“Electromyography” testing on the VictoryVest!

EMG validates the VictoryVest’s ability to isolate muscles!

 

 

The VictoryVest undergoes scientific testing called “electromyography,” or EMG, which records the electrical activity of muscles.  The VictoryVest is shown that it CAN IN FACT ISOLATE SPECIFIC MUSCLES, even while performing full-body compound lifts!

 

 

This means you can now target the muscles you’re actually trying to improve, even while doing greater compound lifts or even during weight training!  Now you can bring up lagging muscles that refuse to grow!

The Experiment:

In this experiment we tested to see if the VictoryVest could be configured to isolate and work specific muscles within the greater movement of compound lifts.

For example one can set up the VictoryVest to specifically work the pecs (chest) or lats (back) or quads (legs) or the hamstrings (legs) or the lower back or the glutes (butt) during the squat or deadlift or walking.  Can it specifically target those exact muscles, without simply targeting all muscles, the way generic exercises already do?

• The subjects were fitted with EMG sensors on their glutes, as well as other muscles such as the hamstrings and lower back.
• Subjects wore the VictoryVest and the bands were configured to isolate the gluteus (butt) muscles.
• The subjects performed a number of common, basic exercises, such as the squat, deadlift, glute bridges and thrusts, and standard walking.
• The subjects performed two versions of each movement:  first each movement using only bodyweight (and in the case of deadlifts, only pulling the band), and then performed the same movements, but while also wearing the VictoryVest, with the bands specifically configured to isolate and target the glutes.
• Results were recorded and analyzed by an independent third party.

 

Results:

• We saw an increase in glute activity as recorded via the EMG in a number of the subjects and exercises
• The most extreme example was a 1600% increase in glute activity during a regular squatting movement!

 

Discussion:

This should not come as a surprise to anymore familiar with biomechanics, or even those who have experimented with different types of exercises.  When you move the resistance to different points on the body, different muscles have to take over to deal with the different angles of resistance.  The VictoryVest allows one to create different angles of resistance.

Ironically this duplicates the principles of the “conjugate” method, championed by world-class powerlifting gym, “Westside Barbell.”

VictoryVest creator Eric Grove talked with Louie Simmons about MMA training strategies back in the late 1990’s when Grove was one of the early MMA competitors in the United States.  Ironically this picture reveals that Simmons was already working on creating a similar design concept as Eric would devise decades later as the VictoryVest!  (Simmons is known for having invented a number of innovative strength machines.)

Simmons taught that one should focus on bringing up one’s weak lagging points, allowing one to automatically increases their overall performance.  This doesn’t just apply to strength or sports application — it applies to visual appearance as well.  If you can’t even work the muscle you’re trying to target, how will that muscle improve?

Why this matters:  whenever you work out, you’re generally only improving your strong points unless you intentionally try to incorporate special exercises specifically to target and bring up your lagging weak points.  Even when you do try to bring up weak points, you may fail due to factors such as body structure (long versus short limbs, the anatomy of your joints, and so on) as well as wrong movement patterns, and finally due to sub-optimal programming (how much weight, how many reps, how many sets, how frequent to you work out?).

This experiment shows the VictoryVest eliminates all of those concerns!  Now you can directly target the problem weak muscle without even trying — no need to change anything!  No special exercises, no change in technique or form — just do the regular exercise as you already would be and the VictoryVest will now force that lagging muscle group to overcompensate and catch up!!!

 

Conclusion:

This EMG experiment confirms that the VictoryVest can in fact isolate specific muscles, even while doing full body movements and compound lifts.  Now one can stop wasting time doing exercises that don’t really work what they’re trying to improve; use the VictoryVest to configure bands to isolate and improve the specific muscles you’re trying to target.

NO MORE EXCUSES FOR A FLAT BUTT!