If you don’t have time to make it to the gym, but you want to make sure you get your cardio workout in every day (okay, three times a week), you can buy a piece of home exercise equipment for the job. Treadmills are probably the most common thing out there, but there are a lot more options than that today (despite the popularity of the treadmill, many people prefer cardio machines that offer an upper body as well as a lower body workout). If you want to work arms and legs, you could get an elliptical trainer or something like the Cybex Total Body Arc Trainer.
This device is designed to work all the major muscle groups for a complete workout. It looks like a cross between a stair stepper and an elliptical trainer. I know from personal experience that both of those kinds of machines are great at burning calories (much more so than the old plodding treadmill), so I imagine the Total Body Arc Trainer would be similar. As you’d expect, the Cybex machine has lots of training programs you can choose from and monitors your vitals (heart rate) and progress (steps, distance traveled, etc.).
December 21st, 2006 at 8:45 am
I use this piece of equipment at the YMCA I belong to. It is great and would greatly love having one at home. I’m wondering what the cost is and whether it is prohibitive or not.