Yes, it’s another ab machine. No, it’s not another gimmicky ab machine. It’s easy to be skeptical about the “latest and greatest” home workout equipment. More often than not, I look at the product and the reviews and say, “You want me to pay how much for that?”
This, dear friends, is not one of those machines.
The product’s main site declares the Ab Circle Pro to be the #1 fitness product in America. This review will examine why.
Ab Circle Product Features
The idea behind the Ab Circle Prois balance. The two arms hold your knees and require independent, concentrated movement from each hip flexor and up through the abdominal region. With a friction-free wheel, you move from side to side and from front to back in controlled, even movements.
The friction-free wheel allows for movement that will work your obliques, boost your cardio level, and work your upper, mid, and lower abdominal groups. With three resistance levels and a full range of motion, the Ab Circle provides as much work as your abs need to continue to tone and build your flat stomach.
The Ab Circle Pro boasts a frame built of gym-quality steel, a workout DVD, a nutritional guide to losing love handles, and a frame that folds up for easy storage.
Advantages
Sit-ups and crunches have dominated the realm of calisthenics; after you’ve tried ab wheels or benches, somehow you always find yourself back on the floor. But floor crunches require a certain level of strength to go through the full range of motion, and even that range only reaches one area of your abs with a limited amount of resistance.
When you sit up, the motion that brings you to your knees will exercise you, but your muscles rest at the top of the arc. In returning to your back, you have resistance through the motion, but you come to a rest again at the bottom. The trick, then, is to find an exercise that will allow you to exercise your muscle groups through the full range of motion with that resting point that takes away the potency of the workout.
The Ab Circle is built for those people who want to get off the ground and put more into an ab workout. The friction-free wheel allows you to exercise your abs in a continuous range of motion. This continuous motion and resistance is why only three minutes with the Ab Circle Workouts is equivalent to 100 sit-ups—and with three levels of resistance, anyone can start toning abdominals and obliques no matter what shape you start out in.
The motion also increases your cardio exercise, helping you burn fat while toning muscle. Sit-ups and crunches will strengthen your stomach, but they won’t get rid of fat hiding the toned muscles.
Disadvantages
You get the best use out of this product by familiarizing yourself with the exercises that the DVD will demonstrate. If you don’t have time to pop in the DVD or are looking for something a little more “on-the-go,” then this product is not necessarily the most intuitive, though the design is very effective.
Summary
The Ab Circle Pro targets muscle groups better than standard crunches, it burns fat as you exercise, and it works obliques while getting rid of love handles. Though it sets up in only 15 minutes of out the box, you should spend time with the training DVD. All around, the Ab Circle Pro is a machine that will help you get the job done.
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