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My name is Brock Armstrong and I am the Get Fit Guy.

Although EMS or electrical muscle stimulation devices will not allow you to sit on the couch eating bonbons while you develop biceps like an Avenger, well, they can help

with warm up, recovery, relaxation, strength, and yes, even burning some fat. And that's what we're

going to talk about today. So electrical muscle stimulation that's also known as neuromuscular

electrical stimulation or electromagnolmyostimulation,

well, it's a protocol that elicits a muscle contraction using electrical impulses that directly

stimulate your motor neurons. An EMS device, like the power dot that I use, the the Compex, the Tonomatic, or even the Mark Pro, is a device that delivers this, right in the comfort of your own home.

And this stimulation creates muscle contractions that can be quick or frequent, fast, with long pauses or contractions that are held for several

rather uncomfortable seconds or even minutes at a time.

Now, normally, it's your body that fires your muscles by sending electrical impulses from your brain

through your central nervous system.

But an EMS device allows you to engage those deep, intense, and complete

muscular contractions without actually activating or stressing your central nervous system,

not to mention your joints and your tendons. The coolest thing is that your body,

well, it doesn't even know the difference between a voluntary contraction

and an electrically stimulated one. Your silly body only recognizes that there is a stimulus

and then it reacts to it accordingly. Now, okay, if this sounds a little wacky to you,

well, don't worry, there is science to back this up. And in a study that was published

in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning that looked into whether or not EMS could help elite

athletes gain a performance edge, while they concluded that, and I quote, the analysis shows

that trained and elite athletes, despite their already high level of fitness,

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