Is The Per­fect Situp For Real?

A few years ago I asked the same ques­tion about The Per­fect Pushup. I had said how the infomer­cial caught my eye and I had to try it out. Three years later I’m still using The Per­fect Pushup and it’s a key part of my work­out rou­tines. I’ve inte­grated it into my P90X work­outs and use it in place of the Power Stands that Beach­body pitches.

My abs are the most neglected mus­cles on my body. This isn’t because of a lack of ded­i­ca­tion or the lack of avail­able work­outs either. It’s due to injury. I live in the Mid Atlantic United States and any of you that do as well are quite famil­iar with the snow and ice storms dur­ing the win­ter. Back when I was a kid I slipped on a patch of ice and fell right on my tail­bone. To this day there are still some lin­ger­ing effects. It really starts to bother me after sit­ting in a seat in a movie the­ater or on an airplane.

Now what does that have to do with my work­out you ask? Just about any exer­cise that works the abs is a lit­eral pain for me. Sit ups, crunches, you name it. I’ve also tried every­thing. I’ve bought extra padding for the floor and it doesn’t work. Any­thing that rolls over or puts pres­sure on my tail­bone seri­ously hurts. If you look back you’ll see that Ab Rip­per X is the one P90X work­out I’ve never really dis­cussed. I keep try­ing to give it a go, but don’t get very far.

When I saw the Per­fect Situp, I thought I’d give it a try since I’ve really, really like the Per­fect Pushup. The Per­fect Situp solves the two prob­lems most peo­ple have with sit ups and crunches, lower back sup­port and neck sup­port. For me per­son­ally, when using it there is no pres­sure put on my tailbone.

For those who haven’t see the web­site or the infomer­cial, the Per­fect Situp con­sists of a main cush­ioned plas­tic body that you lay on. From that there is the main back blade that comes out of the top and con­nects the main body with the head­rest. The head­rest has a soft cush­ion that pro­vides the neck sup­port as well as han­dles for per­form­ing the exer­cises. Attached at the bot­tom are two leg blades. At the other end of the leg blades are stir­rups for your feet.

The back blade and the leg blades are what pro­vides the resis­tance for the exer­cises. The base pack­age con­tains the first level resis­tance blades. Sec­ond and third level resis­tance blades are also available.

Included with the Per­fect Situp is a work­out chart illus­trat­ing the dif­fer­ent exer­cises that can be done to work the dif­fer­ent parts of the mid­sec­tion. This shows you how to use it to go beyond just sit ups and crunches.

Over­all, the Per­fect Situp is a great prod­uct. The man­u­fac­tur­ing qual­ity is high. The head­rest pro­vides great neck sup­port that helps pre­vent strain. It allows me to do ab exer­cises with­out putting pres­sure on my tail­bone. Is it a must have for every­one, prob­a­bly not. For those look­ing for some­thing help relieve dis­com­fort when doing ab exer­cises, this will prob­a­bly help. My one com­plaint about it would be that I wish the first level resis­tance blades pro­vided more resistance.

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