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The Ab Rocket Review

17th April, 2009 - Posted by health news - No Comments

If you like to work out at home the Ab Rocket is a good choice as it is simple to use and easy to store and, together with some aerobic exercise and a calorie counted diet will help you get those beautiful sleek toned abs that you’ve always dreamed of but thought could never be yours.

Your midsection is made up of a number of muscles that go from your pubic bone up to your ribs (your six-pack), around your sides towards your spine (your obliques), and your pelvic floor is at the bottom of your midsection, while your diaphragm is at the top, making a kind of drum shape – this area all together is known as your core.

The most important muscle to tone for getting rid of your pooch and your love handles is underneath all of these others; it’s called your TVA and runs round you like a wide belt – this is the one to focus on for a flat belly.

The problem with working this midsection is that up till now the only real way to do it was lie on the floor on your back and try to lift your head and shoulders off the floor, pulling your lowest rib down towards your hip and thus making your sixpack work.

If you were not taught by a fitness instructor or Personal Trainer to stabilize your TVA muscles – i.e suck your navel in – as you performed your ab exercises, then the emphasis was lost and the exercise was a complete waste of time.

Pulling the tummy button down tones the TVA, and means that your crunch will be an effective way of flattening your abs, but the inclination is to hold your breath; be aware you need to keep breathing!

So many people in the gym don’t know about the TVA, and do crunches wrong all the time, pulling themselves up using their neck muscles and tensing their shoulders – which pulls on the vulnerable muscles in the lower back and can cause painful back strain.

This is where the innovative Ab Rocket excels, as it gets you up off the floor and into a seated position, with the adjustable padded rollers cushioning your spine without making the exercise easy, for the perfect ab crunch with the minimum of back strain!