Advantages: Zero impact, cardio, muscular, cheap, best workout ever! Disadvantages: Its a hard workout!!
Having been a member of gyms for many years the time came for me to go to university which meant that I couldn't afford a gym membership, so I started to look for a machine that I could buy to use in my own home.
As anyone else does I looked at treadmills, bikes and rowers but the quality of them for the money I was looking to spend (£100) was not good enough for my liking. In the past I had seen these funny machines in the gym that you stand up ... ...forth. To me they looked silly and I didn't think I'd ever even get on one, let alone buy one!
A friend of mines mum had one of these machines and just out of curiosity I had a go on it......it was like a workout that I had never experienced. It truely was a total body work out, I had to have one of these machines.
I purchased my Orbitrek from a shopping channel for £115 and 3 days later there it was in my front room, I'd heard all the hype about ...
Adam6177 28.05.2001
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Advantages: No impact ; good for aerobic work ; no spinal aggravation caused by sitting ; Disadvantages: Heavy & large ; not silent ; fan doesn't keep you cool ; harsh on sore knees
Have you seen the TV ads for the wonder-machine called the Orbitrek? I had, and wondered if it was worth the money. I did an Internet search but could only find people selling the thing - hardly the best ones to give an honest opinion. We eventually got one a couple of months ago. I saw an ad for it recently and remembered my efforts in trying to find out more about it. So I decided to take a new look at it and write a critique about it. Hope this ... ...His knees and elbows are painful, too. He had to get rid of his mini-gym/weights machine that we used to keep in the garage, because it was making his pain worse. We looked round for an all-in-one piece of exercise equipment that we could keep in our bedroom (so we would use it every day). We wanted something that would help us keep our weight down, so it had to be good for aerobic workouts. We also wanted something to keep our muscles good. The ...
MichelleScott 17.10.2000 (08.06.2001)
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