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$25,000 abs with no exercise

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  • mburgess458
    mburgess458 Posts: 480 Member
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    I don't get how that would be helpful at all unless you're already really thin but have no ab muscles to show. If you have a layer of fat it doesn't matter how great your ab muscles are, you won't see them. Right?
  • CSARdiver
    CSARdiver Posts: 6,252 Member
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    NorthCascades wrote: »
    Think about this for just a second. 20,000 muscle contractions in your abs per second while you're trying to relax. That sounds horrible. Actually that sounds like being forced to exercise with no control over it.

    This technology originated in the 1940s, but never came to market due to the high number of adverse events - long term nerve damage. It re-emerged in the 1960s and Bruce Lee was marketing this at one point, but it never received regulatory approval.

    I can't imagine the damage this does to one's nervous system.
  • ladyreva78
    ladyreva78 Posts: 4,080 Member
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    Urg. No thank you. Having my nerves misfire randomly once a month for a couple of days causing horrible cramps is enough for me.

    Although... :smirk: does that mean I've got some serious abs under the flab? :tongue:
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,344 Member
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    mburgess458 wrote: »
    I don't get how that would be helpful at all unless you're already really thin but have no ab muscles to show. If you have a layer of fat it doesn't matter how great your ab muscles are, you won't see them. Right?
    It wouldn't even be helpful then.

    If it actually worked, there would be a lot of physique athletes and models lying around electrocuting themselves for hours a day instead of putting all that effort into diet and workouts.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,547 Member
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    Hahaha! And the laziest people who will be willing to put this on credit/financing will try it. Sad.

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  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,464 Member
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    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    hesn92 wrote: »
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    Four sessions at $1000 a session is $4000. Still stupid as hell and zero chance of doing anything at all don't get me wrong, but not sure where 25k came from.

    It says it could take upwards of 6 months to see results, so 2 sessions a week for 6 months.

    The duration of time to see results says nothing about the length of the treatment.

    From the article starting with the last sentence of the first column:


    "You do four 30 minute sessions for over two weeks". So four sessions total over two weeks....$1000 a session, that is $4000 total. They are just saying that it might take a month to 6 months later to actually see the results....probably to save themselves questions about why their customers don't actually see any results following the actual course of the treatment.

    If it somehow was 2 sessions a week for 6 months that would be $54k not $25k anyways

    LOL my mental math was not working, nor was my husband's! $54K makes it an even better deal!!
  • mph323
    mph323 Posts: 3,565 Member
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    Here's a more affordable solution from Sharper Image for just $100.00, if you're planning to go that route. <eyeroll>


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    https://www.sharperimage.com/si/view/product/Six+Pack+Abs/206098

  • mph323
    mph323 Posts: 3,565 Member
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    Here's a handy fat freezer to reveal the muscles you're developing.

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    https://www.sharperimage.com/si/view/product/Ultimate+Fat+Freezer/205888
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,344 Member
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    mph323 wrote: »
    Here's a handy fat freezer to reveal the muscles you're developing.


    https://www.sharperimage.com/si/view/product/Ultimate+Fat+Freezer/205888

    Ghetto Cool Sculpting! :D
  • MikePTY
    MikePTY Posts: 3,814 Member
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    This week is my first time back in the US in over a year, and listening to the radio, I can see how people get sucked into these things. Every other radio commercial seems to be the DJ talking about some sort of extreme weight loss solution. "So and so doctor will help you lose 40 pounds in 40 days." "I lost 30 pounds from liposuction." "This new fancy place can give you the muscles you want with no exercise." And on and on. It's exhausting. I can see how people who are looking for a solution get caught up in it.
  • RealWorldStrengthLLC
    RealWorldStrengthLLC Posts: 552 Member
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    That's it.
    I'm quitting everything I do and investing my money in inventing some bs "fitness" thing that I can sell to idiots.
  • FitAndLean_5738
    FitAndLean_5738 Posts: 90 Member
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    6 months? In that time you could be developing a real set of abs for much cheaper (working out and eating decently).
  • peleroja
    peleroja Posts: 3,979 Member
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    I'm just here to say that I'm almost lazy enough to think that $25,000 for a no-effort six-pack sounds like an okay deal.

    However, that would require this to, you know, actually work. And we all know it doesn't.

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