BionicGym: Igniting Calorie Burn and Accelerating Weight Loss through Cutting-Edge Electrical Stimulation

It seems everybody has one of these “stimulation” gadgets in their wardrobe…bought in the hope that they could help them get fit and lose weight.  It seems that the technology has now evolved and can actually deliver the hoped for results.  For the first time, a stimulation product, called BionicGym, can get the heart racing, people sweating and breathless, even on the couch, while watching TV!  And it is all proven in peer-reviewed scientific studies, cleared by the FDA and even tested in zero-gravity with the European Space Agency.

BionicGym uses Mother Nature’s hack to burn calories “without doing anything”.  It was invented by an Irish medical doctor, Louis Crowe, who noted that as he got colder and colder he shivered not more quickly but more deeply, bringing in more and more muscle mass contracting at a ‘magic’ rate.  That’s how Nature maximized warming up, i.e. calorie burning.  To find out more Dr Crowe would do masochistic dips in the wild Atlantic Ocean getting colder and colder just to observe what happened.  He noted that the muscles have a shivering frequency (around 7-8Hz) that burns the most calories.  Surprisingly, if the contractions became more frequent the calories burnt would go down, not up!  If he could mimic shivering – but without the cold – using technology then vigorous exercise would become possible.

So how does the tech mimic shivering and burn calories?

Wraps goes around your legs… they contain sticky pads that transmit tiny electrical impulses in a targeted way.  These trigger your nerves to contract your muscles.  You control it with an app on your phone.  For some, it feels a little bit strange at first.  As you train with it you rapidly get used to it and you can increase the intensity.  Some people sweat on their very first day; others take several weeks to train up.  In their studies they were typically able to get people exercising at a rate of 550 calories per hour.  With some fit people reaching rates of  up to 1,000 -  extraordinarily intense exercise.  (But most people use it at low levels, the equivalent, say, of walking not running).

Can it be used for weight loss?

Yes.  But sensibly people are recommended to add in a diet.  Long-term, diets by themselves tend not to work, so adding exercise is necessary. But if you have a lot of weight to lose you’d need to burn many thousands of calories through exercise alone to achieve enough calorie deficit for meaningful weight loss.  The joy of BionicGym is that you can leave it on exercising you at low levels as you type emails, potter about the house or read the Washington Post.  If you burn just a couple of hundred calories per hour… but do this for 4 or 5 hours, say, 6 days a week… the total rapidly builds up.  Add in some sensible dieting and you’ve a whopping calorie deficit for the week.

Like shivering, BionicGym is a particularly sugar-hungry form of exercise.  This is due to the type of muscle fibers it targets.  This means it works really well with Keto diets.  People go into “keto” or ketosis when they deplete their sugar reserves (glycogen).  Exercise, particularly sugar-hungry exercise like HIIT training or BionicGym, can accelerate you into keto by burning up your sugar reserves.

Likewise for people doing Intermittent Fasting.  A lot of the benefits of Intermittent Fasting happen as you deplete your sugar reserves.  BionicGym can get you to that spot more quickly.

There are lots of testimonials on the website with people describing their journey – including huge weight loss – and they now have over ten thousand in their main Facebook Community and five thousand more in a women’s-only group.

What about people who can’t do regular exercise?

Lots of people simply have little time to squeeze in regular exercise into their day and use BionicGym instead.  But there is another group of people who simply can’t do regular exercise.  E.g. they are injured, their joints can’t take the pounding of running or maybe they are in a wheelchair.  Because it doesn’t move the joints and can even be done lying down, BionicGym can give lots of people a good workout where there is little alternative.  It should be noted that BionicGym always emphasize that their tech is not a medical treatment and anybody with a serious condition should discuss this with their own doctor.

There is even a forum that has recently started for users with “barriers to exercise” to help, support and encourage each other on their fitness journey.

BionicGym’s mission “is to help make the world healthier, fitter and hopefully even happier through exercise".  It has begun to shake up the world of fitness and weight one muscle contraction at a time – all from the comfort of the users’ couch.

LK got in great shape after using BionicGym, a workout gear that uses electrical impulses to contract your muscles.