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Article Title: Inexpensive Elliptical Cross Trainers: A Real
Run For Your Money?
Author: David Faulkner
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Starting somewhere around $200 are the lesser quality
elliptical cross trainers. As the price range increases, so does
the overall quality of the machine, as well as the features
offered. It is fair to assume you will not receive the same
value and quality when paying $200 as opposed to paying $5000 or
even $1500. However, what are the chances you are going to
purchase the $5000 professional cross trainer? These are typical
of public gyms, health clubs, and fitness spas. By acknowledging
both the benefits as well as the shortcomings of the lower
priced cross trainers, you are able to make a better selection
out of the elliptical trainers available, finding the trainer
best suited to your personal fitness level.
People are choosing elliptical workouts over treadmills and
cycling due to the low impact, but intensive cardiovascular
workout. Focusing on lower body elliptical movement, your legs
and heart muscles gain a beneficial workout. The same effect
could be accomplished running in place without a machine,
resulting in high impact exercising. Clearly, your body does the
work of exercising, not the machine. This is why it is
imperative that you choose a good quality machine that enables
you to maximize the exercise you have chosen to perform on a
fitness machine.
To be completely honest, running in place tends to become
extremely monotonous. The cross trainers offer an impressive
feature, varying resistant levels, that encourage a more intense
elliptical workout. Although both inexpensive and expensive
trainers are equipped with this feature, the higher priced and
better quality cross trainers are preprogrammed to adjust the
resistance level in random intervals during your workout. The
lower priced and poor quality elliptical trainers may require
you to manually change the resistance, resulting in interrupting
your workout.
Compare the multiple features on the LCD displays and the
monitor feedback as well. The standard monitoring featured is
pulse rate, distance, duration of workout, and calories burned.
All of these features, truthfully, have little or no reliability
for accuracy. The chest strap heart monitor is, by far, a more
efficient option offered on higher quality trainers, or
available where exercise equipment is sold.
When figuring the calories burned during a workout, the monitor
is essentially flawed. Your current weight and the intensity of
your elliptical workout is what determines your calories.
Therefore, if a person weighing 180 pounds works out at the same
intensity as a person weighing 260 pounds, the higher weight
person will burn more calories and unless the cross trainer is
able to be programmed at your current weight, the results will
be false.
Incidentally, the computerized system governing the monitoring
of your calories burned, etc. would probably not function any
differently on a lesser quality cross trainer than as an
expensive model. It is a convenient "extra" but try not to
depend on it as the determining factor in your final decision.
The stability of the machine is another leading factor that
requires attention. The higher the purchase price often ensures
better quality. Your height and weight will contribute to
narrowing down your choices. If your are over 6 feet tall or
over 175 pounds, you may want to consider a better quality cross
trainer that is heavier and increases the safety usage level.
Anyone under that height and weight may feel secure on a lighter
cross trainer, weighing about 80 - 90 pounds.
The materials used to construct the lesser quality machines are
undoubtedly low quality. The mandatory hardware, being low
quality, will not perform as well. They will need additional
tightening at later (possibly frequent) maintenance dates. You
could opt to exchange the original hardware with better quality
nuts, bolts, and washers if you care to invest your time in that
way. Due to the low quality of materials involved, you will find
it necessary to perform routine maintenance more often.
The warranty will also need to be carefully considered. On the
lesser quality cross trainers, the customary warranty will only
cover 90 days at most, as opposed to the better quality machines
that offer a 1 year warranty for labor and a 3 year warranty for
parts. The wisest course of action for any "noise" repairs,
parts, or any malfunctions in general, would be dealing directly
with the manufacturer.
Determining the amount of calories you burn in any exercise is
a function of the intensity of the exercise and your current
body weight. A 150 pound person will burn fewer calories per
minute of exercise than a 250 pound person even if they match
each other exactly in intensity. So unless the calories burned
monitor on whatever elliptical trainer you buy has accounted for
your current body weight it is almost certainly wrong. With the
right information you can easily and accurately determine your
calorie expenditure for any physical activity from a chart or
with a quick calculation.
The bottom line here is that the monitoring system on a cheap
elliptical trainer will probably be no worse than the monitoring
system on a more expensive model, and unless you are willing to
spend $2,000 plus for an elliptical trainer the monitoring
system is only incidental and should not be a major
consideration at all.
The primary limitation of cheap elliptical trainers then is
their sturdiness, construction quality, and warranty period. If
you weigh 250 pounds then you cannot reasonably expect an 80
pound elliptical trainer to feel solid under your feet. The same
cheap elliptical trainer would probably feel very comfortable to
a 125 pounder. Your height and body weight are the primary
considerations here. An arbitrary cut off point for
consideration of a cheap elliptical trainer may be more than six
feet in height or more than 175 pounds of body weight.
Another primary consideration is your intended intensity of
use. Most people can begin to achieve a cardio training effect
at about walking speed plus half. That would be roughly
equivalent to the pace of a 10 minute mile. If you do not intend
to work your elliptical trainer much harder than that it will
probably stand up to constant use. If you intend to pound the
machine at the upper limits of your maximum safe heart rate that
would probably stress a cheap elliptical trainer into breakdown.
Even with non abusive use, because a cheap elliptical trainer
will by definition be built from cheaper materials, you have to
expect to perform more maintenance. Supplied nuts and bolts will
be lower grade, probably without adequate lock washers, and they
will require occasional tightening. If you're handy you can
change out the hardware for fine thread bolts and nylon nuts
during assembly. If the very idea of tightening a bolt and nut
is beyond you then you must factor that into your decision
making. Assume that a cheap elliptical trainer will require
occasional lubrication and maintenance.
Lastly is the warranty period. 90 days is probably the best you
can expect. A cheap elliptical trainer is going to be noisier to
begin with than a gym model so put it through its paces early
and listen for different or unusually loud noises. Deal only
with a manufacturer and seller that will stand by their warranty
if there is a problem.
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