Home Fitnesss Workouts

I teach clients to exercise at home and so I like to be aware of what exercise equipment is available that I can recommend to my clients. I look at each piece of exercise equipment and assess price point, size and convenience and what particular focus on each machine has.

Very popular on the Internet and informercial channels at present are two pieces of equipment called the Ab Circle Pro and the Firm Wave. The former involves kneeling on pads and moving your hips and can strengthen and tone your abdominal area, and the latter offers full body toning incorporated into a cardio workout.

The Ab Circle Pro gives a cardiovascular workout as you swing your knees from side to side on the semicircular track and works your abdominals and obliques at the same time to give you toned, flat abs and a trim waistline as well as conditioning your lungs and heart.

The all fours position is not particularly comfortable, but has advantages in that you have to partially support your own body weight on your arms, which strengthens the bone density in your lower and upper arm and works the muscles in your arms, chest and shoulders isometrically.

Ideally your back should be almost flat, with just a small hollow in your lower back – it should not sag and your tailbone should neither be sticking up or tucked under. This position keeps you abdominals muscles flat while you work them, which makes it a lot better for toning the abs correctly and much better than doing hundreds of sit-ups.

If you do ab crunches on the floor, it is easy to get them wrong and make the appearance of your abs even worse than before, and you can also make your neck and shoulders ache. The Ab Circle Pro makes it much easier to work your abs correctly; if you find the knee supports make your knees sore, some extra padding seems to work well.

Along with your Ab Circle Pro is a guide to low-calorie eating and a DVD workout to help your on your way to a toned, leaner body and sculpted abs. Remember that other forms of exercise are necessary for permanent weight loss results and full body toning.

The Firm Wave is a piece of moulded plastic shaped in a half circle, that is stable on one side for step exercises and unstable on the other side for rocking exercises that also work the core. Like the Ab Circle Pro it is easy to store and is useful for cardio exercise and as a platform for toning exercises and Pilates. It comes with several DVDs that give great workouts for your whole body.

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