Do Ab Cruncher Machines Work?
One of the frequent questions I often get asked is, do the ab cruncher exercise machines you often see on television actually work? Yes and no is the answer to that question. I know this is not particularly useful but let me explain.
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.
Aerobic exercises are one of the best ways at burning calories and are a good idea to add into your program. Exercises, such as squats that use the large quad muscles which just burn up 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.
Used on their own these machines won't get you a set of visible rippling abs. You have to do fat busting exercises as well. Great ab development can be had in as soon as twelve weeks if you apply this advice consistently.