Ab Chair Workouts
There are very few of us past the age of 30, or younger if you've had a child or two, who are satisfied with their mid section. There are a ridiculous amount of products out there to help you overcome this problem area; from an ab chair workout, to a lap band, to a stability ball and more and more. I personally am a size 4 and even then am not satisfied at all with my mid section. I could definitely use some more toning up.
One of the products on the market are ab chairs. Most of the different brands in this category promise miraculous results with minimal effort and use amazingly toned, gorgeous people as their examples. The bottom line is, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is. Those amazingly toned people may indeed use the ab chair, but it's guaranteed that they also use other products, workouts, and eat healthy, and probably have a significant amount of photo editing in their image.
There are several problems with the ab chair workout. For one, it is simply not enough to do anaerobic exercise. If you want to be satisfied with you abdominal area you have to burn the fat there as well as tone the muscle. Beautifully toned muscle can easily be hidden under the layer of fat that most of us are prone to in this area. But even if you are using the ab chair in addition to aerobic exercise you most likely will not see the results that you want for one reason.... they are ineffective at working our your abdominals. They have things such as arms rests to pull up on and spring loaded back rests, that take out a significant portion of the work. Not to mention, doing a full sit up is not the best way to work your abdominals.
For the best abdominal workout invest in a stability ball.
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