August 14th, 2010 by fitgizmos No Comments yet
Looking for ab exercises for men at home? Yes, here we go again. Another ab machine that promises to give you sexy abs for only 6 second per day. It looks like the old 6 Second Abs Machine, but now improved and with faster results.
If you have been doing a lot of exercises, you know two things about lose weight. Burn calories and go on diet.
Inexpensive Wonder Abs Machine
I have seen this abs machine in Japan and I really like the design. Yes, I tried it six times and in total 6 seconds. It did feel my abs working, but do you think that six seconds is enough?
I like the design of this machine, very fancy and it’s portable. Not heavy at all. Great for ladies. You just sit on a chair, place your hands on the handles, and pull the base of the machine up to your thighs. Then you push your chest to your thighs by using your abs.
Unfortunately I don’t have a picture of it, since I lost my camera in Japan.
An Ab Machine is better than crunches. It will prevent overstretching your back and neck. Nobody like crunches, that’s why these Ab Machines are very useful, but six seconds to get a flat sexy abs?
Exercise The Abs Is NOT The Only Part of Your Total Workout
There is no such thing as an wonder abs exerciser that will give you a that six-pack by focusing only on the abs. You need to have a total workout. The fat is not only in your abs. It’s everywhere in your body.
So, you need to exercise different parts of your body. A complete body workout.
You will also need a healthy diet, too. Don’t just keep eating while you are doing the workouts. Main reason of gaining weight is eating too much. Yes, too much high calories.
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June 4th, 2010 by Fit Gizmos No Comments yet
The Saxon Side Bend was developed by Arthur Saxon, a nineteenth century strong man, to workout the oblique muscles. This oblique workout has been in use for nearly 150 years. Abs exercisers who do side bends with dumbbells will find the Saxon Side Bend far more efficient and effective for building core power. Here’s how it is done:
1. Stand up straight with feet about shoulders’ width apart.
2. Bend your knees slightly, but keep your torso and hips tight.
3. Pick up two dumbbells of equal weight and hold them close together over your head with your arms straight and your palms facing forward.
4. Without leaning backward or forward, bend to one side as far as possible, and then repeat to the opposite side.
5. Try the exercise with different weights until you find the weight that allows you to do 6 to 8 repetitions per side before fatigue.
Oblique workout: Saxon Side Bend
It’s important not to use more weight than you can completely control. You should not be straining to lift the weights over your head and then let them drop to one side. If you do not have complete control over the weights throughout the full range of motion, you risk injury to your lower back. Use a smaller weight, or don’t stretch as far if there is any possibility that you would injure your spine.
How often should you do the Saxon Side Bend?
It gives the best results when it is used just once or twice a week, never three times or more. It is especially important to give core muscles a rest between workouts and to do your protein supplements or mini-meals immediately after your workout for maximum muscle growth.
Spacing your workouts with the Saxon Side Bend also keeps you from damaging fascia in your obliques or neck muscles, which can put you on the sidelines for days or weeks. The Saxon Side Bend is a much more challenging exercise than it appears to be. It is a great way to build your core, but it is an exercise you should only do if you can stay in complete control of the weights.
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May 31st, 2010 by Fit Gizmos No Comments yet
With a sleek design that makes it look like it would fit in a well-run gym, the AB Crunch Machine promises to be the perfect exerciser for anyone seeking flat, tight, powerful abs.
The AB Crunch Machine has smooth-moving mechanisms and a cushioned seat. At about $250, serious fitness fans usually find the AB Crunch Machine a good buy. But is the AB Crunch Machine or, for that matter, any abs exerciser what you really need to get flat abs?
Get Flat Abs: burn stomach fat
The simple fact is that you can work your abdominal muscles all day long, but if they are obscured by belly fat, no one will ever see them. Tightening your tummy and showing your six-pack requires not just exercise but a healthy diet, too.
The only way you can ever get control over the belly fat that covers your abs is by eating healthy, with a regular workout routine. Healthy eating habits are an inevitable part of any program to develop the core muscles so you look better. Not only that, working out and eating better will make you feel better, and more emotionally positive.
AB Crunch Machine worth buying?
You can’t get flat abs without eating healthy, and you also can’t get flat abs without working out. An AB Crunch Machine can save you the need of stretching out of a dirty floor, going to a gym, or risking back injury by doing sit-ups. It’s a clean, efficient device that looks good in your home, easy to use, and gives you a reason to stick to your exercise routine. It won’t do all the work, but it can become an indispensable tool for maintaining and achieving those long-sought washboard abs.
AB Crunch Machine
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May 24th, 2010 by Fit Gizmos 1 Comment
If you have done pushups as part of your regular exercise routine, you know that they are perfect for strengthening and developing the arms, especially the triceps muscles. They are also great for developing your shoulders and chest. Depending on where you place your hands, a perfectly executed pushup mimics the movements used in performing a bench press.
The problem with pushups has always been putting your hands in the right place. If you put your hands too close together, you work out your triceps, but not your chest. If you put your hands too far apart, the chest is worked out, but not so much your triceps.
How to do the Perfect Pushup
Having done hundreds of thousands of pushups the hard way, former Navy SEAL Alden Mills developed a way of getting the hands in the right position every time. His exercise device is called the Perfect Pushup.
The Perfect Pushup makes sure the hands are at the right distance, but it also ensures that your wrists can move naturally. The more you rotate your hand supports, the more arm muscles you can bring into your workout. But if you want to focus on upper body strength, wrist rotation is optional.
The Perfect Pushup also includes handles that allow you elevate your body. This gives you a greater range of motion through which you lower your torso. It gives you a deeper stretch in your arms, chest, and shoulders.

