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Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Can You Get A Set Of Ripped Abs Using Ab Crunchers?

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.

Using these machines alone will not remove of this fat layer focally over the abdominal muscles. Doing lots of sit ups will not burn this fat off for the very same reason. Lowering the body fat content globally over the whole of the body by burning calories and lowering calorie intake is, really, the only way this is going to be done.

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 big muscles at the top and front of the thigh is the quads. Doing exercises in the gym such as squats uses this particular muscle. As they are large they produce a lot of heat and burn a lot of calories and so are great for weight loss. An additional benefit to exercising these muscles is that they enhance the manufacture of the body's growth hormone production. This increases muscle growth which helps with abs growth.

The most common aerobic exercises are rowing, running and cycling. For burning fat it is best to do these exercises over a long period of time. Indeed, on machines in a lot of gyms you will often find they have fat burning modes which will keep you at an ideal steady pace.

These ab crunchers will, therefore, help you in getting a set of visible abdominal muscles but not without combining them with fat busting exercises. In as soon as 12 weeks you can see results if these measures are followed consistently. - 17273

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