Ripped abs are all the rage and the best way to get them is by wearing a six pack belt! Who doesn’t want hard, chiseled abdominal muscles? Better yet, how about the strong back to go with them?
The six pack strap works your back muscles in concert with your abs. This develops your back the way you want it to instead of the normal way abdominal straps work. Regular abdominal straps and abdominal machines will not work the back muscles that are the antagonistic muscles of the abdominals. This allows for an imbalance of forces and opens you up to back pain and injury. It is much better to work in a way that the two work together.
Regular ab straps simply hang from a bar that allows you to hook your arms into it and hang there. Then lift your knees up toward your chest, which can be difficult to do, especially for inexperienced bodybuilders. You also have the problem of not being able to add any additional weight.
To get your perfect abs, you need very intensive performance and progressive overload. You can’t achieve this the way you want with a regular abdominal strap. The six pack strap has what is called a “skydiver handle” which makes all the difference in your training. Using it, you will also be exercising your oblique abdominal muscles along with the others.
There are several other unique exercises that you can do with it. There is a weighted low pulley and a high pulley crunch. In the high pulley crunch you only work the abs without engaging the chest, biceps or triceps muscles. This is what you want from an ab workout! One of the other exercises is a low pulley row for the lower back. Again, this works those critical lower back muscles to keep them in balance with your abdominal muscles and allows you to have a nice strong back.
The six pack strap provides a unique workout to get the best results for the abdominal, oblique and lower back muscles.