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.

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The Ab Rocket And Your Transversus Abdominis (TVA)

If you’re looking for a piece of home equipment that is inexpensive and easy to store and will help you target your abs, then the Ab Rocket is a good buy.  Costing under $100, the Ab Rocket will get you up off the floor and give you some back and neck support while you tone your abs.

I have read mixed reviews about the Ab Rocket, but my own thoughts on the subject are that if you use it properly, you will get results.  People have complained that they sat on it and got into a crunch position and it hasn’t helped them on the upward phase of the crunch.  Well it’s not supposed to!  The padded rollers are there to give your back and neck some support; the crunch itself is to be done by your abdominal muscles.

Let me put it this way: (quick anatomy lesson here).  When people refer to their abs, they are usually talking about their six-pack; this is the Rectus Abdominis and is a set of muscles that stretches from your lowest ribs to your pubic bone.  To be pedantic, it’s actually the other way round; they start at your pubic bone and finish at your ribs.  Call me an anorak!

The function of your six-pack is actually to bend you forward at the waist. Working your six-pack alone will not particularly change your shape; what you need to concentrate on are the other muscles in the core area, most importantly the muscles beneath your six-pack which go around your midriff like a girdle.

It is working these correctly that will flatten your stomach and change your shape; you will only get a visible six-pack if you have hardly any body fat.  This girdle of muscles around your waist is called TVA (Transversus Abdominis).  I like to refer to this as Nature’s Corset; tone up these muscles and you will pull in your whole midriff creating that lovely hourglass shape that we all desire.

I will get to the point here in a second; please don’t go to sleep just yet!  The point in all this is, you need to learn how to do a good abdominal crunch in order to get results and the Ab Rocket will put you in a position where you can get your crunches right.  The Ab Rocket supports your neck and back so that you can actually concentrate on your midriff instead of trying to haul your neck and shoulders up as in a conventional crunch, which only makes them ache.

The padded rollers of the Ab Rocket support your back; as you crunch upwards, pull in your belly button as if your pants were too tight and you will feel the crunch in exactly the right area.  The Ab Rocket also allows you to lift your knees and do a reverse crunch, thus targeting the lower abdominals as well.

All in all, I think the Ab Rocket is a useful and inexpensive piece of exercise equipment that can and will – if used correctly – give you great tone and bulge reduction in your waist area without putting any strain on your neck and back.

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