Please get your doctor's advice before using your Slendertone product if: • You wish to use a Slendertone belt and have a bad back. You should also ensure the intensity is kept low. You have any serious illness or injury not mentioned in this guide.

To achieve the best results, Slendertone continues to support users with a variety of training plans and recommends using the device for 30 minutes, five times a week over a four to six week programme.

You cannot use this item without the app. The app controls the program etc. Would it really have been that hard to have something like the Slendertone Abs7 - where you can use it with or without the app (but it then synchronises with the app to record your sessions)? Like the fitbit technology does.

So, the “see these results in just this amount of time” is still a solid promise from Slendertone. According to the marketing material, users of the belt should find an average waistline reduction of 3.5cm after four weeks of use.

A: Slendertone products DO NOT burn off ANY fat. Only doing some form of cardio exercise will burn fat. Slendertone products are effective at toning muscles but you won't see the results if there is a layer of fat over the top.

There's also helpful tips and nutritional advice to read. The toning belt itself has three gel pads that sit directly on the skin and stimulates the muscles with electrical impulses. According to Slendertone, 30 minutes with the new gadget is the equivalent of 202 sit-ups.

Will it help you strip away that loaf of fat around your belly? Highly unlikely. As I previously mentioned, if you think this product is going to strip away the fat while you kick back on the couch downing chips and beer, then you're in for a surprise. The evidence does not support this.

There's also helpful tips and nutritional advice to read. The toning belt itself has three gel pads that sit directly on the skin and stimulates the muscles with electrical impulses. According to Slendertone, 30 minutes with the new gadget is the equivalent of 202 sit-ups.

Having failed to secure a new investor, Slendertone has collapsed into liquidation.

Ab stimulators are electronic muscle stimulators that focus on your core. They won't help you lose weight, or get “rock hard” abs without diet and exercise. And ab stimulators, especially those that aren't approved by the FDA, have some risks.

Recent studies on mice show that whole-body vibration training can mimic many of the metabolic effects of more rigorous exercise, particularly treadmill workouts. Daily sessions of whole-body vibration or treadmill workouts for three months led to shrunken fat cells, reduced weight, and decreased insulin resistance.

Working the muscles in the same way as conventional abdominal exercises, Slendertone works the rectus abdominis (the 'six pack'), in addition to the deep and difficult to tone transversus abdominis (which, when toned, gives a flat stomach).