Ab Coaster Review: Vogue Magazine

Core Assets

With all eyes focused on the ultrafeminine, chiseled waist, Julie Grau searches for the definitive ab workout.

Around this time, my husband finds a photo of himself from the summer before. In the photo his is shirtless. He is convinced he looks like Thomas Beatie, the pregnant man. As a supportive gesture, I relinquish eight square feet of our 1,100-square-foot apartment and give it over to the Ab Coaster—a favorably reviewed fitness machine that works the elusive lower abs in the efficient manner of that iconic yet incredibly difficult exercise, the hanging leg raise.

Kneeling on a moving seat, you bring your legs up to your chest along a curved run of “track” (the coaster part) and crunch the abs from the bottom up, as opposed to typical crunches that work from the top down. The company’s VP, Sean D. Gagnon, a clinical psychologist, gives us an effortless demonstration and swears that ten minutes a day on the Ab Coaster answers all of his ab needs. “May I see your abs?” I say somewhat sheepishly, but I’m sorry, it was a question begging to ask. My husband wants to fall through the floor. Sean, too, but he obliges and lifts his shirt. He’s got a bona fide six-pack all right. I thank him, usher him out the door, and go for a ride on the coaster. It’s hard, but I can do it. Wheeee! There is satisfaction to be had in succumbing to its jockish charms. It awakens a little competition between me and my husband. I catch him sneaking onto the machine at odd hours. My husband’s results are quickly apparent to the naked eye. I have to look a little hard for mine, but I know they’re there. I can feel it.

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