Do Ab Cruncher Machines Work?
One of the frequent questions I often get asked is, do the ab cruncher exercise machines you often see on television actually work? Yes and no is the answer to that question. I know this is not particularly useful but let me explain.
These appliances are designed to exercise the abdo muscles. Various parts of the ab muscles are worked by these machines. Hopefully, after using these machines the abdominal muscles will hypertrophy, or increase in size. Working out with these machines alone is very unlikely to produce a lovely set of lean, rippling abdominal muscles. The reason is that the abdominal muscles are hidden from view by a layer of fat tissue. This needs to be got rid of in order to reveal those lovely abs.
Ab crunchers will not normally remove the fat focally over the abs. Performing hundreds or thousands of sit ups will not get rid of this layer of fat tissue for the exact same reason. The only way to do this is by lowering calorie intake and burning excess calories, therefore reducing fat content all over the body.
Adding an aerobic exercise regime to your exercise program is the most effective way to burn off these calories. Also, exercises that use the big muscles of the body such as the quadriceps are great at burning calories.
The quadriceps is the big muscles that lies at the top, on the front of the thigh. A good exercise to work the quadriceps is squats. The size of the large muscles means that they burn a lot of calories and generate a lot of heat. They also stimulate the body's growth hormone secretion therefore encouraging muscle growth which is good for building those abdominal muscles.
The most common aerobic exercises are rowing, running and cycling. For burning fat it is best to do these exercises over a long period of time. Indeed, on machines in a lot of gyms you will often find they have fat burning modes which will keep you at an ideal steady pace.
These ab crunchers will, therefore, help you in getting a set of visible abdominal muscles but not without combining them with fat busting exercises. In as soon as 12 weeks you can see results if these measures are followed consistently. - 17269
These appliances are designed to exercise the abdo muscles. Various parts of the ab muscles are worked by these machines. Hopefully, after using these machines the abdominal muscles will hypertrophy, or increase in size. Working out with these machines alone is very unlikely to produce a lovely set of lean, rippling abdominal muscles. The reason is that the abdominal muscles are hidden from view by a layer of fat tissue. This needs to be got rid of in order to reveal those lovely abs.
Ab crunchers will not normally remove the fat focally over the abs. Performing hundreds or thousands of sit ups will not get rid of this layer of fat tissue for the exact same reason. The only way to do this is by lowering calorie intake and burning excess calories, therefore reducing fat content all over the body.
Adding an aerobic exercise regime to your exercise program is the most effective way to burn off these calories. Also, exercises that use the big muscles of the body such as the quadriceps are great at burning calories.
The quadriceps is the big muscles that lies at the top, on the front of the thigh. A good exercise to work the quadriceps is squats. The size of the large muscles means that they burn a lot of calories and generate a lot of heat. They also stimulate the body's growth hormone secretion therefore encouraging muscle growth which is good for building those abdominal muscles.
The most common aerobic exercises are rowing, running and cycling. For burning fat it is best to do these exercises over a long period of time. Indeed, on machines in a lot of gyms you will often find they have fat burning modes which will keep you at an ideal steady pace.
These ab crunchers will, therefore, help you in getting a set of visible abdominal muscles but not without combining them with fat busting exercises. In as soon as 12 weeks you can see results if these measures are followed consistently. - 17269
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Tom writes articles about the Vince Delmonte fitness program which you can read about in his Vince Delmonte review.
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