The Ab Rocket And Your Transversus Abdominis (TVA)
Do you want to blast your way to toned abs and a chiselled sixpack? Then try the Ab Rocket, which will get you up off the floor and into a great position to trim those waist and tummy muscles while your back is completely supported and even gets a massage.
The Ab Rockets revolutionary design allows you to get up off the floor to work those abdominals which can otherwise be nearly impossible to tone safely. Your abdominals consist of several groups of different muscles and they must all being engaged if you want to see results.
Normal ab exercises are traditionally done lying on a mat on your back, which puts your stomach muscles in a stretched-out position. This means they are in their longest and weakest state, and if you work them incorrectly, not only will you make your stomach bulge even more than it would normally do, but you’re a definite risk of hurting your back.
When you analyse the positioning for abdominal crunches, you will see that it is potentially unsafe, as you are asking your abs to lift you up against gravity; most beginners and even some experienced exercisers have not been taught how to properly engage all the stomach muscles to do this exercise, resulting in frequent back injuries.
For a lean, trim torso you need to focus on several sets of muscles. Down the front of your body from your ribs to your pubic bone is your sixpack (rectus abdominis), which are the muscles nearest the surface, and underneath your sixpack is a sheet of muscle called the Transversus Abdominis.
This muscular band (TVA) encloses your torso like a corset, and just like a corset, the tighter the TVA, the better the shape of your waist and stomach. People concentrate all their time and effort on working their sixpack; all your sixpack does is bend you forward – exercising your TVA correctly is far more important.
The other important muscles in this area are on your side, between your rib cage and the top of your pelvis; these are called the obliques and are responsible for bending you from side to side and also twisting your torso round. Toned obliques will give a nice shape to your waist, but have to be exercised with care to avoid straining your back.
The Ab Rocket solves all these potential problems by getting you up off the floor and positioning your body so that you can work your abs as hard as you want to without risking injury to your back. The resistance of the Ab Rockets comfortable, cushioned backrest can be increased as your fitness improves, giving you fantastic results in an amazingly short time.