EMS Medical Training

EMS Medical Training at Physio Clinic Suchánek uses the Miha Bodytec — a German-certified medical-grade EMS device — to stimulate up to 95% of muscle fibres simultaneously while you perform guided exercise movements. A 30-minute session is equivalent in muscular load to a significantly longer conventional gym session. Because the electrical impulses bypass the joints and tendons and act directly on the muscle, the format is suitable for people in post-injury or post-surgical recovery, postpartum women, seniors, and anyone who needs effective muscle activation without joint loading.

Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) training at Physio Clinic Suchánek uses whole-body EMS delivered through the Miha Bodytec — a medical-grade device manufactured in Germany and certified as a medical product, distinguishing it from lower-grade consumer EMS garments. The system delivers low-frequency electrical impulses simultaneously to 10 muscle groups via electrode-embedded vest and shorts worn over moistened undersuits. The physiological mechanism: normal voluntary exercise recruits muscle fibres through a hierarchical process — slow-twitch fibres first, fast-twitch second. Submaximal effort in conventional training leaves a portion of the fast-twitch (type II) muscle fibre pool underactivated. Whole-body EMS bypasses this hierarchy by providing a direct synchronised stimulus to both slow- and fast-twitch fibres simultaneously, achieving activation rates that the evidence places at up to 95% of the total motor unit pool — a recruitment level unreachable by voluntary effort alone. The training session at Suchánek runs 30 minutes (the first session is 60 minutes to allow calibration of the suit's impulse parameters to your body composition and tolerance). The therapist or EMS trainer guides you through a sequence of functional movements — squats, lunges, hip hinges, rotational exercises, and balance challenges — while the device operates. The protocol is individually calibrated: the intensity of stimulation across each of the 10 zones (chest, abdomen, back, gluteals, quadriceps, hamstrings, hip flexors, arms) is set independently and progressed session by session. Who benefits: time-constrained individuals who cannot dedicate an hour to conventional gym training; post-injury or post-surgical patients who need muscle activation without joint loading (hip or knee replacement recovery, ligament rehabilitation, spinal fusion recovery); postpartum women seeking core and pelvic girdle strengthening while managing diastasis recti; seniors experiencing sarcopenia who require muscle mass maintenance; and athletes in pre-season activation or injury-prevention phases. Expected outcomes: consistent weekly EMS training over 8–12 weeks is associated with increases in muscle strength, reductions in body fat percentage, and improvements in functional movement quality. The clinic's EMS trainers (Viola Kopřivová and Matyáš Vyvijal) monitor and document your progress at each session. Preparation: do not train on a full stomach. Wear or bring close-fitting moisture-wicking base layers (required for electrode contact). Stay well hydrated before and after. Avoid EMS if you have a pacemaker, epilepsy, acute fever, or recent surgery.