Perfect Push-Up
Perfect Pushup: Who should use it?
If you have had shoulder surgery or a rotator cuff injury, Perfect Pushup probably is not for you. However, if you have these conditions, chances are you may need to avoid pushups altogether. If you have minor shoulder issues, you should just make sure you do not place the hand supports too far apart.
The Perfect Pullup
Alden Mills has also developed a device he calls the Perfect Pullup. This exerciser gives you a way to use any secure doorframe for doing pull-ups, without having to go to a park or gym. The Perfect Pullup fits any doorframe from 27 to 36 inches wide and supports users who weigh up to 300 pounds.
What’s different about the Perfect Pullup?
In traditional pull-ups, you grip a bar, underhand or overhand. In Perfect Pullup, your wrists can move, too, increasing the number of muscles involved in your workout. The rotating handles also reduce the stress that traditional pullups place on your joints.

Perfect Pull-Up
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May 19th, 2010 by Fit Gizmos No Comments yet
The Belly Burner Belt is not like certain other kinds of belly fat belts that stimulate muscle twitches with tiny electrical shocks. Instead, the Belly Burner Belt has a low-power heating element that raises the temperature of the skin of your belly and the fatty tissues immediately below it.
Does the Belly Burner Belt Really Burn Fat?
In a word, no. The Belly Burner raises body temperature, but only when the fat cells make its own heat by burning fat is there weight loss. The “burn” you feel when you wear the Belly Burner Belt is just from the heating element, not from your body itself.

Belly Burner: Burn Stomach Fat
So Is the Belly Burner Belt Worth the Money?
Well, there can be benefits from wearing the Belly Fat Burner Belt. Your core muscles, your abs and oblique muscles, are essential for flattening your abs but they also needed for other very basic workout and exercise activities. Anytime you stand on your feet your body maintains balance with the help of your core. The Belly Fat Burner helps you remember your core. Wearing the belt makes it more likely that you will practice good posture.
Making the Most of Your Belly Fat Burner
The Belly Fat Burner also comes with a diet plan, meal planner, and food log. The reality is, no matter what exercise you do, you have to eat healthy and reduce your calorie consumption to lose the fat. Exercise, with or without exercise machines, is never just enough, but is part of the package deal to a better looking body and improving your general health.

