The EMS trainer working with journalist Nick Harding on his quest for a faster beach body was clear on the many benefits of Electro Muscle Stimulation exercise. “EMS is a full-body workout that stimulates deep muscles most people don’t engage.” EMS training is also “time-efficient, and very good for people who are intimidated by the idea of gyms, as all sessions are one-to-one with a personal trainer.” In addition, EMS sessions are “low-impact, so there is less risk of injury, and the exercises you do during sessions are technically simplistic.”

As Nick points out in his Daily Telegraph article https://www.telegraph.co.uk/beauty/body/cheat-way-beach-body-50/ EMS workouts are short at only 20 minutes but you get “plenty of bang for your buck”. And he underlines that this is not some kind of fitness fad; there’s plenty of science behind the fat burning properties of EMS sessions. A “2015 study put a cohort of untrained and physically inactive men over 65 with cardio-metabolic diseases and abdominal obesity through 14 weeks of whole-body EMS training, totalling 30 minutes a week.” And the results were impressive. “Each participant showed significant improvements in lean body mass and total fat reduction, as well as a tendency to lose abdominal fat and ‘significant’ improvements in strength and power.” That’s the power of EMS training. But how did Nick find the actual EMS sessions?