Here’s what getting ready to do an EMS (electrical muscle stimulation) training session entails. First, you strip to your pants and a sports bra. Next, you don the provided t-shirt and cycling shorts. Finally, on goes the EMS suit, the insides of which have been spritzed with water to conduct the current, the outsides of which look faintly like something Frankenstein might’ve had in his lab.
By the time I’m in the West Hampstead branch of E-Pulsive being wired up by the personal trainer who’ll guide me through the twenty minutes, I’m damp and bogged down by equipment. I also realise I’m nervous about the first jolt of electrical muscle stimulation they're about to beseige my body with. I resist the urge to bolt, reminding myself that I am here on a mission to find out why Madonna, Elizabeth Hurley, Heidi Klum, and Poppy Delevingne are fans.
