Body Solid ACH18 Ab Crunch Harness

article de qualité solide,

ricevuto senza ritardi, ottimo attrezzo per allensare gli addominali superiori e inferiori. materiale molto resistente e anche comodo da indossare

its ok!

I was alittle worried with this piece when I first saw it. I needed to replace a similar crunch harness than I broke the handle in on my Impex 2105 weight machine, and after dealing with Impex's customer service and their horrible replacement parts and egregious shipping times, I went outside this piece. My piece was significantly shorter while it was around my neck doing crunches, which is what gave rise to my apprehensions about this as it looked so much longer from the pictures. Only adding to my concern was the reviews that indicated that it put a large amount of pressure on the neck.I'm happy to to say that those fears have been alleviated. I received this piece today and tried it out for the first time a few hours ago and yes it was about 6in longer than the Impex original one I was using but that turned out to not be a bad thing. The original I had was so short that when doing a crunch the handles were almost ontop of my shoulders, with this from Body Solid I was able to get a more comfortable grip further down on my pecs.Plus when I first opened the box and held it to my neck it really felt like it would be uncomfortable since it felt like the U shop was really pressing hard into my neck, but that was with out any weight pulling it the opposite direction. While using this piece not only did the longer handle make a more comfortable hand hold, but it also reduced some of the stress put on the extensor muscle groups (I guess this could be a good, bad or both kind of thing since it seems this is what was most responsible for this increased size of these muscles over the last 9 months), but regardless, I would rather have the reduced elbow pressure that comes with this increased length. As for the neck pressure; while working out it was non-existent. The increase in length behind the neck to the first pulley actually helped take the pressure that was being placed on it before and allowed for a more effective crunch. Prior with the short harness I was using too much back muscle to get the crunch started from full upright and with the longer back it starts off at a perfect spot for a crunch.Now if you are a taller person (I'm 6 foot) you might want to move the chair a notch lower, I can see how the one reviewer was saying that it was starting almost in a full crunch from the start. If that happens and if your bench can do it, you'd have to move the seat back forward a bit or like I said the seat down, to get a goo starting position. I kept bottoming out the weight stack when I came back up, but that was because I wasn't used to stopping before it started to pull on my lower back. Even though I was pulling the same weight, it felt more productive than before, since it was actually the ab muscles being used to start the rep.The D right atachment end is well sewn in and in a much better orientaion than my original. Impex had the D ring sewn in sideways and alway put an uneven amount of stress on the straps and seems to knock me off center while doing my crunches. With the Body Solid one it is centered up nicely and oriented correctly with the flat side toward the person to allow for the connector to slide around and you more and it stays centered and balanced.If there is any criticism that I could give this is that the handle openeing might be a little small for someone with big hands or well padded gloves (not that gloves are needed with this as t he foam is nicely robust and firm and the ends of the plastic handles flare out to hold the foam roll in place.

Made of light materials. Not sure how long it will last.