Friday 3 April 2015

Cross Trainer Low Impact Home Exercise Machines

Lose Weight and Get Fit

There are a large number of people who want to lose weight. Virtually everyone who is overweight understands that to lose weight effectively you not only need to reduce the amount of calories you consume but also need to exercise regularly.
Some people however find that it is difficult to make the time to exercise on a regular basis. Being able to commit to visiting the gym two or three times a week is often extremely difficult.
As an alternative a lot of individuals will decide to create their own exercise regime and elect to go jogging, walking or cycling a few times a week. Although the strategy is sound in principle in reality this approach rarely works in practice.
What tends to happen is that exercising becomes a low priority and all the good intentions are soon forgotten. Even those that desperately want to exercise find that exercising out of doors loses its appeal on cold dark winter evenings.

Exercising at Home

An alternative to exercising out of doors is to buy your own exercise equipment that you can use in your own home. If you exercise in your own home you can use any spare time that you have exercising and can even do your routine whilst watching tv if you so wish.
There are lots of equipment to choose from and you do not need to spend a vast amount of money initially. The most popular types of home exercisers are cross trainers and exercise bikes.
Exercise bikes are designed primarily to exercise the leg muscles whilst cross trainers can be used for full body workouts. If you are trying to lose weight you will probably find that a cross trainer is the more versatile machine and better suited to your purpose.
A cross trainer provides what is referred to as a 'low impact workout'.
What this actually means is that, unlike jogging for example, there is no vibration transmitted to your ankle, knee and hip joints. On a cross trainer your feet stay firmly in contact with the foot plate of the machine.

Confidence 2 in 1 Elliptical Cross Trainer & Bike
Confidence 2 in 1 Elliptical Cross Trainer
Budget priced cross trainers are usually manually operated but many of the more expensive models are electronic. The electronic Cross Trainers generally have a number of pre programmed exercise routine built into their computer. You simply choose the routine that most suits your requirements.
Virtually all of the cross trainers on the market have resistance settings which are used to set the amount of tension on the machines flywheel.
There is also usually some form of electronic readout that gives basic information to the user such as distance, time, speed and number of calories being burned.
It is worth noting that the readout for calories should only be used as a guide as the build of the individual and the exercise routine itself will have a major impact on the data.
Although it is no more than a rough guide it is generally accepted that anyone working out on a cross trainer is likely to burn between 8 and 12 calories per minute (240 to 360 calories per thirty minute session).

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