slendertone fortex

Gryzor

anyone used one of these...is it a waste of time???

i just want to tone up a bit and be able to do it from home....do a few exercises a few nights a week...is this the gadget for the job or would i be better just buying weights??

thanx..


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funkyniff

waste of time buy weights..have never seen a diffrence....tho does feel funny

daveirl

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Gryzor

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because??

daveirl

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Gryzor

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this isn't an EMS system?? It does physically work the muscles...

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juliansammon

Moderators Note: This person works for Slendertone and didn't even have the credibility to declare this. I wouldn't trust a word written below because it's just marketing speak.

Just a word on the Fortex. Its a resistance trainer that works all the 9 muscle groups in the upper body using only 4 exercises. Its been proven to increase strength by 27% in 4 weeks used only 4 times a week for 5 minutes and can achieve these results by exercising the muscles maximally - longer duration strain at a consistent level. It has a built in personal training program that allows you to push yourself as hard as you wish and will track your progress and gradually increase your exercise level to adjust to your increasing strength and at €99 is a steal! For someone who just wants to use it for home use to build and bulk up its ideal.

Gryzor

juliansammon wrote:

Just a word on the Fortex. Its a resistance trainer that works all the 9 muscle groups in the upper body using only 4 exercises. Its been proven to increase strength by 27% in 4 weeks used only 4 times a week for 5 minutes and can achieve these results by exercising the muscles maximally - longer duration strain at a consistent level. It has a built in personal training program that allows you to push yourself as hard as you wish and will track your progress and gradually increase your exercise level to adjust to your increasing strength and at €99 is a steal! For someone who just wants to use it for home use to build and bulk up its ideal.

sound for the info...

where did u see it for €99??

logic1

juliansammon wrote:

Just a word on the Fortex. Its a resistance trainer that works all the 9 muscle groups in the upper body using only 4 exercises. Its been proven to increase strength by 27% in 4 weeks used only 4 times a week for 5 minutes

Proven by whom? Where's the study? Where's the paper? I personally and I'm sure others would like to see the 'proof' behind your sweeping statement.

used only 4 times a week for 5 minutes and can achieve these results by exercising the muscles maximally - longer duration strain at a consistent level.

So you're saying 20 minutes of exercise a week "exercises the muscles maximally". That's not even a warmup. How does it exercise the muscles maximally. How was this measured? What proof is there? "Longer duration strain at a consistent level" sounds like bull**** dreamed up by some lard ass exec at a round table advertising meeting. On a side note a long duration strain at a consistent level is only a stretch. How do you exercise maximally with a stretch?

It has a built in personal training program that allows you to push yourself as hard as you wish and will track your progress and gradually increase your exercise level to adjust to your increasing strength and at €99 is a steal!

Push yourself for those 5 minutes. Sounds riveting. At €99 it's a steal alright. You're stealing straight from gullible consumers.

For someone who just wants to use it for home use to build and bulk up its ideal.

No it isn't ideal. It's a heap of ****e but you obviously sell them or are involved with a company that does. More exercise companies peddling bull**** and preying on the gullible and those with self esteem issues.

Post the studies that proove the wild claims you've made in this thread.

.logic.

logic1

*yawn* someones been busy:

http://www.menshealth.co.uk/talk/thread.phtml/post636528/

.logic.

Gryzor

logic1 wrote:

*yawn* someones been busy:

http://www.menshealth.co.uk/talk/thread.phtml/post636528/

.logic.

ah finally...some actual advice....

logic1

As a side note the study Slendertone seem to like to quote to "prove" the fortex can increase strength is a study from the American College of Sports Medicine (1998 we're given no reference as to the particular study just a vague journal ref. which covers hundreds of papers) which states "Resistance training can improve strength by up to 27% in 4 weeks in previously untrained atheletes."

They DID NOT do a study on the slendertone fortex and it does not prove the fortex can do anything as claimed.

Slendertone simply put a spin on using amazing jumps of logic assuming that since the fortex is a resistance training device (again arguable) that the study proving resistance training improves strength by x amount in y time must directly apply to their piece of rubbish.

Down the country 99euros would pay for a gym membership for 2 or 3 months at least. A much better option than the rubbish slendertone consistently peddle.

.logic.

pips

i did the slender tone tummy one and did it for three months i looked great but then cut down and started doing normal excersize.... it turn straight to fat... so pissed off

logic1

Surprise, surprise:

http://www.menshealth.co.uk/talk/thread.phtml/thread122904/

my name is Julian Sammon and I am the Product Manager for Slendertone Fortex.

pips wrote:

i did the slender tone tummy one and did it for three months i looked great but then cut down and started doing normal excersize.... it turn straight to fat... so pissed off

Muscle cannot turn to fat. Something obviously changed in your diet or training and you put on fat and lost muscle.

.logic.

pips

no what my trainner said was due to the build up(too fast for something natural) my body couldn't keep it toned naturally.. so the mussle went soft(not fat but you get me) it wasn't toned any more, its unnatural to get that toned that fast... and unhealthy

logic1

pips wrote:

no what my trainner said was due to the build up(too fast for something natural) my body couldn't keep it toned naturally.. so the mussle went soft(not fat but you get me) it wasn't toned any more, its unnatural to get that toned that fast... and unhealthy

Basically everything you've just said is wrong.

.logic.

Jefferson Darcy

pips wrote:

i did the slender tone tummy one and did it for three months i looked great but then cut down and started doing normal excersize.... it turn straight to fat... so pissed off

You paid money to a personal trainer who endorsed using something like this??

Anyway, logic, not sure if you'd agree, but this thing might just tighten up abs to the point where people may feel they're getting results. Tighter abs = better posture and the spare tyre probably pulls in a bit. Thats about all it will do though, it will definitely not improve ab strength or core fitness.

daveirl

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logic1

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lol nice and subtle

Jefferson Darcy wrote:

Anyway, logic, not sure if you'd agree, but this thing might just tighten up abs to the point where people may feel they're getting results. Tighter abs = better posture and the spare tyre probably pulls in a bit. Thats about all it will do though, it will definitely not improve ab strength or core fitness.

As you've said for a previously sedentary person any form of exercise will tighten them up a bit. There's absolutely no magic machine or "5 minutes a day" formula that works. Anyone that tells you otherwise is lying.

A good consistent routine will yield massive results. Problem in todays society is people just want to buy a solution. They need to console themselves with the idea that they can get fit without working too much just to feel that little bit better about themselves.

I think I'll make my own fitness gimmick and see how it works. The 6 minute slap in the face. You'll never need a facelift with just 6 minutes of face slapping a day!

.logic.

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