It’s not often that I get an offer to shock my body during a yoga session. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone jolting anything just for the fun of it. When I first read the email inviting me to try NOVA Fitness’s latest EMS fueled yoga class, Millgram’s experiment popped into my head. Well, maybe at least they’ll psychologically train me to do the poses harder and longer?<\/p>\n
The last time I shocked anything on my body, I promise you it was not for fun. I was training for a half-marathon. I managed to conveniently injure my knee, eventually winding up in the physical therapist’s office with an electrical stimulation machine’s electrodes buzzing the sides of my kneecap. I never thought I’d be strapped to these little electrodes again via an EMS suit as part of my fitness regimen.<\/p>\n
I arrived at the Tribeca location, nervously excited. I’m not sure what I expected, but I looked up the suits before coming and read up on its benefits. I was handed a small wet-suit looking outfit and shown to the changing room fitted with a shower. I’ve gone surfing before, but I forgot how damn hard it is zipping into the tight contraption. Honestly, it felt a little harder because I was extra careful not to tug on any part of the midriff where wires run through.<\/p>\n