Slimwave for men in Laval
An hour and ten minutes where your muscles work and you do not. Electrical stimulation, then an infrared wrap. Showers on site.
TYPE OF CARE
Esthetician's treatment. No medical procedure.
What is Slimwave
A two-stage body treatment, in a room of its own: electrical muscle stimulation, followed by an infrared wrap.
The first stage is simpler than it sounds. To contract a muscle on purpose, your brain sends it an electrical impulse down a nerve. The device sends that impulse directly, through electrodes stuck to the skin. The muscle genuinely contracts, it does not mime anything: the order simply does not come from you.
The second stage is a wrap heated to 80 degrees. It takes over on circulation and on fluid retention, and it is also the part where you sweat properly. Showers are available on site, which is uncommon in this business and which changes everything if you are going straight back to work.
What this is not, and it should be said immediately: it is not a weight-loss method. It burns no fat, it replaces no workout and it changes nothing about what you eat. What it works on is tone, circulation and fluid retention.
What concerns a man of thirty-five in particular: the deep abdominal wall is hard to recruit on purpose, and plenty of men who train seriously work everything except it. Electrical stimulation reaches it without going through your will.
The key facts
price
- $80 a session
- The price covers both stages, stimulation and infrared
- Multi-session packages exist in the salon
length
- 1 h 10 a session
- The session is entirely passive
- Showers on site, worth building into your schedule
- Free body consultation before you start
area
- Abdomen
- Thighs and glutes
- Arms
- Back
how it feels
- Usually painless, a tingling at the start
- Then contraction and release in cycles
- The intensity rises in steps you approve
- Nothing goes higher without your say-so
after the session
- No downtime, you leave and carry on
- Possible day-after-training soreness
- Heavy sweating during the infrared stage
- Drink more over the following hours
what it addresses
- Lack of muscle tone
- Slowed return circulation
- The sensation of heavy legs
- Fluid retention
Is Slimwave right for you?
The treatment works muscle and circulation. It does not touch fat and it does not move the scale.
It is for you if:
Your midsection is not keeping up with the rest of your progress
The upper body answers training, the deep abdominal wall much less. That is mechanical: it recruits badly on purpose.
You are restarting after a long break
After an injury, an operation or three years of nothing, putting tone back before putting load back avoids restarting on a compensation.
You have no time to train this season
It is no replacement, and nobody will claim otherwise. It is maintenance during a stretch when the rest does not fit in the calendar.
Your legs are heavy by evening
The infrared stage and the stimulation both work return circulation, and the sensation changes from the first session.
Are you trying to lose weight?
This treatment does not do that, and we would rather say so here than after ten sessions. Write to us. Naturopathy is a more honest conversation on that subject.
Contraindications
A PACEMAKER OR AN IMPLANTED DEFIBRILLATOR
A firm contraindication with no exception. The current can interfere with the device.
A METAL OR ELECTRONIC IMPLANT ON THE AREA
A pin, a plate, a neurostimulator: name it when you book. The area is excluded, or the session does not happen.
EPILEPSY
Declare it. Electrical stimulation is not trivial in that context.
A KNOWN CARDIAC OR CIRCULATORY CONDITION
Thrombosis, phlebitis, insufficiency: the infrared stage loads the circulatory system. Medical advice comes first.
BROKEN SKIN UNDER THE ELECTRODES
A wound, a rash, sunburn: the area is excluded. The others proceed.
A treatment adjusted to your body
Two men do not get the same session, and three things explain why.
- THE INTENSITY
- It rises in steps, and you approve each one. A man used to training generally tolerates a higher level, but reaching maximum is not the goal.
- WHICH AREAS ARE WIRED
- Abdomen, thighs, glutes, arms, back. The choice is made at the body consultation, and it changes from session to session if your goal changes.
- YOUR STARTING POINT
- A man who trains three times a week and a man who has done nothing for ten years do not feel the same thing, or at the same step.
The session step by step
We want to do everything we can to bring you toward the best version of yourself. That is why every session follows the same steps.
1
Areas and goal
What you want to work on, and what the treatment can genuinely do about it.
2
Placing the electrodes
On the chosen areas, with the strap. You stay in underwear under a sheet.
3
The stimulation
The intensity rises in steps you approve one at a time. Then the contraction cycles begin.
4
The infrared wrap
The hot part, and the one where you sweat. It takes over on circulation.
5
The shower and after
Showers are on site. Build them into your schedule rather than leaving as you are.
Why choose L'Institut Béa
SHOWERS ON SITE
Few places in this business have them, and they are what make the session fit into a working day.
A DEDICATED ROOM, TWO STATIONS
Slimwave is not a device parked in the corner of a treatment room, it has its own space.
WE SAY WHAT IT DOES NOT DO
It is not a weight-loss method. You read that before paying, not after.
Their experienceat Béa
Lovely place and people. Had an excellent slimwave experience.
Nancy V.
Fresha review
Common questions
Everything people ask us before a first session, answered plainly.
Does it replace the gym?
No, and you should be suspicious of anyone who says otherwise. Training works your cardiovascular system, your coordination, your bones and your overall muscular density, and a machine does none of that. What Slimwave does well is recruit specific muscles, including the ones you reach badly on purpose, and do it while you do nothing. The right use is complementary: maintenance during a heavy stretch, or work on an area your programme does not reach.
Does it make you lose weight or inches?
No, and that is written plainly for that reason. There is no fat burning in this treatment. What you lose on the scale on your way out is water lost during the infrared stage, and it comes back the same day. What genuinely changes is the muscle tone of the area worked, the circulation and the feeling of retention. If your goal is a number on a scale, this treatment will not give it to you.
What does it feel like?
At first, a tingling, like pins and needles under the skin. Then, as the intensity rises, a clear contraction lasting a few seconds, a release, and it starts again in cycles. It is not painful and it is genuinely odd the first time, because the muscle moves without you deciding it. The intensity rises in steps you approve one by one: nothing goes higher without your agreement, and you can ask to come back down at any moment.
Will I be sore?
Often, yes, especially after the first sessions, and it is a good sign the muscles genuinely worked. It is the same feeling as the day after training, usually across the abdomen. It clears in a day or two. If you train the next day, factor it into your exercise choice, without having to cancel anything.
Is the infrared part like a sauna?
The heat is comparable, at 80 degrees, but you are wrapped and lying down rather than sitting in a room. You sweat a great deal, and that is the point. It is exactly why the on-site showers matter: few places have them, and heading straight back to the office after that stage without rinsing off would be unpleasant. Add fifteen minutes to your schedule.
I have a pin in my knee. Can I come?
Say so when you book, and the answer will depend on where it is. A metal implant on an area you want wired rules that area out, but the others remain treatable: a pin in the knee does not stop work on the abdomen. What is a firm contraindication with no exception is a pacemaker or an implanted defibrillator, and there is no arrangement possible there.
How many sessions?
Entirely dependent on your starting point and your goal, and that is exactly what the free body consultation establishes. What is certain is that a single session gives you a sensation, not a change: this is a treatment that works through regularity, like the training it borrows from. Packages exist in the salon, and the per-session price shown on this page is the one that stands.
Ready to meet the best version of yourself?
Send us your questions and we will guide you toward the treatments that suit you best.