Slendertone Men's Flex Abdominal Toning System Belt

It works, instructions are so so, pad life has been great. I guess if you take care of them and put them away nicely they last sometime. I'm just about to replace my first set, just because they are almost losing their stick almost (and this is from a month of use).

I feel the muscles working, my abs are getting tighter. I like the idea of electronic stimulus. I first was introduced to this after my first knee surgery (had had 2), it really helps the physical therapy along.

40 minutes at a setting of 8000, easy. But I was running at 4000 or so at the beginning. I think it works, no reason it shouldn't work. If you don't diet your not going to "see it", but you should feel it, having strong abs helps everything else.

I don't think the instructions are very good, I had a hard time deciding if the placement was right and still wonder. The waste size is not the whole store, if they would simply provide a better picture of the ab muscles and where you should place the pads (how to locate) that would be better.

Kind of cheap I guess, but well worth it if your not the crunch type of person.

I ordered this and have to say, YES it does work. I have 18% bodyfat (working on getting down to 10%), and even NOW I can see my abs faintly. And to the person who said it's only good for your abs. if you are inventive and know how to play around you can use this on almost all parts of your body. (If you do, make sure it's at the lowest level, because I put it on at lvl 50 on my thighs and it was more painful than doing 60 squats.

over-all I recommend it. but I have to say you MUST follow the instructions and limit use. I used it almost all day every day for a week, and by the end of the week my abs had adjusted so well 99 became too bearable; However, in that same week they were almost completely visable, even with my fat. I had to use the women's because I am a very petite male, and the men's just doesn't go small enough for my waist.

This takes 3 AAA batteries, which drain pretty fast. It is alright, if it is easy to insert and take out batteries, like in any other electronic devices. But in this one, you have to squash in three batteries in order of, left one first, right one second and then the middle one last, through very ungenerous opening provided. Now the real difficulty starts when you have to take out those batteries, which you have to do regularly.

There is no proper mechanism to hold those three awfully delicate gel pads on the belt. It slightly sticks on the belt once you place it on, but if you move the belt pretty fast, it can easily fall off. So when you are putting the belt on, make sure it won't fall off, or if it fall of, not to land it on any dirty surface.

Putting the belt on part, not very nicely designed either. It has neat velcro lock, but you have to lock them from your behind with a minor struggle. I guess woman are pretty used to that kind of locks, since they have experience locking the bra from back.. But we men never encounter such a lock, until you get one of these belts, like I did. If you are little over weight, you may find this pretty annoying to adjust it correctly (and make sure those gel pads won't fall off at the same time) or rather get some else's help. It could be really nice if they care to place the locking mechanism on side of the belt or font. But unfortunately they didn't.

You can take out the plastic electronic part from the front of the belt really easy even while you are wearing the belt. You have to take it out when you have to change batters while jell pads still stick to the belt. But it is not that smooth to slip it back correctly.

Make sure never to touch metal connectors in the belt without gel pads, because that can give you quite annoying electronic shock. But once you place the gel pads over it, they are fine.

It has small neat display; even you can look at pretty easily while you are wearing it. But just like everything else, it is poorly designed too. It has some sort of code language like hieroglyphics. I read the manual couple of times hoping I can understand what all those symbols means, but finally I gave up.

The first thing you feel when you wear the belt is, those cold sticky gel pads stick on to your skin. After you get over with that feeling, it is perfectly fine. You can wear it while watching tv, and you feel it working on you. So far I only feel side pads working, not the middle one like it suppose to do. I adjust the belt few times like troubleshooting section advised, without any luck.

Once you finish using the belt, storing it is another absolute disappointment. Those gel pads come with cheap plastic films you can peel off (just like the papers on back of stickers), and then you have to save those, in order of use it over and over again to protect those jell pads.

Overall, this unit should have cost somewhere around 25$ or less.. Because that is how it feels like and that is how it made. This is not something made to last long. For a unit that cost more than 100$, they should have give something more than half a cent worth of plastic films to store those expensive gel pads.

Also note, Amazon picture (Nov-24-2007) have carrying pouch and batteries. But you won't get any of those. Instead I got a printout saying, Amazon special low priced package does not include traveling pouch. They didn't mention anything about batteries.

Does this unit works? I have not used it long enough to say exactly how good results this gives. But I feel this works (so far). I feel it when I'm using it, I feel it afterword.

This product is a good example for horror of market monopoly. Since I had no other similar product to choose from, and since I'm too busy and too lazy to do proper physical workout, I had to get this one.

I really don't have much to comment on the product, it seemed not to do anything for me. What I can comment on is their returns and customer service though. Since it didn't work for me I sent it back honoring the time limit Now after 4 months they are charging my credit card stating I didn't return the product They argue with me at customer service and go around in circles concerning this issue and forget about calling the service center where you send it back to they never return calls. Currently they are disputing it with my credit card and continue to charge me again each time it is reversed. I may never see my money back from them but hopefully I can warn someone who is considering ordering this.

I am in a wheel chair and have lost all muscle tone in my midsection. Slendertone is fantastic! I can sit up again and have real abs. Pads wear out, but a great product!