Ab Workout

What is The Flex Belt?

The Flex Belt is a specially designed training belt that sculpts and trims the obliques and central ab muscles. If combined with a proper diet and exercise routine, the result will be a flatter stomach and the coveted six pack abs.

The Flex Belt is made in Galway, Ireleand by a company with a long history of designing Electric Muscle Stimulation (EMS) products and devices for the medical industry. The have been making EMS (Electric Muscle Stimulation) devices for 40 years and are a respected name in the industry. Their products are prescribed and used in 5000 physical therapy clinics all over the world. They have now focused on helping people trim their abdominal region and have developed an easy to use ab workout device called the Flex Belt.

The Flex Belt Ab Workout Machine In Action

The Flex Belt has been approved and cleared by the FDA. After extensive testing, the Flex Belt Ab workout system made it through the rigorous FDA clearance. The Flex Belt is the only one of it’s kind to get this FDA clearance. Through wearing the Flex Belt for 30 minutes each day, they gurantee a more defined and slim appearance of your abs.

What is so unique about the Flex Belt is that is exercises you! You can wear the Flex Belt while doing your normal daily activities and it will do the work. The Flex Belt uses EMS Electric Muscle Stimulation technology to trigger the nerves and abdominal muscles to flex and relax. This same Electric Muscle Stimulation technology is used by physical therapist to get the maximum results in their patients. Your job is to wear the Flex Belt and allow it to do the rest.

What makes this ab workout belt so intrigueing is that they offer a full 60 day money back gurantee on the Flex Belt. They state that if used exactly as intructed you will absolutely be able to see the resulting change within 60 days. This is an unheard of guarantee in the ab workout and fitness -weightloss industry. The product is also supported and backed by the famous San Francisco 49′ers legend Jerry Rice. It’s been a long wait for amazing technology like this to arrive, I for one am very excited.

The Flex Belt – How does it work?

Flex Belt has three Gel Pads (medical-grade of course), that cover the abdominal muscles and obliques. Electrical pulses go out to key nerve centers and these nerves then branch out to contract and relax the abdominal muscles. This works the entire abdominal area since the gel pads are focused on the core nerves. While you are wearing the Flex Belt, there will be a little pulsing sensation and this will involuntarily cause contraction of the abdominal muscle groups. Your abs will tense up, and hold for a bit, then relax without you doing a thing. The contraction of your abs is 100% natural and without the strain on your back and neck like many other ab workout machines.

The age of ‘Star Wars’ like technology is here, and the Flex Belt is a prime example. We are indeed lucky people to have access to such ab workout machines as the Flex Belt.

When you start researching for abs related documents, you run across several advertisements about how their equipment will help you achieve what you want with no efforts. But when this is given a little more thought you realize the myths behind each claim. In my opinion, a little common sense will go a long way towards helping you reach your goals. Things such as consistency and persistence will always win out over short term bursts of activity and sensible diet and exercise. The are many misconceptions that people have about achieving six pack abs and optimizing their ab workout routines.

Seperate the fact from the fiction for your Ab workout

Let’s look at some of the commons myths about abdominal exercises and products related to them:

• Abdominal exercises to get a six pack abs: If you have a huge layer of fat sitting around your waist line, you definitely have to spend a lot of time doing high cardio work outs and full body weight training. You have to gradually increase your metabolism to burn of the fat and grow some muscle instead.

• You do not have any muscle there: There is muscle sitting in your abdominal region but it is completely surrounded by fat. So your goal is to burn off that unwanted fat first.

• Diet pill helps you achieve a six pack abs: Diet pills might work but the solution is definitely short lived. There are more side effects of these pills like diarrhea, deficiency, unwanted dependency on the pills.

• Complete cut down on carbohydrates: Carbohydrates act as fuel to your body for any sort of intense exercises which in turn is needed to increase your metabolism. You cannot completely cut down on carbohydrates; instead have some complex carbs with fiber such as veggies, oatmeal, brown rice satisfy your hunger and gives good amount of energy too to work out.

• Slow Cardio sessions: You do not need slow cardio sessions in order to get six pack abs. The whole point in doing cardio is to increase heartbeat rate and hence burn off fat. You can do a high intensity cardio session to achieve that too.

• Working out at the Gym everyday: This is the most common myth. If you do not give the right amount of rest that your body requires, your body would not respond to any of these work outs.  Maintain the right diet and even if you work out 3 days in a week, it should be good.

• Steroids: Steroids are anabolic hormones that help building the muscle and not really burning fat. So it is better to follow a good diet and proper exercise regime to get a 6 pack abs rather than using steroids.

There are several such other myths about abs workout. Do your research to get your basics about abs right and stick by it.

When you look at magazines the models with 6 packs always stand out the most. Results like this can be achieved by following various abdominal exercises. For best results you should develop a circuit of these exercises and complete them daily. If you are really serious about seeing some body changes you should combine these exercises with a healthy diet and a regular cardiovascular regime.

The following two exercises will help to get you started. Why not give them a try now?

Abdominal Crunch

Most people have heard of this exercise, even if they have not already tried it. This is an excellent exercise to help strengthen the abdominal muscles. To start you should lie on the ground with your back to the floor. Both feet should be off the floor and your legs should form a right angle. Your shoulders should be raised slightly off the floor as well.

You can acheive your goals one step at a time

Take a big breath in and at the same time you should take your knees in towards your chest and lift the upper body to an angle of 30 degrees.

When your elbows reach your legs you should hold that position for a second and then slowly return to the original position. Pause again and then repeat the above. Make sure you hold the contraction in your abdominal area the entire time. Don’t allow your shoulders to touch the floor as this will lessen the benefit of this move. Many beginners let their shoulders drop to the ground but for the best results you should follow the instructions above.

It is important that you don’t strain your neck muscles while doing this exercise. It will help if you can keep your chin up from your chest. If required you could gently support your head by placing your hands at your temples.

Double Crunch

The double crunch is actually a combination of two separate exercises. The crunch and the knee raise. This will help to work the lower abdominal muscles.

To start with, you should lie down on the floor (back to the floor). You would have your legs in the air and then bend your knees so that your calves are parallel to the ground. Take a big breath in and suck in that stomach. With your eyes focused straight up above, lift your body off the ground so it is about 45 degrees to the ground. Be careful you don’t pull your neck muscles. Hold that position for two to three seconds and then return to the start position slowly and gently. Each set should have 10-15 repetitions of the above. It is recommended you complete 3 sets.