Health and Fitness

Health and Fitness - Are Ab Machines Necessary?

Typically, any machine that involves gripping handles out to the side, and in front for support aren't good because once you begin to get tired, your body will naturally have a tendency to use the arms to force the abdominal motion, taking the abs out of the picture almost completely and asking your back to do more work,which sets you up for an injury.

The trouble with almost ALL of these ab machines is that you are only moving your body in one direction or plane of motion. As you increase strength in that area, you will create a pattern overload syndrome and set your self up for muscle imbalances that may cause injury.

If you are absolutely dead set on buying some type of TV-advertisedabdominal product, get the Ab Swing.