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6 Second Abs: Is it "15 times better" than a regular crunch? By Christian Finn, Men's Health Columnist & Exercise Scientist www.ChristianFinn.com  6 Second Abs is an exercise device that's supposed to flatten your stomach, tighten your waistline, and help you lose a dress or pant size in just 7 days. 6 Second Abs spans the abdominal region with one end supported on the thighs and the other held with the hands at chest level. It comes with two sets of resistance bands: 2 yellow (15 pounds of resistance each) and 2 orange (25 pounds of resistance each). You can use one or two bands at a time, in various combinations, to provide five different resistance levels. The "6 seconds" refers to a series of audible clicks which "guide you through a perfect crunch lasting 6 seconds." Because of all this, 6 Second Abs is supposed to be up to 15 times more effective than a regular crunch. Unfortunately, there's no information on the 6 Second Abs website as to how this "15 times" figure was obtained. It looks like they used electromyography (known simply as EMG) — a technique used to measure recruitment of the abdominal muscles during various exercises. Despite several hours of searching, I couldn't find any independent research to verify the claim that 6 Second Abs is 15 times more effective than a regular crunch. But I did find one study, published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, which tested two similar devices — Perfect Abs and the AB-DOer [1]. After receiving instruction on the proper technique for using each device, subjects (20 men and 13 women) did one set of 8-10 repetitions for each abdominal exercise. Surface electrodes were placed on the skin over the right upper portion of rectus abdominis (the upper abs), the right lower portion of rectus abdominis (lower abs), and the right external oblique muscle. Learn more about the abdominal muscles (pop-up window). Participants were told to perform each set at a constant speed. A metronome was used to pace each phase of the movement at a rate of 1.5 seconds per phase. Results The numbers in the table below refer to the activity of the upper rectus abdominis (upper RA), lower rectus abdominis (lower RA) and the external oblique (EO) muscles relative to the crunch.
For example, when subjects used Perfect Abs with the low- and medium-resistance bands, muscle activity was lower compared to the crunch (28% and 67% respectively). But the high-resistance band led to slightly greater activity (109%) in upper rectus abdominis compared to the crunch. However, muscle activity was not 15 times greater than a regular crunch. The biggest difference was seen when subjects used Perfect Abs lying on the floor, where EMG activity in upper rectus abdominis was roughly twice as great compared to the crunch
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