Ab Slide Infomercial

[neci]

I've seen the ab slide infomercial several times, and I'm considering buying it. They claim that you can see results by using it about 3 minutes per day. Has anyone else used it?

[emilycat]

I've read in several fitness magazines that this productis a load of crap. It's simply not possible to tone your muscles in only three minutes...not to mention that with ab machines, technique is extremely important, so if you're not doing the exercise just so, you're just wasting your time. You'd be much better off using a variety of stomach crunches (I could rattle off about 20), which have proven to be much more effective. Just like dieting, shortcuts are bound to backfire.

[Laura]

I have tried the "torso tiger" because my niece had borrowed one. Even though I do a lot of stomach exercises (between 300-500 different crunches every day) I found that this machine put a lot of stress on my lower back. My niece's boyfriend swears by the thing though.

[Pat58]

I would vote NO - DO NOT GET THIS THING. It will give you nothing but a hole in your wallet and a backache. Every time I see the info-mercial, I have to fly past it because it makes me wince just to look at it!