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Home Gym Set: Bowflex Gym

Fit Gizmos — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:53:04 +0000

While watching television, chances are, you might have seen an infomercial for the Bow Flex Gym. One of the most heavily advertised products on television, the Bow Flex Gym has been bought by fitness fans for their convenient home use.

Bowflex Gym Pros & Cons…

Bow Flex Gym does not provide the advantages of working out with free weights, like a regular fitness gym would offer. Everything is neatly stored in the Bowflex Gym, limiting the amount of equipment clutter around the room. Great for anyone who has a bit of space to spare, and would like to dedicate a corner of the room as “gym space”.

Bow Flex offers up to 410 pounds of weight to exercise. If you are just getting started on your path to fitness, and you are lifting 20, 30, or 100 pound weights anyway, this limitation should not be a problem for you. Bowflex allows you to gradually build your strength and weight levels at your own pace with just one piece of machinery. Doing all your exercises from a single location is much easier to manage than keeping a garage full of free weights.

Home Gym Set: Bowflex Gym

Kettle-bell Exercise ~ Can You Handle This Fitness Gadget?

Jack — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:38:15 +0000

How Kettle Bell Exercise started?

Are you tired of maintaining a ridiculously expensive gym membership? Or finding in your garage all those useless gym equipment meant for sissies?

The Russians have always been known for their toughness: think AK-47’s and Vodka. Now there is a new Russian definition for real workout is.

It’s called The Russian Kettle-bell workout.

Kettle-bells have been around for a while (perhaps a few hundred years). Kettle bells have been used by the Spetznaz, a Russian equivalent of the CIA plus Special Forces combined…not exactly people you want to mess up with.

Is Kettle Bell the new trend in fitness workout?

Apparently, according to the main proponent of this new trend in exercising, Pavel Tsatsouline (who himself was a former Spetznaz trainer) the kettle-bell workout is superious to tradition workout routines.

You simply have to check out Pavel’s physique. The guy looks like a greek statue carved out of rock. For somebody who avoids traditional workouts or doubt about his workout routines, he has the body to back it up. And unlike most Ken look-alike fitness freaks, Pavel is a funny Russian guy.

For example, he comes up with the following name for his fitness guide: “Power to the People”. You can’t get any more hard-core communist than that. What’s next? Love for the Motherland Routine?

Get Sexy Abs in 6 Seconds! Can You Believe That?

fitgizmos — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:02:44 +0000

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.

AB Crunch Machine

Fit Gizmos — Mon, 31 May 2010 22:39:01 +0000

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 any ab machine 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 only exercises, but also 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

Belly Burner: Burn Stomach Fat

Fit Gizmos — Wed, 19 May 2010 18:25:31 +0000

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

Flat Abs: Ab Circle Pro

Fit Gizmos — Sun, 09 May 2010 18:21:12 +0000

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

Ab Swing Ab Machine

Fit Gizmos — Mon, 03 May 2010 16:21:44 +0000

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

Sculpt Abs with Ab Slider – Ab Machine review

Fit Gizmos — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 22:33:12 +0000

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 really 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

Six Second Abs Machine

Fit Gizmos — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:37:05 +0000

If you really know about abs exercises, you know two things about crunches. One is that crunches are not the only thing you need to do to get great abs. The other thing is that crunches are something you absolutely need to do to get great abs, and that they are easier to do on a machine.

Exercise Is Only Part of Your Workout Routine

The nature of abs exercise is that machines are never all you need. There is no such thing as an abs exerciser that will give you a wonderful well-defined six-pack. That is because machines can only help you exercise, and exercise is just part of the process of getting great abs. You have to have a healthy diet, too. It’s likely that many product reviewers take out their frustration with diets in their reviews of abs machines.

Inexpensive Abs Toner

An inexpensive way to tone your abs, try the Six Second Abs Machine. You sit on a chair, place your hands on the handles, and pull the base of the machine up to your thighs. Then you pull your chest to your thighs to work out your abs. You hear audible clicks counting off six seconds, the time required to give your abs a complete stretch. Weights of 15 to 55 pounds (7 to 25 kg) add resistance for additional training.

Six Second Abs Machine

Six Second Abs Machine states…

The makers of the Six Second Abs Machine claim that their machine is “15 times more effective” than doing crunches without weights. There’s no concrete evidence to back up that claim, but there’s also no doubt that working out with weights helps you firm your abs faster. We just don’t know whether it’s really 15 times faster.

Six Second Abs Machine

Ab Chair & Ab Chair Deluxe: Which is better for you?

Fit Gizmos — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:48:17 +0000

If you have packed a few extra pounds along the way—or if you just happen to have extraordinary muscle—the Ab Chair and Ab Chair Deluxe are by far the best choices among Abs Exercisers for you. The Ab Chair can support a user weighing up to 250 pounds (115 kg). The Ab Chair Deluxe can support a user weighing up to about 290 pounds (135 kg). Both are built in a strong stainless steel frame that allows the chair easily to be folded up and stored away after every use. But that’s not all…

Right Resistance for Your Workout

Both the Ab Chair and Ab Chair Deluxe let you choose how hard you will work out. Both models allow for an adjustable fitness level with adjustable foot pedals. The Ab Chair Deluxe also comes with a metal grip bar and a variable resistance feature. This allows the user complete control over how hard or how easy the crunches should be.

If you are working out for endurance, instead of a heavier workout, you might choose a lower resistance setting. If you are working out to make your abs harder and more powerful, you can choose the higher resistance setting. Full resistance control is a major selling feature of the Ab Chair Deluxe.

Ab Chair & Ab Chair Deluxe: Which is better for you?

Ab Chair & Ab Chair Deluxe Features

One feature of both the Ab Chair and the Ab Chair Deluxe is that they come with simple, easy-to-read instructions. They don’t come with a video. But the easy-to-read instructions are really all you need. Just keep in mind; to get the maximum benefit of adjustable resistance control, you have to use different settings when you mix your workouts for building up strength and endurance. Fewer reps at a higher resistance for a building muscle, more reps at a lower resistance for building endurance and preventing injury.

Difference between Ab Chair & Deluxe

Price. Ab Chair Deluxe is a little pricier than similar models with the same feature—but it also supports 40 pounds (18 kg) more weight. The Ab Chair, on the other hand, is about $40 less expensive than other ab machines, like the comparable Ab Lounge 2 (Please see post on Ab Lounge).

Ab Chair & Ab Chair Deluxe: Which is better for you?