Ever since 2009, the Ab Circle is an expensive machine that includes a circle pad with handlebars at the top, and knee pads at the bottom. When a person would get on it, they’d move side to side on the on the circle pad, and it claims that doing three minutes of that workout would make consumers lose 10 pounds in two weeks. It also claims that doing three minutes of the Ab Circle would be the equivalent of one hundred sit ups.
In relation to the five health related fitness components, the Ab Circle doesn’t seem to be involved with any of them. Promising the quick, three minute workout with no additional weight added onto it doesn’t seem to follow all of the five health related fitness components. Cardiovascular endurance is being able to …show more content…
Muscular Strength, which is the amount of force that your muscles can exert against resistance, has little to do with Ab Circle. While someone’s own weight could be considered a way of working out the muscles, the circle pad is the one that does all the moving in an easy, gliding motion with barely any force. No weights are being pulled, and no muscles are contracting or lengthening. In relation to the muscular endurance, which is the ability of a muscle or group of muscles to sustain repeated contractions against a resistance for an extended period of time, the Ab Circle also fails. As it promises only three minutes of a workout, it definitely doesn’t fulfill the extended period of time part of muscular endurance. And with flexibility, this product doesn’t make someone stretch their muscles at all. There might be a small tug when someone moves side to side, but …show more content…
The ab circle recommends working out everyday, so it’s very frequent in that regard. When using this product, the user doesn’t get tired quickly. Infact, most of movement comes from the circle pad and not the actually muscles being used. The intensity doesn’t have any variety either. It’s just go back and forth, with no way of making it harder by adding weight or by going quickly. However, in terms of time, it has a very short time limit of three minutes instead of the average workouts which usually last around thirty minutes. The only types of workouts associated with the ab circle, are of course, ab workouts. However, with the SPORT principles, the Ab circle does much worse. The body adapts with the specific type of training performed, so eventually the Ab circle will not be as effective as it did in the beginning of the workout. Again, there is no way that the Ab circle can be changed to be harder than normal, as it has no modifications to create different or harder workouts. The ab circle has no form of progression at all. The exercise stays the same for the entire time that someone would own the ab circle. It doesn’t challenge the body since the ab circle doesn’t change any part of SPORT principle at all. In order to achieve a training effect with the ab circle, one must spend more and more time on the ab circle. That’s all someone can do in order to work themselves harder. However, the one thing the ab circle
In relation to the five health related fitness components, the Ab Circle doesn’t seem to be involved with any of them. Promising the quick, three minute workout with no additional weight added onto it doesn’t seem to follow all of the five health related fitness components. Cardiovascular endurance is being able to …show more content…
Muscular Strength, which is the amount of force that your muscles can exert against resistance, has little to do with Ab Circle. While someone’s own weight could be considered a way of working out the muscles, the circle pad is the one that does all the moving in an easy, gliding motion with barely any force. No weights are being pulled, and no muscles are contracting or lengthening. In relation to the muscular endurance, which is the ability of a muscle or group of muscles to sustain repeated contractions against a resistance for an extended period of time, the Ab Circle also fails. As it promises only three minutes of a workout, it definitely doesn’t fulfill the extended period of time part of muscular endurance. And with flexibility, this product doesn’t make someone stretch their muscles at all. There might be a small tug when someone moves side to side, but …show more content…
The ab circle recommends working out everyday, so it’s very frequent in that regard. When using this product, the user doesn’t get tired quickly. Infact, most of movement comes from the circle pad and not the actually muscles being used. The intensity doesn’t have any variety either. It’s just go back and forth, with no way of making it harder by adding weight or by going quickly. However, in terms of time, it has a very short time limit of three minutes instead of the average workouts which usually last around thirty minutes. The only types of workouts associated with the ab circle, are of course, ab workouts. However, with the SPORT principles, the Ab circle does much worse. The body adapts with the specific type of training performed, so eventually the Ab circle will not be as effective as it did in the beginning of the workout. Again, there is no way that the Ab circle can be changed to be harder than normal, as it has no modifications to create different or harder workouts. The ab circle has no form of progression at all. The exercise stays the same for the entire time that someone would own the ab circle. It doesn’t challenge the body since the ab circle doesn’t change any part of SPORT principle at all. In order to achieve a training effect with the ab circle, one must spend more and more time on the ab circle. That’s all someone can do in order to work themselves harder. However, the one thing the ab circle