WASHINGTON -- The marketers of the Ab Circle Pro -- an abdominal exercise machine that promised major weight loss with daily three-minute workouts -- agreed to settle deceptive advertising allegations ...

WASHINGTON -- Companies marketing the Ab Circle Pro exercise device have agreed to pay as much as $25 million in refunds to customers to settle federal regulators' charges of deceptive advertising.

WASHINGTON — The ads promised that if you used the Ab Circle Pro machine just three minutes a day, you’d lose weight fast. But the Federal Trade Commission said the only thing that would get ...

Remember the Ab Circle Pro? Promoters of the abdominal exercise device promised consumers using the gadget for just three minutes a day would cause them to lose 10 pounds in two weeks. Not so, said ...

"Just three minutes a day won't make you thin," said the Federal Trade Commission. With that, the FTC announced that it has filed deceptive advertising charges against the marketers of the Ab Circle ...

— -- The Federal Trade Commission says it filed deceptive advertising charges against a fitness marketing company for its claims that using its fitness product for three minutes was equivalent to ...

The Federal Trade Commission says that when the marketers of the "Ab Circle Pro" said three minutes a day would suffice to give you rock-hard abs, they were over-hyping their product. Today, the FTC ...

The FTC noted that its complaint does not amount to a ruling that the Ab Circle Pro defendants violated the law, nor does their agreement to settle admit their guilt. The exercise device might be best ...