The Flex Belt Review

The Flex Belt promises the following on their website:

- The Flex Belt promises that I can have "strong, toned, firm abs in just weeks."
- The Flex Belt promises to work for 100% of users. That's right: they claim that it works for absolutely everybody.
- The Flex Belt claims to use Electronic Muscle Stimulating technology, to be backed by the FDA, and to have results supported by numerous scientific studies.

With so much junk mail and advertising, I had to check out what they were all about. So I clicked through to their site to see what these guys were up to. I was immediaely assaulted by a video, almost taunting me to place an order. That was the last straw...it was time to put these guys down. I figured that if I could check out the product, and get some hard-and-fast data out into the world, to provide some sort of balance to the insane amounts of marketing that The Flex Belt people were doing, maybe the world would see once and for all what junk this product is, and the company would have to close its doors. I ordered The Flex Belt, and got ready to tear the company apart.

Click here to visit their official website and get your own Flex Belt

As I mentioned, I wasn't too impressed by The Flex Belt website. I have to admit, though, that what I noticed right off the bat, and what made me realize I could try this experiment with no risk to myself, was their guarantee. It would allow me to order the equipment, and then, when it didn't do anything but jiggle my belly around, I could tear it apart on this website, and then still get my money back. And, best of all, if the company didn't honor its guarantee, it would just be more negative marks for my review.

The information on their website didn't really give me a ton to go on, but it didn't matter, because The Flex Belt package had finally arrived from the company. Right off the bat, I was surprised at the overall "build quality" of this thing. It didn't seem like a toy, and it didn't seem like some cheap piece of junk that you would get from China. The belt itself seemed strong, and the control unit was sturdy and solidly built. The other thing that was surprising is how quickly it arrived: a little less than a week, from the time I hung up the phone. There wasn't much else to report just from looking at the thing, so I strapped it on for my first training session.

There's something else I need to come clean about. At 32, I am not too happy with what is happening to me, physically. In my 20s, I never, ever had to work out, but 12 years of sitting in front of a computer are starting to take their toll. I don't think of myself as a "fat" guy, but I am definitely getting a little paunchier around the middle than I would like. I'm not the kind of guy that is going to hit the gym every day, but I am concerned about where all this weight gain is headed. Is it just going to get worse and worse? Do I have to just say goodbye to the days of being able to eat what I feel like, without exercising? Probably. But I have to admit that I am interested in finding a solution, at some point. It's probably not going to be in crap exercise products like The Flex Belt, but I'm not totally opposed to the possibility, however remote it may be.

From the minute I strapped it on, I could actually feel it contracting my abdominal muscles, over and over.
Anyway, back to the way this feels. It feels...weird. It's not what I expected. I expected to strap the thing on, and have it vibrate for a few minutes, ultimately feeling annoying. What actually happened was totally different. From the minute I strapped it on, I could actually feel it contracting my abdominal muscles, over and over and over.

Click here to visit their official website and get your own Flex Belt

The only thing I can compare it to was when I broke my foot a few years ago. During physical therapy, they hooked me up to a machine to help "re-train" the muscles in my foot. It felt like that...not uncomfortable, but you can definitely feel that something is happening. I have to admit that after that first use, I was intrigued.

Okay, time to get serious, and set up some rules. This thing seemed worth testing, for real, and so here were the rules I used:

Here are the rules I used for testing purposes:

- I would wear The Flex Belt for an hour every day, while I was at my desk working, for five weeks.
- I wouldn't do any other abdominal exercises during those five weeks.
- I wouldn't avoid eating foods that I normally eat: If The Flex Belt was going to work, it was going to have to work through about a dozen buffalo wings.

For five weeks, I put the outrageous claims made by their website to the test, and I was kind of surprised by what I found. I took pictures along the way, which I think will tell the whole story:

Alright, alright, save the snickering. I know I'm not Hercules, and that was never my goal. But I think you'll agree that I stopped being a doughy 32 year old, too. In just five weeks, I am already starting to see definition in my abdominal muscles, which I am hoping will just continue to improve. And, best of all, I did it without making any changes to my lifestyle. I'm not a gym rat, and I still eat whatever I feel like. The Flex Belt doesn't turn you into a bodybuilder, but it does seem to help define your midsection. I plan to keep using it, and will update this page again with my results.

Click here to visit their official website and get your own Flex Belt

Listen, I know what you're thinking, because I would be thinking the same thing right about now. We both know there are about a million sketchy weight loss and abdominal exercise devices on the market, and probably every one of them is spamming you. They all make crazy promises, and I am usually pretty good about ignoring all of them. In fact, the opposite is true: bad internet marketing usually bothers me to such a degree, that I start websites like this to try and guide people away from scams like these. But the truth about The Flex Belt is this: if you use it, you will witness increased definition to your abdominals, without killing yourself with crunches or planks. That's why, even though it wasn't my original idea for the site, I decided to go ahead and publish it anyway.



I don't need to push any harder on this, because my pictures should make this a total no-brainer for you. Try it out, and if you don't like it, return it and get your money back. (Another disclosure: I tested The Flex Belt's guarantee policy by ordering another unit in my wife's name, and returning it after two weeks. I got the money returned to my credit card the same day I called for my refund.)