Using the ab lounger

There are handles on the sides. Please use them until
you get used to getting on and off the Ab Lounger. You will then place your
hands over your head and grab onto the bar. I can almost guarantee that the
first time you do this you will not be able to figure out how to move the top
part of you and the bottom at the same time but you can. You will do it once
and realize the technique. As you pull yourself up by the top handle the
bottom of the Ab Lounger comes up as well. Essentially this is what I call a
double crunch since without the machine you can do a crunch using just your
upper ab muscles (lift yourself slightly off the floor with your hands loosely
behind your head) or you can lift your lower half off the floor with your legs
up. Your bottom comes up in a slight curl working your lower abs. Turning to
the sides will work your obliques. What I do on the floor is bring my bottom
and top up at the side time essentially simulating the Ab Lounger or the Ab
Lounger is simulating me. Whichever way you want to think about it. That is all
there is to doing a crunch with the Ab Lounger.

There is a feature of the Ab Lounger that I do not like.
I mean I really do not like it. Although they advertise it as using a full
range of motion, I disagree. I think stretching your muscles to work your core
is essential. However hyper-extending either forward or backward (going
back to the point where your chest is lower than your waist) is never something
I would suggest a client do. Yet the Ab Lounger allows for that. As you get
used to this machine you will find out that it goes back.

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