SallyAnne
06-14-2010, 02:07 PM
http://www.contourabs.net/
Hi, my name's Ryan and I work as an IT support specialist for the City of Ventura in Ventura, CA. This website was inspired by my beautiful wife Carolyn. I would love to hear about anyone else's experiences with the Flex Belt or the Contour Abs belt - feel free to leave a comment!
Have you seen the electronic ab belts (the Contour Abs to be precise) that supposedly give you great abs just from wearing an ab belt? At first I was very sceptical but my wife had obviously watched the commercial one too many times and decided to purchase one. She purchased the contour belt, the ab belt was marketed as only costing us $14.95 with a contour offer. This seemed great and we thought we didn’t have much to lose. Be very wary of buying this contour belt because for a start the offer is half finished before the ab belt even gets delivered. In the end what we thought was going to be a offer cost us $215.
I was quite sceptical that this expensive ab belt was anywhere near worth the money we paid for it. I had strong feelings that this electronic muscle stimulation was just another advertising ploy to sell products. Regardless of this my wife used the ab belt every day and after a couple of weeks even I see that it definitely was doing something, her tummy had become a little bit flatter and did look a little more toned.
This made me incredibly curious and I decided to check out the science behind electronic muscle stimulation. I started by going through all the the websites associated with the various ab belts. During my research I began to really believe in electronic muscle stimulation. I found out how they worked and why different models would perform better than others. Here’s a quote from Wikipedia:
“These patterns, referred to as protocols or programs, will cause a different response from contraction of different fibre types. Some programs will improve fatigue resistance, i.e. endurance, others will increase force production.”
While reading up on the medical sites I formed the opinion that the reason so many of these ab belts fail is either because of bad design or faulty manufacture. The science says these things should work and from what I believe work very well. However in practise we had only got marginal results. I also learned that the programming of the mini computer in these devices that controls the electronic pulses is quite complex and sensitive and many of the companies manufacturing these belts had obviously skimped on research and design. These companies obviously thought it’s more profitable to put their money into their marketing campaign than building a decent product.
So having turned full circle in my belief in EMS ab belts I decided to give them another shot. During my research I had come across the Flex Belt which was manufactured with patented medical-grade technology and I thought it looked a little bit better than the rest. It had been FDA approved and the results have been clinically proven. As well as this they don’t offer any or instalment packages but rather they offer you a full 60 day trial. Feeling like I had nothing left to lose and only high expectations I took the plunge and ordered the Flex Belt.
My first impressions of the ab belt where that it was a far superior model to the one my wife had purchased earlier. The ab belt has three pre-positioned gel pads that cover the central abdominal muscles and the external obliques perfectly. The unit comes complete with the rechargeable batteries that have a good life and the controller unit is simple to understand and use while providing a good control over the abs belt.
This ab belt was obviously of higher quality than the one we purchased earlier as after only two weeks of use my wife commented on a significant improvement in my abs. I noticed it too even though I had only been using the ab belt for half an hour a day at most. Since them my wife has swapped her Contour abs belt over for my Flex Belt as well and she has been saying how it feels like a better workout and has noticed much better results.
If your thinking of getting one of these ab belts I highly recommend you do your research first so you don’t fall into the same trap we did. If you are going to buy an ab belt I thoroughly recommend the Flex Belt: Visit Flexbelt website
If you are thinking about trying the Contour Abs belt I recommend going to Ebay where plenty of unsatisfied people are trying to sell their Contour Abs belts (like me at the moment). I even found a website which publishes used contour abs belts from Ebay!
Hopefully you are somewhat more enlightened on EMS and how it works and that this article has helped you to make the right decision when purchasing your ab belt.
Hi, my name's Ryan and I work as an IT support specialist for the City of Ventura in Ventura, CA. This website was inspired by my beautiful wife Carolyn. I would love to hear about anyone else's experiences with the Flex Belt or the Contour Abs belt - feel free to leave a comment!
Have you seen the electronic ab belts (the Contour Abs to be precise) that supposedly give you great abs just from wearing an ab belt? At first I was very sceptical but my wife had obviously watched the commercial one too many times and decided to purchase one. She purchased the contour belt, the ab belt was marketed as only costing us $14.95 with a contour offer. This seemed great and we thought we didn’t have much to lose. Be very wary of buying this contour belt because for a start the offer is half finished before the ab belt even gets delivered. In the end what we thought was going to be a offer cost us $215.
I was quite sceptical that this expensive ab belt was anywhere near worth the money we paid for it. I had strong feelings that this electronic muscle stimulation was just another advertising ploy to sell products. Regardless of this my wife used the ab belt every day and after a couple of weeks even I see that it definitely was doing something, her tummy had become a little bit flatter and did look a little more toned.
This made me incredibly curious and I decided to check out the science behind electronic muscle stimulation. I started by going through all the the websites associated with the various ab belts. During my research I began to really believe in electronic muscle stimulation. I found out how they worked and why different models would perform better than others. Here’s a quote from Wikipedia:
“These patterns, referred to as protocols or programs, will cause a different response from contraction of different fibre types. Some programs will improve fatigue resistance, i.e. endurance, others will increase force production.”
While reading up on the medical sites I formed the opinion that the reason so many of these ab belts fail is either because of bad design or faulty manufacture. The science says these things should work and from what I believe work very well. However in practise we had only got marginal results. I also learned that the programming of the mini computer in these devices that controls the electronic pulses is quite complex and sensitive and many of the companies manufacturing these belts had obviously skimped on research and design. These companies obviously thought it’s more profitable to put their money into their marketing campaign than building a decent product.
So having turned full circle in my belief in EMS ab belts I decided to give them another shot. During my research I had come across the Flex Belt which was manufactured with patented medical-grade technology and I thought it looked a little bit better than the rest. It had been FDA approved and the results have been clinically proven. As well as this they don’t offer any or instalment packages but rather they offer you a full 60 day trial. Feeling like I had nothing left to lose and only high expectations I took the plunge and ordered the Flex Belt.
My first impressions of the ab belt where that it was a far superior model to the one my wife had purchased earlier. The ab belt has three pre-positioned gel pads that cover the central abdominal muscles and the external obliques perfectly. The unit comes complete with the rechargeable batteries that have a good life and the controller unit is simple to understand and use while providing a good control over the abs belt.
This ab belt was obviously of higher quality than the one we purchased earlier as after only two weeks of use my wife commented on a significant improvement in my abs. I noticed it too even though I had only been using the ab belt for half an hour a day at most. Since them my wife has swapped her Contour abs belt over for my Flex Belt as well and she has been saying how it feels like a better workout and has noticed much better results.
If your thinking of getting one of these ab belts I highly recommend you do your research first so you don’t fall into the same trap we did. If you are going to buy an ab belt I thoroughly recommend the Flex Belt: Visit Flexbelt website
If you are thinking about trying the Contour Abs belt I recommend going to Ebay where plenty of unsatisfied people are trying to sell their Contour Abs belts (like me at the moment). I even found a website which publishes used contour abs belts from Ebay!
Hopefully you are somewhat more enlightened on EMS and how it works and that this article has helped you to make the right decision when purchasing your ab belt.