AbCoaster, Any reviews

Colin12

has anyone used the adcoaster? i've seen the ads 4 it and am thinking about getting one. has anyone used it is it any good. its fairly expensive so wouldnt mind getting feedback before i decide

MagicMarker

If there's an ad for it then it's probably ****.

Brian?

I've seen them in a couple of gyms. They're fierce noisy.

I wouldn't bother spending the money on it/

EileenG

I think I saw a feature in some mag which found it was pretty good. But it's big and it's expensive. For my money, the best ab gadget is a swiss ball. Under a tenner in most places, silent and amazingly versitile. You can also sit on it when you are surfing on Boards, and rock your hips to stop you getting a stiff back.

aye

EileenG wrote: »

I think I saw a feature in some mag which found it was pretty good. But it's big and it's expensive. For my money, the best ab gadget is a swiss ball. Under a tenner in most places, silent and amazingly versitile. You can also sit on it when you are surfing on Boards, and rock your hips to stop you getting a stiff back.

agreed, or a medicine ball if you wanna save space.

for the cost of that ab coaster thing you could probably get two months gym membership.

rubadub

Pure gimmick by the looks of things.
http://www.abcoaster.com/

Seems to be just like knee raises, you could just hang from a chinup bar and do knee raise, (and L-sits, chinups, pullups). When walking down my stairs I can hang from the landing and do pullups or knee raises, or you could just your hands on 2 chairs and do knee raises.

Lots of these ab devices make the movement easier, providing far less resistance, while trying to infer it is the same exercise only more comfortable.

These would destroy your abs more than any gadget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXwNBdyEewg

The Davestator

I WAS involved in selling the ab coaster in Ireland and I'd swear by it.

Is it a gimmick? - it won 'fitness product of the year' at FIBO (massive leisure trade show in germany) for 2008. it beat all the new machines from precor etc. This award is judged by international experts from the industry.

Can you get the same effect by hanging leg raises? - yes

How many normal joe's can do 20 hanging leg raises? - none

I dont sell them anymore as I changed jobs, however, it's a lot of money to spend on one machine so I wouldn't. Hassle your gym to get one with a petition. The commercial one's cost 1,500 inc vat.

itsallaboutheL

rubadub wrote: »

Pure gimmick by the looks of things.
http://www.abcoaster.com/

Seems to be just like knee raises, you could just hang from a chinup bar and do knee raise, (and L-sits, chinups, pullups). When walking down my stairs I can hang from the landing and do pullups or knee raises, or you could just your hands on 2 chairs and do knee raises.

Lots of these ab devices make the movement easier, providing far less resistance, while trying to infer it is the same exercise only more comfortable.

These would destroy your abs more than any gadget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXwNBdyEewg

DUUUUUDE seriously gymnastics or not that video is unacceptable:p:D

j@utis

The Davestator wrote: »

I WAS involved in selling the ab coaster in Ireland and I'd swear by it.

Is it a gimmick? - it won 'fitness product of the year' at FIBO (massive leisure trade show in germany) for 2008. it beat all the new machines from precor etc. This award is judged by international experts from the industry.

Can you get the same effect by hanging leg raises? - yes

How many normal joe's can do 20 hanging leg raises? - none

I dont sell them anymore as I changed jobs, however, it's a lot of money to spend on one machine so I wouldn't. Hassle your gym to get one with a petition. The commercial one's cost 1,500 inc vat.

you're probably talking about 3 examples of them monster machines we have in the Peak Health Bray
these abcoasters have been there for a good while now and I still can't get them work for me I get pain in my shoulders and quads before I feel my abs (oh my form must be terrible!).
and yeah, one more thing: I haven't seen many normal joes using it properly. Most people just sit on it and swing there and back. And it's quite fun waste of time I must say

Racy

hi op

save your money and don't buy an abcoaster, what are you're exercise aims/goals? what sort of training have done/are you doing? If you let everyone know you could get some useful advice

crotalus667

IMO you can get a better workout with a Swiss ball (Irish lifting sell good ones for 14:99)

Hanley

The Davestator wrote: »

Can you get the same effect by hanging leg raises? - yes

How many normal joe's can do 20 hanging leg raises? - none

hmm... so it's easier to use the abcoaster, but as effective??

j@utis

Hanley wrote: »

hmm... so it's easier to use the abcoaster, but as effective??

I wouldn't say it's easier. Just as I mentioned above, very little of people get the form right. Others just use it as swing
I think it'd be much harder to do these leg raises in bad form in something like this: