Electric muscle stimulation (EMS) is on everyone’s radar these days, and for a good reason. By sending electronic pulses to your nerve fibers exactly like the ones that your brain sends, it creates involuntary muscle contractions, enhancing your training by maximizing muscular effort. This, in turn, can lead to better muscle strength and density, more explosiveness, faster recovery, and better local blood circulation.
What’s more, because you can use EMS when you’re at rest, you’re truly making the most of your recovery time.
For these reasons and more, many athletes of all levels are flocking to EMS devices — like Brooke Wells and Mat Fraser — with one of the most popular being Compex.
Compex Muscle Stimulator restores strength, tones your muscles, sculpts your body, and helps you relax and recover faster. It’s your intelligent training partner. Get yours today!
What to Consider When Investing in a Compex Device
Whether you want to increase your strength, recover faster, or rehabilitate from an injury, take note of all the technologies and features Compex has to offer you. There are three major features to consider.
1. Wired vs. Wireless
There is a key differentiator between both ranges other than the cables: the Muscle-Intelligence Technology is available on all four channels on the wireless units and it’s available on one channel on the wired units. The wireless units are smaller and more convenient to use, considering they’re cable free.
2. Muscle Intelligence
Technologies Available
There a total of five different Muscle-Intelligence Technologies. They are:
Check what Mi-technologies are available on each model, and remember: The wireless units have them available on all four channels and the wired units on one channel only.
3. Programs Available
The Compex Range starts with a minimum of 10 programs and goes up to 40 programs in total. They are divided into five different categories:
- CONDITIONING
Aimed to improve the capabilities of your muscles (eg: strength, explosive strength, endurance) by allowing you to specifically target slow twitch or fast twitch muscle fibres.
- FITNESS
Aimed to tone, sculpt, and build your muscles.
- RECOVERY/MASSAGE
Aimed to increase blood flow, reduce muscle tension, and promote a relaxing endorphinic effect to accelerate restoration of the muscular qualities.
- PAIN MANAGEMENT
Aimed to relieve and/or prevent aching pains, increase endorphin production and drainage of acid metabolites and free radicals.
- REHABILITATION
Aimed to regain muscle volume, strength, and speed of contraction. Also assisting to reinforce the brain-muscle connection.
Check out The WOD Life’s complete range of Compex devices today.
