Body concern
Muscle Toning
Muscle laxity is reduced tone and definition in specific muscle groups that exercise alone does not adequately address, most commonly the abdomen, glutes and thighs. HIFEM electromagnetic treatment stimulates supramaximal contractions that build muscle and reduce localised fat in the same session. At The London Road Clinic, InShape delivers this technology without downtime. From £200 per session.
Understanding the cause
What's happening in your skin
Voluntary exercise doesn't fully recruit the muscle fibres that matter most
Fast-twitch, highest-threshold motor units are rarely fully recruited through conventional training. HIFEM bypasses the voluntary pathway and forces contractions that exercise cannot.
Voluntary contractions, the kind generated by squats, planks or any conventional exercise, recruit muscle fibres sequentially, starting with the slowest-twitch and moving up. This is efficient for movement. It is not efficient for building maximum fibre density, because the highest-threshold fast-twitch fibres are rarely fully recruited. The deeper layers of the abdomen, particularly the transverse abdominis and the deeper portions of the rectus, are difficult to isolate without technically demanding training. For most people, they remain undertrained relative to the superficial layers regardless of exercise volume.
Pregnancy, weight change and age compound the problem
Natural decline in muscle protein synthesis from the mid-thirties onwards, combined with significant weight change or pregnancy, reduces baseline muscle tone in ways that training alone is slow to reverse.
Pregnancy, significant weight change and the natural decline in muscle protein synthesis from the mid-thirties onwards compound both problems. The muscle is there. The capacity to recruit and stress it maximally, through voluntary means, is not. HIFEM bypasses the voluntary pathway entirely. It delivers electromagnetic energy at a frequency and intensity that forces supramaximal contractions, recruiting muscle fibres that exercise does not reach, at approximately 20,000 contractions per session, a rate that no amount of voluntary training could produce in the same timeframe.
