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Intensify Your Training, Increase Your Gains W/ Combined EMG + Regular Training For 30% Greater Muscle Size Gains

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Voluntary & NMES contractions for Monster Quads? You are always looking for new ways to improve your training outcome? Scientists from the Department of Physiotherapy at the University Cardenal Herrera-CEU might have something for you, then. In their latest study, V. Benavent-Caballer, P. Rosado-Calatayud, E. Segura-Ortí, J.J. Amer-Cuenca, and J.F. Lisón tried to elucidate, whether conducting low intensity resistance training in conjunction with  neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) would provide not just an additional growth stimulus, but also corresponding increases in physical performance, muscle cross-sectional area (CSA) and the capacity to perform daily tasks 22 in exactly those subjects researchers will resort to, when they're looking for generous funding for studies the outcome of which is not going to pay off in form of scripts for a new patentable drug: Older adults living in a geriatric nursing home. Want to get stronger, bigger, faster and leaner? Don...
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Shock Your Calves to Grow Stronger & Recover Faster: $650 EMS Device Works. Is it Really Worth the Money?

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You will have heard about "calf shocker" routines, but would you have imagined that it takes electro shocks? I don't know how often I've been writing about the truth and fallacy of the good old saying "no pain, no gain", here at the SuppVersity . And while it certainly has its merit for the faint-hearted, the notion that "pain" will entail "gain" is fallacious, also because it suggests that allowing for adequate recovery would be inferior to digging a deep black "hole of pain" ( suggested read : " The SuppVersity Athlete's Triad Series "). And while I know that you know that this ain't the way to go, I am also honest enough to admit that I often catch myself pondering the incorporation of intensity techniques, additional exercises or some fat burning minutes of HIIT, but rarely thinks about the undeniable benefits of things like the hot baths for pre-regeneration and other means to speed up recovery ( le...
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Blood Flow Restriction, Where Are We? "Don't Hold Your Breath", the Valsalva Maneuver Revisited. Ageless Growth, It's Never Too Late to Start. Plus: EMS as Recovery Tool & HIIT to Heal a Scarred Heart After Myocardial Infarctions

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I guess it is a cultural thing that there is apparently a lot more of persuading to be done in the US and Europe to familiarize trainees with (a) the idea of limiting the blood supply to their musculature and (b) the notion that heavy weights are not all that counts. After the huge success of the SuppVersity Exercise Science Week ( read all posts ), I did actually intend to put a greater emphasis on training related news in the future. Unfortunately, the number of pertinent papers that don't look at the benefits obese post-menopausal women can derive from walking on a treadmill in the fat burning zone is very limited (Please don't misunderstand this as an offense against the obese women. I anything it's meant as an offense against "experts" still advising those women to do just that). If you look closely enough, there are still a couple of newsworthy papers that have been published within the last weeks... and let's be honest, in the end it does not reall...
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Electrical Stimulation Improves Clearance of Lactic Acid After Anaerobic Activity in Collegiate Athletes. EMS Turns Out to Be as Effective as 'Traditional' Massage Therapy.

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Image 1: The EU-940 EMS device the scientists used in their study to activate the vastus medialis and lateralis (high- lighted in the image) of their subjects, is very different from the average EMS based "abdominal toner" advertised on TV. Even here, at the SuppVersity, news on ergogenics, i.e. things that improve (athletic) performance, are usually about a pill, a fancy plant extract or another 'superfood' . Today's news, however is about a much more "physical" means to improve anaerobic exercise performance, decrease lactate accumulation and improve regeneration: Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS). EMS? Now, many of you will probably remember those TV spots, where you were told that "Abmaster" & Co would transform your pot-belly into a "six-packed" attractant for the opposite sex , if you did not miss this "unique" opportunity and bought one of those electro-shockers no ...
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