Do they work for muscle growth? Anyone use them for training?
I got one prescribed for my lower back injury and it has been helping me these past few weeks. Since I have been out of the gym and curious/bored I have been messing around with putting the pads on different muscle groups. I did not notice a single thing in till I put them on my biceps. I have never had a sicker pump, and it took four days for my arms to fully recover. I did it again yesterday and had to write this post because I am sore as hell again.
I know this can not replace lifting, but I swear I feel like had the best bicep workout ever.
Anyone involve EMS in their routine? Am I sore from fast contractions/twitching or just wasting batteries?
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08-31-2010, 04:26 PM #1
Electronic Muscle Stimulator (Tens Unit)
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Yeah, I know my legs benefit much more from doing hundreds of bodyweight squats vs squats with 400+ pounds. I feel more tired doing 500 bodyweight squats, they must be working.
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Electric stimulation is several things but not what you think...A tens unit is used to block pain at the nerve level. If you place it on a motor point(where the muscle activity center is) you can get a contraction but the cycle of a tens unit is that it stays pretty constant. So you will fatigue the muscle but this will not be the stimulus to get it to become larger. A muscle stimulator which I do not believe you have for your back has more ability to cycle the contractility of the muscle and it does work at the muscle level is good at awakening a muscle that has not been firing, think spinal cord injury folks- the late Christopher Reeve and how he was able to walk when paralyzed from the neck down. I have not seen any studies done on regular people to build muscle with the unit. Again I have used it when people say injure their knee. Not for pain control but to improve a muscular balance. If you think it helps then use it, it may just be the placebo you are looking for!
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12-30-2016, 05:02 PM #12
I have an Omron HV-F128. It works well and the re-usable electrode pads last for ages.
https://www.amazon.com/Omron-Electro...rds=omron+tens
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12-30-2016, 05:45 PM #13
I received this unit free with an order of stuff for our dogs. Works surprisingly well. However, this is the only tens unit I have ever used. Curious what the more expensive units offer.
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