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Profile of Whole Body Electromyostimulation Training Users—A Pilot Study
(1) Introduction: Whole Body Electromyostimulation is a technological and time efficient personal training practiced all over the world. With the increase of practitioners in the last 10 years, the need to study more about practitioners has arisen, so this pilot study aims to trace a user profile of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9029882/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35457575 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084711 |
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author | Rodrigues-Santana, Luiz Louro, Hugo Denche-Zamorano, Ángel Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás Adsuar, Jose Carmelo |
author_facet | Rodrigues-Santana, Luiz Louro, Hugo Denche-Zamorano, Ángel Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás Adsuar, Jose Carmelo |
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description | (1) Introduction: Whole Body Electromyostimulation is a technological and time efficient personal training practiced all over the world. With the increase of practitioners in the last 10 years, the need to study more about practitioners has arisen, so this pilot study aims to trace a user profile of this method through the analysis of socio-demographic data for a better understand of the profile of people looking for this type of training to improve the effectiveness of the intervention and develop programs that are in accordance with the motivation of practitioners. (2) Methods: 270 users from 5 countries answered an online questionnaire with socio-demographic questions. Data were treated using descriptive statistics. Possible differences between sexes and between groups were analyzed by means of non-parametric statistical tests: Mann–Whitney U-test (continuous variables); in addition to studying possible dependence relationships and differences between proportions, using the Chi-square statistic with pairwise z-test using the Bonferroni correction (categorical variables). (3) Results: Middle-aged women are the main user of this type of training. The majority of WB-EMS users do another type of physical activity with significant difference between men and woman (p < 0.05) men are more active than women. Weight loss, health and wellness and muscle mass increase are the main goals of the WB-EMS users. There are significant differences in weight loss and rehabilitation between genders (p < 0.05). Women look much more than men to lose weight and men look more than women to rehabilitation. (4) Conclusions: The user profile is a physically active woman, aged 35–49 years, with normal weight and high educational level, who carries out twice weekly full body electrostimulation training with the goals of weight loss, health and/or wellness and muscle mass gain. |
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spelling | pubmed-90298822022-04-23 Profile of Whole Body Electromyostimulation Training Users—A Pilot Study Rodrigues-Santana, Luiz Louro, Hugo Denche-Zamorano, Ángel Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás Adsuar, Jose Carmelo Int J Environ Res Public Health Article (1) Introduction: Whole Body Electromyostimulation is a technological and time efficient personal training practiced all over the world. With the increase of practitioners in the last 10 years, the need to study more about practitioners has arisen, so this pilot study aims to trace a user profile of this method through the analysis of socio-demographic data for a better understand of the profile of people looking for this type of training to improve the effectiveness of the intervention and develop programs that are in accordance with the motivation of practitioners. (2) Methods: 270 users from 5 countries answered an online questionnaire with socio-demographic questions. Data were treated using descriptive statistics. Possible differences between sexes and between groups were analyzed by means of non-parametric statistical tests: Mann–Whitney U-test (continuous variables); in addition to studying possible dependence relationships and differences between proportions, using the Chi-square statistic with pairwise z-test using the Bonferroni correction (categorical variables). (3) Results: Middle-aged women are the main user of this type of training. The majority of WB-EMS users do another type of physical activity with significant difference between men and woman (p < 0.05) men are more active than women. Weight loss, health and wellness and muscle mass increase are the main goals of the WB-EMS users. There are significant differences in weight loss and rehabilitation between genders (p < 0.05). Women look much more than men to lose weight and men look more than women to rehabilitation. (4) Conclusions: The user profile is a physically active woman, aged 35–49 years, with normal weight and high educational level, who carries out twice weekly full body electrostimulation training with the goals of weight loss, health and/or wellness and muscle mass gain. MDPI 2022-04-13 /pmc/articles/PMC9029882/ /pubmed/35457575 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084711 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Rodrigues-Santana, Luiz Louro, Hugo Denche-Zamorano, Ángel Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás Adsuar, Jose Carmelo Profile of Whole Body Electromyostimulation Training Users—A Pilot Study |
title | Profile of Whole Body Electromyostimulation Training Users—A Pilot Study |
title_full | Profile of Whole Body Electromyostimulation Training Users—A Pilot Study |
title_fullStr | Profile of Whole Body Electromyostimulation Training Users—A Pilot Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Profile of Whole Body Electromyostimulation Training Users—A Pilot Study |
title_short | Profile of Whole Body Electromyostimulation Training Users—A Pilot Study |
title_sort | profile of whole body electromyostimulation training users—a pilot study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9029882/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35457575 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084711 |
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