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Makes sense to me.

DavidGrahamJones said:
I like the idea because any exercise I do ends in pain, I get muscular spasms in the back from just walking, but I still manage to play golf (badly)
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Everybody plays gold badly, it's just varying degrees of how bad. ;)

Are you using a TENS or EMS machine?
TENS is for pain relife blocking the pain signals sent to the brain. When you mentioned before using it on your feet made me think you were using the TENS. :bookworm:
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@ringi
Sorry I got my knickers in a twist over this last night. I am as guilty as anyone else of derailing a post so I have no right to get upset when it happens to me.:grumpy:

I love that this forum encourages the free flowing exchange of ideas and I don't have the right to shoot anyone else down for expressing theirs. ;)
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I think one issue is that if it makes a difference, then how much?
On the same lines as drinking red wine on a Thursday increases your cancer risk by 1% (of very little indeed, so no significant change).

I can believe that electrical stimulation of muscles can make them contract, and exercise them a bit and burn some glucose.

I find it much harder to believe that wrapping a belt around your gut for, say, 30 minutes a week will magically give you a six pack. If it was that good we would all be doing it.

IIRC my daughter tried one of these gizzmos some years back and it didn't even make her muscles twitch. She took it back. Which is strong criticism because she loves gadgety solutions.
 
LittleGreyCat said:
I find it much harder to believe that wrapping a belt around your gut for, say, 30 minutes a week will magically give you a six pack.
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You can't have a six pack if you muscles are covered with a layer of fat you would not be able to see them, just as sit- ups won't get rid of belly fat.

But both will tighten/strengthen the muscles under the layer of fat making it easer to suck your gut in when a pretty girl walks past. ;)
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