The price is decreasing for the purchase of a pack of several sessions.350 euros for the pack of 10 sessions, or 35 euros per session.590 euros per 20 sessions, or 29.50 euros per session, 1,080 euros per 40 sessions, or 27 euros per session. In information on www.sport-impulse.fr.bour find a mihabodytec approved center: www.mihabodytec.com.
* This article, initially published in 2019, has been updated.
