The Ab Rocket is a new and cleverly-engineered home exercise device to give you toned and shapely abs without causing you any back pain. Raising you up off the floor and into a seated position for a great abdominal workout, the Ab Rocket is suitable to any level of exercise, is easy-to-use, and stores away neatly after use.
The problem with most abdominal exercises is that they are done lying on the floor. This puts your back into a vulnerable position as you have to work against gravity to lift yourself up into a crunch. This can easily cause a vicious circle as, if your abs initially are not strong enough to lift you, the strain will go into your back, and your abs will not get strong enough to lift you unless they can be properly engaged.
To recruit the correct abdominal muscles is not easy and requires separate training in itself. If you are new to exercising it is almost certain that you will not know how to use your muscles correctly and would need an instructor standing over you to tell you exactly which muscle to contract and where you should feel it.
If you don't have a Personal Trainer - and let's face it, they don't come cheap - you will struggle as reading how to do ab exercises properly will be more likely to confuse you than anything else, and is very likely that you won't know where to start.
The problem with ab exercises done on the floor is that most beginners simply try to haul their head and shoulders up using brute force and start tugging on their head and neck. All the strain is promptly absorbed by the long muscles in the lower back, causing back pain and possible injury.
Not tightening the core muscles before you commence will mean that the exercise is performed by other muscles which were not made to work in this way by nature, and there is a distinct possibility that you will pull a muscle in your lower back or maybe even cause damage to your spine.
The Ab Rocket is cleverly designed to solve the problem of how to work all the ab muscles without causing any strain on the back or the neck. The Ab Rocket puts you in a seated position and the backrest consists of padded rollers that support your spine all the way up to the back of your head.
In this position, when you lean back and crunch upwards, your back is carefully supported; not to the extent that the exercise is done for you, but enough to relax the back and put the focus of the exercise squarely back where it belongs - into your abdominals.
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