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When I saw 'burn 500 calories in just 20 minutes,' my interest was immediately piqued! The personal trainer, who studied Physical and Sport Education at St Mary's Twickenham, revealed how people can supplement their EMS training with running or pilates, for example, or can see results by simply heading to their studio once or twice a week. Holly added: 'Stimulation penetrates much deeper into the muscle fibre than what most people can achieve when going to the gym in a conventional set up with lifting weights.'

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'EMS is always full body so you need to ensure three or four days in between so muscles can recover.' Obviously when you go to the gym you are able to go every day because you are training particular body parts and the others are getting rested. 'You can do EMS once or twice a week because you need to spread out your muscle recovery.

Speaking at the Hammersmith studio, Holly told us: 'EMS has eight major muscle groups firing up and going into the full contraction simultaneously so that is why it is able to be 20 minutes because you are constantly doing a full body workout

The EMS device sends a finely tuned electrical signal to the muscles, causing them to contract which mimics the natural signal sent by the brain to the muscles but is more powerful.Ĭombined with a ‘free will contraction’, such as a squat, and the external stimulus from the EMS device, individuals activate up to 98 per cent of their muscle fibre.ĮMS trainer Holly Isaacs at Surge Fitness in Bank, London, revealed how the range of workouts you can do on the device make it suitable for elite athletes, people with injuries and everyone in between. Emily was put through her paces (Image: Emily Webber)Ī combination of lunges, squats and punches felt like I was wading through treacle as I pushed against the muscle contractions in the session which has memberships starting from £29 per workout.

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