Whole-Body Electromyostimulation
Improves Performance-Related
Parameters in Runners
Project
The aim of this study (see the credits below) was to study the effects of a 6-session (one perweek) WB-EMS.
Training intervention on maximum oxygen uptake, aerobic and gas exchange thresholds, running economy, and muscular power in malerecreational runners.
CONCLUSION
The medical results suggest: a 6-week WB-EMS training program (six training sessions) combined with a significant reduction in endurance training, improved VO2max, VT1, VT2, RE, and vertical jump, which are related to running performance in recreational runners. WB-EMS also could be an effective training methodology to produce improvements in performance of recreational runners despite reductions in endurance training – and to avoid training when aerobic training is reduced for certain reasons.
WB-EMS once a week combined with a relatively low volume of endurance training can be used to improve physiological performance attributes and muscular power capacities within a relatively short time in male recreational runners.
What next?
Further studies are needed to examine the physiological mechanisms that produce these improvements.
Authors
Amaro-Gahete, Francisco & De la O, Alejandro&Sánchez-Delgado, Guillermo&RoblesGonzález, Lidia&JuradoFasoli, Lucas &Ruiz, Jonatan&Gutiérrez, Angel.(2018).
Frontiers in Physiology. 9. 10.3389/fphys.2018.01576.
Francisco J. Amaro-Gahete1,2*, Alejandro De-la-O1, GuillermoSanchez-Delgado2, LidiaRobles-Gonzalez1, Lucas Jurado-Fasoli1, Jonatan R. Ruiz2and AngelGutierrez1*
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