slendertone

redcrew

Hi,

I'm a guy and I was just wondering if anyone knows whether those slendertone machines work? or if they are any good? or risk killing you? or whatever...

I was going to put this topic in fitness but i figure the whole point of the slendertone is that you don't actually do the exercise!

Now I'm a slim guy so all I'm trying to do it tone up...I went to the gym for a year and it didn't do anything major for me...obviously whatever regime I had wasn't strenuous enough! I would however be more than willing to wear one of these while I read or whatever else the cheesy ad says... I walk a lot, I don't even have a car and I live a healthy lifestyle but pushing myself to get exercise by doing weights or going for runs that have no purpose just isn't me!


Can anyone help here?

c - 13

You do realise that hose things were originally created to prevent the muscle from wasting away to nothing in coma sufferers yeah ?

Its not going to do anything really noticeable for you, you'd be much better hitting the gym again with a different regime to be honest.

I don't like the look of guys with defined six packs.

redcrew

not looking to be a superman to be honest...as i said i'm slim but wouldn't mind toning up a bit...gonna get myself a set of weight to see if i can commit to those before i pay for a gym again

woofie87

I personally think its a gimmick but my boyf (who knows much more about fitness and has been playing rugby and soccer all his life) seems to think the opposite. He told me that while it will not work as well as doing heavy sit ups session and other stuff he does, it will still benefit people who wear it as it contracts the muscle same way as a sit up (or something along those lines). I dont know if its helpful at all, but this is the only object/exercise machine wonder that he did not critise!!! If you decide to go for it let us know if it works!!!!

rubadub

Spend the money on weights and do heavy front squats, or get a chinning bar and do leg raises. Much better result, and feels better than being electrocuted every few seconds.

Mikel

By using it you're making two asumptions
1. That they have the same physiological effect as performing a sit up or crunch or whatever. i don't know if this is true.
2. That high volume sit ups are the way to strenghten/define your abdominals.

Hanley

Mikel wrote: »

By using it you're making two asumptions
1. That they have the same physiological effect as performing a sit up or crunch or whatever. i don't know if this is true.
2. That high volume sit ups are the way to strenghten/define your abdominals.

I really like that as a counter argument. Can't believe I never thought of it before!!

aye

redcrew wrote: »

Hi,


Now I'm a slim guy so all I'm trying to do it tone up.

I walk a lot, I don't even have a car and I live a healthy lifestyle but pushing myself to get exercise by doing weights or going for runs that have no purpose just isn't me!


Can anyone help here?

surely the purpose of the weights and the runs would be to "tone up".

as regards slendertone, i dunno if it works or not, never used and dont know anyone who has, but in order for your abs to show you need to have a low body fat percentage, and this would be where the weights and runs come in.

crotalus667

aye wrote: »

but in order for your abs to show you need to have a low body fat percentage, and this would be where the weights and runs come in.

20 min's slender tone = 120 crunchs (if you beleive the ad) I dont know about you but it takes me alot less than 20 min's to do 120 crunchs:rolleyes:

edges

A mate of mine has one, we were at his house one night after a few pints and decided to have a "tone off", see who could wear it the longest while it was set to maximum intensity.

You should see the video footage one of the lads took on his phone, it's hilarious, wonder if he still has it, I'd put it on you tube.

Anyway it's simple, the lads that don't train found it sore, the missus thought it was tickley and I was more sore from laughing so hard then I was from wearing the thing. I had t on so long I almost forgot about it.

Personally mate, don't waste your money, get on the deck and try holding planks for time, front, side, unbalanced, extended and any othervariation you can think of.

All the best

Dave
www.WG-Fit.com

Transform

What do you think you will achieve from getting a weights set at home either?

Join the gym and get in there for the weights - yes it may 'have no purpose' but its a heck of a lot more purposeful than zapping yourself

edges

Now to be fair, gyms aren't for everybody.

Personally I enjoy training at home (I have a set of kettlebells there), I only like gym's when they're quiet, which if you work mon-fri 9-5, like most other folk, it can be hard work constantly working around everyone else.

The Home gym solution is sometimes a great option. Get an oly bar set, a pull up bar, maybe kettlebells and dumbbells and you're away. Train when you want, how you want.

Transform

Home gyms are fine once you have a good base in training which most will get from going to the gym

Personally hate when the gyms are NOT busy as when there are others training hard around me it pushes me on - well i would settle for one person training hard really as most never deadlift, squat or chin

Khannie

Moonbaby wrote: »

I don't like the look of guys with defined six packs.

Really?

LolaDub

I got one of those slendertone things about a year ago, think it cost around a hundred and it was such a waste. Unless you've been training it is really uncomfortable and you need to send away for more pads every 20 times you use it or you're not getting the effect. The pads are about 15 euro (i think) and it says you need to use it every day to get the effect. I used it every day for the 20 uses and didn't notice anything but discomfort. I was trying to lose an extra bit of weight before holidays but it didn't make any difference.

I have a friend who is big on training and plays a lot of sports who uses it and she feels she gets benefit from it. Whether its her intense training or the combination i don't know.

I've bit the bullet and joined a gym which i go to about twice a week for 40 ish mins, although its a small amount i have noticed a difference and i feel a lot healthier than as well. So i would definitely say its the better way to go!

CAL2

Hi
i think these things are great!..... when you stick to the instructions which means doing five times a week and exercising aswell. I;ve gone from a size 18 to between a 16 and 14 in six weeks. more importanly the amt of time I can do the plank for has trebled but I am exercising too. When your struggling with your weight everything helps....... all i no is that everyone is commenting on how better i look so i'm sticking with my slendertone....roll on size 10......

rubadub

CAL2 wrote: »

Hi
i think these things are great!..... when you stick to the instructions which means doing five times a week and exercising aswell. I;ve gone from a size 18 to between a 16 and 14 in six weeks. more importanly the amt of time I can do the plank for has trebled but I am exercising too. When your struggling with your weight everything helps....... all i no is that everyone is commenting on how better i look so i'm sticking with my slendertone....roll on size 10......

Good to hear you are getting results, but I would put it down to the exercising. If people are overweight then these things do not really even work, as the fat layer means you have to whack it up to get a contraction, and that means even more "electrocution power".

Bruce Lee actually used these things, but was also training endless hours every day. And the lads on the ads did not build their abs with these gadgets.

CAL2

hi rubadub what a g8 name..... anyway you seem to no more than me so can i pick your brain.... what's the best exercise to do for lower abs. I'm pretty bad in that area (aka huge overhang) after 2 emergency c sections nothing is working. I'm doing the exercises but can feel nothing in that area. I.m gross but can out exercise my hubby who is super thin and fit (he's just returned from the alps tour de france) so if i can beat him in lower abs exer but look like a i have a front bum than something is majorly wrong. Any advice.....