Fry your abs without the spine-wrecking, neck-jerking stress of traditional crunches-using this radical situp designed by the world's leading back and muscle function expert, Professor Janda, from Czechoslovakia.

The Ab Pavelizer™ II's new sleek-'n-light design guarantees aperfect sit-up by forcing you to do it right. Sit down at the Ab Pavelizer™ II and a divine slab of abs will be served up whether you like it or not.

The secret to the Ab Pavelizer™ II is in the extra active resistance it provides you. The cunning device literally pushes up against your calves (you'd almost swear it was a human partner) and forces you to recruit your glutes and hamstrings.

No one-but no one-has ever matched Bruce Lee's ripped-beyond-belief abs. Now you can rip your own abs to eye-popping shreds and reclassify yourself as superhuman.

—Clarence Bass, author of Ripped 1, 2 & 3 talks about the Pavelizer II :

Based on your "hardest situp" article I purchased an Ab Pavelizer 2. I have definitely benefited from this device and share your feeling that, done properly, Janda situps are very difficult. 

Actually, it’s quite ingenious. The Evil Russian is devilishly clever.

The new unit won’t let you cheat. If you jerk or try to anchor your feet, bringing the hip flexors into play, your feet come up or the unit slides toward you. It’s a delicate balancing act. You hold the pads down using your leg biceps and glutes -- which takes the hip flexors out of play -- using just enough resistance to keep your feet on the floor, without pulling the unit toward you. The result is what I would call an enhanced crunch. You literally can not sit up all the way.

As Pavel says in the instruction guide which comes with the unit, "Sitting up all the way becomes a mechanical impossibility unless you start with a jerk (a no-no!)." The new unit recruits the glutes and hamstrings big time, taking the hip flexors completely out of the movement, which isolates the abs.

Placing your hands behind your neck makes it a little harder. Don’t pull on your head; you’ll get a headache or a sore neck.

I now use the Ab Pavelizer from workout to workout, and rarely do the regular crunch anymore.

To view the Pavelizer guidelines PDF, click here: Guidelines_PAVELIZER