Setting the Intensity Levels

Customize the intensity to ensure your comfort.

For a muscle under stimulation, the number of recruited fibers depends of the intensity. It is therefore absolutely necessary to use maximum intensities so as to involve the greatest possible number of fibers. Below a significant intensity level, it is pointless for an average user to do stimulation sessions. In fact, the number of fibers involved in the stimulated muscle is too low for any interesting improvement in the performance of that muscle.

The progress of a stimulated muscle will be all the greater if a high number of its fibers are recruited by the Compex. If only 1/10 of the fibers of a muscle work under stimulation, only 1/10 can progress. That is obviously much less appreciable than if 9/10 of the fibers work and can therefore progress. You should therefore take care to work with maximum intensities, i.e., always at the limit of what you can support.

There is obviously no need for you to reach the maximum current strength right from the first contraction of the first session of the first cycle. If you have never used Compex stimulation before, you should do only half of the desired program during the first 3 sessions with sufficient intensity to produce powerful muscular contractions to familiarize yourself with the technique of electrostimulation. You can then start your first stimulation cycle with your own specific program and level. After the warm-up, which must produce very clear muscular twitches, you should raise the intensity progressively, from contraction to contraction, during the first three or four minutes of the work sequence.

You should also progress with intensities used from session to session, particularly during the first three sessions of a cycle. A normally prepared person will already reach very significant intensities during the fourth session.