Belly Burner: Burn Stomach Fat
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May 17th, 2010 by Fit Gizmos No Comments yet
It’s a fact of life that millions of women, and not a few men, aren’t happy with the way their upper arms and shoulders look. Summer fashions call for sexy, sculpted, muscular arms and shoulders that look good exposed, and the Shake Weight, its manufacturers say, is one way to get them.
Better Than the Gym?
The makers of the Shake Weight say that exercise machines and free weights will give you large, bulky, ill-defined muscles. Their Shake Weight, on the other hand, is supposed to give women arms they will be proud to show off in just six minutes a day.
Dumbbells Exercise with Shake Weight
The shake weight is a dumbbell filled with loose material. Holding the Shake Weight parallel to the chest with the upper end pointed at your chin, and the lower end pointed at the floor, users shake the weight vigorously. The principle of inertia increases the amount of effort required by the workout.
Every time you shake the Shake Weight downward, the particles inside force it back up. When you lift the shake weight up, the particles pull it down. You get about twice as much resistance as the weight of the Shake Weight itself.
The dynamic inertia supposedly makes the fibers in your muscles firm up instantly, so you feel your muscles grow in your arms and shoulders while you work out. Actually, your muscles only grow after a workout—and only if you give them at least 48 hours to rest, restore their protein supplies, and reshape themselves into longer, bulkier fibers.
Break Out the Tank Tops
The makers of the Shake Weight say you can break out the tank tops, the summer dresses, your swimming attire, and love the way you look. Sleeveless attire looks good on you.
Can Shake Weight Really Work?
Well, yes. It’s true that you might get a small amount of benefit from using the Shake Weight, and if you aren’t getting any exercise at all, it’s not a bad place to start. If you don’t want to do pushups, but you don’t have time for the gym, then the $20 you spend on a Shake Weight is a good investment.

Dumbbells Exercise: Shake Weight
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May 13th, 2010 by Fit Gizmos No Comments yet
Are you looking for a way to work out at your desk? Have you ever stopped to think that if you just could lift weights while you work you wouldn’t need to go the gym? Well, don’t cancel your gym membership quite yet, but if you want to add a little resistance training to your daily routine at the office, consider the dumbbell phone.
Adding a Little Weight to Your Telephone Presence
The dumbbell phone is not an actual phone. Instead, it is a dumbbell you attach to your phone. Weighing 10 pounds (about 4.4 kilos), the dumbbell phone is guaranteed to give you a workout every time you answer your phone. (An iPhone attachment has to be ordered separately.)
Japanese Phone Dumbbell Exercise Workout Routine
If you buy a dumbbell phone for use in Japan, there is an optional service to make sure you get the most out of your dumbbell phone. For an extra fee, your “personal fitness trainer” will call you every hour on the hour and make sure you pick up your phone. In Japan, that can mean 14, 16, or even 18 calls a day. The more overtime you work, the fitter you get.

Dumbbell Exercise: Dumbbell Phone Workout
Avoid Workplace Injuries
While the dumbbell phone is an example of the Japanese call “chindogu,” weird and wacky inventions, the idea of lifting weights at your desk at work is not a bad one. In fact, you can avoid all kinds of workplace injuries if you incorporate a little stretching and lifting into your daily routine. Here are some serious ideas that can actually work for you.
- Every hour or so, “shake out” your fingers. Especially if your job involves a lot of keyboard entry, you can stress the ligaments surrounding your carpal tunnels. The nerves inside them can become stressed so that you either feel nothing or feel a constant burning sensation or you feel occasional bursts of sharp, intense pain—or all three. Just wiggling your fingers occasionally helps. Popping your knuckles, however, does not.
- Sit up straight. Your mother was right. It’s a good idea to sit up straight, your back straight against your chair and your chin parallel to the floor. The advantage of sitting up straight is it takes stress off the muscles of your lower back and reduces the risk of back strain on your well-deserved days off.
- And, yes, lift your dumbbell phone several times a day. It will give your strong biceps and may even protect you against rotator cuff injuries.
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May 9th, 2010 by Fit Gizmos No Comments yet
The Ab Circle Pro is a wheel on a platform that lifts the wheel off the floor. At the 10 o’clock and 2 o’clock positions on the wheel there are two handgrips. The user puts the Ab Circle Pro on the floor and kneels behind it. Then she grabs the handgrips and pushes the wheel around and around.
This machine goes from side to side, rather than backward and forward. Instead of toning just the lower and upper abdominal muscles, the Ab Circle Pro also tones the love handles that hold the abs in place. These are the muscles that keep you from slumping or slouching down in ways that force your belly forward.
Does Ab Circle Pro Melt Away Your Love Handles?
Not precisely—people still need to reduce calorie consumption and lose weight to get rid of fat. The contour of your body, however, will improve the more you use the machine.
Sometimes users of the Ab Circle Pro wonder why they don’t feel a “burn” when they use the machine. Make sure you tighten your stomach muscles as you work out. It helps the workout routine excel in your flat abs progress. If you casually exercise with Ab Circle Pro, without contracting your muscles, you won’t be able to really “feel the burn”, and it will take longer for your love handles gradually shrink away as you diet and exercise.

