For those who are looking for a way to incorporate lower body training into a home space routine, or anyone in a gym who needs another option for ab work, the ab sling is a viable option. Along with a few other basic tools, a home or gym fitness participant could put together a collection that would help train nearly all of the most important muscle groups.

Ab slings are straps that allow the user to hang from an overhead bar. Ab sling users have their weight supported to do a variety of leg lifts that will train the legs and obliques or ab muscles. When the legs are worked this way, including straight pull ups or side stretches, the abs get work too: users can feel this ab burn the same way you feel sit-ups or related activities.

Ab slings help provide an answer to a problem that many Americans are reporting in their attempts to get fitter. The sedentary or desk lifestyle has led to profoundly less strong America. Most of us are less strong than our ancestors, not just in terms of limb strength (such as the ability to throw a bale of hay), but in core strength, in other words, the ability to support our spines! Then, whether our full time jobs are done sitting or standing, or a mixture of the two, we are putting pressure on the spine that is not as well supported.

To take it a step further, some of those who do work out don’t even focus on the core muscles, and work only the limbs – this results in strong limbs supported by a weak core, and even more back problems!
The abs are a main portion of those core muscles that reside in the torso and adjacent areas of the body. Working them is critically important in getting, not just limb strong, but body strong, in developing all of those “side effects” that come with a well rounded fitness program. Core trainers are agile, flexible, and toned to handle a variety of stresses.

That’s why the ab sling represents part of a collection of fitness aids that makes a lot of sense for a home gym. Combined with some simple upper body tools like dumbbells, and versatile workout aids for isometrics, such as an ab wheel, balance ball or cushion, and mini weights, the ab sling can be that missing element for working the legs and abs together.

So, if your routine is deficient in ab and core work, think about how to work ab sling or related exercises into your life. And for those who want to detour the gym membership and work out at home, consider how a modest collection of items like those mentioned above can help you use all of your muscle groups in a small space, with good storage options to prevent your home gym from taking over your living space!