The Hype

Enthusiastically advertised as the way to turn that spare tyre around your middle into rocket-hard abs, not forgetting the Flexmaster attachment (costing more, of course), that can help turn your Ab Rocket into a sort of Pilates machine for a full-body workout.

The hype burbles on, telling you that if you want sizzling hot abs and bikini-ready results, you should try the Ab Rocket for easy, effective crunches to get your body into the best shape of your life. Heady stuff – I was exhausted just reading it! The infomercial includes the usual shots of ripped guys and stunning girls in teeny-weeny bikinis. You know what I mean

The unique selling point of the Ab Rocket is to get you up off the floor and into a perfect position for doing crunches without hurting your back, and the padded rollers of the backrest are meant to give you a soothing massage at the same time.  For your money you get the Ab Rocket machine, 4 fat-busting DVD workouts, variable resistance springs and the usual low-calorie meal planner.  A 30 day risk-free trial is offered and you get all this for $99.99.

So does it work?  Can you Rocket your way to perfect abs with this machine?  Read on and find out!

Pros

Does indeed get you up off the floor and into a supported position to work your abs; very good if you have back/neck problems or don’t know how to do situps properly.  A number of users began to see reductions in their waistline within around three weeks.  The Ab Rocket is convenient to use and is portable, and the Flexmaster attachment gives a reasonable Pilates-style workout.  And how many other exercise machines can you get for under $100?

Cons

Yet again, poor customer service and misguiding free-trial information caused the worst complaints about the Ab Rocket.  The quality of the machine is just about acceptable, but some users grumbled that the resistance is not strong enough and the machine can be quite uncomfortable to use.  And the back massage seems to be nonexistent!

To buy or not to buy?

For $100, the Ab Rocket is reasonable value for money and will indeed do what it says on the tin – strengthen your abs while supporting your back.  But that is all it will do; you can spot tone your abs till you’re blue in the face, but this machine will not help you reduce the fat covering them. You need to do other exercise as well.

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Good Workout
Easy To Use
Value For Money
Overall Rating

The Ab Rocket is a new and cleverly-engineered home exercise device to give you toned and shapely abs without causing you any back pain.  Raising you up off the floor and into a seated position for a great abdominal workout, the Ab Rocket is suitable to any level of exercise, is easy-to-use, and stores away neatly after use.

The majority of effective exercises for the stomach muscles are carried out on the floor as it is quite difficult to isolate the abs in order to tone and strengthen them. This supine position makes the muscles of the back very vulnerable as most exercisers don’t know how to engage their deep stomach muscles properly in order to perform a traditional abdominal crunch.

To recruit the correct abdominal muscles is not easy and requires separate training in itself.  If you are new to exercising it is almost certain that you will not know how to use your muscles correctly and would need an instructor standing over you to tell you exactly which muscle to contract and where you should feel it.

If you don’t have a Personal Trainer – and let’s face it, they don’t come cheap – you will struggle as reading how to do ab exercises properly will be more likely to confuse you than anything else, and is very likely that you won’t know where to start.

If you don’t engage deep stomach muscles correctly before attempting a situp, all you are likely to do is poke your elbows forward, drag your head and shoulders upwards and cause strain in your neck and back muscles, while your abs just lie there immobile.

If the important muscles are not correctly recruited, the work goes to other muscles nearby which are not designed to do the job.  I have known people tear a back muscle and even dislodge a disk by performing ab crunches incorrectly.

The Ab Rocket Workout will solve all these problems with one stroke, getting you off the mat and into a comfortable sitting position where your back is supported all the way from the base of your spine right up to the top of your head.  The firm, padded rollers support your back and massage your muscles while affording you protection from back injury.

In this position, when you lean back and crunch upwards, your back is carefully supported; not to the extent that the exercise is done for you, but enough to relax the back and put the focus of the exercise squarely back where it belongs – into your abdominals.

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