Flat Abs: Ab Circle Pro
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May 3rd, 2010 by Fit Gizmos No Comments yet
Imagine what would happen if you did 10,000 crunches, and no other kind of exercise, each and every day. You would develop super-abs. Your upper abdominal muscles would be in such terrific shape but it won’t match the rest of the muscles in your body, which has been neglected. Even worse, crunching over about 200 a week (not a day), increases your risk of back and neck injuries that can do more than just interrupt your abs exercise routine.
Ab Swing for All Your Abs Muscles
Ab Swing is unique among abs exercisers in that it works out all the muscles involved in toning up and revealing a six-pack. It is one of the very few abs exercises that work out your lats. These are muscles at the sides of your back that keep you from hunching over your belly and pushing your belly out, making it look like you have a gut.

Ab Swing
Benefit of Ab Swing Workout Routine
Another advantage of the Ab Swing is, if you take the time to do each exercise slowly in perfect form, you’ll develop good posture. Sitting up straight, keeping your chin forward, and pulling your shoulders back actually helps you develop ab muscles. And good posture also helps prevent future body aches and pains, like carpal tunnel syndrome.
Things to consider about Ab Swing
An important consideration in buying Ab Swing, or any other abs exercise machine, is that it takes more than just exercise to reveal beautiful abs. You have to burn fat to create and sculpt muscles. Not to mention, commit yourself to the right diet. Ab Swing can help you exercise. It will tone your abs and protect your back and neck from injury so you can keep your exercise routine for maximum results.

Ab Swing
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April 30th, 2010 by Fit Gizmos No Comments yet
The Ab Slider is an ab exerciser that is easy and inexpensive adaptation of a device you can find at many gyms called a Power Wheel. With the Ab Slider, however, you don’t have to go to the gym and you can work out anytime you choose.
How the Ab Slider Works
Using the Ab Slider could not be easier. Put the Ab Slider on the floor. It is a little wheel with two handles. Getting down on your hands and knees, grab one handle with each hand. Then just slide the Ab Slider forward and back to stretch your upper and lower abs. You won’t strain your back, and you won’t strain your neck. You get many of the benefits of crunches with none of the risks.
Amplifying Your Ab Slider Workout
If you want to get a little more intense workout, instead of kneeling on the floor, lift your knees off the floor and balance on your toes. And you can get another layer of resistance just by fighting the force of gravity while you are kneeling down on the floor. Don’t just move forward and back. Try to keep your tummy parallel with your chest, instead of bulging downward.
Can Ab Slider burn belly fat?
Oddly enough, you can—although you have to burn fat all over your body to get rid of the belly fat. This little maneuver will add to the number of calories you burn while you use your Ab Slider. As you are sliding forward, hold your breath. Pause just a second at your maximum stretch.
Then when you start to go back, take in a deep breath, just as deep as you can. Push it all out as you move forward so that your lungs are almost empty at your maximum stretch when you are holding your breath. What does this do? You’ll breathe deeper and slower throughout your exercise. You’ll not only burn fat — but you will also feel more relaxed.

Sculpt Abs with Ab Slider
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