The phrase "ab machine" is not correct in standard written English.
It appears to be a misspelling or misinterpretation of "ab machine," which refers to a piece of exercise equipment designed to target abdominal muscles.
Example: "I prefer using the ab machine at the gym for my core workouts."
Alternatives: "abdominal machine" or "core machine."
The rest of the session was spent on an ab machine, a leg press and a back machine.
"Some of the equipment was bought with the donation of the community, but I paid for the roof on my own," she says, helping one woman onto an ab machine.
For all you exercise fiends, the verdict is finally in: you do NOT have to be up in the gym to work on your fitness (sorry, Fergie) -- at least in this Japanese advertisement for the ab machine, Wonder Core.
The assay consists of multiplex PCRs followed by a labeling step, both carried out on a Veriti AB machine (Life Technologies).
New Age gurus advise going natural, body and soul, while their gimmick-happy counterparts hawk ab machines and Machiavellian seduction methods.
The biggest failing with home exercise equipment is that within weeks it becomes a very expensive clothes drier, says Bean. "I've seen it with ab machines, vibration plates and loads of things," he says.
Turns out, according to researchers at San Diego State's biomechanics laboratory, that it's not necessarily one of those ab machines you see on television.
But here's the problem: most of these popular ab machines you see in infomercials only target one or a few of these muscle groups, and only produce a very light muscle contraction that isn's strong enough to actually burn significant fat calories off your waistline or tone those important stomach muscles.
Crunches, sit-ups, ab machines, and intense ab workouts are not enough to give you a 6 pack.
"Buy the abs machine for $29.99 for six months!
The ab crunch machine that you sit in at the gym mostly just makes your hip flexor (or your sitting muscles) work hard and not your stomach.
