There's this infomercial for Slendertone - this belt thinkg you put around your waist and it "works your abs" by contracting the muscles, as if you were doing crunches.
I like watching infomercials for the pure entertainment value... but I wonder, has anyone actually bought/used this thing? Can there be any truth to this?
2007-01-13 18:25:10 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diet & Fitness
Yes, you can do the same thing though without paying any money at all simply by when your walking tensing up your ab muscles. The belt builds ab muscles but I doubt it burns AB FAT !! I have tried one on , and it does promote tensing of the ab muscles, but as far as an effective Fat burner to reduce Ab Fat , there is little it can do.
2007-01-13 18:32:23 · answer #1 · answered by Dalyon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Useless. I bought one of these things from an infomercial. It wasn't the slendertone, it was a different brand, same concept. It had 3 settings, low setting I couldn't feel anything, medium was exactly the same, and high setting after the first "pulse" felt like I was hit by a cement truck. I managed to put up with 4 minutes of this torture, and it took a whole week for my abs to stop hurting. It felt like a gang mob had beat me with baseball bats after that. I advise against this thing. Stomach crunches are way easier. This is quite a lazy dude saying this, too.
2007-01-14 02:37:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think of it this way... If it really worked as well as they claimed and could do such fantastic stuff, why is the only place you hear about it on an infomercial?
Also, you don't find these things in a gym...
2007-01-14 02:31:49 · answer #3 · answered by muppet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will probably be banned there soon like it apparently has been in this country. There was some gimmick called Abdoer?..a motorized mechanical device that does all the hard work for you. BS!
CONCLUSION: When something seems too good to be true, it is.
2007-01-14 02:40:24 · answer #4 · answered by kicking_back 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
whatever you do Nutrition is mandatory:
optimum protein,low fat, low sugar, low carbohydrate,low salt nutrition-
for losing weight- replace two meals with the above said nutrition
program and having one meal of your choice, plus water one liter for every 44lbs for desired results.anf
for maintaining weight- have once the above mentioned nutrition program and two meals of your choice,plus water -one liter for every 44lbs of body weight.
Male=1"=1kg=2.2lbs
women 1"=800gms=1.76lbs standard weight
now You can work out your possibilities
Fat% Men 16% and women 26%
Men 2000-2200 calories, women 1500-1800 calories(intake
2007-01-14 02:45:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no, it does not work. But if you decide you want to try it for yourself, look for it on ebay, it will be cheaper.
2007-01-14 02:42:36 · answer #6 · answered by bronzemodel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.narcpartners.org/reports/docviewer.aspx?CaseID=66&DocumentID=212&DocumentTypeID=1
2007-01-14 02:31:43 · answer #7 · answered by Tiff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