Advantages: Can exercise while watching baby. Disadvantages: Too big.
I have just managed to get rid of my Crosstrainer. Well, when I say get rid of, I mean sell. Yes I did actually manage to sell it and get some money back on it. OK, so it may have been to my sister who`s other half is into fitness and has a whole room as an indoor gym, but so what! It is out of my house.
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I bought the CrossTrainer afew years ago when I had a child at home. The idea was to exercise while watching him, a lot of mothers know how difficult it is to get much exercise with toddlers at home.
What is a CrossTrainer?
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The Healthrider E330 CrossTrainer is an exercise machine that burns calories very quickly. It is quick at burning calories in comparison to exercise bikes or even steppers (which are better than ...
Advantages: None Disadvantages: You could quite easily end up in traction!!!!! Awful, disasterous etc etc
trading in the crosstrainer that cost me £400 for this incredible little machine if it does all that, especially since it only costs about a fiver! Should I choose this path however, I would be left extremely disappointed and quite possibly broken.
MY EXPERIENCE
Well for a fiver I thought I?d buy one and see if it was any good. I tend to do this before I release it on my clients at the gym. I?m glad I did. This piece of equipment is absolutely shocking.
Firstly it is THE most boring exercise I have ever done. Backwards, forwards, backwards, forwards. There is very little in the way of variation without the devise becoming seriously dangerous. That said however, I did enjoy punting my way around the gym like a possessed 5 year old???.that was however until I took a face plant straight into one of the running machines ...
Advantages: Burns fat fast, heart rate monitor Disadvantages: Takes up alot of space
of any previous training you have done on the exerciser, but you can easily write this onto a note pad.
Exercising
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Once on the crosstrainer you will find it's action very smooth and on the low setting very easy to use so is ideal for someone who is very unfit or not used to training. As your fitness improves the crosstrainer is capable of keeping pace with those improvements to a high level of fitness.
Instructors recommend training at various speeds and the programs on the crosstrainer allow this. The graph on the computer shows how the tension is set for each program, the higher the line the harder it is the lower the easier. Any time you find the going to hard or easy just press a button to adjust the tension.
Conclusion
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This has got to be the most successful piece of exercise equipment we have ...
