If you want to train at home and you’d like it to be able to work your abs to make the sleek and sexy without hurting either your bank balance or your back muscles, then look no further than the Ab Rocket which is easy to set up and use, and convenient enough to quickly store in the closet after your workout.
The problem with most abdominal exercises is that they are done lying on the floor. This puts your back into a vulnerable position as you have to work against gravity to lift yourself up into a crunch. This can easily cause a vicious circle as, if your abs initially are not strong enough to lift you, the strain will go into your back, and your abs will not get strong enough to lift you unless they can be properly engaged.
To recruit the correct abdominal muscles is not easy and requires separate training in itself. If you are new to exercising it is almost certain that you will not know how to use your muscles correctly and would need an instructor standing over you to tell you exactly which muscle to contract and where you should feel it.
Without a trainer, the list of instructions needed to do an abdominal crunch correctly is almost a page long, and makes performing a safe and effective crunch sound as complicated as learning to drive a double-decker bus!
The problem with ab exercises done on the floor is that most beginners simply try to haul their head and shoulders up using brute force and start tugging on their head and neck. All the strain is promptly absorbed by the long muscles in the lower back, causing back pain and possible injury.
Not tightening the core muscles before you commence will mean that the exercise is performed by other muscles which were not made to work in this way by nature, and there is a distinct possibility that you will pull a muscle in your lower back or maybe even cause damage to your spine.
The Ab Rocket will solve all these problems with one stroke, getting you off the mat and into a comfortable sitting position where your back is supported all the way from the base of your spine right up to the top of your head. The firm, padded rollers support your back and massage your muscles while affording you protection from back injury.
In this position, when you lean back and crunch upwards, your back is carefully supported; not to the extent that the exercise is done for you, but enough to relax the back and put the focus of the exercise squarely back where it belongs – into your abdominals.
