Compex Sport Compex Stimulator impulse kit sport fitness

Testimonial - cbike's Fred Richard

Ten years ago, while racing, I crashed and broke my right femur. After surgery, I ended up with a titanium rod drilled into the middle of my femur to keep the bone together. A few days after surgery, physical therapists had me out of bed and using a walker to get around.

I was shocked by how quickly the muscles in my right leg had atrophied. For someone who was in great shape, it was disheartening how weak I had become after my accident. When the swelling began to subside, I started seeing a physical therapist three days a week for two months. Aside from the standard physical thrapy routine, my therapist used a Compex muscle stimulator to target my quadricep and hamstring muscles to rebuild strength. It was the first time I used an electro-stimulator and was amazed by the results. I convinced my therapist to let me borrow the Compex unit to use on days that I was not scheduled for physical therapy. Each time I finished a Compex session, I felt less fragile and more like my old self. It had been a long road to recovery, but I eventually I was able to get back on my bike.

Ten years later, I am still using Compex. On a daily basis, my Compex Sport Kit has become an interegal part of my training regimen. I use also use it for warming up and recovery on the days I cycle. When I am off the bike, I use the various fitness programs for endurance and strength.

Compex Sport is designed for serious athletes and general fitness enthusiasts who wish to enhance their competitive performance and gain a true competitive advantage! Elite athletes and sport enthusiasts throughout Europe use Compex Sport to enhance their training and improve their athletic performance. The first sports muscle stimulator cleared by the FDA for sale in the USA, Compex Sport is proven in European clinical tests to build muscle size and strength, as well as improve endurance and aid in faster muscle recovery on a post event basis. Compex Sport includes four training programs and two special programs.

With electrostimulation, the excitation is directly produced at the motor nerve, rather than by the brain. Compex Muscle Stimulator produces powerful muscle contractions through "optimal", safe and comfortable electrical impulses delivered at the motor nerves. A unique training planner on CD-ROM guides athletes in customizing these electrical impulses to target their workouts for power, endurance, speed or resistance. This enables athletes to enhance their training and improve muscle performance for any sport.

The operating principle of electrostimulation is very simple and faithfully reproduces the processes involved in muscle contraction under the control of our brain. When we decide to contract a muscle, the brain sends the order in the form of electrical currents that travel at high speed along the nerve fibers. At the end of the run, these electrical currents excite the motor nerve, which then passes the information to the immediate surroundings of the muscle, triggering a muscle contraction.

With electrostimulation, the excitation is directly produced at the motor nerve by means of 'optimal' electrical impulses that guarantee efficacy, safety and comfort in use. Thanks to this process, the muscle cannot distinguish between a voluntary contraction (caused by the brain) and an electrically induced contraction: the work that it produces is the same irrespective of the nature of the order.

The Optimal Impulse

The high quality electronic components of the Compex device generate optimal impulses. On the one hand, the impulses must fulfill efficacy criteria, since they have to be very strong to allow optimal recruitment of muscle fibers. On the other hand, the impulse must be safe and comfortable, with the power being perfectly controlled to avoid electrical pain or burns. Delivered by a current generator, the optimal impulses generated by the Compex device are perfectly rectangular, biphasic and symmetric, with duration depending on the muscle being stimulated.

A sprinter versus a climber; each requires widely different physical preparation to achieve peak performance.

Strength, speed, explosive power, resistance, endurance programs, you can tailor your training program to suit your personal needs. If you currently employ a variety of training methods, you can combine the following four training programs to enhance your athletic performance:

Endurance Training
Develops the oxidative power of the slow muscle fibers (i.e. your capacity to take oxygen)
Resistance Training
Increases muscle size, strength and density in the higher modes/settings, and improves muscle tone and firmness in the lower modes/settings. Ideal for sprinters who need to work on power sprinting intervals.
Strength Training
Designed to increase strength and work the muscles at maximum power, without physical or mental fatigue and without sudden osteotendinous strain.
Explosive Strength Training
Involves very intense training with explosive contractions for athletic needs such as jumping sprinting from a stand still.

Each of these four training programs offers five different levels of work that can be gradually increased.

Additonal programs:

Potentiation (Warm Up)
Designed to help you to "warm-up," by bringing about the physiological phenomenon of "twitch potentiation" causing your muscles to "twitch," which means they are "warmed up" and ready for action. This enables you to play at peak performance right away versus slowly warming up before a race or a ride. A muscle with potentiated fibers releases greater velocity and reaches its maximum strength more easily and rapidly.
Active Recovery
Increases blood flow into the muscles, which helps remove lactic acid, thus enabling a faster recovery of muscle capacity. The result is increased relaxation of the muscles, thereby minimizing next-day muscle soreness and stiffness.

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