OVERVIEW: PowerDot - muscle stimulator controlled from your smartphone
Sport And Fitness Medgadgets / / December 19, 2019
Electrical muscle stimulators, which are often referred to as Muscle Stimulation, belong to the category of things, whose reputation is hopelessly spoiled unfair advertising "store on the couch." It is time to explain that in fact these gadgets are, and what they can not. To tell and show the example we miostimulyatory PowerDotControlled via iOS and Android-devices.
What is a modern portable muscle pacemaker? It is quite compact and very light device with a built-in power supply.
Previously, portable stimulator operates on batteries. Now they were replaced by more practical and capacious lithium-ion battery, rechargeable via a standard microUSB-cable.
The same microUSB-port is used to connect the wires to the electrodes.
Self-adhesive electrodes are attached to wires and a pacemaker using buckles, buttons.
Full training miostimulyatory to work takes about a minute.
PowerDot key feature is the lack of a control module in miostimulyatory housing. Instead of buttons and screen the user is prompted to download and install PowerDot app for iOS or Android.
Price: Free
Price: Free
Using a mobile device to manage the one hand allows to reduce the dimensions and miostimulyatory power consumption, and on the other - it makes it much easier and clearer the process of working with gadget.
The screen of any smartphone is clearly better than those that put in miostimulyatory. The large display size allows not only more clearly and visualize key information about the devaysa, but also provide User additional data, including the device helps to strengthen and to take the correct position during stimulation.
During the initial setup, the application creates profiles showing the main physical indicators and targets, on the basis of which the parameters of the electrical pulses are corrected.
The user does not need to know or remember any settings for a particular exercise. Everything is adjusted automatically.
PowerDot Main menu contains a list of 11 types of training with a total duration of, as well as recommendations on the optimal use of a program.
The most important thing here - this is the recommendation. Although they are in the English language, their understanding is very important, especially for those who are waiting for electrostimulation of a miracle.
Please note, there has never encountered the phrase "instead of the usual training," or "as a basic training." Electrical stimulation in any case is not and can not become a substitute for classic skiing. It should be applied to the basic training or between classes. Relaxation and massage programs, respectively, can take place at any time as desired and well-being.
Myostimulator - this addition, a companion and assistant, preparer, warm-up, maintenance or relaxing, massage and restorative function, but no more.
Do not get to lie on the couch with attachments to the stomach electrostimulator, eat dumplings with mayonnaise and hope that the magical device will remove the fat and gives a flat stomach with cubes.
Unfortunately, those "shops on the couch" miostimulyatory positioned just so. People bought the device, used them as the sole and sufficient means of correction, a set of muscle mass and weight loss, but nothing happened.
In fact, if the electrical stimulators can replace the classic sports, the professional athletes, bodybuilders and fitness models would be the first to cast their gyms and all sorts of chemistry going on the easier and safer option.
Each of the programs presented in PowerDot in turn divided into a group of muscles. After you select the muscle group the user sees the image with the correct placement and miostimulyatory button to start the workout.
The exercise begins with zero intensity and can be enhanced by hand to a desired level. training interface contains the current phase of the timer and the time that the battery indicator miostimulyatory and also pause button, the early termination of employment and the forced transition to the next phase exercises.
For greater clarity, we took a few fragments of the biceps workout mode "to force" with the pacemaker. Such activity should be checked before the main power hand drill.
Please note, for all the time the hand was never especially tense or bent, that is, there was no effort on the part of man in general. Myostimulator really able to get the muscles to contract strongly and cause sufficient voltage. However, anyone who even slightly engaged, for example, power sports, will tell you that the effects of such stimulation is not the same. For example, demonstrated higher strength training biceps feeling not given sufficient blood tide and other sensations characteristic for two days after a severe load on the muscles.
Another person, not involved in sports in general, clearly felt the effect of the pacemaker. In his case, there were characteristic for untrained muscles feel when they experience unusual stress level.
Such a scenario is partly fits the goals that were set before the first created by Muscle Stimulation: Rehabilitation people with muscle atrophy and maintain muscle tone without the ability to devote sufficient time to the physical activity. Similarly, one can use PowerDot.
As you can see, the problem of modern pacemakers are not that they can not cope with the stated functions, and initially incorrect positioning of this category of devices.
Perhaps it sadden people still believe in the existence of the easy way to achieve good physical shape, but that is the reality. Of course, the electrical impulses caused by the contraction of muscles expend some energy, but these costs are too low to compensate for the absence in the life of sports and the proper approach to nutrition.
Modern myostimulator - is a simple and easy way to prepare the muscles for the upcoming stress and relax them after a hard workout. The use of electrical stimulation will give greater effect on exercise, reduces the risk of injury and accelerate recovery, but without any effort on your part pacemaker will not help you.
Layfhaker is grateful to online store Medgadgets.ru for providing the test device.