Perfect Personal Trainer James Baylis Explains The Myths Behind Common Fitness Products

March 28, 2011 - PRLog -- Perfect Personal Training took a moment to ask some of its top in-home personal trainers their thoughts regarding the ab roller and other common fitness products that boast claims of fat loss around the midsection.  James Baylis, a Perfect Personal Trainer with an extensive history of successfully achieving fat loss for his clients, gives us the facts without the fads:

"Typically, anything that says it will target one specific area is a gimmick, preying on the need of Americans to do things the easy way,"  explains James.  "Spot Reducing has been shown to be a myth...unless you count plastic surgery and liposuction, then yes, it's possible but very expensive and painful."

James went on to give more detail.

"Ab rollers, those electrical stimulation gizmos, the Perfect Sit-Up, Iron Gym, BowFlex, Kettlebells, and on and on are all completely worthless if the person who orders them actually uses them regularly, EATS A HEALTHY DIET, and performs cardiovascular exercises.  The big problem is in the advertising; it's misleading at best.  The wording of the commercials infer the trainee's ability to get washboard abs by just performing a few minutes a day of the exercise.  What is normally left out of the ad, save for the TINY, tiny fine print at the bottom of the screen, is the fact that a trainee must eat a healthy diet, perform cardio, and the results are not typical."

What makes the ab roller and other fitness devices so popular?

"America is a country still consumed by the need for Instant Gratification and we want everything the easy way.  People hate to sweat and breathe hard but as we can see from every day life, America needs to start working hard.  Our easy way of life has vaulted to the status of World's Most Obese Nation.  We are supposed to be a leading nation, THE nation among nations.  Yet we are grossly overweight and out of shape."

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