WHAT IS EMS? | nordfit

Nordfit introduces EMS Training to Hong Kong.

2 x 20 minutes training per week is enough.

EMS (Electric Muscle Stimulation) training is nothing new. The benefits have been known and used in medical rehab for decades.

The news is that now materials and equipment suitable for fitness-training purposes have been developed.

Nordfit is proud to be the first to offer EMS and the remarkably effective training equipment from X-Body to you in Hong Kong.

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1. What is EMS?

All muscle activity is triggered by electric impulses, normally generated by your body and released by your voluntary action.

EMS is an external, low-current electric stimulus, applied from the outside by the training suit, reinforcing your own signal to the muscle, thereby amplifying the results of your training.

The way the equipment is designed further increases the efficiency of the EMS principle, resulting in much more effect in much shorter time.

Find out why here.

3. Why only 20 minutes?

In conventional gym training, you first exercise the upper body, then the lower body, and first the agonist and then the antagonist (say biceps and triceps).

You build a train of exercises, one after another, each one taking time, adding minute to minute. And then rest in between. And then a new set of repeats with heavier weights to activate the fast muscle fiber.

With EMS and the X-body training suit, 90% of your muscles in your whole body are activated simultaneously with each contraction, and the muscle contractions generated are stronger and more intense than your voluntary exertion can do alone.

This is why a 20-minutes session is enough. EMS simply reaches and activates more muscles deeper and stronger than you can achieve with conventional training.

5. Weight and
fat reduction

The deep and intense muscle stimulus causes your body to burn two to three times as many calories during and after an EMS session as compared to a conventional training session.

So, in spite of not really having to work out, you will still burn fat at a much higher rate than you can achieve with conventional training.

The difference is clearly visible after 4-6 sessions, as compared to the 12-16 sessions needed for visible effects with conventional training.

2. How does X-body EMS work?

Our muscles have two types of fibers, slow twitch fiber and fast twitch fiber. When muscle power is needed, by design the body always first engages the slow fiber. The slow fiber is a low-energy consumption worker, and the body doesn’t like to spend energy.

However, what counts in fitness is the fast fiber. Here is where the real muscle build sits. To activate and train the fast fiber in the gym, we add extra weight and stress, and pump and repeat. It’s by over-stressing the fast fiber that the muscle grows.

With X-Body EMS, the electric impulses immediately engage the fast fiber into action. And it affects the fiber stronger than you can do voluntarily by lifting. No waiting time, no extra weight, no extra repeats.

4. Easier on your body

Since EMS training works without weights, you don’t put any stress on your back, knees or other joints, ligaments or tissues. The increased muscle growth and strength is generated by the muscle itself, not by increased load on your body.

In addition, EMS training puts less stress on your heart. In conventional training, during the most intense phases, your heart rate may reach 170-180 bpm. With EMS training, since the dedicated muscles work and build without any movement, your heart rate seldom exceeds 130 bpm.

Also, with the X-Body equipment, you can select and adjust the amount of activation per individual muscle group and adjust imbalances between muscles.

If your work is a desk and computer job, chances are that your posture and muscular balance in back, chest, and shoulders are not ideal. This can be individually compensated for and adjusted by the X-Body equipment, muscle group by muscle group.