The "Ab Lounge"......Does it really work?

[Tuzenbach]

Hey, how come there's no "Fitness" category? Oh yeah, these are RPG forums! But I digress......


OK, I know at least a few of you out there have to have been curious or bored enough to order the Ab Lounge. My question to you is an obvious one: Does the damn thing work?

Enquiring minds want to know.

 

[Tewligan]

I don't have one, but I imagine it works. It looks pretty similar to the big heavy crunch benches at the gym. If it's isolating your abs when you're doing crunches, which it looks like it does, you should get results. Mind you, I dunno how durable it is, but it should work while it lasts.

 

[Roadkill101]

Several years back, my wife bought one of those Total Gym machines as endorsed by Chuck Norris. It's never been used, except for the cats who used it as a scratching post and the kids who did their damndest to break it through play. So now I'm out close to 1500 bucks and need to have it re-uphosltered, to make it useable. Actually the cats damaged it worse than anything the kids did to it.
I have no idea if the Ab-Lounger works or not. For someone such as myself (too lazy to stay in proper shape and developing an ever increasing pot-belly), I'd recommend buying something along the lines of the Total Gymn or Bowflex, that's semi re-configurable to work different parts of the body, than something that looks roughly like two overgrown coat hangers utilizing a tension spring to keep them apart offering a more limited exercise capacity.
Just this morning I saw a new info-mercial fitness product that was nothing more than one of those mini trampolines with a fancy name. I changed channels before I saw the asking price, but I can well imagine it'd be more cost effective to go buy a mini trampoline from the nearest sporting goods store than ordering the product I saw (of course, then you don't get the all important workout video, from the as before unknown fitness expert, showing you what exercises to do with your new workout equipment ).

 

[Justin]

Forget the Ab Lounge. Try janda situps. Let me know when you can do one. I still can't. :\

I tried the Janda sit-up on my own and with the assistance of a training partner, and still didn’t get it; I couldn’t see what the big deal was. Even when my Ab Pavelizer arrived a few days ago and I tried it for the first time, I didn’t feel anything special. I couldn’t understand why two or three Janda situps are considered to be good. And then, I figured out how to do the movement properly. Wow! Now I get it.

EDIT: Clarified due to intervening post.

 

[yangnome]

I haven't personally ordered it, but my neighbor has one and he swears by it. I also gave it a try to see how well it worked compared to regular crunches. It is a bit akward at first, but it is easy to get used to. It does seem to isolate your abs and give a decent burn. i don't know how it would do compared to juts doing crunches in the long run though.

 

[JamesDJarvis]

I know someone who sells exercise equipment at a major retail outlet and she doesn't recomend them to anyone. How good can any exercise product be that has the word "lounge" in the name? at least hat is how she put it to me.