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Thursday, July 9, 2009

Do Ab Cruncher Machines Work?

By Tom Leverson

It is common to see adverts for abdominal cruncher machines on television or in magazines, but do they work? The answer is yes and no. Allow me explain further what I mean by this.

These appliances are designed to exercise the abdo muscles. Various parts of the ab muscles are worked by these machines. Hopefully, after using these machines the abdominal muscles will hypertrophy, or increase in size. Working out with these machines alone is very unlikely to produce a lovely set of lean, rippling abdominal muscles. The reason is that the abdominal muscles are hidden from view by a layer of fat tissue. This needs to be got rid of in order to reveal those lovely abs.

Ab crunchers will not normally remove the fat focally over the abs. Performing hundreds or thousands of sit ups will not get rid of this layer of fat tissue for the exact same reason. The only way to do this is by lowering calorie intake and burning excess calories, therefore reducing fat content all over the body.

Adding an aerobic exercise regime to your exercise program is the most effective way to burn off these calories. Also, exercises that use the big muscles of the body such as the quadriceps are great at burning calories.

The quadriceps is the big muscles that lies at the top, on the front of the thigh. A good exercise to work the quadriceps is squats. The size of the large muscles means that they burn a lot of calories and generate a lot of heat. They also stimulate the body's growth hormone secretion therefore encouraging muscle growth which is good for building those abdominal muscles.

Aerobic exercises include cycling, running and swimming. Performing these exercises over a longer period of time are ideal for burning fat. You will find using the machines at the gym will help you in keeping a steady pace.

These ab crunchers will, therefore, help you in getting a set of visible abdominal muscles but not without combining them with fat loss exercises. Great abdominal muscle development can be had in as little as 12 weeks if you apply this advice regularly. - 17274

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