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	%0 Journal Article
	%A Mohd Faridz Ahmad and  Amirul Hakim Hasbullah
	%D 2015
	%J International Journal of Sport and Health Sciences
	%B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
	%I Open Science Index 108, 2015
	%T The Effects of Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) towards Male Skeletal Muscle Mass
	%U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10003368
	%V 108
	%X Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS) has been
introduced and globally gained increasing attention on its usefulness.
Continuous application of EMS may lead to the increment of muscle
mass and indirectly will increase the strength. This study can be used
as an alternative to help people especially those living a sedentary
lifestyle to improve their muscle activity without having to go
through a heavy workout session. Therefore, this study intended to
investigate the effectiveness of EMS training program in 5 weeks
interventions towards male body composition. It was a quasiexperimental
design, held at the Impulse Studio Bangsar, which
examined the effects of EMS training towards skeletal muscle mass
among the subjects. Fifteen subjects (n = 15) were selected to assist
in this study. The demographic data showed that, the average age of
the subjects was 43.07 years old &plusmn; 9.90, height (173.4 cm &plusmn; 9.09) and
weight was (85.79 kg &plusmn; 18.07). Results showed that there was a
significant difference on the skeletal muscle mass (p = 0.01 &lt; 0.05),
upper body (p = 0.01 &lt; 0.05) and lower body (p = 0.00 &lt; 0.05).
Therefore, the null hypothesis has been rejected in this study. As a
conclusion, the application of EMS towards body composition can
increase the muscle size and strength. This method has been proven
to be able to improve athlete strength and thus, may be implemented
in the sports science area of knowledge.

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