# muscles and electricity **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 24, 2001, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscles-and-electricity/89267 "2001-10-24T05:25:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscles-and-electricity/89267/1 "2001-10-24T05:25:29Z")
Just caught part of an infomercial for an ab-thingy that causes your abs to constrict with electricity. They cited some medical research that revealed electricity + exercize = 47% increased strength. The same research revealed exercize = 6% increase in strength, while just shocking the muscles resulted in 41% strength increase. Is there any truth to this? I remember watching Dragon: The Bruce Lee story and, though I never encountered this in my readings of the Little Dragon, it was revealed that he shocked his muscles because “it’s like doing 200 push-ups.” So what’s the official medical word on this? Will shocking my muscles do anything? If so, how can I shock them? I can’t just hook them up to my car battery (because I don’t have a car). Yeah, I know, trusting an infomercial deserves a slap, but if there are benefits to be reaped I want to reap them. ---
**Author:** ![Anal\_Scurvy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Anal\_Scurvy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anal_Scurvy)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/muscles-and-electricity/89267/2 "2001-10-24T05:30:49Z")
never mind. Once I set the search to go back more than five days, I found this: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=61420](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=61420)