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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

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

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?

Ab Twister – Find Out The Reasons To Own This Ab Machine or NOT

Fit Gizmos — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:12:53 +0000

Are you looking for a way to develop well-toned, powerful abs. Most people start out by doing sit-ups. Then they do more sit-ups, and more, and more. Some people who want great abs do more than 2,000 sit-ups a week.

Those sit-ups will develop terrific upper abs, but you can have the most powerful upper abs in the world and nobody will see them if they are covered with fat. And if you don’t work out the muscles that hold your abs in place, your bad posture can cause you to scrunch up so you have a little pot belly even if you work out 2 hours a day.

Ab Twister Is More Than Just Sit Ups

Ab Twister knows that you need more than sit-ups to sculpt abs. They offer a machine that exercises not just one or two, but 10 different muscle groups to give you that eye-catching, well-toned muscles.

Benefits of Ab Twister

One of the big benefits of the Ab Twister is that it works out the muscles that hold your abs in place. These are your lats running down from either of your shoulders. The lats are among the muscles that become more subject to injury the more sit-ups or crunches you do without developing your back muscles.

Even if you don’t really care about your lats, it’s a good idea to keep them in shape. If you pull a lat—which can affect your neck muscles—then you won’t be able to keep your abs routine. The Ab Twister exercises all the muscles you need to keep in great shape to keep developing your abs.

How to Use The Ab Twister To Perform Abdominal Exercises

The Ab Twister allows you to perform several different abdominal exercises. With Ab Twister you can avoid doing those crunches causing you neck pain.

Here are some of the exercises you can perform with the Ab Twister.

Bent knee sit-ups
Ab crunches
Side crunches
Dumbbell side bends
Seated barbell trunk twists
Jackknife sit-ups
Leg pull-ins

This ab machine allows you to work on your abs in a twisting motion.

A set of handlebars is attached to a padded seat via a large elastic band. Pulling the handles forward works your abdominal muscles. The handlebars also rotate in relation to the seat, so you can work on your side obliques as well.

It’s easy to assemble, provides an effective workout on both the abdominals and obliques and is easy to use with a bit of practice.

Ab Twister Review

With Ab Twister or any abs exercise machine, there will always be unhappy customers. Abs exercisers never get 5-star ratings because it is not possible to develop well-toned, beautiful abs with any exercise routine, on any machine, or using no machine at all. Getting well-toned abs is always a matter of both healthy diet, and regular exercise.

Do You Really Get Those Sexy Abs with Ab Twister?

You will have to reduce calorie intake to get rid of fat from all of your body, and not just belly fat. Ab Twister states to help you develop the muscles, by burning up the sugars and fat in your body—while working out injury-free.

Ab Twister