Super Fitness Health BlogElliptical Cross Trainers – What You Need To Know
This Article Shows You What You Need To Know About Elliptical Cross Trainers
Stride length: Personal Trainers recommend getting an Elliptical with at least a 13″ stride. If you go for a shorter stride it puts pressure on your thighs where as a longer strider works on the back of the legs and backside. Don’t worr though as any stride length you choose will give you an incredible calorie burning, heart pounding workout.
Magnetic Resistance: A magnetic resistance system will provide a smooth motion both forward and backward. The adjustment should also be smooth so that you are not jarred when adjusting it.
Hand Sticks (For your arms): These should be in line with the machine’s resistance. Toning your upper body will then be in line with the rest of your workout. Don’t forget that fixed arms are normally available to help you during break if required.
Incline Ramp: The shape of the elliptical motion that you run can be adjusted by changing the incline. This allows you to target different muscle groups and also change the intensity of your workout. Many of today’s most advanced elliptical machines include incline ramps which are normally adjusted manually having 10, 20, and 30 degree settings. Higher end models have electronically adjustable inclines with console controls to make adjustment easy. The higer end models normally have more ncline settings to, for example adjustnig every 5 degrees of so.
Control Panels: Make sure that you have electronic displays of speed, time, and distance as these are generally standard. Some also display calories burned, pulse and incline and also preset programs. There’s a wide range of control panel: there are simple displays and fully programmable ones with many features (e.g. fans, IFIT card programs, games, iPod attachments).
SpaceSaver Design: Take a look at the size of your potential machine. There are many that are quite economical and some fold away’s too.
This concludes what you need to know to make your elliptical cross trainers review.
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