What does the ab lounge work besides abs?!
Question: does it just works abs? what about belly fat, leg and thigh fat, and butt?
Answers: does it just works abs? what about belly fat, leg and thigh fat, and butt?
Mr friend uses one. I do normal situps, leanups, hangups, etc. We're of the same type of build, and we generally put on muscle in the same fashion and at the same speed.
Guess who has the better set. : ) Nothing beats hard work. My back feels stronger and more flexible than it ever has... and that could be due in part to my stretching routines and some physical yoga, but this just goes to show you that it's possible to do situps and other related abdominal exercises without breaking your back. In fact, I've never known anyone to have injured their back or anything else from doign situps alone... maybe doing them wrong, however.
I don't recommend the ab lounge. It doesn't work the full set of muscles used for doing anything but ab lounging. : ) If you want to build kick ***, rock hard abs (or even just "lean up"). . . Don't sit down, don't lounge, don't buy gimmick products. Get up and do some real ab work. Get this, all you need is:
1: A floor
2: . . .
Oh, a floor. If you'd rather a more hardcore bulking scheme, take a bench, lean off of it, pile 40-60 pounds of weights into your chest and CRUNCH! I've been doing it for years, and I'm not crippled. In fact, I'm very flexible, I have a great set of abs, and my back has never had a problem after I added this type of thing to my routine. For something even harder... you guessed it; you'll require a hanging bar, tree branch, or a really strong, tall man to hold you upside down.
Have fun, and spend some of that extra money on some high quality multis or a bunch of bananas or something.
Edit: Um, anyway, I forgot to answer your question.
The ab lounge works parts and areas of your core (not all of it). It also works your. . .
Nothing else.
You're not using stabilizing muscles, therefor you don't work them. You're not using the full length of your lower abdominals, so you really don't work them. You're not using the full movement capabilities of your back, side, or upper abdominal area, so you really don't work everything in those areas, either. You're not working your neck, because you don't really have to hold your head up.
This is funny; I heard this from a martial arts sensei a year or two ago:
The best feature of these ab chairs is that their comfortable.