A Six-Pack for an Ab Slide Ab Machine

Purchasing exercise equipment can be time and money consuming, especially if it's your first time. With so many exercise equipment to choose from, you might want to start with something small, and affordable, like the Ab Slide slider.

This little exercise machine has been one of the most popular "as-seen-on-TV" ab machine for the past few years. Virtually easy to use, it can work on any surface that isolates the midsection in order to work on and uses the "bodyweight" method that acts as your weights.

The ab machine has springs that once you start pushing forward, the ab machine will increase in tension, thus making you push even more and that's where the fat burning process begins. Two foam-covered handles make handling the Ab Slider much easier.

In the package, you also get the kneepad as well as an exercise booklet on how to effectively use the machine and small enough to fit in your bag with the handles removed. Not bad for a $40 product and you may even get it for less.

However, checking on some customer testimonies there are more cons for the ab machine. A couple complaints of lower back pains were evident even on a 3-minute exercise and certain people might not be able to benefit from it. One such example is a testimony of a rather overweight individual who purchased the ab machine some 5 years ago. It did work and was able to shed the extra pounds off, but left him with a painful lower back. What's more, it was awkward to use considering his weight, and the ab machine wouldn't be able to help him back to the starting position and repeat the cycle.

Seeking advice and opinion from my gym instructor friend, who is still forcing me to sign up again, he tried the Ab slider for a couple minutes. It does work and it's similar to the roller and two handles he assembled himself, though without any springs to counteract his weight.