Jimmy's Better Life

Don't believe everything you hear on late night television, especially those fitness infomercials. These infomercials are largely slick marketing stories to teach the public to believe that they can “flatten” their stomach by doing twenty or thirty minutes of ab exercises each other day.

As important as the machines themselves in these ads are the super attractive, smiling fitness models who demonstrate how these fantastic products have made their incredible abs possible. These hot people almost make it look like it is fun and easy to use their ab machine.

However, what these super-healthy fitness models don’t tell you is that they were born with super-lean bodies and had great looking abs even before they used an ab machine.


The Truth About Ab Machines

Ab machines do one thing well, they strengthen your ab muscles. But that is all they will do for you, they will not make your waistline slimmer. Let me put it another way, ab machines make your ab muscles stronger but do not make your stomach smaller.

Are you having an "ah, ha moment" right now? You could actually have rock hard abs packed under layers of fat and no one would know (unless they punched you in the gut).

My favorite example is the offensive and defensive lines of any football team. American Football players are huge, many are overweight, their stomachs are bulging under their uniforms. However they can take a hit like anybody's business partly because they have got a massive amount of fat tissue over hard muscle. Football players are very strong but many are also very fat and they all work out all the time on weights and even ab crunch machines.

So should you not buy or use Ab Machines?

Of course not. If you want a thinner, smaller waistline then you must first lose the fat around your mid section using a good diet plan and exercise. Then your stomach muscles will be visible. Once the fat is gone, then you can firm up your stomach and build those rock hard abs you always wanted. Remove the fat tissues over your tummy and then build and strengthen your abs.

So the truth is, ab machine companies just want your business and if one model does not work for you, they are happy to sell you another. But if they revealed that you needed to go on a diet first most of them would be out of business because most overweight people want to lose weight first before building a muscular body.

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