How it started

History: How EMS has been evolving

2,000 years ago

EMS stands for electric muscle stimulation. At Impulse Studio you do a variety of dynamic functional fitness workouts. You wear a functional vest with electrodes in it. These electrodes produces bio-electrical impulses, which let all major muscle groups in the body contract at the same time. And that makes the exercises under EMS much more intense and therefore more effective than normal conventional fitness training. The EMS principle is not new. It has been used for decades in rehabilitation, pro athletes and physiotherapists. Also the roman used it for treating back and shoulder problems.

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News from the Brain Research says that electrified students can calculate faster. Researchers have students passed electromagnetic pulses on the head and then, let them solve tricky math tasks. The turbo boost for the brain actually works during the study.

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It is a pain relief without pills. The electrotherapy brings a lot in motion. The blood vessels dilate and inflammation substances are washed away. In which the body produces its own pain-relieving chemical messengers!

2009

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The German Sports University Cologne (DSHS) tested the EMS method for the first time even in the risk of group of heart patients (heart failure). Patients have well received the training and sports scientists were able to achieve a significant result of physical strength; and increase endurance performance after 8 weeks.

2008

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Surges improve memory. Actually, Canadian researchers wanted to heal a man from his obesity, but then the power surges were accidentally broken that the memory relapses his brain. Since then, hopes lies in the medicine and science field to find new solution to fight against Alzheimer's disease and memory loss.

2005

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Scientists can relieve depression with brain implants. There is a new hope for people who suffer from severe depression since psychotherapy or medication had no effect. According to a study, when power surges, it can be sent directly into the brain to alleviate depression.

2004

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When weak current flow through the brain, anyone shines with significantly better language skills according to its assumption. US researchers have already tested the fitness program for brain to hundreds of volunteers.

1991

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EMS are highly valued as a gentle form of therapy after injury or surgery in a patient’s treatment. EMS is used both in prevention as well as for the treatment of specific clinical cases such as back pain, muscle imbalances, urinary incontinence, pelvic floor weakness and muscle tension.

1990

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The EMS training does not need any weights attracted by the gravity. That is why EMS has reportedly been used in space by NASA and ESA. Well - so NE 100 kg dumbbell weights outside the gravity almost nothing. That means no gravity - no muscle stimulation. And without stimulation, no contraction and therefore no muscle growth.

1987

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Professor of physical therapy at Washington University in St. Louis, trained a 28-year police and weightlifter named Derrick Crass with EMS. Crass was preparing for the Olympics in 1988. He trained with both conventional training and EMS training. After two weeks, he was able to improve his maximum weights around 20 kg. This increase, he kept training for four weeks then stopped exercising. Then, he started for two weeks again...

1979

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Professional bodybuilder Mike Mentzer (Mr. Universe 1979), famous for developing HIT (High Intensity Training) training method tested EMS Training. Both HIT and EMS are aimed at producing maximum muscular effort without overtraining. Mike had achieved visible results.

1975

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The Canadian bodybuilder John Cardillo, wrote a series of articles in which he paid tribute to the virtues of the "Faraday training". A tribute to Michael Faraday, an English scientist and discoverer of the principle "Faraday cage", which today serves as the basis for the screening of electrostatic fields.

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Russian top athletes who had used EMS as a component in their training plan, they achieved outstanding results at the Olympic Games (1972) in Munich. Valeri Borzov won gold on the distances of 100 and 200 meters.

1971

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The Russian scientist Jakov Kots, reported an increase of more than 35% of muscle strength, the speed and overall performance could be improved a lot after a several-weeks of EMS training.

1970

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The first study was published, demonstrating that with EMS training, over 90% of the total skeletal muscle fibers can be stimulated. They were detected within a few weeks and showed muscle strength gains up to 40%.

1961

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In the 60s, Soviet sports scientists test EMS training, which is also referred to for the first time. Specifically, they tested EMS as a passive performance-enhancing method for suitability for use by their professional elite athletes to achieve muscular fine tuning. Shortly thereafter, EMS training was also investigated in the field of rehabilitation.

1930

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It began with the large-scale connection of households to a public power grid. This is actually the time when electric current has become indispensable to people.

1902

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The Frenchman Leduc designed the first marketable electromagnetic induction based on stimulation device. Leduc treated muscle paralysis and neuralgia successfully by using electrical stimulation device. Shortly thereafter, a German company by the name of Sanitas, brought the stimulation device called "Multostat" into the market and it was primarily used for medical purposes such as electrolysis and galvanization.

1877

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The American Thomas Alva Edison, succeeded with a truly important invention. He developed the light bulb and also incidentally the film projector.

1866

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Werner von Siemens found the dynamo-electric principle, which he used it in the development of the first electric generator that he markets as an innovative ma

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The German naturalist, Alexander von Humboldt describes on his famous trip to South America, the electricity of eel organs. What Alexander did not know then, most of the part of the electric eel consists of electric organs, actually reformed muscles which can release high voltages to defend and attack.

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History: How EMS has been evolving

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