The Ab Rocket is a sleek and easy to store home exerciser that will help you to strengthen and sculpt all those hard to get at muscles between your ribs and your hips without hurting your back or making your neck ache, and your pants will feel looser in no time.
Most people think of their abs as one muscle – it isn’t – it’s a group of muscles with your pelvic floor at the bottom, your diaphragm at the top and your six-pack running down from your ribs to your pubic bone, with your obliques at the sides and a corset-shaped muscle underneath it all which runs round you and attaches near your spine.
The most important muscle to tone for getting rid of your pooch and your love handles is underneath all of these others; it’s called your TVA and runs round you like a wide belt – this is the one to focus on for a flat belly.
The problem with working this midsection is that up till now the only real way to do it was lie on the floor on your back and try to lift your head and shoulders off the floor, pulling your lowest rib down towards your hip and thus making your sixpack work.
If you were not taught by a fitness instructor or Personal Trainer to stabilize your TVA muscles – i.e suck your navel in – as you performed your ab exercises, then the emphasis was lost and the exercise was a complete waste of time.
Pretend your pants are too tight as you are performing your crunch; pulling your tummy in engages your TVA and makes your whole core section work – but don’t forget to breathe or you’ll go purple!
So many people in the gym don’t know about the TVA, and do crunches wrong all the time, pulling themselves up using their neck muscles and tensing their shoulders – which pulls on the vulnerable muscles in the lower back and can cause painful back strain.
Try using the Ab Rocket and all the conventional crunch problems melt away as the comfortable rollers massage and support your spine while all your core muscles engage for an ab workout that gives fantastic results with no back pain.
