Better Than The Ab Coaster

A lot of people, despite this being the information age, are still largely out of the loop when it comes to fitness and getting a lean abdomen. Quite a number of aspiring health buffs fall for sly marketing ploys on the web and countless infomercials on TV. All sorts of fitness products, from quick weight-loss pills to abdominal exercise gadgets like the Ab Coaster sell gain fast popularity and sell like hotcakes. Although most of these do work to a degree, they rarely do what people expect- fast, lasting results.

Video ads for the Ab Coaster show your requisite super-fit model on a good-sized exercise machine that look like a modified stationary bike with a movable platform for the knees in place of the seat and pedals. Users give their abs a workout by holding on to support bars and sliding their knees along a rail that curves upwards towards the front. The models look like they're having fun, but it's clear just by looking that the Ab Coaster entails serious abdominal work.

The Ab Coaster is designed to have effects like hanging leg raises on a captain's chair without the uncomfortable strain on the upper body. Captain's chair exercises have been found to be the most effective in firming-up abdominal muscles, but users have to support their full body weight on their arms. The Ab Coaster solves this problem by providing two supports- the arms and the knees. If you want to get a six-pack gut in a short time however, working-out on the Ab Coaster alone would be a bit frustrating.

Whether it's shredded gut or just a lean, trim stomach you want, the best thing you can do is eliminating body fat through total body exercise. Experts have discovered a total body workout at low to moderate intensity burns the highest percentage of calories from stored fat. This means a leaner belly, exposing the six-pack underneath.

No matter how many hours you spend on the Ab Coaster, your efforts will be useless if the belly fat covering the ab muscles isn't burned-off. In these lean times, shelling-out $400 for an ab machine whose effects can be had for free is a tad ludicrous. Ab Coaster is not the answer. A good fat-burning exercise regimen coupled with a healthy diet is.