All the stress and busyness of planning your wedding sometimes leads to changes in diet and exercise habits. All of a sudden you don’t have time to eat as well as you usually do or go to the gym as often as before. If you’ve gained unwanted pounds and are afraid you won’t fit into your dress in a few months, sessions with Body Beautiful Canada’s Eurowave spa treatment may help trim and shape your figure without hours at the gym. The Eurowave uses an Electric Muscle Stimulation technology of the Professional type (the other two types are for personal use at a low voltage, and for medical use). It specifically uses 400 HZ and 600 Hz pulsating faradic waves that penetrate deep into the muscles to tone, shape, and tighten and actually builds new muscle mass in the targeted area. The Eurowave can be used anywhere you want inch loss, most often used on the butt, tummy, thighs and arms. Each session is only 18 minutes and toning and inch loss can result from just one session. EMS uses muscle memory, so once your muscles have been tightened, rebuilt and reshaped, they continue to stay that way for a significant amount of time after completing the appropriate amount of sessions.
Curious about this process, I tried this out myself at a spa in Yaletown. (Yes, the above picture makes it look a bit scary but it’s not! And no, that is not actually a photo of me but it was the same set up.) Tori Holmes, trained therapist of the Eurowave, took me through the process. Lying back on a spa bed, in a quiet, calmingly lit room, Tori first measured my midsection, noting my inches. She then placed several conductors in little pouches attached to three straps around my midsection. Being a petite person, I wasn’t sure inch loss would be possible in just 18 minutes. And admittedly, the idea of sending electric waves into my body made me a bit nervous. As I lay there, I felt an s-type wave working my muscles very gently from the sides. It felt like tiny fingers drumming on by abdomen, not painful at all and actually quite relaxing. By the end of the 18 minutes, Tori measured me again and I had actually lost about three inches – an inch around each area the straps were placed. Although I didn’t walk out of the session with a six-pack, I did feel like my tummy was tighter and that I had better posture. Tori informed me that my 18 minutes session would last about five days.
The Eurowave has a special package of 10 sessions for brides, called Bridal Bootcamp, which includes a month of treatments and a nutrition plan. The cost is $399 – $549 depending on location. Results from Bridal Bootcamp typically last between 6-8 months after the sessions are done. To find out more about the Eurowave and Body Beautiful Canada’s other spa treatment offerings, go to their website for more details.
Body Beautiful Canada’s Eurowave and Countour Wrap were also featured at Blo Blow Dry Bar’s recent Bridal Event, Veil Talk.
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